IRC Regional Conference 2026
İSTANBUL – TÜRKİYE (Istanbul, Turkey)
17-21 August 2026
Theme: Exploring the Earth, Connecting Worlds
Key Dates (TBC)
10th EUGEO 2025 Vienna, Austria
8-11 September 2025
Theme: Geographies of a Changing Europe
Key Dates
- 29 November 2024: Call for papers opens
- 20 January 2025: Call for papers closes
- 30 March 2025: Provisional programme published; early bird registration closes
Three session proposals under the auspices of the T&G Commission have been approved by the EUGEO 202
IGC 2024 Dublin, Ireland
24-30 August 2024
Theme: Celebrating A World of Differences
C.41 Transport & Geography Commission hosted 13 themes, 26 sessions, 97 presentations and 1 poster.
The Commission Business meeting was held on 27 August (Tuesday) 1-2pm at Business School Q120 with around 40 participants, followed by an informal social event in the evening from 6:30pm at The Ivy House (https://www.theivyhouse.ie/).
Key Dates
- Call for Papers Opens: Tuesday 3rd October 2023
- Call for Papers Closes: Friday 12th January 2024
- Notification of Authors: Monday 19th February 2024
Language: English only (both slides and presentation)
2024 Travel Grant Winners awarded by the T&G commission
Snap shots of the conference activities
T&G commission outline programme
EUGEO 2023 Barcelona, Spain
4-7 September 2023
Theme: Geography for Our Common Future
Language: The session will be run in English only (both slides and presentation).
Special Sessions organised under the T&G Commission.
IGU Thematic Conference in Mahendragarh, India
24-25 November 2022
Theme: Sustainability, Future Earth and Humanities: Opportunities and Challenges
Below sub-theme under sustainability is sponsored by the T&G Commission.
Transport, Mobilities and Sustainability
UGI-IGU Paris 2022, France
18-22 July 2022
Theme: Time for Geographers
Travel Grant Award Winners
2020 Istanbul conference travel grant awardees
Amparo Moyano (Spain) $ 800
2022 Paris conference travel grant awardees
Karyn Scerri (Malta) $600
Arthur Starzec (UK) $600
Surjaa Chakravarti (India) $1,000
Elda Vivianna Tancredi (Argentina) $1,000
IGC 2021 Istanbul, Turkey
16-20 August 2021 (a virtual conference)
Sessions convened on the below thematic topics:
- Transport Geography and Climate Change
- Urban Transport Geography
- Transport and Social Equity: Pathways to Fair, Just, Inclusive and Accessible Mobilities
- Mobility-as-a-Service: shaping the future of cities
- ‘Be a hub or die’ – The polarizing transport connectivity and its impacts in megacity regions
- Long-distance travel issues
- Transport and the environment
For the full programme of the conference, please click the below link.
The Commission AGM was taking place on 20th August, 10:00 (GMT) and 17:00 (GMT), click the below link for agenda.
2021 IGU T &G Commission
Online Workshop “Visualising Transport Geography”& Business Meeting
Friday, 19 March 2021
The commence times in different time zones: East Coast Time (8am*); London Time (12pm); Beijing Time (8pm) (*due to the daylight savings taking effects from 14 March in the east coast of USA, the convening time has been updated from EST 7am to EDT 8am.)
The Transport & Geography Commission of the International Geographical Union kindly organised its first online seminars. The event was successfully held via Zoom. Overall around 70 participants joined the meeting.
IGU 2018 Quebec City, Canada
6-10 August 2018
Sessions convened on four thematic topics
- Big data for mobility studies: Applications and Critical Perspectives (convened by Ana Condeco Melhorado)
- Airline networks, distances and technological change (convened by Frederic Dobruszkes)
- Effects of transport investment on regeneration and social inclusion (co-convened by Richard Knowles, Chia-Lin Chen & Wojciech Keblowski)
- Impacts of High Speed Rail (co-convened by Andrew Goetz & Chia-Lin Chen)
IGC 2016 Beijing, China
21-25 August 2016
Sessions convened on six thematic topics
- Smart Cities and Transit Oriented Development (convened by Richard Knowles (University of Salford, UK) and Becky Loo (University of Hong Kong, China))
- Comparative Air Transport Geographies: China and other BRIC Countries (convened by Jiaoe Wang (National Resources Research, Beijing, China) and Frederic Dobruszkes (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium))
- Comparative Air Transport Geographies: China and Europe/North America (convened by Jiaoe Wang (National Resources Research, Beijing, China) and Frederic Dobruszkes (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium))
- Transport and Social Equity (convened by Karen Lucas (University of Leeds, UK) and Pengjun Zhao (Peking University, China))
- Transport, Logistics and Global Consumption Networks (convened by James Wang (University of Hong Kong, China))
- High-speed Rail: Accessibility and Regional Development (convened by Jin Fengjun (China) and Teqi Dai (China))
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