ECTRI's presence in 2012 conferences

TRB 91st Annual Meeting - Washington, DC, USA - January 22-26, 2012

In the frame of the ECTRI-TRB MoU, ECTRI has this year again, actively contributed by organizing a number of sessions, giving a European flavour to the 91st TRB Annual Meeting.

The ECTRI/TRB Action plan, which implements the ECTRI/TRB MoU will be reviewed on January 22 in a session presided by G. Giannopoulos, HIT. The meeting will focus in particular on the ECTRI Scanning tour 2012 and the Young Researchers Seminar 2012.

The EUTRAIN project will be an important element of ECTRI's activity at TRB. On January 22, the EUTRAIN project's activities will be presented by Prof. Giannopoulos, HIT. On the following day, Prof. Giannopoulos will give a presentation on 'Promoting International Transport Research Cooperation: EU Activities and Future Work of the EUTRAIN project' during the session National Frameworks Part 1: International perspective on Research Agenda setting. On January 24, C. Alméras, ECTRI Secretary General will preside the EUTRAIN project - Network of Related Entities (NRE) Launching event. Lastly, on January 27, there will be a bilateral meeting presided by Prof. Giannopoulos, with US administrations, where 6 DoT related US Transport research organization will be interviewed.

On January 22, P. Leviakangas, VTT will preside a session entitled 'Exploring Extreme Weather Impacts on Transportation Systems Operations in Europe: Opportunities for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation'. On January 23, A. Dupont-Kieffer, ifsttar, will preside the first meeting of the Scientific Committee of the 5th Conference on Women's issues in Transportation, which is supported by ECTRI and scheduled to take place in April 2014 in Paris, France. Prof. N. Paulley, TRL, ECTRI Vice-President will participate as ECTRI representative in the Scientific Committee.

EATIS 2012 - Valenica, Spain - May 23-25, 2012

ECTRI Member LISITT (UVEG) in collaboration with other entities is organizing the Euro American Conference on Telematics and Information Systems – EATIS conference in May 23-25, 2012 in Valencia, Spain. In this context, a call of papers has been launched.

EATIS 2012 aims, but are not limited to, the production of scientific work around e-Inclusion, e-Government, e-Health, e-Learning, e-Culture, e-Entertainment (local, regional, national and international), Web Semantic, and Web 2.0 communities, contents and technologies. Furthermore, in this occasion, the conference includes, specially, a new issue which is concentrated in the subject of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS).

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