The 9^th World Conference on Transportation Research - Seoul, Korea, 2001

Venue : ASEM International Convention Center, Seoul, Korea

Co-organizers : Korean Society of Transportation & the Korea Transport Institute

Conference Topic Areas

1. Transport Modes
2. Transport Systems
3. Planning, Operation, Management and Control
4. Transport Modeling
5. Assessment, Appraisal and Scenarios
6. Spatial and Environmental Economics and Engineering
7. Transport in Developing Countries
8. Transport Policy, (De-)regulation, Subvention and/or Investment

WCTR Society and 9th WCTR's Committees

• President of WCTR Society : H. Nakamura (J)
• Chairman of Scientific Committee : W. Rothengatter (D)
• 9th WCTR Conference Director : Chang-Ho Park (KOR)
• Co-Chairmen of Local Organizing Committee : Dong-Deuck Cha (KOR), Soo-Young Lee (KOR)
• Chairman of Local Program Committee : Kyung Soo Chon (KOR)

Conference Summary

The 9th WCTR was held on July 22-27, 2001 at the COEX Convention Center in Seoul, Korea. The conference was jointly organized by Korean Society of Transportation and The Korea Transport Institute.
There were around 750 conference registrations altogether. Among them, 301 are the WCTR-S members, 232 are non-members, 217 are students (among them, 7 are for developing countries, 14 are spouses and 3 for bursaries). Delegates from 51 countries attended the conference.
In Opening Ceremony held on July 23, over 700 delegates attended and there were addresses from Boo Sik Lee, Conference Co-Chairman of LOC, Chang-Ho Park, Conference Director, Hideo Nakamura, President of WCTR-S, Jang-Seop Oh, Minister of Korean Ministry of Construction and Transportation and Kun Goh, Mayor of Seoul Metropolitan Government. According to the scheduled session program, papers were presented and discussed.
In General Assembly held on July 24, there were reports on various activities of the WCTR-S in Term 1998-2001.
During the conference, more than 500 delegates attended the technical tours and had a useful time to understand the Korea’s transport development and future plans.
In Closing Ceremony held on July 26, Professor Chang-Ho Park, Conference Director of the 9th WCTR, summarized the 9th WCTR conference and expressed sincere thanks to all of the conference delegates. The Prize Award Sub-committee chaired by Professor Peter Bonsall announced the selection of two WCTR prizes, ‘2001 WCTR Prize’ open for all submitters and ‘2001 WCTR Young Prize’ only to authors under 35 years of age. ‘2001 WCTR Young Prize’ was awarded jointly to two papers, ‘Model-Based Multi-class Travel Time Estimation’ by Serge P. Hoogendoorn and ‘Information Reference Model Considering Uncertainty in Decision-making’ by Eiji Hato. ‘2001 WCTR Prize’ was awarded to the paper, ‘A Cell-based Dynamic Traffic Assignment Model’ authored by Hong K. Lo and Szeto W. Y. As the next president of the WCTR-S, Professor Werner Rothengatter made an inauguration speech. Professor Yucel Candimir, Conference Director of the 10th WCTR introduced the 10th WCTR to be held in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2004. Finally, on behalf of the WCTR-S, Professor Moshe Ben-Akiva made concluding remarks on the 9th WCTR and gave special thanks to the members of LOC for the successful conference organization.

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