Call For Papers

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We are offering two live info sessions to help you explore:
How to craft a standout abstract

  • Details on the TRA VISIONS Awards for Young and Senior researchers
  • Answers to all your questions about the TRA 2026 programme

THURSDAY, 26 JUNE 2025

Choose one of the following sessions:
  • • Session 1: 10:00–11:00 CET
  • • Session 2: 13:00–14:00 CET

Transport Research Arena (TRA) is a flagship event initiated by the European Commission and various stakeholders. Previous locations of the TRA conference include Gothenburg in 2006, Ljubljana in 2008, Brussels in 2010, Athens in 2012, Paris in 2014, Warsaw in 2016, Vienna in 2018, Helsinki in 2020, Lisbon in 2022, and Dublin in 2024. After these successful conferences, the 11th Transport Research Arena conference will arrive to Budapest in 2026.
The conference will cover relevant areas of transportation research with specific focus on User Centered Mobility, Green Mobility and Decarbonization, Planning and Operation, Transport Digitalization. The aim of the conference is to connect academics with practitioners, bring together leading experts, and provide opportunities to promising young researchers. The conference will be accompanied by interesting demonstrations, innovative exhibitions, technical tours, and social events.
As part of the conference, we invite researchers to submit research papers on the themes of the conference. The best research papers submitted will be presented at the conference during technical sessions or as a poster. They will also be published in the conference proceedings and the best ones will be published in prestigious journals.

LIVE INFO SESSIONS

TRA is not only a conference but a platform that celebrates researchers by recognizing their innovative contributions to transportation research. Submissions for the TRA Visions awards are invited in the following categories: Road, Rail, Air, Waterborne and Cross-modal (Logistics & Passenger transport).

a young researcher competition, based on conference contributions by talented students and early stage researchers, where the application is fully integrated with the general submission process, as supplementary materials (research summary, presentation, letters of recommendation) can be uploaded together with the conference papers

a senior researcher competition, acknowledging achievements and excellence in European research projects in the above categories

a special honorary award, recognizing a respected person in the transport sector for a noteworthy and widely acknowledged contribution to research and innovation

a Host Award, presented for the best paper aligned with the main conference theme, "Re-Generation in Transport"

Submission guidelines

In the first round, abstracts of maximum 200 words are invited to be submitted by 15th June 2025 (deadline extended until 30 June 2025) through the online submission system accessible via the conference website. The submissions will be reviewed by members of the local program committee.

In the second round, conference papers of maximum 4000 words are invited to be submitted by 15th September 2025 through the online submission system. The papers will be reviewed by independent experts and by members of the local program committee.

Paper structure

In the second round, conference papers of maximum 4000 words are invited to be submitted by 15th September 2025 through the online submission system. The papers will be reviewed by independent experts and by members of the local program committee.

Presentation

Accepted papers will be presented either in a technical (oral) session or as a poster with a brief oral presentation. Maximum one presentation is allowed per person attending the conference. This means that an author can be a co-author of multiple papers but is not allowed to present more than one paper.

Proceedings and special issues

The accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Selected high-quality papers will be proposed by the guest editors for invitation to special issues of prestigious journals.

Important dates

15th JUNE
2025
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE (extended until 30 June 2025)
15th SEPTEMBER
2025
CONFERENCE PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE
31st JANUARY
2026
CONFERENCE PAPER NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE
31st MARCH
2026
FINAL CONFERENCE PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE
31st MARCH
2026
SPECIAL ISSUE JOURNAL PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE
31st DECEMBER
2026
PUBLICATION OF SPECIAL ISSUE JOURNAL PAPERS