The 2020 ETC conference will be organised as an online conference. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic organizing the conference as planned at the Bovisa campus of the Politecnico di Milano is not possible. ETC will keep its unique identity of a multi-disciplinary, multi-seminar format but in an online environment. There will be a choice of up to 10 simultaneous seminars per day plus plenary sessions on the first and second days.

The year 2020 has seen challenging times for  people throughout the world and the impacts of the COVID-19 virus will unroll for some years to come. But there are the long-term impacts to national economies and profound changes to travel and land use patterns which we will not fully understand for some time.

There has been an appreciation of cleaner air as a result of many people working from home but, as people return to work, will some start to use the car in preference to public transport? Can public transport operators function practically and economically while complying with social distancing rules? Will the aviation sector
recover, and international travel return to previous levels?

ETC 2020 will not provide answers to all the questions but the conference will provide a forum for debate and reflection. It will
continue to offer the usual first-class range of speakers representing research, policy and practice which makes this event unique in Europe.

Please join us online on 9 - 11 September. View the programme and book your place here

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