International Choice Modelling Conference 2009

30 March 2009 – 1 April 2009


The Institute for Transport Studies at the University of Leeds is pleased to announce that the inaugural International Choice Modelling Conference will be held in Yorkshire in the North of England from 30 March 2009 to 1 April 2009.

This event will bring together leading researchers and practitioners from across the many different areas in which choice modelling is a key technique for understanding behaviour and evaluating policy. Presentations will look both at state-of-the-art methodology as well as innovative real-world applications of choice models.

The highlight of the conference will be a presentation by Professor Daniel McFadden from the University of California at Berkeley, Nobel Prize laureate in Economics and chief architect of random utility modelling.

We are similarly delighted to announce that five other leading choice modellers have agreed to give keynote presentations. These are:
  • Professor Moshe Ben-Akiva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Professor Chandra Bhat, University of Texas at Austin,
  • Professor Michel Bierlaire, EPFL Lausanne
  • Professor David Hensher, University of Sydney
  • Professor Riccardo Scarpa, Waikato University
We are also pleased to announce that five highly regarded international organisations in the field of choice modelling, MVA Consultancy, Peter Davidson Consultancy, RAND Europe, Resource Systems Group Inc. and Significance, have agreed to sponsor this event.

The conference will be organised immediately after the Lausanne discrete choice modelling course, giving attendees the possibility of combining the two events.

The conference will be held at the Barceló Majestic Hotel, a top class venue set in the elegant spa town of Harrogate. A limited number of bedrooms are available at a discounted rate and delegates are advised to make their bookings as early as possible to secure a room. Further details are available on the Travel/Accommodation page.
 

This venue will provide a residential setting for the conference within half an hour from Leeds city centre and Leeds Bradford airport.
 
Harrogate is also on the edge of the unique Yorkshire Dales National Park, which we hope provides a further attraction. We are planning to put together a social programme for the conference that will involve an outing into the dales.   

To ensure a high quality programme, the conference will use a two stage review system for submissions.

Only one submission as lead author will be allowed per delegate.

Initial submissions should be in the form of abstracts (up to 500 words), to be submitted by 20 October 2008. The abstracts will be reviewed by the academic committee for the conference, and a decision on acceptance will be made by the end of October 2008.

Full papers are due by 31 December 2008. The papers will go through a peer review which will lead to a final decision on acceptance of the paper for presentation at the conference. Authors will be able to submit papers at this stage even without an accepted abstract but inclusion in the programme will then be subject to programme capacity.

Selected papers will be published in an edited book and we are also envisaging a number of special issues of the Journal of Choice Modelling.

We hope to see you in Yorkshire next Spring.

Conference organiser: Stephane Hess
Conference chair: Andrew Daly
       

 

   
            




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