Conference Overview

The 11th EASTS Conference was held from 11 to 14 September, 2015, in Radisson Blu Hotel Cebu, Cebu City, Philippines. The Conference on the theme of "Resilient and Inclusive Transportation Systems through Smarter Mobility" attracted 541 participants including 132 students and had 377 oral and 98 poster presentations covering all fields of transportation studies.

The Conference Committee and the Local Organizing Committee in the Philippines welcomed the participants with an excellent arrangement for the success of the Conference. The Conference provided all participants with great oportunities to enrich their professional knowledge and to be inspired by the history and nature in Cebu.

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

Photo 3 Oral (upper) & Poster (lower) Sessions

Keynote Speech & Special Lecture

• Keynote Speech
  "Resilient and Inclusive Transportation Systems through Smarter Mobility"
  by Atty. Jaime Fortunato Caringal (Assistant Secretary, Project Development & PPP, Department of Transportation and Communications, Philippines)
  
  
• Special Lecture
  "impact of Competition in Building a Resilient and Inclusive Transportation in the Face of ASEAN Integration"
  by Hon. Geronimo Sy (Department of Justice, Philippines)
  
  

Photo 4 Atty. Jaime Fortunato Caringal		Photo 5 Hon. Geronimo Sy

Special Sessions & IRG Sesssions

• WCTR & EASTS Joint Special Session: Disaster Resilience in Transport
  
  
• Special Session 1: High Speed Railway and Regional Economic Development (KOTI-EASTS SPR)
  
  
• Special Session 2: Institutions for Railway Development in Asian Cities: Prospects for PPP
  
  
• Special Session 3: Building Sustainable Urban Logistics Systems in East Asia (KOTI-EASTS SPR)
  
  
• Special Session 4: Philippine National Topics
  
  
• Special Session 5: Philippine Metro Transport Systems
  
  
• IRG-15-2009: Sustainable Transport Futures for Cities in Asia and the Pacific
  
  
• IRG-17-2011: Logistics in Asia: Interdependent Supply Chain and Advancement of Intelligent Management
  
  
• IRG-18-2012: Strategies for a Sustainable Transportation Path for Small- and Medium-Sized Cities in East Asia
  
  
• IRG-22-2013: Integrated Sign Systems for Non-motorized Transport and Transit Users
  
  
• IRG-24-2013: Viability of Public Transport Harmonizing System with Para-Transit Modes
  
  

Photo 6 WCTR & EASTS Joint Special Session	Photo 7 Panel discussion of Special Session 1
Photo 8 Open discussion of Special Session 2	Photo 9 VTR presentation of Special Session 5

Technical Tours

• Option 1: Tsuneishi Shipyard (THICI)
• Option 2: Cebu Mactan Airport

Awarding

Best Paper Award       - for detail

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

• "Analysis of Vulnerability in Multinational Retailing Delivery Service System: A Case Study of FamilyMart and Circle K"
  by Yu-kai HUANG (Nanhua University, Taiwan) and Cheng-Min FENG (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
  
  

[Best Paper Award]

• a) Enlightening Asia-specific Topics
  "State of the Art of Paratransit Literatures in Asian Developing Countries"
  by Veng Kheang PHUN and Tetsuo YAI (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
  
  
• b) Discovering Interesting Facts
  "Exploring trip fuel consumption by machine learning from GPS and CAN bus data"
  by Weiliang ZENG, Tomio MIWA and Takayuki MORIKAWA (Nagoya University, Japan)
  
  
• c) Technological Innovation
  N/A
  
  
  
• d) Institutional Innovation
  N/A
  
  
  
• e) Theoretical Development
  "System Partition Method of Urban Arterials to Improve Signal Coordination"
  by Xiaojun TANG, Fengmin LAN, Shengchuan ZHAO and Lihui ZHANG (Dalian University of Technology & Zhejiang University, China)
  
  
• f) Methodological Development
  "Dynamic Journey Time Estimation in Stochastic Road Networks with Uncertainty"
  by Qiong TANG, Xingang LI, William H.K. LAM and H. W. HO (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hengyang Normal University, Hong Kong and Beijing Jiaotong University, China)
  
  and
  
  "A Similarity-based Self0evolutionary Model for Railway Arrival Forecasting"
  by Tsung-Hsien TSAI (National Quemoy University, Taiwan)
  
  
• g) Best application in practices
  "Impact Assessment Model of International Transportation Infrastructure Development: Focusing on Trade and Freight Traffic in Central Asia"
  by Satoshi TANABE, Ryuichi SHIBASAKI and Hironori KATO (The University of Tokyo; National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management, Japan)
  
