6th Conference on Urban Studies

URBAN TRANSPORTATION

16-17-18 December 2021, Istanbul

CONFERENCE CALENDAR

Extended Abstract Submission: 15 / 10 / 2021

Notification of Acceptance: 15 / 11 / 2021

Submission of Revised Papers: 01 / 12 / 2021

Announcement of Conference Program: 05 /12 / 2021

Urban transportation, with its environmental, social, and economic dimensions, is closely related to academics, as well as local and central level administrators and policymakers, and city residents who want to use transportation systems effectively and efficiently. Problems that are frequently mentioned especially during the transformation of big cities into megacities such as Istanbul and Ankara force professionals to think and research intensively. In today’s world where mobility and vehicle ownership are increasing rapidly, the rational and efficient planning and organization of urban transportation is evolving into a structure that teams from different disciplines try to solve by coming together. On the one hand, the diversity and quality revealed in urban mobility are accepted as an indicator of the urban life quality of citizens, on the other hand, sustainability goals are tried to be achieved with new approaches in transportation planning.

At the 6th Conference on Urban Studies, it is aimed to analyze the transportation problems faced by the stakeholders who are in the decision-making position in urban transportation and to produce solutions by considering all aspects of transportation.

One of the most important problem areas of this Conference is to investigate the determination of the main deadlocks in front of urban transportation after the Covid-19 Pandemic. While urban transportation is currently a problem area that needs to be handled and planned on a different scale than inter-city transportation and with different actors and systems, it has become inextricable with the newly added problems with the Covid-19 Pandemic. With this conference, it is also aimed to identify the main problems experienced in urban transportation, which is one of the sectors most affected by the Covid-19 Pandemic, which has affected the whole world and to develop solutions by taking into account the living and working conditions that have occured and will occur after the pandemic.

From this point of view, the 6th Conference on Urban Studies opens the following topics for discussion in the context of transportation in the world and in Turkey, especially in urban transportation, under the title of “Urban Transportation”:

• Transportation policies, planning, and applications
  • National and regional transportation
  • Rural transport
  • Urban transport planning (transport master plans, relationship with spatial planning, Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMP), generic plans, legal and institutional framework)
  • Simulation models as a transportation planning tool
  • Mobility and access
  • Transport infrastructure as a public space
  • Urban logistics
  • Geography of transportation
  • Urban transportation and Covid-19 Pandemic
  • Creating the necessary database for transportation planning
• Types of urban transportation
  • Non-motorized transportation types (Pedestrian and bicycle)
  • Micro mobility
  • Public transport systems
  • Motor vehicles
  • Integration of modes of transport
• Developments in urban transportation technologies and management 
  • Data sources, management and access in transportation
  • Mobility as a Service (HoH, MaaS: Mobility as a Service) applications
  • Smart city / Smart transportation systems
  • Different uses of pricing and ticketing technologies in transportation
  • Transport on demand (MOD: Mobility on Demand)
  • Governance in transportation
  • Mobility consultancy in institutions and local governments (Mobility Management)
  • Conversion and modernization of individual operators (dolmus, minibus, public bus)
  • Applications of Transportation Network Companies (Transport Network Companies such as Uber) in our country
  • Future scenarios in transportation (such as electric vehicles, autonomous vehicles, connected vehicles)
• Economic, social, and environmental effects of urban transportation
  • Equity and inclusion problems in urban transportation (low income, disabled, women, unemployed, children, etc.)
  • Economic and social costs and benefits of urban transportation projects
  • Types of urban and environmental effects of practices
  • Impact of urban transportation on Sustainable Development Goals, national and local responsibilities
  • Social and psychological behaviors in transportation decisions
• Urban transportation infrastructure
  • Road infrastructure and intersection design (implementation of concepts such as design policies, lack of updating of standards, no complete and inclusive road)
  • Reorganization of transportation infrastructure as public space and social space
  • Problems and law/standard recommendations on infrastructure design
  • Problems and suggestions about transportation infrastructure in metropolitan cities
• Traffic safety in urban transportation
  • Sustainable cities and traffic safety
  • World practices in traffic safety and 30 km/h cities
  • Lack of database for traffic safety