Past Events

Division members have organised and participated in a wide variety of events; the main ones are described below:

2008: 4th International Conference on Traffic and Transport Psychology (ICTTP4)

This was held at The Capital Hilton, Washington, USA, 31 August – 4 September 2008.  The conference website is: http://www.icttp.com.  Bryan Porter (bporter@odu.edu) convened the conference scientific and organising committees.

This highly successful conference was attended by around 340 delegates.  Student papers delivered at this conference generated a number of submissions for Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour. 

To view photos of the conference see the attached file.

The conference dinner was held on Wednesday September 3, 2008, at the Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant, located in the heart of Washington on F Street in the old Riggs Bank Building. 

To view photos of the conference dinner, see the attached file.

2007: Third International Conference in Driver Behaviour and Training (DB&T3), Dublin, Ireland

Organised by Dr Lisa Dorn (Cranfield University, UK), this conference debated new initiatives in driver behaviour and training and addressed knowledge transfer from academic to practitioner applications.  The conference theme was ‘The Novice Driver Problem’ with key papers published on research in this field.  Speakers from many academic institutions and road safety groups across the world attended, presenting almost 50 papers across parallel sessions.  Over 150 delegates participated and keynote speakers included Professors Ray Fuller (Trinity College, Dublin) and Gregor Bartl (Austria).  The proceedings were published by Ashgate in 2008 and can be purchased from:
http://www.ashgate.com/Default.aspx?page=1743

2006: 26th International Congress of Applied Psychology, Athens, Greece

Division 13 was very well represented at the 26th ICAP.  The 17 sessions under our “banner” included over 50 individual papers and nearly 50 posters with over 250 authors from 23 countries.  This degree and spread of participation indicates the growing strength of research activity within Division 13.  While the UK, Japan, Germany, France, Turkey, and the USA were particularly well represented, it was heartening to see that Iran, Qatar, Latvia and Brazil also contributed authors to traffic and transportation psychology papers.
Of particular note were the four papers authored by researchers based in different countries, in one case from four countries – congratulations to: T. Ozkan (Finland), T. Lajunen (Turkey), H. Wallen Warner (Sweden) and G. Tzamalouka (Greece) for their paper, Traffic climates and driver behaviours in four countries: Finland, Greece, Sweden, and Turkey.  We are likely to see more comparative research presentations at future conferences.  Congratulations to Jean Underwood and her colleagues for being awarded the Division 13 best paper prize for their presentation: Reading the road: The influence of age and sex on child pedestrians’ perceptions of road risk.  We were treated to two excellent keynote addresses – Traffic psychology today: A glance backwards and ahead, from our Past President, Denis Huguenin, and Driving: With due care, and attention, from Professor Geoff Underwood.

2006: Vision in Vehicles 11, Dublin, Ireland

For more information, see: http://www.lut.ac.uk/research/esri/applied-vision/projects/visioninvehicles/conferences/VIV_11/viv11.htm

2005: Second International Conference in Driver Behaviour and Training (DB&T2), Edinburgh, Scotland

Building on the momentum of the first, this conference offered a fresh focus on developments in driver behaviour and training – again considering recent advances in the study of driving behaviour and training and emphasising practitioners’ role in designing and implementing driver training and educational strategies.  Over 45 papers were presented across two parallel sessions during the 2-day conference, attended by over 120 delegates.  Keynote speakers included Professors Nils Petter Gregersen (Sweden), Ian Glendon (Griffith University, Australia) and Gerald Matthews (University of Cincinnati, USA).  The conference was again organised by Dr Lisa Dorn (Cranfield University, UK).  The proceedings, published by Ashgate in 2005, can be purchased from:
http://www.ashgate.com/Default.aspx?page=1743

2004: 3rd International Conference on Traffic and Transport Psychology (ICTTP3)

This took place in Nottingham, UK, 5-9 September 2004.  The event was an outstanding success with over 400 participating delegates making this the largest ever meeting of traffic and transport psychologists.  ICTTP3 was organised by Geoffrey Underwood, University of Nottingham and Tracy Collier from Elsevier publishing.  The Organising and Scientific Committees were supplied by IAAP Division 13.  Papers from this conference are available for download as PDF files by following this link: DOWNLOAD PAPERS FROM ICTTP2004
For further details of the book, Underwood, G. (Ed.). (2005). Traffic & Transport Psychology: Theory and Application. Amsterdam: Elsevier visit: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/705191/description#description

