ETC conference programme day 1

ASSOCIATION FOR EUROPEAN TRANSPORT presents

(programme subject to change)

European Transport Conference 2026

Wednesday 9 Sep 2026
Plenary Session	09:00 - 10:30
	Session 1	Session 2	Session 3	TMF Debate
Stream	11:00 - 13:00	14:30 - 16:00	16:30 - 18:00	18:00 - 19:00
Aviation		Airline emissions I Session chair: Shamal Ratnayaka Room: B027 Emission Reduction and Airport Capacity Constraints Relief by Integration of (hybrid) Electric Aircraft in the Intra-European Air Transport Network and optimized Allocation of SAF Dr. Nico Fluethmann, Dr. Marc Gelhausen, Alexandra Leipold, Antje Link, Lena Neubacher, Patrick Ratei, Hannah Hoppe Modelling the Transition to Zero-Emission Flights: End-to-End Hydrogen Operations UK Airports Dr Rimali Mitra, Gerard Taykaldiranian Evolution of CO₂ Emissions in Aviation: Global and European Context – Longitudinal Analysis and Environmental Policy Perspectives MARCU ANA MARIA	Airline emissions II Session chair: Johnny Ojeil Room: B027 GRIDcast and OpenAirClim: An Efficient Framework for Scenario-Based Aviation Emissions Modeling and Climate-Impact Assessment Ruben Grunau, Dr. Katrin Dahlmann, Benjamin Luehrs, Dr. Malte Niklass, Dr. Marc Gelhausen, Dr. Stefan Voelk, Prof. Dr. Volker Grewe Flights to climate-neutrality by 2050 Dr. Niels Buus Kristensen, Dr. Inga Margrethe Ydersbond Towards Net Zero Carbon Airports: Integrating CO₂ Baselines, Behaviour, and Uncertainty-Aware Simulation for Surface-Access Decarbonisation Davide Floridi, Daniele Di Antonio, Francesco Ciaffi, Daniele Mancuso
Data - stream A	Surveys I Session chair: Oliver Charlesworth Room: B023 Comparing Travel Demand Models Estimated Using App-Based and Self-Reported Travel Survey Data Zakiya Aryana Pramestri, Trude Torset Invisible Mobility of Care: Systematic Data Gaps in National Travel Surveys across Western Europe and Canada Ines Kawgan Kagan, Franziska Meinherz, Jana Mayer AI-Enabled Time Use Data for Activity-Based Models and Transport Digital Twins: Fusing Smartphone Sensing and Time Use Surveys Patrizia Franco, Nila Sari, Leia Torres Chavez, Caroline Broughton Smith, George Economides	Surveys II Session chair: Len Johnstone Room: B023 From bespoke surveys to one standard for customer experience measurement: building a comparable evidence base across trains, stations, city centres and walking routes Rick Schotman, Mariska van Essen, Mark van Hagen Empowering citizens for sustainable urban mobility transformation in cities via sensor-based data: tales from the North and the South of Italy Giulia Galbiati, Gaia Sgaramella, Nadia Giuffrida, Michela La Pira, Delia Valastro An alternative approach to estimate the journey purpose split without surveys Diogo Magrico	Video and resilience Session chair: Rodrigo Fernandes Room: B023 Probabilistic Origin–Destination Estimation for Urban Corridors Using Video-Based Traffic Data Dr Walaa Shoieb, Dr Liam Butler, Mr Pierre Zarha, Ms Claire Ciancio, Mr Johan Zammit, Dr Odette Lewis, Dr Kenneth Scerri Comparison of manual encoding and computer visual extraction of road attributes for harsh events occurrence prediction in northern Italy. Julia Alves Porto, Apostolos Ziakopoulos, John Avgeros, Daniel Felipe Lopez, George Yannis
Data, Intelligent Mobility Management and Operation		Data-driven road safety Session chair: Luc Wismans Room: B020 Data-driven Road Safety: A systematic & replicable data to design model Andrea Colovini Prediction of Crash Severity in Portuguese Collisions and Run-off-Road Accidents with Machine Learning Bertha Santos, Victoria Pita	Integrating data for safety Session chair: Yun Pang Flötteröd Room: B020 BE-SAFE: Initial Developments in a Data-Driven Framework for Cyclist Safety in Smart Cities Bertha Santos, Francisco Falcone, Renato Lo Cigno, Ruxandra Cristina Stanescu, Jorge Goncalves, Lorenzo Ghiro, Jonathan Sandoval Weathering the Storm: A Data-Driven Assessment of Road Network Resilience Dr Neil Ferguson, Dr Volkan Ates, Professor Edoardo Patelli A data-based decision-support-system on road safety Salvatore Podda, Davide Floridi, Daniele Di Antonio, Pierluigi Coppola
