WRSA: DEADLINE APPROACHING FOR SANTA BARBARA MEETING

We are quickly approaching the traditional October 15 deadline for paper submissions for the WRSA annual meeting, to be held in Santa Barbara, California, February 24-27, 2013.  Now's the time to get your papers submitted!  Running late?  The deadline will be extended, but it's still helpful to hear from you so we're on the lookout for your paper.

If you plan to attend the meeting but won't be presenting a paper, the program committee will be happy to assign you paper discussant and/or chair duties - just drop Rachel Franklin (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) a line letting her know you'd like to be included in the program.

The hard deadline for the Tiebout Prize is also October 15 - if you'd like to be considered, get those papers in the mail today or tomorrow to ensure an on-time delivery!  The Tiebout Prize will be awarded for the best paper submitted by a full-time graduate student enrolled at an accredited academic institution (currently or having completed studies during Academic Year 2011–2012). To be considered, papers should be in the general multidisciplinary realm of regional science: topics in the fields of regional economics, urban economics, urban/regional planning, economic and quantitative geography, and local public finance are especially encouraged.  The winning author will receive $1,000 to help defray the costs of attending the Meeting. The paper may be published in The Annals of Regional Science (published by Springer) following standard review/revision procedures.  Deadline for submissions is October 15, 2012.  For further details, see the WRSA website at www.wrsa.info.

Finally, if you've recently completed your PhD studies (within the past five years), consider submitting your WRSA conference paper for the Springer Prize.  This prize is awarded annually at the WRSA Annual Meeting for the best paper presented by an early career scholar (doctoral studies completed within the past five years) on a regional science topic. The prize consists of a certificate and selection of Springer books as chosen by the winner, worth $300.  Following standard review/revision procedures, the paper may be published in The Annals of Regional Science and announced on the Springer Website.  To have a paper considered for the Springer Prize simply inform Rachel Franklin of this wish at the time of paper submittal for the conference (or no later than January 1).

Further details on paper submission and meeting logistics are available on the WRSA website: www.wrsa.info.

The Spanish Association of Regional Science and the Valencian Association of Regional Science Congress

XXXV Meeting on Regional Studies and IV Valencian Conference on Regional Studies

“Regional Development in times of change”

Valencia, 26 and 27 November 2009

ADEIT - Fundación Universidad Empresa de Valencia

Plaza Virgen de la Paz, 3  - Valencia.

Dear colleagues

I would like to announce that the Spanish Association of Regional Science and the Valencian Association of Regional Science Congress will be held in Valencia on the 26 and 27 of November, entitled “Regional Development in times of change”. To this end, we would like to inform you of the most immediate aspects of this event.

Organization

On this occasion, the Ivie (Valencian Institute of Economic Research) will collaborate on the organization of the congress with the Spanish and Valencian Association of Regional Science.

Summary

The congress will be organized around the following thematic areas:

1.      Specialization, productivity and regional competitiveness

2.      Local development and urban competitiveness

3.      The Valencian economy

4.      Energy, sustainability, natural resources and the environment

5.      Autonomous and local funding

6.      Territorial policies in the European Union

7.      Transport, mobility and infrastructures

8.      Government and land distribution

9.      Population and migration movements

10.  Public services: efficiency and equity

11.  The labour market, wages and productivity

12.   Industrial districts and territorial clusters

13.  Globalization and regional development

14.  Tourism

15.  Methods of regional analysis

Authors may indicate which thematic area they would like their presentation to be part of in the abstract of their paper.

Submission of abstracts: until 5 June

Submission of complete paper: until 17 July

Final acceptance: until 2 October

Venue

The head office of Adeit – Fundación Universidad Empresa of the Universitat de Valencia is located in the historical centre of Valencia in the square - Plaza Virgen Paz. Nearby there are various outstanding buildings and monuments such as La Nau de la Universitat de Valencia, the Colegio Mayor Rector Peset, the Iglesia de Santa Catalina, the Palau de la Generalitat, the Lonja, the Central Market, the Plaza Redonda and the Cathedral.

The venue was conceived as a meeting place for society so that events can be organized and held in which ideas, knowledge and experiences are exchanged.

Further information: http:www.reunionesdeestudiosregionales.org/

 XXXV Meeting on Regional Studies and IV Valencian Conference on Regional Studies (503.26 kB) 

https://sites.google.com/site/icaworkshop2013/

ICA Workshop on Street Networks and Transport, August 23-24, 2013, Dresden, Germany

Street networks, as one of the oldest infrastructure of transport in the world, play a significant role in modernization, sustainable development, and human daily activities in both ancient and modern times. Although street networks have been well studied in a variety of engineering and scientific disciplines including for instance transport, geography, urban planning, economics and even physics, our understanding of street networks in terms of their structure and dynamics is still very limited to deal with real world problems such as traffic jams, pollution, and human evacuations in case of disaster management. Thanks to the rapid development of geographic information science and related technologies, abundant data of street networks have been collected for better understanding the networks’ behavior, and human activities constrained by the networks. This ICA workshop is intended to gather researchers together to present the state of the art research and studies, in an interdisciplinary setting, on street networks and transport. Suggested topics include, but not limited to as long as they address issues related to street networks and/or transport:

