Highlights for the IRF World Meeting technical & scientific programme

The call for papers was launched in late 2012 with two objectives in mind, to attract the best in innovative technical, institutional, economic, business and policy issues that are relevant, recent, and significant. These papers are suitable for presentation in a technical session, and to attract original research and technological innovation that is recent, relevant and significant, as well as for presentation in a scientific session. The Technical & Scientific program is being developed through the
August 28, 2013 Read time: 2 mins

The call for papers was launched in late 2012 with two objectives in mind, to attract the best in innovative technical, institutional, economic, business and policy issues that are relevant, recent, and significant.

These papers are suitable for presentation in a technical session, and to attract original research and technological innovation that is recent, relevant and significant, as well as for presentation in a scientific session.

The Technical & Scientific program is being developed through the evaluation of nearly 500 abstracts submitted by authors from more than 60 countries encompassing six continents. Thus, abstract submissions mirror 2462 IRF’s global reach and member diversity, with every region of the world represented across all 11 themes of the meeting. The charts displayed below show the preliminary distribution of abstracts received, by region of origin and theme.


Abstract submissions by Theme
 Asset management
 59
 Bridges / tunnel construction & operations  19
 Integrated mobility & ITS  55
 Pavement & materials
 82
 Public private partnerships & road financing  13
 Road design / construction & operations   
 24
 Road safety  116 
 Sustainable transport   
 33
 Transport policy & economics  48
 Transport security / disaster mitigation & recovery           
 20
 Urban & public transport  25

Abstract submissions by Region
Europe
 136  
 North America
 114
 Middle East & North Africa             
 113
 Asia / Australia
  109
 Latin America
  20
 Sub-Saharan Africa
 10

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