Greetings subcommittee friends,
This call for abstracts may be of interest to you and your networks. If you
have any questions regarding the 2016 TPAQ Conference, please contact Dr.
Jane Lin at janelin(a)uic.edu.
Best,
Eloisa Raynault
ADD50-1 Co-Chair
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Call for Abstracts
2016 Transportation Planning and Air Quality Conference
"The Changing Landscape of Transportation and Air Quality: Confronting the
Challenges at the Global, Regional, and Local Scales"
(Conference webpage:
http://register.extension.iastate.edu/2016tpaq)
<http://register.extension.iastate.edu/2016tpaq>
The Transportation Research Board Transportation and Air Quality Committee
(ADC20) invite you to submit an extended abstract for the 2016
Transportation Planning and Air Quality (TPAQ) Conference. The spotlight
theme in 2016 will be "The Changing Landscape of Transportation and Air
Quality: Confronting the Challenges at the Global, Regional, and Local
Scales."
We are specifically interested in abstracts related to the following topics:
Multi-modal passenger transportation and air quality issues
Freight and non-road transportation and air quality issues
Greenhouse gas emissions reduction strategies
Cost-effectiveness analysis for emission control measures
Emissions and air quality impacts of alternative fuels
Co-benefits of transportation emissions control, air quality mitigation,
and climate change strategies
Innovative vehicle and information technology solutions to transportation
air quality problems
Near-road air quality
Dispersion modeling methods and tools
Exposure and health effects of air pollution
Data for air quality analysis: unconventional sources, collection methods,
quality, scarcity, uncertainty, and novel statistical tools for data
analytics
State-of-the-practice transportation and air quality program implementation
and evaluation
Other emerging topics in transportation and air quality
Extended Abstract Requirements: All extended abstracts must be submitted in
Microsoft Word or PDF format. Each extended abstract must provide
sufficient detail for reviewers to judge its merit, but cannot exceed 5
pages (including figures, tables, and references) in length, single-spaced,
with no less than 11 font size. An extended abstract template is available
at
http://register.extension.iastate.edu/2016tpaq/call-for-abstract.
Submission Method: Extended abstracts must be submitted electronically to
upload.2016_Tr.vrhqkopmhx(a)u.box.com.
Submission Deadline: Extended abstracts must be submitted by Monday,
February 15th, 2016. Each extended abstract will be reviewed and comments
will be provided to the author(s) by Thursday, March 31st, 2016.
Conference Co-sponsors:
Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Minnesota Department of Transportation
Air and Waste Management Association (AWMA)
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) - Transportation & Development
Institute (T&DI)’s Planning, Economics and Finance Committee,
TRB Committee on Alternative Transportation Fuels and Technologies (ADC80)
Cambridge Systematics, Inc.
Eastern Research Group, Inc.
ICF International
Resource Systems Group, Inc.
Texas Transportation Institute (TTI)
Conference History
The TPAQ Conference, formerly Transportation/Land Use Planning and Air
Quality (TLUPAQ), has been held in the past at different locations:
1993 - Danvers, Massachusetts
1997 - Lake Tahoe, California
1998 - Portland, Oregon
1999 - Lake Lanier, Georgia
2001 - Irvine, California
2007 - Orlando, Florida
2009 - Denver, Colorado
2011 - San Antonio, Texas
2014 - Charlotte, North Carolina
Please fee free to distribute to interested individuals and groups. Thank
you.