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 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