19th ATRANS Annual Conference: Young Researcher’s Forum 2026

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Announcement CALL FOR PAPERS for
19th ATRANS Annual Conference: Young Researcher’s Forum 2026



Asian Transportation Research Society (ATRANS) is pleased to announce the CALL FOR PAPERS to the 19th ATRANS Annual Conference: Young Researcher’s Forum (AYRF) 2026 which will be taken place on 28 August 2026 at the Chatrium Grand Bangkok Hotel. The aim of AYRF 2026 is to urge young researchers and scholars as well as students to submit their research papers to an international conference for peer-review. Please be informed that as part of the submission process, you will be required to warrant that you are submitting your original work which is the work for first publication in the Proceedings and that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere and has not already been published elsewhere.

Interested authors, please submit your full paper/manuscript in the topics of transportation and other related-field by 19 July 2026 via e-mail to papers.atransyrf@gmail.com. Paper Submission Instruction and format and Paper Submission Form can be also downloaded from www.atransociety.com


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(***Remark: When submitting your manuscript/full paper please make sure that you include the topic number listed above in your manuscript/full paper submission form.)


Instruction for preparation of full paper/ manuscript

For full paper / manuscript submissions, please follow guidelines provided below:

(1) Abstract guideline and format

  • - An abstract should have only one paragraph.
  • - The length of each abstract should not exceed 300 words.
  • - An abstract must orderly include:

  • : Title of the abstract paper
  • : Topic number (as indicated in the call for paper)
  • : Paper identification number (will be assigned after an abstract acceptance)
  • : Authors’ names, Affiliations, contact addresses and e-mail
  • : Abstract (those authors who submit a Thai abstract/manuscript are required to include an English abstract as well); and
  • : Keywords (3 to 5 words)


    (2) Full paper or Manuscript guideline and format

  • - The paper should include (in order): title of the paper, paper identification number, name of author and co-author(s), affiliation, contact address, e-mail, abstract, keywords, body of paper, tables and figures and legends of tables and figures and references.
  • - Full paper or manuscript should be not less than 5 pages and no longer than 10 pages (including tables, figures or charts and references,) in A4-size paper.

For more details, please see the INSTRUCTION FOR PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPTS (Word / PDF) and PAPER SUBMISSION FORM (Word / PDF) attached. You can also download them from www.atransociety.com.


Manuscript / full paper Submission

As part of the paper/manuscript submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines as follows:

(1) The manuscript must not have been published or submitted elsewhere for publication consideration. (A brief explanation will be necessary to clarify this matter.)
(2) The articles must fall within the aims and scope of the proceedings, that is, land transportation-related issue, such as transport and city planning, road infrastructure, sustainability, safety, public transport, logistics, technology, digitization, energy, and environment, and economics.

Interested authors, please submit your full paper/manuscript by 19 July 2026 via e-mail to papers.atransyrf@gmail.com. Paper submission form and Instruction for Preparation of paper/manuscript are attached together with this call for papers. Or you can download the files from www.atransociety.com.

Full papers will be reviewed, and only the selected papers will be published in the Proceedings of ATRANS Young Researcher’s Forum 2026.

Contribution for Paper Presentations

Please be noted that AYRF 2026 session will be conducted on-site. Once the papers get accepted, the authors must revise their papers as comments/recommended and follow the guideline of contribution for paper presentation accordingly, see Table below.

On-site presentation
1. Presentation slides : Authors should submit a power-point presentation file in both PPT format and pdf format to ATRANS Secretariat by 19 August via email at papers.atransyrf@gmail.com. For more information and inquiries, please contact ATRANS secretariat at secretariat@atransociety.com and cc: to atran.s.ecretariat@gmail.com and sandarwin.hom@gmail.com

2. PPT Template: There is an AYRF 2026 template provided for presentations and authors can adopt the one of their preferences. The recommended number of slides should be no more than 10 pages. If the author decides to include clip & sound files in the presentation, they should be embedded into the presentation file.
3. Length of PPT presentation: The recommended length for power-point presentations must be no more than 8 minutes.
4. Schedule & Program: A presenter of the accepted paper will be assigned time slot for their presentation and will inform a presenter via email or on ATRANS website by 19 August 2026.

5. Live Stream via ATRANS Facebook: Be note that ATRANS will do live stream via ATRANS Facebook.


Best Paper and Presentation Award

(1) The committee will do double-blinded review and selected the 3 (three) best papers among the accepted papers for first step pre-awarding process.

(2) The authors of the accepted papers must make a presentation at 19th ATRANS Annual Conference: Young Researcher’s Forum 2026 session on 28 August 2026 for final decisive awarding process.

(3) The awards will be announced and bestowed at the 19th ATRANS Annual Conference Closing Session.


Funding assistance

Only the authors of the accepted papers (from Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Vietnam) can request a financial support for making presentation at the 19th ATRANS Annual Conference: Young Researchers’ Forum (AYRF) 2026.


Registration

Authors and co-authors of the accepted papers please do register online by 19 August 2026. The link to online registration will be sent to you on the date of receiving your revised paper (20 August 2026).

For more information and inquiries, please contact ATRANS secretariat at secretariat@atransociety.com and cc: to atran.s.ecretariat@gmail.com and sandarwin.hom@gmail.com

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