The inaugural meeting of the World Symposium on Transport and Land Use Research (WSTLUR) to be held in Whistler, British Columbia, July 28-30, 2011. The conference will bring together academics and practitioners at the intersection of economics, planning, and engineering in the fields of transport and land use.
In addition to presentations based on rigorously peer-reviewed papers, the conference program will include confirmed plenary presentations from Ed Glaeser (Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University), Keynote Address; Robert Cervero (Professor of City & Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley), Featured Luncheon Speaker; and, David Banister (Professor of Transport Studies, Oxford University), Featured Luncheon Speaker.
The Call for Papers, seeking original and interdisciplinary research addressing the interaction of transport and land use, is open for submission until December 31, 2010.
The conference is being organized by the Center for Transportation Studies at the University of Minnesota under the direction of the Organizing Committee and advisement from the Scientific Committee. Organizing partners include the Georgia Institute of Technology/University Transportation Center, the University of California Transportation Center, UC Davis Sustainable Transportation Center of the Institute of Transportation Studies, the Center for Transportation and Livable Systems at the University of Connecticut, and the University of Vermont Transportation Resaerch Center.
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