The 12^th International Symposium on Travel Demand Management (TDM) will be organised and hosted by the University of Sydney, Australia, from 9^th to 11^th December 2025. The theme of this symposium will be "Transport Challenges in the Post-Pandemic Era."

This symposium will explore how the global transport sector has adapted to the unprecedented challenges brought on by the recent pandemic. Bringing together leading researchers, policy makers and industry professionals from around the world, the symposium will provide a platform for sharing innovative solutions, best practices, case studies and future opportunities for TDM. The event is intended to facilitate global collaboration to address the evolving needs of resilient and sustainable transportation systems in the post-pandemic era. 

The symposium will be opened by high-profile keynote speakers from academia, government and industry who will set the scene, raise important issues and stimulate debate.

Submission Guidelines

We invite you to submit an extended abstract on a relevant topic. Extended abstracts must contain all relevant aspects and information of a regular research paper in a form that is shorter than the full paper, however, more detailed than an abstract. It should clearly specify the theoretical and empirical gaps that the researcher is addressing. It should be written in English with Arial font, single line spacing and 11 font size and can contain figures, tables, or images. It should not exceed 4 pages (excluding the references). A downloadable extended abstract template is available on the ‘Information for Authors’ page at www.tdmsymposium2025.org. Your extended abstract should be submitted through the above site, no later than 1^st August 2025.

List of Topics

The 12th International Symposium on Travel Demand Management (TDM) welcomes extended abstracts on, but not limited, to the following topics:

• Objectives of travel demand management
• Public transport challenges
• Transport system resilience
• ITS concepts and policies for managing travel demand
• Travel forecasting and modelling
• Activity and travel simulation, simulation software and digital twins
• Transport user attitudes and responses to travel demand management
• Inclusion and equity in travel demand management
• Sustainable travel demand management and the transition to net zero
• Digital technology for travel demand management
• Big data for travel demand modelling
• Travel demand management and smart transportation
• Public transport safety and security
• Informal and shared mobility
• Active mobility
• City logistics management (including micro-freight)
• Managing the transition of logistics to net zero

Committees

Local Organising committee

• Prof. Michael Bell (Chair of Ports and Maritime Logistics, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS) | University of Sydney Business School)

• Prof. John Nelson (Chair in Public Transport, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS) | University of Sydney Business School)

• Professor Emerita Corinne Mulley (Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS) | University of Sydney Business School)

• Dr. Supun Perera (Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS) | University of Sydney Business School)

• Prof. Stephen Greaves (Professor in Transport Management, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS) | University of Sydney Business School)

• Prof. David Levinson (Professor of Transport in the School of Civil Engineering | University of Sydney)

• Dr. Emily Moylan (Senior Lecturer, School of Civil Engineering | University of Sydney)

• Dr. Jennifer Kent (Senior Research Fellow, School of Architecture, Design and Planning | University of Sydney)

International Advisory Committee

• Prof. Wafaa Saleh (Chair), Edinburgh Napier University, UK
• Dr. Augustus Ababio-Donkor, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
• Prof. Gerd Sammer, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life, Austria
• Dr. Kathryn Stewart, The Open  University, UK
• Mr. Richard Llewellyn, University of Strathclyde, UK
• Prof. Jason Chang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
• Prof. Peter Jones, University College London, UK
• Prof. Yi-Chang Chio, The University of Arizona, USA
• Prof. Juan do Dios Ortúzar Salas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
• Prof. Manfred Neun, Honorary ECF President
• Prof. Stephen Ison, Loughborough University, UK
• Prof. Elisabetta Cherchi, NYU, Abu Dhabi
• Prof. John Preston, University of Southampton, UK
• Prof. Agachai Sumalee, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
• Prof. Glenn Lyons, University of the West of England, UK
• Prof. Chandra Bhat, University of Texas, USA
• Prof. Peter White, University of Westminster, UK
• Prof. Masao Kuwahara, Tohoku University, Japan
• Prof. Jan-Dirk Schmoecker, Kyoto University, Japan
• Dr. Maria Chiara Leva, Technological University Dublin, IE
• Prof. Milos Millenkovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia

Venue

The conference will be held between 9th - 11th December 2025, at 133 Castlereagh Street, Sydney New South Wales 2000, Australia.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to info@tdmsymposium2025.org