[Contents]

• Conference Overview
  - Keynote Speeches
  - Special Sessions & Panel Discussions
  - Representative Assembly and Board Meetings
  - Technical Tour
• Awarding
  - Best Paper Award
  - Outstanding Presentation Award
  - Outstanding Transportation Project Award (OTPA)
  - Best Domestic Society Award
• IRG (International Research Group)
• Selection of the Research for ICRA
• New Officers for the Next Two Years
• Venue of the Next Conference (2015)

Conference Overview

The 10th EASTS Conference was held in the Chang Yung-fa Foundation building, Taipei, Taiwan from 9 to 12 September, 2013. The Conference on the theme of "Towards a Harmonized Transportation Society" attracted 892 participants including 219 students and had 401 oral and 99 poster presentations covering all fields of transportation studies.

The Conference Committee and the Local Organizing Committee in Taiwan did an excellent arrangement to attain the success of the Conference. The Conference provided all participants with great oportunities to enrich their professional knowledge and to experience wonderful culture in Taiwan.

For detail about academic and practical papers, please see the website of International Scientific Committee (ISC).

Photo1 Oral (upper) & Poster (lower) Sessions

Keynote Speeches

• Keynote Speech 1
  "Challenges and Suggestions to Transportation Professionals in Asia"
  by Prof. Gang-Len CHANG (University of Maryland, College Park)
  
  
• Keynote Speech 2
  "Highway Safety, Social Equity and Environmental Sustainability: The Conflicting Objectives"
  by Prof. Fred MANNERING (Purdue University)
  
  
• Keynote Speech 3
  "Public Transportation Development in Taiwan"
  by Dr. Chi-Kuo MAO (Vice Premier, Executive Yuan)
  
  
  *Keynote speakers' PPT is available at the Official Website of the Conference Committee.
  
  

Photo2 Prof. CHANG	Photo3 Prof. MANNERING	Photo4 Dr. MAO

Special Sessions & Panel Discussions

• Special Session 1
  International comparison on High-Speed Railway Station Area Development - Japan, Taiwan and Korea
  
  
• Special Session 2
  SIG 1, 7 & 11, WCTRS (World Conference on Transport Research): Transportation at Natural Disaster and Emergency in Eastern Asia
  
  
• Panel Discussion 1
  User-oriented Transportation Services for a Livable City
  
  
• Panel Discussion 2
  The Way Forward of EASTS: Increasing the journal quality
  
  
• IRG10: Sustainable Neighborhood Transportation to Improve the Quality of Life in Developing Cities
  
  
• IRG15: Sustainable Transport Futures for Cities in Asia and the Pacific: Trends and Prospects of Indigenous Transport in Climate Change Adaptation
  
  
• IRG16: Intercity Transport in Asian Countries (ITAC)
  
  
• IRG17: Logistics in Asia: Interdependent Supply Chain and Advancement of Intelligent Management
  
  
• IRG18: Strategies for a Sustainable Transortation Path for Small and Medium sized Cities in East Asia
  
  
• IRG19: International Comparison Study on Alternative Fuels and Vehicles in East Asia
  
  

Photo5 Special Session 1	Photo6 Guest Speech of Prof. HAYASHI, President of WCTRS (at the Closing Ceremony)
Photo7 Panelists of Panel Discussion 1	Photo8 Panel Discussion 2

Representative Assembly and Board Meetings

One Representative Assembly and three Board Meetings were held during the Conference.

Main agendas were follows:

• At the Representative Assembly Meeting, it has been approved that the number of "Directors-at-Large" is changed from 3 to 3-5.
• The Board of Directors approved "Society of Transport Engineers, Nepal (SOTEN)" as a new Member Domestic Society of Nepal. We are truly pleased to welcome.
• New IRGs were approved.
• A Special Research Project between KOTI-EASTS has started. The theme is "International Comparison on High-Speed Railway Impacts and Station Area Development - Japan, Taiwan and Korea". As the first event, a Special Session (1) was held in this conference.
• Memorandum of Agreement on co-hosting the EASTS 2013 Conference was signed by CIT (Chinese Institute of Transportation, Taiwan) and EASTS. The CIT will provide financial support of USD 30,000 to EASTS in 2013. The EASTS will utilize the financial support from the CIT to all of the activities of the EASTS.
• The EASTS has begun preparing to hold EASTS 20th Anniversary events.

Photo9 Board Meeting	Photo10 A Short Speech of Mr. POKHAREL as a representative of Nepal Society (at the Closing Ceremony)

Technical Tour

• Route 1: Taipei City Traffic Information Center (Venue: Taipei City Traffic Information Center, Taipei Bus Station, TRTC Operation Control Center)
• Route 2: Taipei Mass Rapid Transit Construction Site (Venue: San-Chung MRT construction site)
• Route 3: Taipei Mass Rapid Transit Depot (Venue: Rolling Stock Plant, Track Maintenance Plant, Interactive Emergency Evacuation Exhibition Center)
• Route 4: Taipei Maokong Gondola (Venue: Taipei Maokong Gondola)

Awarding

Best Paper Award

[Yasoshima Yoshinosuke Prize] (Best of Best Papers Awards)

