Transportation Research Symposium 2025

Transportation Research Symposium

25-28 May 2025| Postillion Hotel, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Join us for the Transportation Research Symposium 2025

The Transportation Research Symposium (TRS) will give you an outstanding opportunity to interact with the editors of many of the most important journals in the transportation field, to learn about current research, and to present your own work to expert audiences.

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Elsevier’s Transportation Research (TR) family of journals covers scientific and practical aspects of transportation research. TRS is an international conference organised by the TR editors and is equally comprehensive in scope. Other Elsevier transport journal editors will organise themed sessions within TRS.

The program will include numerous ‘Meet the Editor’ sessions and other special events.

The TR journals provide the core structure of the conference. By their subject scope, they serve as ‘umbrellas’ for six broad topic areas, with the comprehensive-scope seventh (TRIP – ‘General’) serving to ensure there are no gaps. All transportation topics are in the scope of the conference and will be accommodated within an appropriate topic area, as will any special sessions run by other journals.

Conference topics

Transportation Research Part A: Policy & Practice

Part A: Policy & Practice
WCTRS Special Interest Group Part A: Transportation Pricing and Regulation
WCTRS Special Interest Group Part A: Intermodal freight transport: enhancing sustainability and competitiveness
WCTRS Special Interest Group Part A: Transport Planning and Policy
WCTRS Special Interest Group Part A: Planning for urban freight transport: New challenges and opportunities facing cities
Journal of Urban Mobility session Part A: Proximity-centred Accessibility Planning
Journal Transport Economics and Management session Part A
Journal of the Air Transport Research Society session Part A: Addressing challenges in air transport

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Part B: Operations Research & Methodologies

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Part C: Implications of Emerging Technologies
WCTRS Special Interest Group Part C: The life and death of shared mobility services opens in new tab/window

Transportation Research Part D: Transport & Environment

Part D: Environment, Equity & Sustainability
WCTRS Special Interest Group Part D: Emerging Methods and Tools to Quantify Health Impacts of Transportation Investments
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Transportation Research Part E: Logistics & Transportation Review

Part E: Logistics & Supply-Chain
WCTRS Special Interest Group Part E: Transport System Analysis and Economic Evaluation from a Sustainability Perspective
Journal of Maritime Transport Research session Part E

Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology & Behaviour

Part F: Safety, Psychology & Behaviour

Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives

TRIP general submission
Journal of Research in Transportation Business and Management session: Disability and Transport
Journal of Air Transport Management: Cooperation and competition in air transportation

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Conference deadlines

Author notification deadline – 27 January 2025

Early bird registration deadline – 5 March 2025

Author registration deadline – 5 March 2025

Keynote and plenary talks from renowned speakers

The program will include invited plenary lectures, contributed talks and poster sessions highlighting the latest transportation research. The program will be curated by a committee of world class academic leaders in their respective fields.

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Sponsors & Exhibitors

Choose from a variety of sponsorship and commercial options to raise your profile and position your company as a thought leader in the community.

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Supporting publications

Special Issues – information for authors

We anticipate several Special Issues to come out of this conference, more details will follow at a later date once this is confirmed. The calls for papers will be shared on individual journal websites, as well as this page here opens in new tab/window.

We also plan to publish the conference proceedings in Transportation Research Procedia opens in new tab/window.

Many of the associated journals are indexed in Scopus and SSCI/SCIE, and the Procedia is indexed in CPCI, the Conference Proceedings Citation Index. Please check the journal homepages for exact information on indexing services.

The Transportation Research family of journals forms the most cohesive and comprehensive reference of current research in transportation science.

Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives (TRIP) opens in new tab/window is an addition to the family which accepts papers on any topic within the scope of any of Parts A-F. It is an interdisciplinary journal concerned with any and all social science aspects of transportation.

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice opens in new tab/window considers papers dealing with policy analysis (design, formulation and evaluation); planning; interaction with the political, socioeconomic and physical environments; and management and evaluation of transport systems.

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological opens in new tab/window publishes papers on all methodological aspects of the subject, particularly those that require mathematical analysis. The general theme of the journal is the development and solution of problems that are adequately motivated to deal with important aspects of the design and/or analysis of transportation systems.

The focus of Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies opens in new tab/window is high-quality, scholarly research that addresses development, applications, and implications, in the field of transportation systems and emerging technologies.

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment opens in new tab/window publishes original research on the environmental impacts of transportation, policy responses to those impacts, and their implications for the design, planning, and management of transportation systems.