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Call for Papers | Special Workshop APDR: “Modelling for Accessibility and Regional Development” – Deadline : 30 September 2012

Call for Papers | Special Workshop APDR: “Modelling for Accessibility and Regional Development” – Deadline : 30 September 2012

 

 CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Special Workshop APDR

 “Modelling for Accessibility and Regional Development” 

 

Deadline for submissions: 30 September 2012

 

Workshop Integrated on the seminar:

 

APPLIED RESEARCH AND MODELING ADVANCES ON ACCESSIBILITY IN SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT – JOINT MEETING

 

International seminar titled ‘APPLIED RESEARCH AND MODELING ADVANCES ON ACCESSIBILITY IN SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT – JOINT MEETING’ which represents a junction between two different international seminars but whose themes are related: the ‘5th Seminar of Spatial Econometrics in honor of Doctor J.H.P. Paelinck’  (dedicated to the theme of Econometrics Territorial with numerous applications in Europe and in the world) and the seminar ‘NECTAR – Network on European Communications and Transport Activities Research, Cluster 6 on Accessibility Meeting ’ (dedicated to the importance of accessibility in the development of European regions). This meeting will take place in Coimbra, on 26 and 27 October 2012, at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Coimbra.

 

Although these two seminars have as primary objective scientific research and selection of works of excellence for possible publication, its junction also aims to present case studies on applications that demonstrate the relationship between accessibility and territorial economic development, using new analysis methodologies such as territorial econometrics.

 

All information about the seminar can be found here (http://metodos.upct.es/detaer/5JP/index.html), with some aspects still to be updated.

 

For members of APDR the Registration is 75 Euros (Non members is 100 Euros).

The dinner of the congress must be paid separately having the value of 30 Euros.

 

Deadline for submissions: 3
0 September 2012
.

 

Abstracts should be submitted electronically, to apdr@apdr.pt, using the template that is available on http://www.apdr.pt/specialworkshop2012/abstract.html, indicating in the Subject“Special Workshop APDR, “Modelling for Accessibility and Regional Development”, Coimbra – Abstract".

 

Abstract submission should include:

1) Title of the Paper

2) Author Information

3) Abstract Text (500 words limit) should include:

    Objectives

    Data / Methods

    Results / Expected Results

4) Key words

 

 

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