The Fourth ITS Irvine Symposium on Emerging Research in Transportation

This symposium is for focused academic idea-exchange among researchers and practitioners on emerging research and applications in transportation. The schedule will include podium presentations, poster sessions, and idea-exchange sessions. Intended participants are academics, researchers, students, and professionals from industry and government. We are particularly interested in new research ideas that may still be under development or involve preliminary results.

Venue

The University of California, Irvine, is conveniently located just 5 miles from Newport Beach, 50 miles from Los Angeles, 3 miles from John Wayne Airport (SNA), and 40 miles from LAX International Airport. Nearby attractions include Disneyland and Hollywood (30 minutes and one hour away by car, respectively). The weather in March is typically sunny and comfortably warm.

Abstract Submission

Conference presentations and posters are selected based on online submission of Abstracts (150 to no more than 250 words) on the following themes:

1. Data analytics, computational schemes, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in transportation
2. Connected/ autonomous/ shared mobility systems
3. Advances in travel demand and activity system modeling
4. Advances in modeling and analysis for sustainable transportation
5. Traffic flow theory and control of transportation systems
6. Transit, freight, and advanced air mobility
7. Innovative policy analysis of mobility and land-use systems
8. Decarbonization of transportation

Submit your abstract as early as possible, as only a limited number of presentations will be accepted. Should you be unable to use this link, you may email your submission information to [email protected]. Be sure to include your name, your employer/school, the title of your presentation or poster, and your 150 to 250 word abstract.

Abstract review will begin the week of January 12, 2026. Abstracts will be accepted until February 9, 2026. Authors will be notified of acceptance by February 13, 2026.

Registration

Regular: $290

Speaker: $240

Student: $140

Early Registration (until February 20th)

Regular: $275

Speaker: $225

Student: $125

The conference includes five meals.

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Host or Publisher Institute of Transportation Studies, Irvine