Data, Transport Models			Active travel and micromobility Session chair: Rimon Rafiah Room: B026 Modelling Cycling Uptake in Activity-Based Models: Are we on the right track? Martijn Hollestelle, Ruiwei Chen, Teemu Sihvola Integrating built environment and behavioural drivers to promote sustainable micromobility: Evidence from revealed and stated preference data in Gothenburg Dr. Erika Martins Silva Ramos, Dr. Kun Gao, MSc. Yinghao Chen, Dr. Flavia Lopes, Dr. Jorge Gil
Freight & Logistics - stream A	Road Freight Room: B017 Driver Shortages and Countermeasures in Aging Societies Edgar Jungblut, Dr. Thomas Grube, Prof. Dr. Jochen Linssen, Prof. Dr. Andrew Chapman The Resilience of Road Freight Transport in The Netherlands Michiel de Bok, Job van Vliet, Kim Ruijs Viability Analysis of a Cross Border Dangerous Goods Vehicles Parking Network in Galicia and Northern Portugal Alberto Martin Gonzalez Zaera Brazil’s Heavy-Duty Vehicles: How Far Do They Go? Gustavo Willy Froitzheim, Erica Vieira Marcos, Fernanda Rezende, Jefferson Cristiano, Raflem Santos, Wlliane Magna, Rafael Borges	Freight models Room: B017 CitiEU developed a transport model covering the Mediterranean and Black Sea basins, with particular attention to Tunisian ports and their performance in comparison with competing ports in neighboring countries. The model integrates AIS-based vessel m Hristiyan Hristov, Dr. Jai Malik Intelligent Access Policy schemes as a data driven governance framework for seamless cross-border freight transport Claudia de Stasio, Vardhman Lunkar Advancing Urban and Inter‑Regional Freight Planning in the Gulf Region: Architecture and Applications of the Dubai Freight Model (DFM) Sebastiaan Thoen, Michiel de Bok, Sofia Giasoumi, Rodrigo Tapia	Freight model applications Room: B017 On-Ramp Merging in Mixed Traffic with Truck Platoons: Human Merge Decisions Telmo Botelho, Sergio Pedro Duarte, Sara Ferreira, Antonio Lobo From Service Requests to Vehicle Trips: Qualitative Insights for Agent-Based Modeling of Craft Service Travel Emre Goerguelue, Peter Vortisch From Links to Nodes: Uncovering Critical Infrastructure in Multimodal Transport Networks Adrien Nicolet, Jan Kiel
Global Trends Impacting Transport - stream A	Resilient transport systems Room: B022 Improving Transport Crisis Response Capability using Knowledge Graphs and Agent-Based Modelling Ms. Ana Rodriguez Coteron, Mr. Ryan Curry, Mr. Michael Fitzmaurice, Dr. Gerard Casey, Dr. George Economides, Ms. Nila Sari, Mr. Craig Drury, Mr. Tom Pond From sensing to impact: A data-driven monitoring and KPI framework for resilient multimodal transport systems Emmanouil Nisyrios, Matina Lai Ying Chau, Xenia Karekla, Konstantinos Gkiotsalitis Extending an olive branch?: exploring the purpose, pre-conditions, and methods of reconciling unsuccessful opponents of unwanted projects Stephen Kwame Adjei, Petr Witz Co-Designing Access in Inner Areas, a Mobility Management Model for Garfagnana Matteo Scamporrino	Emissions, metrics and transitions Room: B022 A New Tool for Measuring Road User Carbon Emissions Michal Sanca, Dr Paul Hoad Transforming Land Transport in Saudi Arabia: Modeling Energy, Emissions, and Policy Futures to 2060 Yagyavalk Bhatt Transport Emissions Model for Northern Ireland Dr David Deakin, Duncan Urquhart, James Redmond, Lorraine Barry
Intelligent Mobility Management and Operation - stream A	Cooperation in traffic management (sponsored by Soltrafego) Room: B016 The Value of Public-Private Cooperation for Proactive Traffic Management: A Game-Theoretical Analysis of Infrastructure Renovation Scenarios Luc Wismans, Oskar Eikenbroek, Eric van Berkum, Henk Taale Dynamic Lane Configuration and Cooperative Autonomous Vehicles: Transitioning from Empirical Evidence to Smart Road Strategies Luigi Sanfilippo, Marco Guerrieri Using open-road experimental evaluation of driving behaviour to tune human-like CCAM solutions Javier Romo Garcia, Marta Ingelmo Gomez, Jorge Velasco Manrique, Cesar Maestro Martin A Cooperative Ramp Control Strategy Combining Metering, Gap Detection and CACC Telmo Botelho, Rafael Vieira, Sergio Pedro Duarte, Jose Pedro Tavares
