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”Visions, Concepts and Experiences
of Travel Demand Management”

July 16 – 18, 2008
Vienna – Semmering, Austria

We are proud to announce tdm Vienna 2008 – an excellent opportunity to gather, share and discuss the state of the art in travel demand management.

Following the call for papers we have received extremely interesting contributions from specialists in the relevant research areas and practical fields.

The presentations will cover a wide field of research-topics and practical experiences from all continents. Plenary sessions and parallel sessions with a strong focus on discussions are being planned to ensure that all participants can choose to attend the most relevant presentations by leading experts.

The symposium will provide you with solutions and plenty of ideas for your daily research and implementation work.

”Visions, Concepts and Experiences of Travel Demand Management”
will focus on:

(1) experiences with pricing measures,
(2) contribution of TDM to the reduction of greenhouse gases and
(3) implementation processes.

You are welcome at this three-day symposium, whether you are an academic, a transport researcher, a representative of local, regional and national authorities in the field of transport and the environment, a transport consultant or representing an interest group in this field.

Background

Three international symposia on travel demand management (TDM) have already taken place in the UK to date:

• Travel Demand Management, 1998, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
• Theory and Practice of Congestion Pricing, 2003, Imperial College London
• Success and failure of TDM Measures, 2005, Napier University Edinburgh.

Format of the Symposium

As with the previous conferences in this series, the tdm Vienna 2008 symposium will be a mixture of presentation and working conference in five-half days. There will be a selected number of invited keynote speakers. The focus of the programme is on the presentations of accepted papers followed by discussions in several plenary sessions. Two or three parallel workshop sessions are being considered, offering an opportunity for in-depth discussion of the specific topics of TDM. A poster session provides the opportunity to present research results parallel to the oral presentations.

Planned workshop topics

We will assign the presentations to the following six workshop topics:

• Implementation, monitoring and acceptance of pricing and access control measures
• Success and failure of implementation measures
• Reducing greenhouse gases with TDM-measures
• Evaluation procedures for and results from TDM measures
• Marketing and voluntary travel behavioural changes
• Public transport and substitution of car trips

These topics include contributions on the impacts of transport-telematic technologies as well as social benefits.

Conference Language English

Travel demand management (TDM) measures are some of the most promising transport policy measures in conurbations, especially with reference to climate change, clean urban transport and congestion avoidance. Setting targets for reducing traffic or prospective traffic growth is a basic requirement to fulfil these goals and is a priority for the political agenda. Many activities of the European Commission (e.g. The Civitas-Initiative for Clean and Better Urban Transport) and of national and local governments in Europe and all over the world support this development. But it has to be mentioned that the political decision and implementation process of TDM measures is rather difficult, especially when pricing measures are at car drivers’ expense. The goal of the symposium is to share the latest high quality research results and developments in the different fields of TDM.

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Venue and accommodation

Hotel Panhans (www.panhans.at) is a prestigious four-star hotel built in the 19th century 95 km from Vienna and set in breathtaking mountain scenery.

Travel

From Vienna airport, trains are the most convenient option to reach the city centre. A train ride by commuter-rail (S-Bahn) will take about 24 minutes; ticket for two tariff-zones necessary (single € 3.40, also valid in city transport within the city-zone. Alternatively, the City-Airport train (CAT) runs non-stop in 16 minutes, single ticket € 9,-, not valid in city transport, http://www.cityairporttrain.com/). Both train connections will bring you from “Flughafen Wien” to “Wien Mitte-Landstraße” – a station where commuter-rail services and regional trains are available (south-bound direction “Suedbahnhof”). Regional trains from “Wien Mitte-Landstraße” to “Semmering” via “Payerbach-Reichenau (change trains here, direction “Muerzzuschlag”) ” run every hour, the train ride takes 2 hours and 6 minutes, single tickets € 32,-). Transfer from the train station Semmering to Panhans € 7,-. For all train connections see: http://www.oebb.at/en/.

If necessary, a (mini)bus shuttle will be organized on request from the airport or a hotel in Vienna to Panhans on Wednesday and back on Friday (additional charge per direction about € 25,-).

We highly recommend travelling from Vienna by train via the oldest mountain railway in Europe designed by Carl Ritter von Ghega and built around 1850 - recently declared World Cultural Heritage:

http://www.semmeringbahn.at/impressionen.php?pid=0, http://album.eisenbahnen.at/bilderalben/semmeringbahn.shtml

To reach Semmering from Vienna airport you have to change trains in Vienna (“Wien Mitte-Landstraße”) and in “Payerbach-Reichenau”.

Early bird registration with reduced fee: until March 17, 2008
Final programme will be fixed by the middle of March
Final registration and accommodation booking for the symposium: April 30, 2008
For presenting authors: full paper submission: June 21, 2008
For authors with oral presentations: submission of powerpoint presentation: July 7, 2008
Symposium: July 16 to 18, 2008

Registration

The registration form can be found here

The Registration Fee is a comprehensive and fixed sum that includes all costs during the symposium (i.e. symposium registration and accommodation, symposium activities, meals, soft drinks and social events from lunch Wednesday, July 16, to lunch Friday, July 18, 2008). Some rooms have been reserved at a reasonable rate if you wish to stay at Hotel Panhans prior or after the symposium.

