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Highlights of the Conference
The 11th World Conference on Transport Research was held in Berkeley,
California, on the campus of the University of California. This was the first
WCTR held in the United States.
Conference attendance topped 1000, with participants from 49 countries.
WCTR President Werner Rothengatter and conference chair Elizabeth Deakin and
co-chair Samer Madanat greeted the full auditorium at the opening session.
Nobel Laureate Daniel McFadden
was the Keynote Speaker for WCTR 2007. His talk was entitled "The Behavioral
Science of Transportation."
The conference opening session featured welcoming remarks by Berkeley Mayor Tom
Bates and talks by Frannie Léautier, World Bank; Randy Iwasaki, California
Department of Transportation; and Steve Heminger, Metropolitan Transportation
Commission.
The Séminaire Francophone offered as part of the conference included eight
sessions. The séminaire was sponsored by the French Ministère de l'écologie, du
développement et de l'aménagement durable, direction de la recherche et de
l'animation scientifique et technique (SG/DRAST).
Nearly 1000 presentations were made at the conference's 178 sessions.
A special session featuring 38 posters was attended by over 100 participants of
the conference, allowing poster presenters to discuss their research in a
relaxed and communicative atmosphere.
922 reviewed papers were included in the conference CD.
Participants enjoyed technical tours of the Golden Gate Bridge, the Bay Bridge
construction project, San Francisco's multimodal transportation programs, Bay
Area ferries, Google's campus, Silicon Valley transportation and urban
development projects, the Port of Oakland, BART's transit-oriented development,
new technologies at PATH, and walking and biking tours of the City of Berkeley.
Over 150 fellowships were made possible by contributions from sponsors,
including the US Department of Transportation, the California Department of
Transportation, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the Bay Area Rapid
Transit District, AC Transit, the World Bank Institute, the San Francisco County
Congestion Management Agency, the City of Oakland, and Dowling Associates.
The WCTRS Prize for Best Paper was awarded to Sergio Jara-Díaz, Marcela Munizaga,
Paulina Greeven, and Reinaldo Guerra (Chile) for the paper “The Unified
Expanded Goods-Activities-Travel Model: Theory and Results.”
The WCTRS Young Author Prize for the best paper by a researcher 35 years old or
younger was awarded to Pat Sarutipand and Pablo Durango-Cohen (United
States) for the paper “Multifacility Maintenance and Rehabilitation Model with
Coordinated Intervention.”
The DRTPC Prize was awarded to Antonio Nelson Rodrigues da Silva and Marcela da
Silva Costa) and Marcia Helena Macedo (Brazil) for the paper, " Multiple Views
of Sustainable Urban Mobility in a Developing Country – The Case of Brazil.”
A Certificate of Honorable Mention was awarded to authors under 35 years of age
Rolf Moeckel, et al. (United States) for the paper “Simulating
Interactions between Land Use, Transport and the Environment.”
A Certificate of Honorable Mention for the WCTRS Prize was given to Erik Verhoef
(The Netherlands) for the paper, "Private roads: Auctions and competitions in
networks."
At the General Assembly on the final day of the conference, incoming WCTR President Tony May urged members to become active in Special Interest Group activities and the chair of the 2010 conference, Jose Viegas, reminded members of the glories of Lisbon.
About the Conference
The World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS) organizes a major research conference every three years. The conference brings together transportation academics, executives, policy analysts, advisers, and operators, with a common interest in promoting state of the art and state of the practice in transport research. The conference includes plenary and concurrent sessions, field trips, and special events. Participants may give papers, organize sessions, or simply attend and participate in discussions. For more information about additional WCTRS activities, see http://www.wctrs.org