Conference Proceedings

Susan C. Dresley, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center Library, compiler

American Society of Transportation and Logistics. Conference Proceedings…Annual Meeting. Title varies. Annual.

Proceedings emphasize the various functions of traffic, transportation, logistics and physical management.

Australian Transport Research Ltd. Conference Proceedings. Vermont South, Victoria, 1st - , 1962- . Biennial.

The ARRB Transport Research Ltd. Conference Proceedings include the papers and most of the discussions presented at the conference. Conference papers are generally related to highway transportation, traffic engineering, transportation planning - including urban transportation issues-environmental issues, human factors and freight studies. Formerly known as Australian Road Research Board.

European Ministers of Transport Round Table on Transport Economics (ECMT). Papers. Paris: European Ministers of Transport. 3-5 per year.

Several Round Tables are held each year around specific topics related to transport economics and policy. Publications consist of a report, and a summary of the ensuing debate. Aussi disponible en francais.

Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE). Compendium of Technical Papers from the Annual Meeting. Washington, DC, 1930- . Annual.

1930-1976 Proceedings issued by the Institute of Traffic Engineers. Beginning in 1997, published only in CDROM, contains papers prepared and presented at the annual meeting.

International Cargo Handling Coordination Association Biennial Conference. Proceedings. London, 1941- , 1st . Biennial.

Conference papers cover the technical aspects of transportation and cargo handling.

International Symposium on Theory and Practice in Transport Economics. Proceedings. Paris: European Conference of Ministers of Transport, 1964- , 1st . Biennial.

Conference topics reflect matter of contemporary concern, and offer a dual approach (policy and research) to problems under discussion. Aussi disponsible en francais comme symposium international sur la theorie et al pratique dans l'economie des transports.

International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory. Proceedings. 1959- , 1st - . Triennial.

Conference papers cover the technical aspects of traffic and transportation problems through the use of models, methods and analyses.

National Council of Physical Distribution Management. Annual Conference Proceedings. Oak Brook, IL: The Council. Annual.

Planning Transport Research and Computation (International) C., Ltd. Summer Meeting. Proceedings of Seminar. London: PTRC Education and Research Services, 1971- . Annual.

Papers presented at the annual meeting are published in separate volumes for each seminar. Topics covered include urban and regional, social and land use planning; information systems; road location ad design; transportation planning; public transport analysis; and all associated surveying, model building, programming and data handling techniques. Mainly British coverage but also some international content.

Transportation Association of Canada. Annual Conference Proceedings. Ottawa, annual, CD-ROM.

The proceedings include all available papers from the conference's technical sessions. Among the topics covered in the proceedings are environment, finance and investment, geometric design, highway/railway, maintenance and construction, multi-modal transportation, pavements, soils and materials, transportation and climate change, uniform traffic control, and urban transportation. Until 1990, known as the Roads and Transportation Association of Canada.

Transportation Research Board. Transportation Research Records Series. Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, 194? - .

Annual meeting held in Washington, D.C. each January. Papers given are published in these subject-specific (multi-modal) series. Preprints are available during the conference. Prior to 1962, annual meeting papers were published under the title Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Highway Research Board. Preprints available in CD-ROM format.

Transportation Research Forum. Proceedings of the …Meeting. Oxford, IN: R. B. Cross Co., Annual to 1986.

The papers are compiled and published as the Proceedings prior to the annual meeting each year. The papers cover most modal and functional areas of transportation although the emphasis is primarily freight transportation. After 1986 see Journal of the Transportation Research Forum. Beginning in 2000, the Journal of the Transportation Research Forum co-publishes papers in Transportation Quarterly.

World Conference on Transport Research. Conference Proceedings. 1974- . Irregular.

The World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR) is organized every three years under the authority of a permanent body, the WCTR Society. It brings together managers, policy analysts, advisers, operators and academics, all with a common interest in promoting state of the art and state of the practice in all areas of transport research.