Reduced rates are available for delegates from developing countries (please contact us directly), early payment, for chairs, presenters and accompanying persons.

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For participants who want to stay some days in Vienna before or after the symposium we have reserved some rooms at special rates at the following hotels:

Best Western Hotel City Central, 1020 Vienna, Taborst 8, tel.: +43 (1) 211 050, fax: +43 (1) 211 05 140, www.schick-hotels.com, city.central@schick-hotels.com. Bed and breakfast: single € 87,- to € 109,-, double € 124,-; (Please book before June 23, 2008 and state “TDM Konferenz”).

Hotel Bellevue, 1091 Vienna, Althanst 5, tel.: +43 (1) 313 48-0, fax: +43 (1) 313 48-801, www.hotelbellevue.at, bellevue@austria-hotels.at. Bed and breakfast: € 80,- to € 100,- per room (one or two persons). (Please book before April 15, 2008 and state “TDM Konferenz”).

Hotel Capricorno, 1010 Vienna, Schwedenplatz 3-4, tel. +43 (1) 533 31 040 und fax. +43 (1) 533 76 714, www.schick-hotels.com, capricorno@schick-hotels.com. Bed and breakfast: single € 87,- per person. (Please book before June 01, 2008 and state “TDM Konferenz”).

Alternatively we suggest contacting Vienna’s tourist information centre for accommodation and places of interest:
(http://www.wien.info/wtv/book-e.html, Central Reservation: phone: +43 1 24 555, fax: +43 1 24 555 666, wienhotels@wien.info, or http://www.vienna-hotel-guide.com/, http://www.touristnet.at/wien1e.htm.

Preliminary symposium programme
(overview – status February 15, 2008)

Invited presenting authors
(overview – status February 15, 2008)
The final programme will be fixed by Mid-March 2008

Amey, Adler, Ampt, Arasan, Atray , Barrie, Barter, Baumstark, Behrens, Bellemans, Bento, Berger, Boltze, Brown, Carreno, Carvalho, Cooper, Croissant, d Árcier, de Boras, de Witte, del Mistro, di Ciommo, Engelson, Falzarano, Fellendorf, Franklin, Greene, Hasib, Herry, Hofecker , Holguin-Veras, Hughes, Ison, Janssens, Karlström, Kochan, Kristoffersson, Krutak, Kumar, Leindl, Litman, Lopez-Lambas, Lutfur , Macharis, Matsumoto, Meng, Monzón, Nelson, Nicholson, Ortuzar, Pereira, Phonphitakchai, Pojani, Pons, Praschl, Qian, Raimund, Raux, Reinhold , Rey, Rivasplata, Roth, Schönauer, Schuster, Sedlacek, Smith, Stead, Stopher, Stradling, Susilo, Taylor , Tomek, Tormans, Torok, Tuckwell , Varkonyi, Venter, Wachi, Westhauser, Wets, Xu, Yagi, Yanes, Yang, Yeh, Zegras, Zoldy.

Members of the local Symposium Committee

• Gerd Sammer, Prof. and Head of the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna
• Michael Meschik, Senior Lecturer, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna
• Georg Hauger, Prof., Institute for Transport System Planning, Technical University Vienna
• Michaela Stern (Symposium Secretary), Institute for Transport Studies, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna.

Members of the Scientific Committee

• Kai W. Axhausen, Prof., Institute for Transport Planning and Systems, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Michael G.H. Bell, Prof., Centre for Transport Studies, Imperial College London, UK.
• Bystrik Bezak, Prof., Faculty of Civil Engineering, Slovak University of Technology Bratislava, Slovakia
• Manfred Boltze, Prof., Institute for Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering, University of Technology Darmstadt, Germany
• Martin Fellendorf, Prof., Institute for Road and Transport Planning, Graz University of Technology, Austria
  
• Georg Hauger, Prof., Institute for Transport System Planning, Technical University Vienna, Austria
  
• Ryuichi Kitamura, Prof., Institute for Travel Behaviour Analyses, Kyoto University, Japan
  
• Csaba Koren, Prof., Department of Civil and Municipal Engineering, Szenchenyi Istvan College, Györ, Hungaria
  
• William H.-K. Lam, Head of Department of Civil & Structural Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong
• Kong, China
  
• Martin Lee-Gosselin, Prof. Associé, École Supérieure d'Aménagement du Territoire et de Développement Régional,
• Chercheur Régulier, Centre de Recherche en Aménagement et Développement, Canada
  
• Michael Meschik, Senior Lecturer, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna
  
• John D. Nelson, Prof., Centre for Transport Research (CTR), Geography and Environment, University of Aberdeen, UK.
  
• Juan de Dios Ortúzar, Prof. Department of Transport Engineering and Logistics, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile
  
• John Polak, Prof., Centre for Transport Studies, Imperial College London, UK
  
• Hing Po Lo, Head of Department of Management Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, China
  
• Tom Rye, Reader, School of the Built Environment, Napier University Edinburgh, UK
  
• Wafaa Saleh, Senior Lecturer, School of the Built Environment, Napier University Edinburgh, UK
  
• Gerd Sammer, Prof., Institute for Transport Studies, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna
  
• Yusak Susilo, Lect., Transport Planning Centre for Transport & Society Faculty of the Built Environment, University of West of England, Bristol, UK

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