Local Public Transport - stream A	Accessible public transport - overcoming barriers Session chair: Iain Macbriar Room: B021 Uneven Micro-accessibility: A Spatial Analysis of Distance Friction to Bus Stops in João Pessoa - PB, Brazil, Based on the Digital Elevation Model Marcelo Chalub Llanco, Victhor Brenno Farias de Oliveira Teixeira, Jose Augusto Ribeiro da Silveira Impacts of Visual-Auditory Warnings on VRU behaviour at a Light-Rail Intersection in Helsinki Johannes Mesimaki, Merja Penttinen, Nino Chkhartishvili, Antonio Costa Beyond ramps and low floors: Soft barriers limiting accessibility gains in public transport—evidence from Czechia Eva Adamovska, Tereza Hrstkova	Demand responsive transport - social value Session chair: David Taylor Room: B021 Gendered patterns of dependence and accessibility among demand-responsive public transport users Marjolein Hantson, dr. Freke Caset, dr. Wojciech Keblowski, dr. Tanu Priya Uteng, dr. Kobe Boussauw Estimation of social value from DRT use Daniel Johnson, Kiron Chatterjee, Eda Beyazit, Muhammad Adeel, Asa Thomas, Like Jiang	New Services to leverage Public Transport Session chair: Betty Leow Room: B021 WeeDRIVE the Shift: Early Lessons from a Microtransit Service for After-School Trips Dr. Anne S. Patricio, Dr. Maria Kamargianni, Dr. Christos Gkartzonikas From data-driven to knowledge-integrated: A human-centered framework to embed drivers in bus network monitoring and planning Goncalo F. Matos, Rosa Felix, Filipe Moura
Planning for Sustainable Land Use and Transport - stream A	Participation Session chair: Giovanni Acciaro Room: B014 Prospective Mobility Scenarios: Integrating Expert Analysis and User-Centered Evaluations Dr Rim Rejeb, Dr Kevin Guelle, Axel Le Dreau, Marion Guillebot, Dr Mariana Reyes, Dr Mallory Trouve, Dr Jaafar Berrada, Dr Felix Carreyre How to Play with Stakeholders - Serious Games as Tools for Mobility Research Jan Wegener, Swetlana Rasch, Dr. Catharina Wasic Planning sustainable urban mobility at the metropolitan scale: a collaborative design framework Juliana Carvalho, Jorge Pinho de Sousa, Rosario Macario	Segmentation Room: B014 Navigating Complex Social Trade-offs in Urban Mobility Using the Social Optimum Mobility Index Georgia Ayfantopoulou, Ioannis Mallidis, Vasileios Giannoudis, Sofoklis Dais, Marisa Meta, Niccolo Corti, Carolina Ramos Fallu Persona's and segments for a people-oriented sustainable mobility approach Marie Jose Olde Kalter, Marije Hamersma, Bingyuan Amalia Huang Development of a geodemographic segmentation of the travel behaviour and attitudes of Londoners Siamak Khorgami, Suzie Boddy, Ivelin Tsonev, Katie Tinning, Neil Rogers, Katherine Blair	Micromobility Room: B014 Parking Policies as Enablers of Shared Mobility: A Scoping Review Panagiotis Papantoniou, Vasiliki Amprasi, Dimosthenis Pavlou, Evangelia Psourogianni Co-Creating Inclusive Micromobility for Safe, Healthy, and Integrated Regional Transport Patrizia Franco, Bradley GOODSELL, Leia TORRES CHAVEZ, Anna Foss, Aaliyah SAIB, Maureen JAISEY
Planning for Sustainable Land Use and Transport - stream B			Transport poverty / Vulnerable groups Session chair: Hans Voerknecht Room: B015 Assessing Transport Accessibility Challenges for Families of Autistic Children Prof. Dimitrios Dimitriou, Assoc. Prof. Maria Sartzetaki, Assist. Prof. Aristi Karagkouni Tracce: ICTs in Support of Monza’s PEBA - Plan for Eliminating Architectural Barriers Federico Messa, Giulia Ceccarelli, Andrea Gorrini, Simone Grasso, Vasileios Milias, Iacopo Neri, Alessandro Pedrazzoli, Dante Presicce, Lily Scarponi PEGADAS – PERCEPTIONS AND EXPERIENCES OF CHILDREN’S MOBILITY TOWARDS FAIRER AND MORE SUSTAINABLE PUBLIC POLICIES Joao Monteiro, Beatriz Silva Sousa, Seren Martin, Catarina Vicente, Daniela Rodrigues