Spatial statistics and spatial analysis along networks

Topological analysis and space syntax

Pattern recognition with street networks

Map generalization on street networks

Complexity measurement of street networks

Human evacuations and simulations

Transport modeling based on street networks

Geospatial analysis of the OpenStreetMap data

Submission:

All manuscripts in a length of 6000-7000 words should be in English, single column, single-spaced with figures and tables within the text. The manuscripts in MS Word 2003 format should contain authors’ affiliation and email, abstract (no longer than 200 words), and up to five keywords. To submit, please use EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icaworkshop2013

Important dates:

Deadline for receiving papers: April 25, 2013

Acceptance notification: May 25, 2013

Workshop: August 23-24, 2013

Publication:

The papers selected for the workshop will follow a peer-review process for publication as a theme issue of the international journal Geographical Analysis

Program committee:

Sonit Bafna

Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Marc Barthelemy

Institut de Physique Theorique, France

Mike Batty

University College London, UK

Itzhak Benenson

Tel Aviv University, Israel

Efrat Blumenfeld-Lieberthal

Tel Aviv University, Israel

Tao Cheng

University College London, UK

Daniel A. Griffith

University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Andrea De Montis

Università di Sassari, Italy

Seungjae Lee

University of Seoul, South Korea

Harvey Miller

University of Utah, USA

Itzhak Omer

Tel Aviv University, Israel

Toshihiro Osaragi

Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Yukio Sadahiro

University of Tokyo, Japan

Monika Sester

Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

Jean-Claude Thill

University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA

Stephan Winter

University of Melbourne, Australia

Bisheng Yang

Wuhan University, China

Xiaobai Yao

University of Georgia, USA

Workshop organizers:

Bin Jiang

University of Gävle, Sweden

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Web: http://fromto.hig.se/~bjg/

Atsuyuki Okabe

Aoyama Gakuin University

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Web: http://home.csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~atsu/

Call for Papers

Join us in San Francisco, California for the 56th North American Regional Science Association International (RSAI) Conference sponsored by the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) and the Western Regional Science Association (WRSA). The conference will be held at the Grand Hyatt in Union Square, from Wednesday, November 18 to Saturday, November 21 2009.

For your convenience, we have updated our on-line abstract submission and payment registration system. You can learn more about the conference, submit an abstract, and register for the conference at the NARSC Website at:

http://www.narsc.org/

It is easy to register. Click on the link to the conference section for general information on the conference. To register for the conference or submit an abstract/session online you must first login to the User Area via the button that is located at the top left of the webpage. If you attended the NARSC conference last year, or a recent conference organized by WRSA, MCRSA/CRSA, SRSA, or RSAmericas, and remember your username and password, you are ready to proceed. If you attended an earlier conference, attended one of the conference mentioned above and forgot your username/password, or are a member of a North American regional science organization who never attended any of these meetings, you will be asked to enter your provided username and password when you reach the login page of the User Area. Otherwise, when you reach the login page of the User Area, you will be asked to click on a link and enter your e-mail address so we can check if you are already in our database. If you are in our database, your username and password will be e-mailed to you so you can login. If you are not in our database, you will need to register for a free NARSC user account and then you will be able to register for the conference and submit an abstract.

Once logged in, you can change your password, update your profile, submit an abstract/session, register for the conference starting on May 22, and check the status of your registration. You will be able to come to login to your account in the User Area subsequently using your valid username and password. In case you forget your password, just contact technical support at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with a click on the “Forgot your password?” link in the User Area, enter your e-mail address and your e-mail address and your password will be e-mailed to you so you can login. If you do not receive your password via e-mail, check to make sure that there are no messages from narsc.org that were caught by your spam filter.

Individual papers and sessions must be submitted online in the abstract submission section of the Website between May 22 and August 1, 2009. The conference registration section is open and allows secure electronic financial transactions. We are also pleased to continue the graduate student paper competition. Be sure to consult the conference website for additional information and details.

Conference organizers welcome individual papers and organized sessions relating to a wide variety of topics inclusive within the diverse realm of regional science. We are an international scholarly organization that focuses on regional analysis, ranging from urban and spatial theory to applied problems in regional development, sustainability, environmental management, and rural land use. We are an interdisciplinary association, with members representing fields as diverse as economics, agricultural economics, public policy, urban planning, civil engineering, geography, finance, and demography. The annual North American RSAI conference is the premier regional science meeting in North America and attracts scholars and practitioners from around the world.

A block of rooms have been reserved at the Grand Hyatt at a rate of $199 per night. We advise you to make your reservations early to secure your own spot on the premises of what will be another memorable event.

