Call for Submissions: MATSim User Meeting 2018

Hello, MATSim users and researchers!

The 2018 MATSim User Meeting will be held on 23 June, 2018, in Atlanta, Georgia USA. That is the Saturday before the Transportation Research Board’s bi-annual “Innovations in Travel Modeling” conference, which is June 24-27, 2018.

Abstracts and/or short papers are due on November 30, 2017. The papers are expected to be very short (< 2500 equivalent words), but the deadline is fast approaching. ITM has an alternative “lightning talk” track which is quite interesting and only requires an abstract submission. See below for details.

Abstracts and papers can be submitted to the ITM conference, to the MATSim Meeting, or both. We will coordinate with the main conference so that papers are not presented twice. The submission channel for the user meeting will be communicated at a later date.

I hope many of us submit MATSim papers, so we can have a strong presence at this very interesting conference. The ITM announcement is below. Details on registration for the MATSim User Meeting will be forthcoming.

Please check this page for updates:

MATSim User Meeting 2018 @ ITM, Atlanta, June 23

See you in Atlanta! 

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ITM 2018 Announcement:

The Transportation Research Board (TRB) Innovations in Travel Modeling (ITM) conference series has become the leading venue for researchers and practitioners to come together and discuss, debate, and share information about advances in travel analysis and modeling methods.  The ITM conference series is intended to bridge the gap between research and practice and help accelerate the deployment of new methods, tools, technologies, and algorithms in freight and passenger travel forecasting model systems. 

The conference series was launched in 2006 and is held every other year, with the seventh edition scheduled to take place in Atlanta, Georgia during June 24-27, 2018.

The conference organizing committee invites contributions on innovations in freight and passenger transport modeling, data collection, and analytics for possible presentation at the conference. The conference welcomes two types of contributions:

  1. Research Briefs, no more than 2500 equivalent words in length, for possible consideration as full-length presentations
  2. Abstracts, no more than 300 words in length, for possible consideration as short “lightning” talks

Please submit contributions at the following website by November 30, 2017: https://catalyst.omnipress.com/#collection/216/submission

Questions about ITM2018 may be directed to Jennifer Weeks, Senior Program Officer for Planning and Travel Forecasting, Transportation Research Board, atjlweeks@nas.edu or 202-334-2289.

For more details about the conference and the procedure/format of submissions, please see the Call for Research Briefs and Abstracts (PDF).