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In 2023 ECTRI, the European Conference of Transport Research Institutes is celebrating its 20th birthday.

On this occasion a special event will be held on 15 November to commemorate 20 years of achievements in sustainable and multimodal mobility research by bringing together distinguished personalities in a panel to discuss “Transforming mobility – Making research count in transport policy”. The panel will be preceded scientific speeches from prominent ECTRI experts on “How research can drive green and inclusive mobility”.

MyFairShare Lead Scientist Alexandra Millonig (AIT- Austria Institute of Technology) will give on such speech with the title “Enough is enough – Sufficiency as guiding principle for mobility behaviour change” and present ideas and first insights from the MyFairShare project.

Have a look at the event programme (pdf opens in new tab). 

The Science of Cities Symposium is hosted by the Centre for Liveable Cities (CLC) Singapore and convenes international researchers, city, and industry leaders to share their scientific insights and methodologies on tackling urban challenges.

This year, Philipp Rode of MyFairShare project partner London Schoolof Economics – LSE will give a keynote address – as carbon-light video message – at the event and feature insights into the latest results of the MyFairShare transnational survey.

Sufficiency, Justice and Urban Transport, Philipp Rode

This keynote considers the research and policy implications of applying the sufficiency principle to urban transport. It explores “enoughness” against a backdrop of increasing carbon emissions in the transport sector, inevitable ceilings for resource intense movement, and the essential requirement of providing access to opportunities in cities. Given the relative lack of progress, increasingly polarizing political debate and urgent requirement for change, a more direct and open engagement with a sufficiency turn in urban transport is urgently needed. Most importantly, fundamental questions about a fair distribution of remaining emissions and finite street space within the transport sector must be considered. This engagement builds on the emerging field of transport equity while joining up social justice perspectives of the here and now with sustainability justice recognizing global society, future generations, and nature.

The MyFairShare partner DLR recently submitted a paper authored by the project partners DLR and AIT – Austrian Institute of Technology for the ITS European Congress in Lisbon.

The paper “Measuring and Visualising 15-Minute-Areas for Fair CO2 Budget Distribution” introduces first results from MyFairShare to improve the understanding about how much accessibility within an area is needed for satisfying everyday activities. To achieve this, a software system for benchmarking areas has been developed. It is based on open source applications and uses data that is freely available throughout Europe. The results indicate that that even in major European cities and regions the locations of everyday actions cannot be accessed within a 15 minute travel distance for most of the population.

Read the draft conference paper “Measuring and Visualising 15-Minute-Areas for Fair CO2 Budget Distribution” (opens in new tab).

MyFairShare consortium partners from Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies and University of Latvia recently presented a Conference Paper Optimizing Transport Network to Reduce Municipality Mobility Budget at the 5th International Conference on Finance, Economics, Management and IT Business (FEMIB) held in Prague – Czech Republic, April 23 – 24, 2023. The paper received the Best Paper Award on behalf of the conference’s Organizing Committee.

Read the full Conference Paper.