This year, a new schedule for conference registration and placement of paper on the conference program will be implemented. Once you have been received notification from the Program Chair of acceptance of an abstract or organized session, all participants are required to register and pay the conference registration fee within two weeks in order to confirm placement on the Program. In no case will a paper or session be included on the Preliminary Program posted on or around October 1 unless all relevant participants are registered. In the case of a paper submission, this means payment by at least one (presenting) author. In the case of an organized session, this means payment by at least one (presenting) author for each of the included papers in the session. Acceptance notification will be issued before August 15, 2009.

If you have questions about the program, local arrangements, or submitting a paper or session, or experience any difficulties, contact the 2009 Program Chair, Serge Rey

Tel.: 480-965-7533

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For local arrangements issues, please contact the 2009 Local Organizing Committee Chair, David Plane

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We look forward to seeing you in San Francisco!

2013 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOUTHERN REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION

Come join us at the Key Bridge Marriott (April 4-6) for the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Southern Regional Science Association.  Our Program Chair and President-elect is Michael Lahr, Rutgers University. Attendees are encouraged to organize special sessions on topics of their choosing and of interest to regional scientists. Example topics from prior years include regional climate change issues, education policy, environmental issues, energy issues, input-output analyses, labor market analyses, migration analyses, location analyses, program evaluations, real estate & housing, regional data development, regional modeling, rural development, skills and innovation, social policy, spatial econometrics, state and local public finance issues, transportation studies, and urban economics.

For conference registration and abstract submission, simply visit

http://conference.srsa.org

2nd International Workshop on

Computational Transportation Science 2009 Call for Papers November 3, 2009, Seattle, WA, USA
http://www.spatial.cs.umn.edu/iwcts09/

 2nd IWCTS 2009 (31.04 kB) 

In the near future, vehicles, travelers, and the infrastructure will collectively have billions of sensors that can communicate with each other. This environment will enable numerous novel applications and order of magnitude improvement in the performance of existing applications. However, information technology (IT) has not had the dramatic impact on day-to-day transportation that it has had on other domains such as business and science. In terms of the real-time information available to most travelers, with the exception of car navigation systems, the transportation experience has not changed much in the last 30-40 years. During this same time, the miniaturization of computing devices and advances in wireless communication and sensor technology have been propagating computing from the stationary desktop to the mobile outdoors, and making it ubiquitous. Transportation systems, due to their distributed/mobile nature, can become the ultimate test-bed for this ubiquitous (i.e., embedded, highly-distributed, and sensor-laden) computing environment of unprecedented scale. Information technology is the foundation for implementing new strategies, particularly if they are to be made available in real-time to wireless devices such as cell phones and PDAs. A related development is the emergence of increasingly more sophisticated geospatial and spatio-temporal information management capabilities. These factors have the potential to revolutionize traveler services, and the provision and analysis of related information. In this revolution, travelers and sensors in the infrastructure and in vehicles will all produce a vast amount of data that could be interpreted and acted upon to produce a sea change in transportation.

The emerging discipline of computational transportation science
(CTS) combines computer science and engineering with the modeling, planning, and economic aspects of transportation. The discipline goes beyond vehicular technology, and addresses pedestrian systems on hand-held devices, non-real-time issues such as data mining, as well as data management issues above the networking layer. CTS applications will improve efficiency, equity, mobility, accessibility, and safety by taking advantage of ubiquitous computing.

SCOPE OF THE SUBMISSION
The International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science invites submissions of original, previously unpublished papers on CTS issues. Position papers that report novel research directions or identify challenging problems are invited from industry as well as academia. Papers incorporating one or more of the following themes are especially encouraged:

* Uncertain information distributed among moving travellers/
vehicles and the infrastructure
* Information in pedestrian, biking, and other non-motorized
transportation applications
* Ride- and car-sharing using social networks
* Computation of costs of multi-modal travelling
* Information regarding transfers to alternate modes of transportation
* Data mining techniques for travel information
* Dynamic shortest path computations using forecasts
* Human-computer interfaces in intelligent transportation applications
* Privacy and security issues in transportation information
* Social and institutional information related to travel
* Real-time negotiation among travellers
* Mobile artificial-intelligence aspects related to transportation
* Sensor information related to transportation
* Wireless communication with travelers and vehicles

Submission Instructions
Authors should prepare an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of their full paper. Papers must be in English and not exceed 6 pages double column in ACM SIG format (US Letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures and references. Position papers are limited 4 pages. Each submission should start with: the title, abstract, and names, contact information of authors, type of the submission (research paper or position paper). Authors are asked to register the titles and abstract of their papers in advance. To register or submit a paper, please visit https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/IWCTS09/
or see the workshop website for more details. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and the ACM digital library. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop.

Important Dates:
Paper submissions due: July 31, 2009
Notification to the authors: September 14, 2009
Camera ready papers due: September 28, 2009
ACM GIS 2009 Conference: November 4-6, 2009
IWCTS Workshop: November 3, 2009

General co-Chairs:
Shashi Shekhar, University of Minnesota, USA
Glenn Geers, NICTA, Australia

Program committee co-Chairs:
Sangho Kim. ESRI
Betsy George, Oracle

Steering Committee:
Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Program Committee:
to be determined

For more information: http://www.ersa.org/events/ersa-workshops/