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Important note
The ICTCT conference coincides with numerous events scheduled in Catania around the same period. We strongly recommend the conference participants to make hotel reservations as soon as possible to avoid any last-minute surprises.
About
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20 October 2023 |
Registration closed |
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24–25 October 2023 |
Traffic Safety Researcher's course |
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26–27 October 2023 |
35th ICTCT conference |
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28 October 2023 |
ICTCT General Assembly |
Social media
Please, use the hashtags #ictct and #ictct2023catania in your posts related to the conference.
Traffic Safety Researcher's course
As usual, ICTCT organizes the Traffic Safety Researcher’s course in connection to the conference.
More information about the course can be found here.
General Assembly
The ICTCT General Assembly will meet after the conference.
Read more about the General Assembly here.
Call
Many Intelligent Transport System technologies are already mature, and new technologies are around the corner. The digital evolution of mobility involves both vehicles and the road environment (e.g. Smart Roads, Smart Cities) with expectations for significant safety improvements, environmental, economic, and social benefits by reducing accidents, decreasing traffic congestion, reducing energy consumption, and emissions of vehicles. The safety benefits are based on the idea that technology can gradually reduce margins for human error in driving tasks with a drastically decreased number of road accidents and consequences towards the long-term goal of reaching Vision Zero with no one killed or severely in traffic by 2050.
In reality, the road scenery still limits the operational design domains of automated vehicle functions. The total transition from human-driven to high automated vehicles (SAE level 3+), in the shared traffic flow, is far from being achieved. Automation is likely to be much more difficult in complex—often urban—settings with a mixture of road users and traffic movements.
Therefore, the actual scenario will be a gradual transition over the next 20–30 years in which different forms and levels of smart mobility will coexist with ‘conventional’ modes of interaction. As for the safety challenges, we are only seeing the first effects on safety due to C-ITS and ADAS on cars (and driver behaviour) and very limited on vulnerable road users’ behaviour and accident pattern. Furthermore, the type and volume of data, available from mobile and (quasi-)stationary sensor units in smart roads, require new analysis models for extracting useful information and new solutions for active and preventive safety actions.
In such framework, the ICTCT 2023 Conference aims to illustrate the capacity of research to face the challenges and take advantage of the opportunities offered by new technologies in road transport for enhancing safety.
Conference topics
A non-exhaustive list of topics includes:
- Autonomous vehicles, ADAS, C-ITS and technological developments supporting transport safety
- Smart roads and smart cities connected to road safety
- Human factors related to road safety and new technologies, in particular human response to new technology
- Vulnerable road users
- Road safety policies
- Safer infrastructure design
- Road infrastructure safety management
We also accept abstracts that are not directly related to the conference theme, but that relate to relevant aspects of road safety (e.g. surveys, analyses of trends, assessments of current practices or potential countermeasures).
Special sessions
- Surrogate Measures of Safety (SMoS). The use of surrogate measures of safety is the most relevant safety diagnosis for new technologies, due to the lack of retrospective accident data. This includes traffic conflict observations, analysis of near misses in naturalistic data and the use of all kinds of simulations. The scope of this session are practical and methodological studies using SMoS for diagnosis of the new safety solutions in smart mobility.
- How to use data from new technologies in traffic safety studies. In-vehicle sensors and units in smart roads highly increase the opportunities for traditional and new data collection. With this wide availability of data through different technologies, data sets can rapidly become so large and complex that it is fruitful to approach traffic safety research from new unforeseen and multidisciplinary angles. Hence, the special session will illustrate the opportunities and challenges in this area addressed by researchers in traffic safety.
Registration
General information
The conference registration fee depends on whether you are an ICTCT member (individual, or affiliated with an organization that is an institutional member) as well as on the country that you represent. The fee covers the conference materials, entrance to the Welcome reception (Wednesday), coffee breaks and lunches, and a seat at the Conference dinner (Thursday). It does not cover the social events.
Cancellation is not possible once the reservation has been made.
