The METRANS Transportation Center, a joint partnership
between the University of California and California State University Long
Beach, is accepting abstract submissions on freight issues for its 2013 METRANS
International Urban Freight Conference (INUF).
The purpose of the conference is to provide a forum for
sharing emerging, multi-disciplinary research on all aspects of freight in
metropolitan areas. Its organizers are soliciting abstracts for conference
presentations as well as papers.
The call for abstracts is being coordinated with a call for
submissions for a volume issue in Research in Transportation Business and
Management titled, “Managing Freight in Urban Areas.”
All abstracts for paper submissions will be considered for
both presentation at INUF and publication in RTBM.
Abstracts must be submitted by June 15, 2013, are limited to
500 words and must include a statement of the research, methodology and data,
and a brief summary of results and conclusions. The format for abstracts is as
follows: title, topic area, author's name and full contact information, whether
you plan to submit a paper or only give a presentation, and the abstract text.
Abstracts for papers to be submitted for possible
publication in the RTBM volume are solicited in the following topic areas: local/last
mile pickup and delivery; environmental impacts and responses; freight in urban
modeling and planning; emerging trends in consumption, production and spatial
organization; economics of urban trucking; and hubs and city interactions.
Additional topics of interest for INUF presentations
include: port operations; ITS applications in urban freight; security and
vulnerability; best practices; and important dates.
Abstracts can be submitted via email to
giuliano@price.usc.edu.
They will be reviewed and authors notified of acceptance by
July 1, 2013. Authors of abstracts could be invited to submit for presentation
at INUF, publication in RTBM, or both.
