Transport related developments in many countries of the Asia Pacific region have led to a number of environmental impacts and concerns over the likely consequences of these impacts. The national and regional transportation infrastructure development and traffic operations in urban centers in particular, require careful planning so as to mitigate the negative social and environmental impacts.
To promote environmentally friendly practices in transportation infrastructure developments and traffic managements, Thailand, as a representative of the developing countries, was selected by the APTE international steering committee at the 8th APTE in Songkhla (Thailand) to host the 8th APTE in 2012.
The Conference scope covers various modes of transportation (air, land and sea) and inter-modal operations. It addresses the social and environmental related issues of all aspects of transportation operations and infrastructure development, encompassing activities of different phases such as Planning, Design, Construction, Maintenance, Rehabilitation, Management, Research and Training. The objective of this conference is to promote the use of environment-enhancing transportation infrastructure development strategies, operation control technologies and management techniques, with special focus on potential applications in the Asia Pacific region.
This eight conference will follow the successful format of the earlier conferences to encourage interaction among the participants. The seven previous conferences were:
1st APTE 1998, Singapore
2nd APTE 2000, Beijing, China
3rd APTE 2004, Singapore
4th APTE 2005, Xi’an, China
5th APTE 2007, Singapore
6th APTE 2009, Shanghai, China
7th APTE 2010, Semarang, Indonesia
This conference is supported by two Thai institutions, i.e. Prince of Songkla University and TSTS. Please refer to the following links: www.ce.eng.psu.ac.th/APTE8.