Early Bird fees
The Early Bird fees expired on 31 August 2023.
| Category A | Category B & C | Categories D | |
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ICTCT member |
€320 |
€270 |
€165 |
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Non-member |
€450 |
€360 |
€205 |
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Student |
€150 |
€150 |
€150 |
Full fees
Full fees apply during 1 September–25 October 2023.
| Category A | Category B & C | Categories D | |
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ICTCT member |
€385 |
€325 |
€200 |
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Non-member |
€540 |
€435 |
€250 |
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Student |
€215 |
€215 |
€215 |
On-site fees
On-site fees apply if paid during the conference days, 26–27 October 2023.
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Member & non-members |
€585 |
€470 |
€265 |
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Student |
€235 |
€235 |
€235 |
Student rates
Students enrolled in Bachelor or Master courses can take advantage of the ‘student rates’. Student rate does not include Welcome reception and Conference dinner; these can be added as extra costs. To be eligible to the ‘student rate’, an official letter (in English) must be provided from the home university, duly signed and stamped and indicating the current status of the student. This document must be submitted when registering. Please send a scanned copy of this letter.
Country categories
ICTCT relies on World Bank’s country classification by income. The country categories below are given as an indication, the most recent classification must be checked on the World Bank web page for the current year.
Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Belgium, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Cayman Islands, Channel Islands, Chile, Croatia, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, French Polynesia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Guam, Hong Kong SAR (China), Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea (Rep.), Kuwait, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao SAR (China), Malta, Monaco, Nauru, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Northern Mariana Islands, Norway, Oman, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Romania, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Singapore, Sint Maarten (Dutch part), Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Martin (French part), Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan (China), Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Virgin Islands (U.S.)
Albania, American Samoa, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belize, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Ecuador, Fiji, Gabon, Georgia, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Libya, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Namibia, North Macedonia, Palau, Paraguay, Peru, Russian Federation, Serbia, South Africa, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Thailand, Tonga, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu
Angola, Algeria, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Comoros, Congo (Rep.), Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt (Arab Rep.), El Salvador, Eswatini, Ghana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Rep.), Kenya, Kiribati, Kyrgyz Republic, Lao (PDR), Lebanon, Lesotho, Mauritania, Micronesia (Fed. Sts.), Mongolia, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, São Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Tunisia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vietnam, West Bank and Gaza, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo (Dem. Rep), Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Korea (Dem. People’s Rep.), Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Togo, Uganda, Yemen (Rep.), Zambia
Special dietary requirements
Please be aware that the food served may contain or come into contact with common allergens, such as dairy, eggs, wheat, soybeans, tree nuts, peanuts, fish or shellfish.
There will be vegetarian alternatives served.
If you are allergic to any food or ingredients, please state it clearly in ‘Other comments to organizers’.
Social event
The social event is not included in the conference registration fee. The price is (per person):
- Excursion to Taormina with wine tasting: €70
Accompanying persons
Tickets for an accompanying person(s) for the Welcome reception and the Conference dinner can be purchased at additional costs of €35 and €75 respectively. The accompanying persons may also join the social events (see the pricing above).
Please, write clearly how many people will join you at which activities in ‘Other comments to organizers’.
Registration and payment form
Conference registration is now closed.
Instructions below are for the registered participants who have not completed their payments yet.
The payments are done using the most common credit card types (Visa, MaterCard, etc.). The process is handled by the event agency AV Eventi e Formazione srl, none of your credit card details is viewed or stored by the ICTCT.
Payment procedure
Submission
The submission processes is managed through EasyChair conference management system. If you have used this system before, you can login with the same username and password. In case this is your first time, you will need to create an account before continuing.
Your extended abstract (max 700 words) should include the following points:
- Background
- Aim
- Method
- Results (obtained or expected)
- Conclusions
Please, submit your abstract as a pdf file using the template. Do not use references unless absolutely necessary. Provide 3-6 keywords characterizing your submission.
The assessment will be based upon the following criteria: i) relevance of the topic in relation to the conference theme; ii) scientific quality and iii) likelihood to raise the interest of the present audience and to stimulate discussion.
Contributions can be accepted for either a poster or an oral presentation. While the authors may indicate their preference, the final decision is taken by the organizers. The ultimate goal is to create a programme that is both balanced and engaging.
Submission deadline is 30 April 2023 15 May 2023.
