Month: March 2025

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CfP: “The development and deployment digital infrastructure: organization and sharing data ecosystems such as digital twins” CL8 Workshop

Cluster 8 (Information and Communication Technologies) organized workshop in Trondheim (Norway) on 1-2 September 2025.

The digitalization and its developments are advancing fast. The advancement in technologies related to for example connectivity, cloud computing and AI provides all kind of opportunities to improve the mobility system with measures like Intelligent Transport Systems, Connected and Cooperative Automated Mobility, Mobility as a Service and advanced travel information systems. In addition, the system produces an enormous amount of data which, next to its primary purpose, can be valuable to better understand the mobility system providing decision support information for strategic decisions on how to design the physical infrastructure or where to locate specific facilities as well as operational decision feeding other decisions and measures.

Therefore, topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

  • Organization and willingness to share data
  • Federated data sharing and data analysis
  • Data sharing architecture
  • Data ownership
  • Data ecosystem governance
  • Dataspace design and use cases
  • Digital twin development and deployment
  • Digital twin visualization and decision support
  • Balancing user privacy with need for data integrity, integration and accuracy twinning
  • Interdomain modelling
  • Privacy and ethical issues

We seek an open discussion about each presentation. Young starting researchers are encouraged to deliver a presentation.

Colleagues interested in presenting a paper are kindly invited to send an extended abstract of a maximum 250 words by email to Mahgol Afshari and Agnar Johansen by 15 May (EXTENDED) 30 May 2025 at the latest. Please indicate the title, author(s), affiliations, corresponding contact, and three keywords. A maximum of three bibliographic references is allowed.

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CfP: “Discursive struggles in transport and city planning” CL1 Workshop

Call for papers for a workshop of Cluster 1: Transport Infrastructure Impacts and Evaluation to be held at UCL, London, 2-4 July, 2025

Practices of transport planning and city planning are subjective in nature, reflecting values and beliefs on what is good and desirable (Hickman, 2025). Narratives are produced in governmental publications, strategies and the wider promotion of projects. Wider positions may give contested viewpoints, from a variety of actors and organisations and the public (Gössling et al., 2024). Discursive struggles, involving issues of power, problematisation, normalisation and discontinuity, lead to dominant discursive formations. Particular modes and uses of the street and space across the city are given preference in transport planning and urban development follows specific forms. There can be overriding meta narratives of neoliberalism, globalisation, growth, financialisation and populism, which affect the transport systems that can be and are produced. The resulting impacts are evident in the cities, regions, streets and travel behaviours that are produced, including the many significant adverse environmental and social impacts of dominant travel behaviours.

We invite papers discussing the following specific topics of interest:
• Discourse analysis in transport planning and city planning, project implementation and urban development, including discursive formations, practices and meanings, helping to understand differing positions and views between actors, groups and organisations, over space and time.
• Text-based or social practice-based discourse analysis; critical discourse analysis (CDA), Foucauldian discourse analysis, sociology of knowledge approaches to discourse (SKAD); and wider discursive approaches in transport and city planning.
• Meta narratives, such as neoliberalism, globalisation, growth, financialisation, populism; and relations to transport systems, strategies, projects, and urban planning.
• Discursive concepts, such as power, apparatus, truth, normalisation, culture, knowledge, ethics, exclusion; and relations to transport systems, strategies, projects, and urban planning.
• Hegemonic positions such as those on market mechanisms and competition in transport; motorisation; sustainable development; sustainable urban mobility; transit orientated development and social equity; and wider practices in transport planning.
• Wider case studies on the application of transport and city planning in relation to discourse and subjectivity; participatory and deliberative approaches to transport planning and project implementation.

The deadline for abstract submission is 30 April, 2025. Abstracts (max. 250 words) should be submitted electronically to the workshop convenor: Prof. Robin Hickman. Applications will be notified of acceptance of abstracts by 7 May, 2025.

Workshop organisers and scientific committee:
Prof. Robin Hickman, University College London
Dr. Jonas de Vos, University College London
Prof. Pengjun Zhao, Peking University

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