[TRBHealth] 6th International Conference on Transport & Health: Call for Abstracts

Please share this email with your professional network to help spread the word...ICTH 2021 is BACK! International Conference on ​Transport & Health: Changing Perspectives Following Global Disruption Virtual Event June 2021 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Abstract Submission OPENS 31 January The two highest scoring abstracts in five categories and the two best posters of ICTH will win $200 USD CASH Transport and Health Behaviour · Active travel · Disruptive mobility & cultural shifts · Methods, performance measures & outcomes · Public education/public involvement · Social marketing & other behavioural interventions · Gender and transport Innovative Technologies · Autonomous/connected vehicle technologies · Transport Network Companies (TNC); Uber, Lyft and others · Technologies to assist active travel (i.e., Wayfinding apps, etc) · Infrastructure adaptations & technologies · Electric vehicles (including e-bikes) · Renewable energies Transport and Health Impacts · Road safety danger reduction & injury · Health/environmental impact assessments · Air quality · Noise pollution · Water contamination · Climate change · Community severance · Mental health Urban/Rural Planning · Complete/healthy streets/governance · Aging populations · Disability assisted mobility (paratransit) · Planning & infrastructure challenges · Built environment density, distance · Monitoring & evaluation · Socio-technical challenge · Work/school travel plans · Green/natural space (biodiversity) · Environment/social justice/inequities · Transport economics · Infrastructure for transport beyond the private car (i.e., walking/cycling) If you do not see a specific transport and health abstract category that your abstract fits, submit it anyway under the "Other" category option. The ICTH Programme Committee will take a look and figure out a way to work your unique research into the programme. The ICTH platform is all about a different way of thinking. NOTE: Abstracts will be evaluated and scored by a minimum of three independent peer-reviewers. The final score is taken as an average of the three independent scores. Research and practitioner abstracts are scored separately. Notification of acceptance will be sent out on a rolling basis to the presenting author on or before. ICTH abstract submission and registration details will be available on 31 January, 2021, upon opening of the abstract submission portal. Dr. Jennifer Mindell Professor of Public Health Health and Social Surveys Research Group Research Department of Epidemiology and Public Health UCL 1-19 Torrington Place London WC1E 6BT   Email: j.mindell(a)ucl.ac.uk Web: IRIS web page ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7604-6131 Student support: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/students/support-and-wellbeing/support-during-coronav… I deal with emails when it is convenient for me to do so; recipients should respond only during working hours unless they prefer to work at other times.  Note I now work part-time: currently I usually working a half-day on Wednesdays and do not work on Friday afternoons.  I am currently working from home.