Programme
Conference venue
Palazzo Pedagaggi, as the name suggests, is built by the Baron of Pedagaggi between 1803 and 1809. The palace was acquired by the University of Catania in 1989 and is now the headquarters of the Department of Political and Social Sciences. On the main floor, you can find the ‘Salone delle Danze’ (Dance Hall), which currently serves as the department’s main lecture hall and is adorned with frescoes by the Trapani artist Giuseppe Errante.
Address: Via Vittorio Emanuele II, 51, Catania
Programme at a glance
Detailed programme
Wednesday, 25 October 2023
19:00–21:30
Welcome reception
The Welcome reception will be held at the Museum of Representation (Villa Zingali Tetto), named after the lawyer Paolo Zingali Tetto who, at his death in 1969, donated his private residence to the University of Catania.
Thursday, 26 October 2023
8:30–9:00
Registration
9:00–9:30
🎙 Welcome
9:30–10:15
🎙 Keynote speech I
Chair: Salvatore Damiano Cafiso
Mohamed A. Abdel-Aty
University of Central Florida
the United States of America
Dr. Mohamed Abdel-Aty, PE is a Trustee Endowed Chair at the University of Central Florida (UCF). He is a Pegasus Distinguished Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering and has a joint appointment with the Department of Computer Science. He is leading the Future City initiative at UCF. As part of the initiative he introduced in 2019 the first MS degree in Smart Cities in Engineering in the US. He is also the director of the Smart and Safe Transportation Lab, the Winner of the USDOT Solving for Safety Visualization Challenge, Real-time crash risk visualization using integrated tools for traffic safety evaluation and management.
His main expertise and interests are in the areas of traffic safety, AI, simulation, big data, digital twining and data analytics and CAV. He is pioneer and well recognized nationally and internationally in work and research in real-time safety, proactive traffic management, safety analytics, and Connected Vehicles.
10:15–11:30
🎙 Oral (special) session 1: Surrogate measures of safety
Chair: Andrew Tarko
Pawel Dabkowski
Piotr Olszewski
Witold Czajewski
Oksana Yastremska-Kravchenko
Zhankun Chen
Aliaksei Laureshyn
From human driving errors to automated vehicle functional failures: theoretical and methodological issues
Henri Chajmowicz
Laura Bigi
Philippe Lesire
Cyril Chauvel
Jean-Baptiste Haué
Stéphane Buffat
Pierre Van Elslande
Clemens Schicktanz
Kay Gimm
11:30–11:45
☕ Break and mingling
11:45–12:45
📈 Poster session A
Data collection methods for road safety performance indicators – experience from the Baseline and Trendline projects
Wouter Van den Berghe
Hanan Elias Enibtawi
Yoram Shiftan
Oren Musicant
Matin Nabavi Niaki
Govert Schermers
Yen-Lin Huang
Yen-Hsiang Chen
Gang-Len Chang
Peter Wagner
Andreas Leich
Ronald Nippold
Marek Junghans
Andrea Paliotto
Giuseppina Pappalardo
Monica Meocci
Nora Strauzenberg
Vanessa Sarah Hilse
Christian Thomas Erbsmehl
Maria Pohle
Johannes Mesimäki
Fanny Malin
Merja Penttinen
Filippo Giammaria Praticò
Pierpaolo Lombardo
Segun Alawa
Charles Asenime
Victoria Gitelman
Assaf Sharon
Giuseppe Marinelli
Özlem Simsekoglu
Rolf Robertsen
The use of driving simulator for assessing the interactions between partially automated and regular vehicles in the traffic flow
Roberta Gentile
Nicola Berloco
Stefano Coropulis
Paolo Intini
Vittorio Ranieri
Alessandra Lioi
Marco Bassani
Natalia Distefano
