ITEA Annual Conference and School on Transportation Economics, 13-17 June 2022

The 2022 edition of the ITEA Annual Conference and School on Transportation Economics will be held IN-PERSON in Toulouse (France). It will be co-organized by École Nationale de l’Aviation Civile (ENAC) and Toulouse Business School (TBS).

The School will take place next June 13-15.

The Conference will take place next June 15-17.

Professor Bruno Jullien (Toulouse School of Economics) will be our keynote speaker.

Please, see https://itea2022.recherche.enac.fr/ for further information.

At the School and Conference venue, the Local Organizing Committee will ensure compliance with all the existent sanitary protocols (determined by the French government).

• Hydroalcoholic gel will be provided.
• Regular cleaning and ventilation of all rooms is ensured.
• Face masks are currently not compulsory in France. However, the Local Organizing Committee recommends and encourages participants to wear them.
• Measures will be adapted if needed to comply with the standing sanitary protocols determined by the French government at the moment of the School and Conference.
• Official information on the rules to enter and exit France (in terms of vaccination and tests) is available here: https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/coming-to-france/coming-to-france-your-covid-19-questions-answered/

ITEA President’s Message

Dear ITEA members,

When you are reading this message, ITEA is about to begin the 2022 version of its annual School and Conference on Transportation Economics co-organized by École Nationale de l’Aviation Civile (ENAC) and Toulouse Business School (TBS), France. You might remember that, due to the pandemics, the 2020 version was reduced to a series of well attended online seminars, while the 2021 version was our first experience with a successful fully online conference hosted by our colleagues in Rome.

This time, we made a big effort to create the conditions to go back to the once usual in-person format. As somebody told us, it would have been a sin not to give it a try, but it was not trivial at all. I am going to jump over the details of the process that lead us to meet finally in Toulouse. It suffices to say that we were prepared to do it online if the health situation so dictated, but we managed to set the timing to keep the in-person format alive. We postponed the decision as much as feasible, keeping compatibility with the minimum necessary period of preparation. We must thank ENAC and TBS for offering the organization under such stringent conditions, and to the Rome team for being ready to jump in had the online alternative been considered necessary.

In this important moment for our community you should know of the time and care that our colleagues here, there, and everywhere have contributed to make this possible, be it as members of the Task Force created to overcome this period, of the Executive Committee, of the team of lecturers, of the Scientific Committee, of the Local Organizing Committee. Thanks to all of them we are now able to shake hands (after washing), to hug, to listen, to explain, to laugh, and to catch-up with our research and our lives, which are sort of the same thing.

A final word goes to those members of our community who have not been able to attend the School and Conference in Toulouse this year because of different circumstances. Be sure that we do not forget you, and that we hope to see you all next year.

Regards to all,
Sergio Jara-Diaz
President of ITEA

June 9, 2022