2003: First International Conference in Driver Behaviour and Training (DB&T1), Stratford-on-Avon, UK

Organised by Dr Lisa Dorn (Cranfield University, UK), the overall objective of this conference was to describe and discuss recent advances in the study of driver behaviour, education and training, bridging the gap between practitioners in road safety and theoreticians working in academia investigating this topic from various perspectives and disciplines.
For this inaugural conference, papers were invited from researchers with contributions to make either from empirical or theoretical perspectives to further understand driver behaviour and training.  Over 110 delegates from 14 countries presented papers in two parallel sessions during the 2-day conference.  Keynote speakers included Professors Frank McKenna (Reading University) and Mika Hattaka (Finland) speaking on the Goals for Driver Education hierarchy.  The proceedings, published by Ashgate in 2003, can be purchased from:
http://www.ashgate.com/Default.aspx?page=1743

2003: Vision in Vehicles 10, Granada, Spain

2002: 25th International Congress of Applied Psychology, Singapore

Around 50 papers on a wide variety of topics within Traffic and Transportation Psychology were presented at this Congress, either as individual deliveries, poster sessions, symposium papers or keynote addresses.  At the Division 13 general meeting at this Congress, the new committee was elected, including Dr Denis Huguenin as the incoming President.

2001: Vision in Vehicles 9, Brisbane, Australia

This conference was sponsored by IAAP Division 13, and took place at the Park Royal Hotel, Brisbane Australia 19-22 August 2001

2000: 2nd International Conference on Traffic and Transport Psychology, Berne, Switzerland, 3-7 September 2000

The Traffic & Transportation Psychology Division, along with colleagues from Europsyt, and the European Federation of Professional Psychology Associations (EFPPA) sponsored, and provided the Scientific Committee for ICTTP2.  Denis Huguenin (Past President Division 13) organised this highly successful event. 
Proceedings of this conference were published in CD-ROM form, and selected papers were published in a book: Rothengatter, J. A. & Huguenin, R. D. (Eds.). (2004). Traffic & Transport Psychology: Theory and Application. Amsterdam: Elsevier. (http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/703429/description#description)

1999: Vision in Vehicles 8, Boston, USA

The Division sponsored and assisted on the Scientific Committee for the eighth Vision in Vehicles conference, held in Boston MA, in August 1999.  Edited conference proceedings are: Gale A. G., Brown I. D., Haslegrave C. M., & Taylor S. P. (Eds.): Vision in Vehicles VIII. North-Holland: Elsevier Science.

1998: 24th International Congress of Applied Psychology, San Fransisco, USA

In August 1998, the 24th International Congress of Applied Psychology was held in San Francisco, CA.  In the area of traffic and transport psychology the Congress featured invited keynote presentations and symposia, submitted symposia, debates, individual paper presentations as well as group and individual poster sessions.
During the 24th ICAP the Division held its general assembly at which a new Executive Committee was elected and plans for future activities were discussed.  In-coming President Professor John Groeger announced that Professor J. A. Rothengatter had secured agreement with Elsevier to publish Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, as part F of its Transportation Research journal series, and showed those present the first issue of the journal.  This journal continues to grow from strength to strength, see: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/600660/description#description

1996: 1st International Conference on Traffic and Transport Psychology, Valencia, Spain

This 4-yearly scientific conference, organised by Division 13 members, alternates with the International Congress of Applied Psychology, and has become a permanent feature of traffic and transportation psychology’s international calendar.
The first of these conferences took place at the University of Valencia in May 1996, organised jointly with the European Association of Transport Psychologists.  A Handbook of paper and poster presentations in short versions was issued at the conference.  For further information contact the University of Valencia's Institute of Transport Psychology (INTRAS) Av. Blasco Ibanez 21, 40610 Valencia, Spain.
Edited proceedings of the conference were published in: Rothengatter, J. A. & Carbonell Vaya, E. (Eds.). (1997). Traffic and Transport Psychology: Theory and Application. Oxford: Pergamon. This volume contains over 50 chapters devoted to various areas of psychology applied to road users.

Division13 past website: http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/IAAPdiv13/