This is a conference that you shouldn’t miss if transport reliability and vulnerability is what interestes you: The 5th International Symposium on Transportation Network Reliability (INSTR), will be held in Hong Kong from December 18 to 19, 2012. The INSTR series is the premier gathering for the world’s leading researchers and professionals interested in transportation network reliability, to discuss both recent research and future directions in this increasingly important field of research. The deadline for submitting abstracts is 30 January 2012, so there is still time to draft something and submit a full paper when due later.
Transport vulnerability and I
My first introduction to the field of transport vulnerability was when I read Katja Berdica’s article on road vulnerability, which in turn inspired my own research into why vulnerability and reliability should be considered as a decision factor in infrastructure development.
INSTR and I
Having read the book that contained the papers from the 1st Symposium on Transportation Network Reliability, I was inspired to present a paper at the 2nd International Symposium on Transportation Network Reliability in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2004. Busy with other research, I only attended the 3rd and skipped the 4th symposium, but perhaps I will attend this one? I hope so.
INSTR2012 – Topics
The scope of the 5th symposium includes all aspects of analysis and design to improve network reliability, including:
- User perception of unreliability and vulnerability
- Public policy and reliability of travel times
- The valuation of reliability
- The economics of reliability
- Network reliability modeling and estimation
- Transport network robustness
- Reliability of public transportation
- Travel behavior under uncertainty
- Vehicle routing and scheduling under uncertainty
- Risk evaluation and management for transportation networks
- ITS to improve network reliability
Conference website
- instr2012.org: INSTR2012
