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Highlights of EASTS Board Meeting 2016

  • Date: 12 September 2016, 10:00-15:00
  • Venue: Saigon Prince Hotel, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

     
Attendance and Board of Directors

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  • 26 members of the Board of Directors attended.
  • Mr. Tohru Tamura from EASTS-Japan, Mr. Alexis Fillone from Transportation Science Society of the Philippines, Mr. Agus Taufik Mulyono from Indonesia Transportation Society, and Mr. Sivakumar, a proxy of Mr. Kumarage who is a representative of Sri Lanka Society for Transport & Logistics are welcomed as new members of the EASTS Board.


Approval of New Domestic Society

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  • The Board officially approved Sri Lanka Society for Transport & Logistics (SLSTL) as a new member domestic society of EASTS.


ISC (International Scientific Committee)

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  • ISC would work more for obtaining the academic reputation (e.g. journal citation) of the EASTS Journal (ATS).
  • The new Topic Code K (Emerging Technology and New Transport Industry) was added.


Conference Preparation

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  • The proposal of the change in date and venue of the conference has been approved by the Board. The venue changed to Sheraton Hotel of Saigon located at the center of Ho Chi Minh City and the conference date would be on September 18-21 of 2017.
  • The preferred conference theme gSafe, green and integrated transporth was approved by the Board.


IRG (International Research Group)

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  • The continuation of all on-going IRGs has been approved by the Board.
  • Two new IRGs have been approved.


ICRA (International Cooperative Research Activity)

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  • One applicant was conditionally awarded with the ICRA-A Research Grant with important suggestions on the improvement of the study contents.


International Activities with TRB and WCTRS

  • It was reported that EASTS has the joint activities with other international transportation societies such as the Transportation Research Board (TRB) and the World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS).




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This report was prepared by Dr. Mio SUZUKI and Prof. Karl B. N. Vergel (EASTS Secretariat).
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