  
• h) Difficult Research Accumulations
  N/A
  
  
  

[OCDI Takeuchi Yoshio Special Award for Logistics Research] (New Award)

• "Motion-based energy analysis methodology for hybrid straddle carrier towards eco-friendly container handling system"
  by Putu HANGGA and Takeshi SHINODA (Kyushu University, Japan)
  
  

*The members of Awards Selection Subcommittee: Junyi ZHANG (Editor-in-chief, Japan), Mohd Sadullah, AHMAD FARHAN (malaysia), Jaisung CHOI (Korea), Alexander ERATH (Singapore), Tao FENG (Netherlands), Hironori KATO (Japan), Hussein S. LIDASAN (Philippines), Bhargab MAITRA (India), Qiang MENG (Singapore), Jing SHI (China), Wai Yuen SZETO (Hong Kong), Bagus Hario SETIADJI (Indonesia), Guohua SONG (China), Ofyar Zainuddin TAMIN (Indonesia), Louis Chien-Hung WEI (Taiwan), Makoto CHIKARAISHI (Japan) and Hajime SEYA (Japan).

Photo10 Dr. Yu-kai HUANG (center) and Dr. Cheng-Min FENG (right), Yasoshima Yoshinosuke Prize Winners
Photo 11 The Winners of the Best Paper Awards			Photo 12 Mr. Putu HANGGA (second from right) and Dr. Takeshi SHINODA (right), OCDI Award Winners

Outstanding Presentation Award       - for detail

[Best Oral Presentation]

• Sayaka Yasui (Ritsumeikan University)
• Andra Charis S. Mijares (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
• Putu Hangga (Kyushu University)
• Jefferson R. Vallente Jr. (Xavier University - Ateneo de Cagayan)
• Tam Tran (Kobe University)
• Satoshi Tanabe (The University of Tokyo)

[Best Poster Presentation]

• Fumei GU (Nagoya University)
• Khairun Sarah Radhiah Bachok (International Islamic University Malaysia)
• Phathinan Thaithatkul (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

*Sub-committee for Outstanding Presentation Award: Jean-Paul THULL (New Zealand), Karl VERGEL (Philippines) and Matthew BURKE (Australia).

Photo 14 The Winners of the Outstanding Presentaiton Awards

Outstanding Transportation Project Award (OTPA)       - for detail

Category: Construction Project

• No project was awarded.

Category: Planning Project

• No project was awarded.

Best Domestic Society Award       - for detail

• THAI SOCIETY FOR TRANSPORTATION AND TRAFFIC (TSTS) (Thailand)

Board Meeting

Two Board Meetings were held during the Conference period. Main agendas were the followings:

Photo 15 Board Meeting

Main Agendas

The second Special Research Project (SRP) between KOTI-EASTS has started under the title of "Building Sustainable Urban Logistics System in East Asia" while the first project "International Comparison on High-Speed Railway Impacts and Station Area Development - Japan, Taiwan and Korea" was being completed. Both projects held Special Sessions (1 & 3) in the Conference. The venue of EASTS 2017 was selected. From Sri Lanka, "Sri Lanka Society for Transport & Logistics" (SLSTL) was principally and conditionally approved as a new member domestic society. It is expected to be officially approved in the Board Meeting in 2016. New membership (Individual Member) was approved. New IRG was approved. New publications were reported: EASTS Library and "Transportation Project of the 20th anniversary photo book". An ICRA project was selected for 2015-2017. Activities of the EASTS Domestic Societies were reported. New officers were elected or appointed.

Photo 16 A Short Speech by Prof. Amal S. Kumarage, President of SLSTL (at the Closing Ceremony)

IRG (International Research Group)       - for detail

10 IRGs has been ongoing since before this conference, of which one was completed in 2015 and of which 9 are still ongoing. Additionally one new IRG has been approved. Currently over 120 EASTS members are actively involved in the 10 IRGs' activities.

New IRGs

• IRG-28-2015: "Motorcycle, motor scooter, motorbike ownership and use in South East Asia city"
  (the representative: Dr. Chu Cong Minh (University of Communication and Trasport, Ha Noi, Vietnam)

Selection of the Research for ICRA       - for detail

• 2015-2017 (ICRA-A): IRG-22-2013: Integrated sign systems for non-motorized transport and transit users (Representative: Dr. Hiroshi Tsukaguchi (Ritsumeikan University, Japan))

Others

• Website of the Conference Committee
• Website of EASTS ISC (International Scientific Committee)
• Record of Financial Support Result
• Financial Support Policy in EASTS 2015