Salvatore Leonardi
12:45–13:45
🥗 Lunch and mingling
13:45–15:00
🎙 Oral session 2: Road safety asset management
Chair: Alfonso Montella
Stijn Daniels
Attila Borsos
Salvatore Damiano Cafiso
Alessandro Di Graziano
Giuseppina Pappalardo
A cluster-based decision support tool: using road crash data to design effective safety countermeasures
João Pedro Maia
António Lobo
Miguel Lopes
Sérgio Pedro Duarte
Improving road tunnel resilience by dynamic risk analysis
Alessandro Focaracci
Francesca Zacchei
Luigi Martirano
15:00–16:00
📈 Poster session B
Insights in the criticality of bicycle-car and bicycle-truck turning interactions at an urban intersection
Imanol Irizar Da Silva
Peter Wagner
Meng Zhang
Kay Gimm
Monica Meocci
Andrea Paliotto
Alessandro Terrosi
Pre- and post-crash factors associated with Cameroon’s unabating road traffic injury epidemic: analysis of Cameroon trauma registry data
Serge Ngekeng Ngekeng
Catherine Juillard
Arastoo Karimi Maskooni
Amin Mirza Boroujerdian
Marco Bassani
Stefano Coropulis
Nicola Berloco
Roberta Gentile
Paolo Intini
Vittorio Ranieri
E-scooter and cyclist users in shared paths: visual comparison of gaze behavior
Giuseppina Pappalardo
Salvatore Cafiso
Joanna Wachnicka
Oliver Giudice
Roberto Leotta
Sebastiano Battiato
Abrar Hazoor
Giuseppe Marinelli
Marco Bassani
Marco Guerrieri
Andrew Tarko
Vamsi Krishna Bandaru
Mario Romero
Roberto Ventura
Benedetto Barabino
Giulio Maternini
Vladimiro Lourenço
Sérgio Pedro Duarte
António Lobo
Sara Ferreira
Liliana Cunha
Sarah Salem
Axel Leonhardt
Gaetano Bosurgi
Orazio Pellegrino
Alessia Ruggeri
Giuseppe Sollazzo
16:00–16:15
☕ Break and mingling
16:15–17:30
🎙 Oral session 3: Human factors in road safety
Incorporating Behavioral Adaptation of Human Drivers in Predicting Traffic Efficiency of Mixed Traffic: A Case Study of Priority T-Intersections
Nagarjun Reddy
Narayana Raju
Haneen Farah
Serge Hoogendoorn
Evaluation of pedestrians and drivers’ communication at pedestrian crossings using eye-camera
Symbat Zhanguzhinova
Emese Makó
Hazard prediction and hazard perception test in the Czech Republic
Matus Sucha
Ralf Risser
Beáta Suriaková
Petr Zamecnik
Mikulas Toman
Petya Ventsislavova
David Crundall
Lydia Harrison
19:30–22:00
🥗 Conference dinner
The Ridge Royal Hotel (link) is located at Cape Coast, about one hour drive from Winneba. The restaurant serves International and Traditional Ghanaian cuisine.
The bus will pass the three recommended hotels to pick us up. Make sure to be in the lobby in good time.
The dinner starts at 19:30.
Friday, 27 October 2023
8:30–9:15
Registration
9:15–10:00
🎙 Keynote speech II
Chair: Wouter Van den Berghe
Oliver Carsten
University of Leeds
the United Kingdom
Oliver Carsten is Professor of Transport Safety at the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds. His major research focus is on driver interaction and safety with driver assistance and automation systems. He is heavily involved in international regulatory activities on vehicle automation both on the road user side where he is a member of the Informal Group of Experts on Automated Driving (IGEAD). He also leads an informal group of human factors experts on automation under the auspices of the International Ergonomics Association, with the aim of providing human factors advice to international regulators in the area of automation. He is editor-in-chief of the academic journal Cognition, Technology and Work.
