Now in its 20th year, Modelling World 2025 will be moving to Manchester on 17 and 18 June 2025, with a renewed focus on excellence, innovation and diversity across the transport modelling and data science professions.

Modelling World is where transport modellers meet, share best practice, explore and challenge innovation, and celebrate success. We would like to hear from anyone who has a story to tell, a novel technique to share, or a breakthrough to celebrate. 

CALL FOR PAPERS.

Now in its 20th year, Modelling World 2025 will be moving to Manchester on 17 and 18 June 2025, with a renewed focus on excellence, innovation and diversity across the transport modelling and data science professions.

Modelling World is where transport modellers meet, share best practice, explore and challenge innovation, and celebrate success. We would like to hear from anyone who has a story to tell, a novel technique to share, or a breakthrough to celebrate. 

We are now inviting abstracts for presentations, of no more than 250 words, at the conference around the key theme of modelling for integrated transport. 

Submission deadline is Thursday 20th February 2025.

Call for Papers - Modelling World 2025

We'd like to hear from you...

The UK Government has initiated the development of an Integrated National Transport Strategy for England, the transport modelling community there has been challenged to support a single national vision that puts people at its heart and helps deliver integrated transport solutions that meet the needs of local communities. 

In parallel, the UK Government has set out its missions - growing the economy, an NHS fit for the future, safer streets, opportunity for all, and making Britain a clean energy superpower.

The Scottish Government already has a National Transport Strategy, but the missions are eradicating child poverty, growing the economy, tackling the climate emergency, and ensuring high quality and sustainable public services and of course transport has a role to play in all those areas too.

Similar to Scotland, the Welsh Government also has a National Transport Strategy with its missions for A Healthier Wales, Green jobs and growth, Opportunity for every family, and Connecting communities.

 There’s a lot of synergy there, as there is with the nine priorities of the Northern Ireland Executive. If you work outside the UK, you may find your government is also pursuing similar outcomes.

A common element across all of these missions is transport.  None of these can happen without it, but are our data, tools and process up to the task? Questions that we will address at Modelling World 2025 include:?

• What is meant by integration? Examples of modelling approaches that focus on integrating modes, transport and spatial planning, and different spatial levels of decision-making

• Enhancing existing model approaches to respond to the new challenges – examples of non-traditional modelling techniques that put people front and centre, and enable the benefits of integration to be evidenced

• Are current data sources and survey techniques up to the task? Modelling World will offer the opportunity to showcase emerging data sources and innovative ways of understanding people’s travel behaviour

• Will artificial intelligence make a difference? Examples and applications of artificial intelligence that make modelling better or faster

• Will the revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) really lead to vision-led planning? Examples of case studies where modelling and analytics has supported a vision that differs from the business-as-usual case

• How can developments in open data and open source models support transport integration?