Publicising our research – answering a call for papers

The 2010 Australasian Transport Research Forum has put out a call for papers that closes at the end of January 2010. It will be held in Canberra, so it’s a good opportunity to go to a local conference on transport that’s not too expensive.

If you’ve got a piece of research that you’ve done on a transport topic, why not share it with the rest of the transport world? Just finished an honours/masters/PhD? – time to publicise your research. Alternatively, if you’ve just completed a transport project, it’s time to share successes and failures with your peers.

I know there’s a few contributors who already work in the industry who could easily do a paper and there are others who have lots of good ideas, but no ’serious’ forum (beyond TT of course) at which to be heard. Then its time to ‘put the money where the mouth is’ so to speak. A 200-word abstract is not a big investment of one’s time. The hard part will be putting the paper together if it gets accepted.

If anyone is interested in taking the first step into a wider world of transport research and policy, email me and I’d be pleased to lend a hand and give advice. For examples of what an ATRF paper looks like, there’s a great archive of papers from the first conference in 1975 through to 2009 on the PATREC website. There are so many good ideas floating around on TT that it would be a shame if they went no further out into the world of transport.

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