Sponsorship and Marketing Opportunities - ETC 2026

The Association for European Transport currently comprises over 200 corporate and individual members, based in over 35 countries. It was formed in 1998 to develop a network of transport professionals across Europe. 

AET is committed to the training and development of the next generation of transport professionals and provides a friendly and informal atmosphere in which they can develop their presentation and communication skills. The European Transport Conference provides opportunities for Young Professionals to meet socially and develop networking opportunities while benefitting from a 50% reduction on membership fees. AET will support any group that is keen to develop a more formal structure.

CitiEU | CitiME provide services to transport planning departments, operators, and engineering companies around the world. We have been closely linked with Bentley products since their start, first as part of Citilabs and after the acquisition in 2019. We are involved with transport modelling projects in many regions where the use of Cube plays a significant role. CitiEU | CitiME are also resellers of TomTom® and intuVision® VA solutions.

CitiEU | CitiME offer:

·        The best technical expertise one can get for modelling with Cube and Legion.

·        A dedicated team that can help develop models and improve existing ones to make sure they meet the standards required for your city, region and project

·        Training in Cube and Legion, on-site, online, often as part of ongoing projects

·        We not only provide the software expertise but also help you utilise it better to improve your skills and your transport planning   

Founded in 1992 as one of the first spin-offs of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto, OPT – Optimização e Planeamento de Transportes S.A. has been exclusively dedicated to the mobility and transport sector for over three decades. The company develops tailored R&D projects, innovative software solutions, and mobility studies that improve operational efficiency and support sustainable urban mobility. OPT works across the full cycle of transport planning, from strategic design to implementation, gaining a unique perspective on system performance. Its expertise includes the development of advanced operational planning software, automated public transport information systems, and consultancy to transport authorities and municipalities in traffic management, public transport network optimization, and sustainable urban mobility planning in line with current European policies.

Our clients move people, goods, and freight over land, through the air, across the sea, underground, and even through mountains, and we help them achieve it.

Clients rely on us to be strategic and practical; to help them save money while being innovative; and to be environmentally sensitive and understanding of community concerns when delivering crucial infrastructure projects.

Our approach of establishing long-term relationships with our clients drives our ability to help them reach their goals, across all transport modes.

We bring value through cost-effective solutions and services ranging from transportation planning, design, engineering, and construction management to land development, environmental permitting, and support with innovative financing measures and public-private partnerships.

For the 2025 ETC, Goudappel will sponsor an award for the best paper written for and presented in the Planning for Sustainable Land Use and Transport seminar. The winner of the award gets a cash prize of EUR 350 or GBP 350 and the award is administered by the Planning for Sustainable Land Use and Transport programme committee.

For decades, urban planning has prioritised distance and speed in transport networks. However, the true cost of inefficient commuting is measured in lost time - a precious resource that affects our well-being and productivity.

The approach proposed in Fabio Casiroli’s seminal work ‘Khronopolis. Accessible City, Feasible City’ (2008) shaped the Transportation Planning field by shifting the attention toward a time-centric conceptualization of urban environment. Planning with time means advocating for (i) improved quality of life – reclaiming commuting time fosters a healthier, more connected lifestyle; (ii) economic vitality – walkable neighbourhoods stimulate local businesses and encourage active living; and (iii) environmental sustainability – reduced reliance on cars leads to cleaner air and lower carbon emissions.

Ten years after Fabio’s passing, 36 years after he started Systematica, and 27 years after he started teaching Transport Planning at Politecnico di Milano, his message is even more contemporary: proximity-based approaches, such as the 15-minute city model, are recognized as a way to create cities that are not only efficient but also healthier, more sustainable, and more enjoyable for all. This award seeks to further this vision, fostering the exploration of ideas, methodologies, and applications that advance time-based urban mobility concepts.

In 1988 a group of planners and economists spotted the opportunity to bring statistical rigour to what they saw as a generally lacklustre and uncreative approach to delivering research. Through their involvement in transport strategy, at a time when there was growing pressure to close further railway lines, they’d seen that, if you asked what passengers needed to use the system and then responded to some of those needs, the railways could be kept open.

Today, Accent are a totally integrated, full-service agency.  We pride ourselves on delivering tailor-made research programmes designed to answer those important questions our clients need answering. We’ve stayed in business for over 30 years by ensuring that our research solutions get to the heart of the issues we’re exploring, and by delivering the in-depth insights that keep our clients coming back.

We specialise in behavioural change, branding, customer journeys, interactive communities, NPD, segmentation and trade-off analysis.

The European Conference of Transport Research Institutes (ECTRI) is an international non‐profit association that was officially founded in April 2003. It is the first attempt to unite the forces of the foremost multimodal transport research centres across Europe and to thereby promote the excellence of European transport research. Today, it includes 29 major transport research institutes or universities from 20 European countries. Together, they account for more than 4,000 European scientific and research staff in the field of transport. ECTRI as the leading European research association for sustainable and multimodal mobility is committed to provide the scientifically based competence, knowledge and advice to move towards a green, safe, efficient, and inclusive transport for people and goods.