Planning for Sustainable Land Use and Transport, Transport Economics Finance and Appraisal	Road pricing Session chair: James Odeck Room: B026 Planning Without Brakes: Why Dutch Metropolitan Mobility Will Fail Without a Cordon Charge Hans Voerknecht Policy Packages for Achieving Zero Growth in Urban Car Traffic: Insights from the 2025 Urban Study and Scenario Work on the Future of Mobility Dr Marie Aarestrup Aasness Policy Preferences on Toll Roads: How Service Quality Shapes User Segments in Spain Ana Maria Rivadeneira, Juan Gomez, Jose Manuel Vassallo
Rail Policy and Planning	High speed rail (sponsored by IMT) Session chair: Ben Condry Room: B028 European High-Speed Rail Liberalisation: Market Dynamics, Governance Models and Strategic Implications for Operators DR Cristina Bargero, DR Alessandro Dianin Assessing Overnight and High-Speed Rail Integration for Decarbonising European Mobility David Diaz Rivas, Aurora Ruiz Rua, Fernando Fernandez Bonilla Establishing the Case for High-Speed Rail in Romania: A Performance-Led Approach Mr Warwick Lowe, Mr Phil Stannard, Mrs Kathryn Sandercock The Tourism Costs of Reducing High-Speed Rail Coverage: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis Using Spanish Microdata Fernando Fernandez Bonilla, Aurora Ruiz Rua	Rail policy and management Room: B028 Railway objectives, management indicators and measures of performance Tara Tanoz Sargeant, Ben Condry New options for spatial planning with passenger insights and ‘free space’ on the network. Bart Brenninnkmeijer, Odette Zwinkels, Ties Brands Planning long-distance rail services: an integrated demand and supply methodology Jan Kiel, Eckhard Szimba, Jorik Grolle, Enrico Maria Bernardis, Christian Sand, Adeel Munawar, Barth Donners, Roberto Zani, Arnaud Burgess	Rail across borders Session chair: Eva Johnson Room: B028 Towards understanding cross-border rail demand - Regional cross-border transport perspectives from six EU member states Vilmos Politics and Priorities for Rail Policy and Investment: Implications for the competitiveness of rail across borders and boundaries - Insights from the Irish experience during the last century Austin Smyth, Edward Humphreys Digital Accessibility as a Mirror of Functional Integration in European Cross-Border Railways: A Passenger-Facing Perspective Shahrom Sohi, Daniil Dobriy, Amin Anjomshoaa, Axel Polleres
Special Session	YRPF networking session Room: B116
Systems Thinking	Modelling low carbon futures Session chair: Luc Ampleman Room: B027 PATH2ZERO modelling framework to develop, evaluate, and benchmark effective net-zero transport pathways in European countries Francesca Fermi, Davide Fiorello, Johanna Markkanen, Tudor Mocanu, Paal Brevik Wangsness, Simon Shepherd Towards a Just Low-Carbon Mobility Transition by 2050: Equitable Pathways for Urban and Rural Access Olivia Gold, Paul Pfaffenbichler, Astrid Guehnemann Dynamic Evaluation of Railway Service Investment and Corridor Development Using System Dynamics Model: Case Study of Bangkok’s MRT Purple Line in Thailand Dr Hiroki Kikuchi, Ms Yuchen Hou, Prof Dr Atsushi Fukuda, Prof Dr Tetsuhiro Ishizaka
Transport Economics Finance and Appraisal - Stream A		Reframing appraisal Session chair: Rimon Rafiah Room: B015 Revaluing Safety in UK Transport Appraisal: Evidence-Based Interim Updating of the VSL Amelie van der Ploeg When Information Meets Decision: Why Transport Appraisal Is More Than a Modelling Problem Laila AitBihiOuali, Caitlin McIlwain, Zuzanna Malysz A revised approach to welfare appraisal under land use change - with links to practical models John Nellthorp, Richard Batley, James Laird, John Bates, David Simmonds, Iven Stead	Externalities and public value Session chair: Ann Marsden Room: B016 Valuing the impacts of major transport projects on land take (land artificialisation) and soil sealing Georges Fuchs et al. External Costs of Transport on Transalpine Corridors Georges Fuchs et al.