• "Design of Transportation Service Auction under Time-cost Environment"
  by Suthatip PUEBOOBPAPHAN and Nakorn INDRA-PRAYOONG (Burapha University, Thailand)
  
  

[Best Paper Award]

• For Enlightening Asia-specific Topics
  "A Study on the Use of Smartphones for Road Roughness Condition Estimation"
  by Viengnam DOUANGPHACHANH and Hiroyuki ONEYAMA (Tokyo Metropoiltan University, Japan)
  
  
• For Discovering Interesting Facts
  "Upward Safety Communication and Safety Behavior of Cabin Crew"
  by Ching-Fu CHEN and Shu-Chuan CHEN (Aletheia University, Taiwan)
  
  
• For Technological Innovation
  "A Numerical Study on the Influence of Aggregate Size on Skid Resistance Performance of Porous Pavements"
  by Lei ZHANG, Ghim Ping ONG and Tien Fang FWA (National University of Singapore, Singapore
  
  
• For Institutional Innovation
  "Cross-sector Transportation Authority for Jakarta Metropolitan Area"
  by Hirohisa KAWAGUCHI (Oriental Consultants Co., Ltd., Japan), Keigo HAMADA (Kobe City Urban Dev. Corp., Japan), Tomokazu WACHI (Oriental Consultants Co., Ltd., Japan), Osamu ABE (Value Planning International, Inc., Japan), Sadayuki YAGI (Japan Research Ins., Japan) and A. ALDIAN (The World Bank, Indonesia)
  
  
• For Theoretical Development
  "Possibility of Crosswalk Design Independent from Signals at Basic Road Sections"
  by Akihiro TANAKA and Kiichiro HATOYAMA (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
  
  
• For Methodological Development
  "Analyses of Route Choice and Route Switching Behavior Using Panel ETC Data from Tokyo Metropolitan Expressway"
  by Tawin TIRATANAPAKHOM, Takashi OGUCHI, Shinji TANAKA, Sungjoon HONG and Hiroshi WARITA (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
  and
  "Smile and Behavior - New Evaluation Method for Pedestrian Environment"
  by Aya KOJIMA, Taichi FUDAMOTO, Miho OKUMA and Hisashi KUBOTA (Saitama University, Japan)
  
  
• For Difficult Research Accumulations
  "Introducing High Speed Rail (HSR) System in Developing Asia: Issues and Prospects"
  by Surya Raj ACHARYA and Shigeru MORICHI (Institute for Transport Policy Studies, Japan)
  
  

*Awarding and ATS (sub-)Committee is in the International Scientific Committee (ISC).

Photo11 Ms. PUEBOOBPAPHAN, Yasoshima Yoshinosuke Prize Winner	Photo12 Winners of Best Paper Awards

Outstanding Presentation Award

[Best Oral Presentation]

• Donyarit SETTASUWACHA (Prince of Songkla University)
• Winnie Wing Yee LAM (The University of Hong Kong)
• Sathita MALAITHAM (Kyoto University)
• Hyungjoo KIM (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
• Sandy Mae GASPAY (The University of Tokyo)

[Best Poster Presentation]

• Nan KANG (Nagoya University)

Photo14 Winners of Outstanding Presentation Award

Outstanding Transportation Project Award (OTPA)

Category: Construction Project

• No project is awarded.

Category: Planning Project

• Fun Travel in Taipei - An Innovative Advanced Traveler Information Service, Taiwan
  
  Key Merits:
    •Social and Transportation Impacts
       - To increase the utilization of public transportation.
       - The highest number of monthly inquiries was 614,300,000 times.
    •Method/Technology of Project
       - It provides multiple versions such as iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7 and Windows Mobile versions
    •Financing and Management
       - It successfully integrates all of Taipei City's information
    •Uniqueness
       - Sharing of various public transport & traffic information into one smartphone application

(More information)

Best Domestic Society Award

• Transport Studies Society of Vietnam (TSSV)

(More information)

IRG (International Research Group)

4 IRGs were completed in 2013 and 6 IRGs are ongoing. Furthermore new 5 IRGs were approved by the Board Meeting (see below). At the present stage, over 120 EASTS members are joining IRG activities.

New IRGs

• IRG-21-2013: "Comparative Study on Quality Management for Public Transport Systems in Asian Cities (QM4PTA)"
  (the representative: Dr. Vu Anh Tuan (Vietnamese-German University))
• IRG-22-2013: "Integrated Sign Systems for Non-motorized Transport and Transit Users"
  (the representative: Dr. Hiroshi Tsukaguchi (Ritsumeikan University))
• IRG-23-2013: "International Comparative Research on Value of Travel Time in Asia"
  (the representative: Dr. Hironori Kato (The University of Tokyo))
• IRG-24-2013: "Viability of Public Transport Harmonizing System with Para-Transit Modes"
  (the representative: Dr. Tetsuo Yai (Tokyo Institute of Technology))
• IRG-25-2013: "Mobile Millennium Asia: Mobile Productivity and Utility Tools for Inclusive Urban Mobility"
  (the representative: Dr. Francis Aldrine A. Uy (Mapua Institute of Technology))

(More information)

Selection of the Research for ICRA

No applicants.