10:00–11:15
🎙 Oral (special) session 4: New technologies in road safety
Jirí Ambros
Robert Zuvala
Katerina Bucsuházy
Lucie Vyskocilová
Barbora Halaštová
Mariusz Kiec
Alessandro Calvi
Fabrizio D’Amico
Andrea Vennarucci
Vanessa Stange
Nele Burgstaler
Mark Vollrath
11:15–11:30
☕ Break and mingling
11:30–12:30
📈 Poster session C
Meng Zhang
Peter Wagner
Benjamin Coueraud
Imanol Irizar Da Silva
Marek Junghans
Paolo Intini
Nicola Berloco
Stefano Coropulis
Vittorio Ranieri
Raul Pineda Mendez
Mario Romero
Andrew Tarko
Kamal Jetto
Zineb Tahiri
Abdillah Benyoussef
Abdallah El Kenz
Haneen Farah
Siri Berge
Joost De Winter
Dimitra Dodou
Nagarjun Reddy
Yongqi Dong
Narayana Raju
Amir Pooyan Afghari
Eleonora Papadimitriou
Ziyad N. Aldoski
Csaba Koren
Shumayla Yaqoob
Salvatore Damiano Cafiso
Giacomo Morabito
Giuseppina Pappalardo
Suyi Mao
Arastoo Karimi
Jaeyoung Lee
Alessandra Lioi
Marco Bassani
Tomasz Mackun
Wojciech Kustra
Marcin Budzynski
Joanna Wachnicka
Kevin Gildea
Aliaksei Laureshyn
Mio Suzuki
Integrating the logistic regression model with EVT: an example in crash injury estimation
Zhankun Chen
Carmelo D’Agostino
Joanna Wachnicka
Anna Juchum
Radosław Bąk
Mariusz Kiec
Giuseppina Pappalardo
Rachakonda Yashasvi
Digvijay S. Pawar
Kyandoghere Kyamakya
Antoine Kayisu Kazadi
Witesyavwirwa Vianney Kambale
Paraskevi Fasouli
Taha Benarbia
Pitshou Bokoro
Anton Pashkevich
Arkadiusz Bylica
12:30–13:30
🥗 Lunch and mingling
13:30–14:45
🎙 Oral session 5: Bicycle safety
Pierluigi Olleja
Alexander Rasch
Jonas Bärgman
Amira Hammami
Attila Borsos
Ágoston Pál Sándor
Masha Odijk
Matin Nabavi Niaki
Mehmet Baran Ulak
Karst Geurs
Alexander Rasch
Marco Dozza
14:45–15:45
📈 Poster session D
Chair: Alessandro Di Graziano
Fabrizio D’Amico
Alessandro Calvi
Luca Bertolini
Jhon Romer Diezmos Manalo
Antonio Napolitano
Salvatore Cafiso
Haneen Farah
Omid Ghaderi
Giuseppina Pappalardo
Yongqi Dong
Lanxin Zhang
Haneen Farah
Bart van Arem
Alberto Portera
Luca Tefa
Marco Bassani
Matilda Magnusson
Tor-Olav Nævestad
Aliaksei Laureshyn
Sarika Pothukuchi
Digvijay Pawar
Kyandoghere Kyamakya
Antoine Kayisu Kazadi
Witesyavwirwa Vianney Kambale
Paraskevi Fasouli
Taha Benarbia
Pitshou Bokoro
Michael Oehl
Marc Wilbrink
Tim De Ceunynck
Mario Cools
Marco Dozza
Antonella Scarano
Alfonso Montella
Maria Rella Riccardi
Filomena Mauriello
Carmelo D’Agostino
Michela Le Pira
Martina Fazio
Nadia Giuffrida
Elena Cocuzza
Giuseppe Inturri
Matteo Ignaccolo
Zarina Rocío García Rodríguez
Aníbal Leodegario Altamira
15:45–16:00
☕ Break and mingling
16:00–17:15
🎙 Oral session 6: Education in road safety
Beáta Suriaková
Matúš Šucha
Roy Hazut
Wafa Elias
Yoram Shiftan
Assaf Sharon
Dikla Rimon
17:15–17:30
🎙 Closing
19:30–22:30
🥗 Social pre-event: dinner
For those staying in Catania after the conference, we will reserve seats at some of the local restaurants for yet another dinner with the colleagues. We will ‘count heads’ during the day, and you will pay directly to the restaurant for your food and drinks.
Saturday, 28 October 2023
9:15–12:00
ICTCT General Assembly
Read more about the General Assembly here.
12:30–23:00
Social event: Taormina visit & wine tasting
The city of Taormina is located in about one hour drive from Catania. It boasts a rich artistic, historical and cultural heritage that with the healthy climate and beautiful natural scenery, has attracted visitors since the middle of the eighteenth century. You will have several hours to wonder around the city at your own pace.
The day will end with a wine tasting and a dinner at one of the local Etna wineries.
Presentation
Poster presentation
ICTCT is very serious in promoting poster format as equally important as and in many cases superior to an oral talk. Your poster will receive sufficient time and audience, while face-to-face contact allows for going into more detail with those who are genuinely interested in your research.