Transport Economics Finance and Appraisal - Stream B		Societé des Grands Projects presents: Metropolis2 Room: B016
Transport Models - stream A	Strategic transport models: Evolution to the next generation Session chair: Stephen Rutherford Room: B029 Learning from 25 years of TfL's travel demand forecasting Emily Gay Growth Model 7: the Dutch national passenger transport model updated to post-COVID travel behaviour Remko Smit, Rik van Grol Designing a Next‑Generation National Transport Model for the Netherlands: Six Foundational Choices Henri Palm, Robert Cellissen Scenario‑led futures: Building a flexible national transport modelling toolkit for Ireland Beata Smyl, Dr Siamak Khorgami, Hayley Goold, Suzie Boddy	Behavioural modelling Session chair: Wolfgang Scherr Room: B029 Incorporating attitudes into strategic transport models Luuk Brederode, Stella van Lent, Janine Grauss Timmerman FLITMO: A disaggregate passenger model for existing and new fixed links in Denmark Barry Zondag, Jasper Willigers, Larissa Eggers, Christian Frank, Magnus Jeppesen, Thomas Skovgaard From Qualitative Travel Descriptions to Choice‑Modelling Inputs: A Framework for Tourist Mobility Analysis Claudio Mantero, Dr. Andres Rodriguez, Prof. Luigi Dell olio	Digital Twins and GPU-Accelerated Transport Modelling Session chair: Siamak Khorgami Room: B029 Digital Twin for Lisbon Municipality Paulo Humanes, Rosario Macario Interactive Digital Twin for Traffic Modelling and Rapid Planning: A GPU-Accelerated Framework for Stakeholder - Driven Analysis Sakshi Atul Charde, Dr. Durre Nayab, Dr. Pallavi Mohan, Dr. Steven Travis Waller, Dr. Tomasz Bednarz Rapid transport modelling using high performance computing. A case study of the UK National Transport Analysis Platform Sebastian Bukowski, Luis Parra Morales, Chris Bruce, Walter Lohman, Bart van der Poel, Craig Drury, Gerard Casey
Transport Models - stream B		Traffic simulation Room: B026 Enhancing Traffic and Urban Emission Modelling using High-Resolution Intersection-Level Vehicle Trajectories Yun Pang Floetteroed, Peter Wagner Using TomTom APIs with OpenPaths DYNAMEQ for near-real-time modelling - Case study: A10 Savona–Ventimiglia Alberto Brignone, Antonello Racina, Damiano Rossi, Emanuele Ferrara Plugging the Gaps: Connecting Transport Models to Support Charging Infrastructure Planning Job van Vliet, Sebastiaan Thoen, Michiel de Bok, Dylan Mulders, Nazir Refa
Young Researchers' and Practitioners' Forum - stream A	Resilient systems Room: B120 Wartime Travel Behavior: A Case Study of Ukraine Anna Sotnikova Evaluating the resilience of the Brazilian food system logistics to climate events Bruno Gonzalez Nobrega, Erasmus zu Ermgassen, Damares Lopes Afonso Strengthening our transport systems for the future: the case for investment in resilience Freddy Curtis, Max Hornbuckle RURAL: A Three-Stage Framework for Operational Transport Recovery After Disasters Rita Prior Filipe	Modelling and forecasting for urban transport systems Room: B120 Benchmarking Neural Networks for Macroscopic Urban Traffic Prediction: Comparison with MFD-Based Multi-Reservoir Models Alessio Tesone, Luigi Pariota Transport Modelling in a data-rich platform: Integrating Transport, Urban Design & Entertainment Operations in the Middle East Jess Wheeler	Data-driven accessibility Room: B120 Collaborative Accessibility-Based Contribution Model for Sustainable Development in Kent, UK Nasim Ghadirzadeh The mode less travelled: quantifying transport flexibility Maria Wood, Professor Adam Dennett, Dr Gerard Casey, Dr Esra Suel Mind the Accessibility Gap: how can strategic models inform business decisions to plan, maintain and prioritise step-free infrastructure? Thomas Zhuchen Mander, Edward Dawes
Young Researchers' and Practitioners' Forum - stream B			Meet the Ambassadors Room: B116 Guest speakers: Meet the AET Ambassadors

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