Launch date of the SIG / History: The SIG was formed in July 2009, in preparation for the 12th WCTR, Lisbon, July 2010. 

Objectives:

• Promote travel behaviour work at WCTR and ATRS, the conference of the Air Transport Research Society (ATRS), another WCTR special interest group (SIG 8)
• Produce special issues of international journals grouping together a selection of the best travel behaviour research presented at WCTR.
• Keep the WCTRS membership informed of activities in the field.
• Act as the link between WCTR and other major conferences with a strong interest in travel behaviour, namely the International Association of Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR) and the International Choice Modelling Conference (ICMC)
• Issue regular statements on current research needs in the field of travel behaviour, encouraging communication and collaboration between academics and practitioners from across the world.

Membership:

Membership is open to any academic or practitioner with an interest in the subject area. Anyone interested in joining is invited to contact Stephane Hess at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

 
Contact:
Stephane Hess
Chair of WCTR SIG on travel behaviour, session track organiser (STO) for travel behaviour track (D3) for WTCR 2013, organiser of ICMC
Institute for Transport Studies University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT

 
SIG founding members:

Kay Axhausen, ETH Zurich

Moshe Ben-Akiva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Chandra Bhat, University of Texas at Austin

Peter Bonsall, University of Leeds

Andrew Daly, RAND Europe and University of Leeds

David Hensher, The University of Sydney

Sergio Jara-Diaz, Universidad de Chile

Juan de Dios Ortúzar, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Eric Miller, University of Toronto

Ram Pendyala, Arizona State University

John Polak, Imperial College London

 John Rose, The University of Sydney

Yoram Shiftan, Israel Institute of Technology

Kenneth Train, University of California at Berkeley