Launch date of the SIG / History

This SIG was launched at the 9th WCTR in Seoul, focusing on urban transport policy instruments.

Major Accomplishments

Professor Tony May was chair of the SIG from its inception until 2007 when the role was taken on by Stephen Ison (Loughborough University, UK). The SIG hosted an inaugural conference in Leeds in July 2002, papers from which were published in a special issue of Transport Policy. It sponsored three tracks and twelve sessions at the 10th World Conference in Istanbul, and published a special issue of selected papers from that conference in Transport Policy in 2006.

The SIG sponsored a series of tracks and sessions at the 11th World Conference in Berkeley 2007 and as with Istanbul a special issue of selected papers was published in Transport Policy in November 2008.

Membership

Membership is open to any academic or practitioner with an interest in the subject area. Anyone interested in joining is invited to contact Stephen Ison.

Please do not hesitate to contact Stephen if you have any suggestions for the effective running of this SIG.