BTR Blog
Welcome to the BTR Blog, where we share updates about the conference, spotlight our sponsors and headliners, and keep the transportation research community informed about important developments.
Recent Posts
May 8 – BTR Job Board/Sponsor Spotlight/Headliner Highlights
BTR Job Board
BTR is more than just a conference – it’s a hub for the international travel behaviour community. Have you checked out our job board lately? If you’re advertising a job or looking for a new opportunity, the BTR job board is an informal (and free!) place to start your search.
Headliner Highlights – Dr. Moshe Ben-Akiva
Moshe Ben-Akiva is the Edmund K. Turner Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Director of the MIT Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Lab, and Principal Investigator at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology. He holds a PhD degree in Transportation Systems from MIT and was awarded honorary degrees from the University of the Aegean, the Université Lumiére Lyon, the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and the University of Antwerp.
His awards include the Robert Herman Lifetime Achievement Award in Transportation Science from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Association for Travel Behavior Research, the Jules Dupuit prize from the World Conference on Transport Research Society, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ITS Society Outstanding Application Award for DynaMIT, a system for dynamic network management.
Ben-Akiva has co-authored two books, including the textbook Discrete Choice Analysis, published by MIT Press, and nearly 400 papers in refereed journals or refereed conferences. He has worked as a consultant in industries such as transportation, energy, telecommunications, financial services and marketing for a number of private and public organizations.
Thank you for joining us for BTR 7, Dr. Ben-Akiva!
Sponsor Spotlight – MIT Mobility
The MIT Mobility Initiative (MMI) is a global platform to accelerate a safe, clean and inclusive mobility system through research, education, entrepreneurship and engagement. The MMI is structured around four pillars:
- Research – catalyze cross-disciplinary research that provides insight to strategic challenges for industry and society
- Education – manage and enhance MIT’s transportation degree programs and expand the executive education offering
- Entrepreneurship – leverage MIT’s innovation ecosystem to spin off mobility tech startups and support existing startups
- Engagement – foster direct interaction with leaders from business and government on the “front lines” of the mobility revolution
Thank you for your sponsorship, MMI!
May 5 – 13 PhD Positions at TRANSFORM, Sponsor Spotlight, Headliner Highlights
TRANSFORM Seeks 13 PhD Students
PhD candidates, look no further! TRANSFORM is hiring 13 – yes, THIRTEEN – students for various positions in this brand-new collaborative network of researchers. Locations and supervisors vary for each position. Please check the TRANSFORM website to see if any of these positions is the right fit for you!
Sponsor Spotlight – Amirkabir University of Technology
Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT), also called Tehran Polytechnic, is a public technological university located in Tehran, Iran. Founded in 1958, AUT is the oldest technical university established in Iran.
The university was founded in 1928 as a technical academy and was further transformed into a full-fledged university by Habib Nafisi in 1956. Named the Tehran Polytechnic, it initially offered five engineering degrees: Electrical and Electronics, Mechanical, Textile, Chemistry, and Construction and Infrastructure. Six months before the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Tehran Polytechnic was renamed after the Iranian prime minister Amir Kabir (1807–1852).
The university now has 18 science and engineering departments, dozens of research groups and laboratories, and three other affiliated centers, located in Garmsar, Bandar Abbas and Mahshahr.
AUT is the pioneer of sustainable development in Iran and established the Office of Sustainability in 2011. The activities of this office contribute to the AUT campus by reducing energy consumption, costs, and emissions, and also provide student coursework, volunteer opportunities for students, as well as research and education academic activities on sustainable development.
AUT, thank you for supporting BTR 7!
Headliner Highlights – Dr. Marianne Hatzopoulou
Marianne Hatzopoulou is Professor in the Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering at the University of Toronto and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Transport Decarbonization and Air Quality. She leads the Transportation and Air Quality (TRAQ) research group studying the interactions between transportation, air quality, climate change, and public health; she published 150 publications on these topics.
Prof. Hatzopoulou is also the Director of Positive Zero Transport Futures, a living lab ecosystem for testing transport decarbonization innovations with positive societal outcomes. Prof. Hatzopoulou is on the Canadian team of researchers who were the 2021 recipients of the NSERC Brockhouse Canada Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering.
In 2022, she received the University of Toronto Engineering Alumni Network 2T5 Mid-Career Achievement Award. She is an associate editor of the journal Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment and the current chair of the Transportation Research Board Standing Committee on “Air Quality and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation” (2023-2026).
Thank you for joining us for BTR 7, Dr. Hatzopoulou!
April 23 – Deadline Reminder and Best Paper Award Information
Deadline Reminder
Only one week remains! Submit your paper before midnight on April 30th to participate in BTR 7. Remember, it’s FREE!
Best Paper Award in Sustainable Transport
We are delighted to announce the Best Paper Award in Sustainable Transport, which will be conferred at the upcoming Bridging Transportation Researchers (BTR), recognizing exceptional research that advances the state of sustainable mobility and transport systems.
In collaboration with the journal npj Sustainable Mobility and Transport, this award celebrates scholarly excellence and provides an opportunity for broader dissemination of impactful research.
Award Details: - Prize: €250 - Publication Opportunity: The awardee will receive a free article processing charge (APC) waiver to submit an extended version of their paper for peer review in npj Sustainable Mobility and Transport
Eligibility: - The paper must be presented at the conference by at least one of the authors - The research must address sustainability in transport, including but not limited to active mobility, public transport, multimodal integration, equity, policy innovation, or technology-driven solutions - Only original research papers are eligible (not review papers or case studies)
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