Poster pitch
Prior to the poster session start, you will have an opportunity to engage the visitors with one-slide pitch (max two minutes per presenter). Please, use the suggested template (download here) and DO NOT change the timer settings.
Please send your one-slide pitch before the conference to matus.sucha@upol.cz. To save time during the speaker changes, all slides will be combined in one file by the conference team. Just in case, bring your slide on a USB stick, too, and get in contact with the chair person before the session and make sure that everything works well.
Poster design
Important note
The venue has informed us that the boards for displaying posters are designed for B1 (707 x 1000 mm) paper size and portrait orientation only. This is smaller than the A0 size that you are probably more used too. We apologize for the inconvenience, but this is beyond our control.
The poster template provided below is adjusted for this paper size.
Your poster has to be made in English. Use ICTCT poster template (here), which also contains useful tips and links to further reading on how to best design a poster that attracts attention.
Poster stands and fixing materials will be provided. Please, note that printing, delivering and setting up the poster before the session, as well as removing it at the end of the session, is entirely your responsibility. No local printing services will be arranged.
Poster presentation
Make sure to be near your poster during the entire poster session. You get more of it if you actively engage in discussions with the visitors.
It could be a good idea to have some give-away materials with you, for example contact cards, small prints of the poster (A4-size), full-text paper or additional visuals in your iPad. Having a notebook and a pen for making notes or elaborating while answering a question is also a good idea.
Oral format
It is a tradition of the ICTCT conferences to reserve sufficient time for questions and discussion after each oral presentation. Therefore please limit your presentation to 15 minutes, followed by 5 minutes for the discussion.
You can download the ICTCT presentation template here. You may use other templates, for example created by your organisation. The 16:9 aspect ratio is to be preferred.
Please send your presentation before the conference to matus.sucha@upol.cz and bring it along on a USB stick to the session. Be present ten minutes before your session starts and get in contact with the chairperson to make sure that your slides are ready and work well.
Instructions for chairpersons
Before the conference
- Well in advance, have a look at the abstracts of your sessions (uploaded on the conference web page under Programme).
- Ask the presenters of your session for a short bio (two–three sentences) so that you can introduce them. Contact emails will be provided by the organizers.
Before your session
- Be present at the podium at least ten minutes before your session starts. Make sure that all speakers are present and their slides are uploaded on the computer.
- Encourage the presenters to test the equipment—slides, pointer, microphone, etc.
- Make sure to receive the presenters’ certificates from the organizers.
During the session
- In the beginning, introduce yourself.
- Before each talk, introduce the speaker (using the short bio) and the title of the presentation.
- Each presenter will have 15 minutes speech time followed by 5 minutes of discussion (20 minutes in total). It is your responsibility to keep an eye on the timing. Warn the presenter 3 minutes before the end of the speech time. Be ruthless and cut off when 20 minutes are used up.
- Be prepared to ask at least one question yourself in case of awkward silence and no questions from the audience.
- After the presentation, thank the presenter and hand over the certificate.
Publication
Full papers are not required but are welcomed.
Participants of the conference are encouraged to submit their full-text papers to the special issues connected to the conference. Papers will be processed based on the review policy of the journal(s).
Besides that, you can publish the full paper (not peer reviewed) in the conference proceedings at the ICTCT web page.
The authors are also free to publish their papers elsewhere.
Special issues
Advances in Transportation Studies
Article Processing Charges (APC) may apply—more information will follow.
Deadline for submissions:
30 November 2023
Guest Editors
Salvatore Damiano Cafiso, University of Catania, Italy
TBD, a member of ICTCT Steering Committee
Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering (English Edition)
Article Processing Charges (APC) may apply—more information will follow.
Deadline for submissions:
30 November 2023
Guest Editors
Giuseppina Pappalardo, University of Catania, Italy
TBD, a member of ICTCT Steering Committee
Travel
Travelling to Catania
By air
The best way to arrive to Catania is by plane. The Vincenzo Bellini Airport (CAT) has connections to most major cities in Italy and across Europe, including both flights on traditional (ITA, Lufthansa, KLM) and low-cost carriers (EasyJet, Ryanair, Vueling, WizzAir).
