Invited Abstract Categories
The theme for ICTH 2019 is "Smart Cities. Disruptive Mobility. Healthy People." Abstracts are invited on the general headings below with sub-headings indicating the specific categories; all within the overarching theme of transport and health. Note that an "Other" category will be included under each main heading. To present at ICTH 2019-Melbourne, your abstract
DOES NOT need to focus on technology or disruptive mobility. The overall theme of the conference will highlight emerging issues of smart cities and disruptive mobility; however the primary focus is the impact of transport (and urban/rural) planning and design on quality of life, health and well-being in communities.
Programme Committee Decision: Session team presentations will be evaluated and scored by conference attendees through an on-line portal. The two highest scoring sessions of ICTH 2019 will be announced during the Awards Luncheon on Friday, 8 November. Session team members will receive bragging rights and a special award.
Abstract submission extends from
6 March through 9 May 2019. Abstracts will be evaluated and scored by a minimum of three independent peer-reviewers. The final score is taken as an average of the three independent scores.
Research and practitioner abstracts are scored separately. Notification of acceptance will be sent out on a rolling basis to the presenting author on or before 7 June 2019.
Transport and Health Behaviour
- Active travel
- Disruptive mobility & cultural shifts
- Methods, performance measures & outcomes
- Public education/public involvement
- Social marketing & other behavioural interventions
Technologies for Smart Cities
- Autonomous/connected vehicle technologies
- Transport Network Companies (TNC); Uber, Lyft and others
- Technologies to assist active travel (i.e., Wayfinding apps, etc)
- Infrastructure adaptations & technologies
- Electric vehicles (including e-bikes)
- Renewable energies
Transport and Health Impacts of Cities
- Road safety danger reduction & injury
- Health/environmental impact assessments
- Air quality & pollution
- Noise & water pollution
- Climate change
- Community severance
- Mental health
Planning for Smart Cities
- Urban/rural planning
- Complete/healthy streets/governance
- Aging populations
- Disability assisted mobility (paratransit)
- Planning & infrastructure challenges
- Built environment density, distance
- Monitoring & evaluation
- Socio-technical challenge
- City trials, Intervention studies and natural experiments
- Safe routes to school
- Work/school travel plans
Sustainable Urban Transformation
- Green/natural space (biodiversity)
- Environment/social justice/inequities
- Transport economics
- Infrastructure for transport beyond the private car (i.e., walking/cycling)
Late Breaking Category: Women's Health & Transport
