What: Antwerp Inland Navigation School 2022 (hybrid edition)

AINS is a week-long series of presentations, debates, and practical workshops focused on key challenges for Europe's inland navigation industry. It is a great opportunity for seasoned professionals in the business to gain more in-depth knowledge, as well as for academics and Ph.D. students who would like to gain advanced insight into how inland navigation businesses work and what scientific methods can be applied and derived. During and in between the sessions, there will be many networking opportunities. The Antwerp Inland Navigation School program covers a variety of topics. Themes vary from basic to in-depth inland navigation knowledge around the market - process - vessels - infrastructure. Speakers from European universities and international inland navigation businesses highlight topics such as policy and regulations, financing, sustainability, and innovative concepts, and the Future of Inland Navigation.

When/where: 25-29 April 2022, Antwerp, Belgium
Deadline: 20 April 2022
Further Information: Details are available on the website

What: Urban Logistics Summer School 2022

This course provides the necessary background, knowledge and skills for students for an immersion into Urban Logistics. The course is composed of two weeks. During these weeks the students will participate in an intensive series of interactive lectures. Topics are organized per day: urban logistics: setting the scene, logistics and its role in the city, modelling and data collection, evaluation of urban initiatives, and implementations: lessons and challenges. To better enjoy a wonderful summer in Antwerp, additional social activities are scheduled including excursions and group activities in the summer in Antwerp.

When/where: 16-26 August 2022, Antwerp, Belgium
Deadline: 1 June 2022
Further Information: Details are available on the website.

What: Call for papers: Special Issue on Place-Based Decarbonisation

The climate crisis now requires a daunting scale of response if global commitments on emissions reduction are to be met. However, much of the analysis to date has focussed on top-down assessments of what needs to happen with limited understanding of what this means on the ground.

Special Issue Information: This ‘place-based decarbonisation’ for transport special issue presents an opportunity for authors to publish their cutting-edge accounts of empirical research, review papers, theoretical contributions, and practitioner papers from across the world which make a theoretical and/or novel empirical contribution to the understanding of how to decarbonize transport in a range of different contexts and recognising the importance of how local context interacts with decarbonisation as a complex multi-scalar issue. The topics covered in this special issue will include but are not limited to transport decarbonisation and societal readiness, policies and policy packages, fairness and justice, governance and the interface with spatial planning. Place as a lens involves thinking about location, locale, meaning and attachment. Place is not synonymous with local or bottom up but instead, a recognition of the importance of how local context interacts with decarbonisation as a complex multi-scalar issue. The Special Issue encourages the submission of papers from across the world which make a theoretical and/or novel empirical contribution to the understanding of how to decarbonize transport in a range of different contexts.

Guest editors: Dr Samarthia Thankappan, University of York and Prof Greg Marsden, University of Leeds ITS
Deadline: 1 July 2022
Further Information: Find out more and submit your paper here