World Symposium on Transport and Land Use Research 2020

July 13-16, 2020
Portland, Oregon, United States

We are pleased to announce that the 2020 World Symposium on Transport and Land Use Research (WSTLUR) will be held in Portland, Oregon, USA, July 13-16, 2020. The conference will feature original, full-length papers on the interaction of transport and land use from the broad set of disciplines engaged in transport and land use research. The paper deadline was December 31, 2019.

Each conference registrant may be a co-author on multiple papers, but there is a limit of one presentation per registrant. Sessions will be developed from high-quality papers received and authors of a select number of papers will be invited, based upon their conference paper reviews, to resubmit their papers for a second round of reviews for publication in the Journal of Transport and Land Use.

Papers are organized around the following themes. Theme leaders will be in charge of the paper review and selection process. Questions about the specific themes should be directed to the theme leaders identified below.

• Affordable housing and transport (Kristina Currans, University of Arizona, curransk@email.arizona.edu; Andrew Guthrie, University of Memphis, guthrie1@memphis.edu)
• Networks and land use (David Levinson, University of Sydney, david.levinson@sydney.edu.au; Jie Huang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, huangjie@igsnrr.ac.cn)
• Integrated land use-transport models (Rolf Moeckel, Technical University of Munich, rolf.moeckel@tum.de)
• New mobilities (John MacArthur, Portland State University, macarthur@pdx.edu and Daniel Chatman, University of California, Berkeley dgc@berkeley.edu)
• Freight issues (Andre Romano Alho, SMART MIT andre.romano@smart.mit.edu ; Matthew Roorda, University of Toronto roordam@ecf.utoronto.ca)
• Latin America (Erick Guerra, University of Pennsylvania, erickg@design.upenn.edu; Daniel Rodriguez, University of California Berkeley, danrod@berkeley.edu)
• Accessibility and quality of life (NECTAR-sponsored theme) (Karst Geurs, University of Twente, k.t.geurs@utwente.nl; Ahmed El-Geneidy, McGill University, ahmed.elgeneidy@mcgill.ca, Geneviève Boisjoly, Polytechnique Montreal, gboisjoly@polymtl.ca)
• Public transport (Ehab Diab, University of Saskatchewan, ehd361@mail.usask.ca ; Lijun Sun, McGill University, lijun.sun@mcgill.ca)
• Emerging data & technologies (Cynthia Chen, University of Washington, qzchen@uw.edu; Brian Lee, Puget Sound Regional Council, blee@psrc.org)
• Access for all (Dick Ettema, Utrecht University, D.Ettema@geo.uu.nl; Amy Parker, Portland State University, atp5@pdx.edu)
• Megaregions (Junfeng Jiao, University of Texas, Austin, jjiao@austin.utexas.edu; Ming Zhang, University of Texas, Austin, zhangm@austin.utexas.edu)
• PhD dissertation presentation (Raktim Mitra, Ryerson University, raktim.mitra@ryerson.ca, Manish Shirgaokar, University of Colorado, Denver, manish.shirgaokar@ucdenver.edu)
• Other topics (Kelly Clifton, Portland State University, kclifton@pdx.edu; Yingling Fan, University of Minnesota, yingling@umn.edu)

Conference Co-Chairs

Kelly Clifton, Jennifer Dill, and Yingling Fan

Registration Fees

Register now. Early registration fees will be available through May 1, 2020. All amounts are US dollars.

• Full registration: Early Bird: $750; After May 1: $850.
• One-day registration: Early Bird: $400; After May 1: $500.
• Student registration: Early Bird: $480; After May 1: $630.
• PhD Thesis Competition registration: Early Bird: $480; After May 1: $630.

Registration fees include lunch buffets on July 13-15, 2020, as well as the evening reception on Sunday, July 12 and the conference dinner on Wednesday, July 15.

Register now

Conference location:

Smith Memorial Student Union
Portland State University
1825 SW Broadway
Portland, OR 97201
*Welcome ceremony location TBD within Portland State University Campus

Conference Dinner and Award Ceremony Location:

The Melody Event Center
615 SE Alder St.
Portland, OR 97214

Recommended Hotels:

Radisson Red Portland
1455 SW Broadway
Portland,Oregon 97201
United States
*Located 0.2 miles or 0.3 kilometers from the Conference Venue
**To book a room our discounted group rate, copy and paste this link into your browser to book online: WS TOUR 2020
If you prefer making a reservation over the phone, dial 1-800-333-3333 and use the code WSTOUR to request our block rate.

The University Place Hotel
310 SW Lincoln Street
Portland, OR 97201
1-866-845-4647
*Located 0.4 miles or 0.6 kilometers from the Conference Venue
**Budget room prices are available at this hotel. Contact directly to book; we do not have a roomblock at this hotel.

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More information

• Conference flyer (PDF)
• Preliminary Conference Program

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