Aim and scope

The aim of the INSTR is to bring together researchers and professionals interested in transportation network reliability, to discuss both recent research and future directions in this increasingly important field of research. The scope of the symposium includes all aspects of analysis and design to improve network reliability, including:

• user perception of unreliability
• public policy and reliability of travel times
• the valuation of reliability
• the economics of reliability
• network reliability modelling and estimation
• transport network robustness
• reliability of public transportation
• travel behaviour under uncertainty
• vehicle routing and scheduling under uncertainty
• risk evaluation and management for transportation networks
• ITS to improve network reliability

The first INSTR symposium was held in Kyoto in 2001, the second symposium was in 2004 in Christchurch, New Sealand.

Organising Committee

• Henk J. van Zuylen (Delft University of Technology, Research School TRAIL Nl): Chair (h.j.vanzuylen@tudelft.nl)
• Nicole Fontein (Delft University of Technology): Congress manager (n.fontein@tudelft.nl)
• Arjan van Binsbergen (Research School TRAIL, NL)
• Michael Bell (Imperial College, University of London, UK)
• Erik van Berkum (University Twente, Nl)
• Karel Brookhuis (Rijskuniversiteit Groningen, Nl)
• Ben Immers (University Leuven, Be)
• Yu Sen Chen (CYStone, NL)
• Johann Visser (Transport Research Center AVV, Nl)
• Andre De Palma (Université de Cergy-Pontoise, Fr)
• Prof. Xiao-Ming Liu (Beijing University of Technology, China)

International Scientific Committee

• Michael Bell (Imperial College, University of London, UK): Chair
• Yasunori Iida (Kyoto University, Japan)
• William Lam (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
• Michael Taylor (University of South Australia, Australia)
• Yasuo Asakura (Kobe University, Japan)
• Masao Kuwahara (University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Eiichi Taniguchi (Kyoto University, Japan)
• Henk van Zuylen (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
• Seungjae Lee (University of Seoul, South Korea)
• Hai Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
• Hong Lo (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
• Alan Nicholson (University of Canterbury, NZ)
• Hani Mahmassani (University of Maryland, USA)
• Mike Maher (Napier University, UK)
• David Watling (University of Leeds, UK)
• George List (Rensselaer Polytechnic University, USA)
• Xiaoguang Yang (Tongji University, China)
• Pasquale Colonna (Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy)
• Nour-Eddin Elfaouzi (INRETS, France)