Getting to and from airport
AMTS bus 457 Alibus goes every 20 minutes (from 5 a.m. to midnight) between the Catania’s train station and the airport. The ticket costs €4 and the travel time is about 30 minutes. More information can be found here.
Local taxis at the Catania airport calculate their fares using a taximeter, based on the time and distance travelled. There is a flat fare from Airport to city center of €25 during the day and €28 for night or weekend trips.
Getting around Catania
The conference venue is located in the historical city centre at walking distance from many hotels and points of interest. We expect mild weather in October, therefore walking is the option to prefer.
Catania is served by a dense network of bus routes. The cost of a bus ticket is €1 and it is valid for 90 minutes. On-board purchase is possible. The most reliable and frequent bus service is provided by the BRT lines, that serves from piazza Stesicoro to the University, with stops along the famous via Etnea street. More information can be found here.
Catania Metro, with just one line and ten stops, is an option only for selected location. The most important stops for the conference attendees are Stesicoro (15 minutes walking distance from the conference venue) and Borgo (for the welcome reception at Museo della Rappresentazione). The fare for one ride is €1 euro, and the ticket is valid for 90 minutes. You may use the FCE Catania app (AppStore, GooglePlay) to buy the metro tickets. More information can be found here.
AmiGO is the bike sharing service in Catania. More information can be found here.
You can also take a ride with an e-scooter provided by Dott. Mote information can be found here.
Accommodation
The university does not have any special deals, so use Booking.com or similar services. Accommodations in the city centre are within walking distance from the conference venue.
Practical information
Visa requirements
You can enter Italy from all EU and non-EU countries. The conditions and documentation required vary depending on the traveller’s country of origin. More information can be found here.
Vaccinations
As of 1 June 2022, the Italian government no longer requires a green pass for entry into the country. This means that travellers do not have to show any Covid-19 documentation upon entry (vaccination or recovery certificate or negative Covid test). Anyway, rules can be subject to changes, therefore we recommend to check the latest requirements before the departure here.
Other
Time: CET (Central European Time) is applied throughout Italy. From early autumn to late winter, standard time is applied, corresponding to CUT+1, one hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time.
Language: The official language spoken throughout Italy is Italian.
Climate: We are in the heart of the Mediterranean, floating on the sea yet anchored to the Etna volcano 3 357 m high. The generally mild climate means you can visit Catania in October with temperature ranging from 4° to 26°C.
Electric current: Electricity available everywhere in Italy at 220 V alternating current at a frequency of 50 Hz. Electrical sockets comply with European legislation. Most hotels have adapters for special plugs.
Currency: The currency used in Italy is the Euro. Airports and large stations usually have banks and exchange agencies for withdrawals or related services. Banks (with 24-hour ATMs) are located at the airport and all over the town.
Electronic payments: In addition to cash, you can pay for your purchases using the most common credit cards.
Sponsors
Conference supporters
Sponsorship opportunities
| Gold | Silver | Bronze | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Fee (excl. VAT) |
€3,500 |
€2,200 |
€1,200 |
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Quantity available |
6 |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
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Registrations included |
1 |
1 |
- |
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Discounted registration (€ 200 off) |
1 |
- |
1 |
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Recognition of sponsor page of conference site |
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Logo in printed program and on signs at conference |
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Logo on welcome slides at the plenary session (Size as per Partnership Level) |
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- |
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Company brochure in the conference bag |
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- |
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Table-top (table, chair, power socket) and roll-up at the exhibit, poster and break area |
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- |
- |
Sponsor items
Besides a package there are possibilities to sponsor items in the conference. When sponsoring an item, you will get the publicity related to that item.
| Sponsors | Mentioning | Price (excl. VAT) | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Coffee breaks |
3 |
Offered by … with logo |
€750 |
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Lunches |
4 |
Supported by … with logo |
€1,500 |
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Welcome reception |
1 |
Offered by … with logo |
€2,000 |
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Conference dinner |
2 |
Supported by … with logo |
€3,000 |
How to get invovled?
Please, get in contact with the local conference organizers.
Contact
| ICTCT | Local organiser | |
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Contact person |
Niels Agerholm |
Salvatore Damiano Cafiso Giuseppina Pappalardo |
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Affiliation |
ICTCT Secretariat |
University of Catania Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture |
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Email |
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Telephone |
