Objectives:  This SIG’s principal objectives are the following:

• Promote the exchange of ideas, methodologies, and results of air transport and aerospace research through conferences, symposia, and regional meetings;

• Organize and coordinate air transport and aerospace sessions at the WCTRS conferences;

• Promote healthy interaction among academics, government and private sector researchers, industry executives, and policymakers on important policy, strategy, operations, and technology issues affecting air transport and aerospace;

• Develop air transport and aerospace research capabilities for projects of international scale requiring multidisciplinary cooperation;

• Promote linkages between the research community and international agencies and institutions dealing with air transport and aerospace policy; and,

• Facilitate the formation of international research teams for conducting world-scale research programs on critical air transport and aerospace issues.

Major accomplishments to date (2008):

• The ATRS has organized annual world conferences starting in 1997.  Conference have been held in Vancouver, Dublin, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Jeju-Island (Korea), Seattle, Toulouse, Istanbul, Rio de Janeiro, Nagoya (Japan), and Berkeley (California).  Future conferences are to be held in Athens (July 6-9, 2008) and Abu Dhabi (27-30 June, 2009), and Porto, Portugal (8-10 July, 2010).

• The ATRS formed the Global Airport Performance Benchmarking task force in 2001 and published its annual benchmarking reports since 2002.  

Membership.  Membership is open to any academic, researchers, industry managers, executives and policy makers with research interest in the subject area. Anyone interested in joining the ATRS, please do so by visiting the website  www.atrsworld.org

Contacts (SIG/ATRS Secretariat; ATRS Administrator): This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   Phone: 1-604-822-0635 (or 9416); Fax: 1-604-822-0635

ATRS  Executives:                                                                                                    www.atrsworld.org

• (Prof.) Tae H. Oum, President, the ATRS;  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ;  Phone: 1-604-822-8320   

• (Prof.) Martin Dresner, VP – External and Development; University of Maryland, USA;  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   Phone: 1-301-405-2204

• (Prof.) Sveinn Gudmundsson, VP-Publications; Toulouse Business School, France;  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   Phone: 33-5-3466-0982

• (Prof.) Anming Zhang, VP-Academic and Programs, University of British Columbia, Canada; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ;  Phone: 1-604-822-8420