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mobil.TUM 2025 – 14th International Scientific Conference on Mobility and Transport

Date
24 Nov – 26 Nov 2025

Location
Nanyang Technological University
LHN-LT@The Arc
63 Nanyang Dr, Singapore 636922

Shaping Tomorrow’s Cities: Sustainable Transport and Smart Growth

mobil.TUM 2025 is an international scientific conference on mobility and transport, scheduled for 24 to 26 November 2025 in Singapore.

Co-organised by TUM Asia and Nanyang Technological University (NTU), the conference will focus on the theme “Shaping Tomorrow’s Cities: Sustainable Transport and Smart Growth,” exploring innovative strategies to develop smarter, greener urban environments that prioritise efficient mobility, environmental resilience, and enhanced quality of life.

This conference offers a unique platform for keynote speakers from diverse research backgrounds to stimulate discussions through presentations, posters, and interactive networking sessions. The Asian context provides an opportunity to draw inspiration from the latest innovations and explore new directions for shaping sustainable future cities.

We welcome contributions from diverse backgrounds, disciplines, regions, and cultures. Proposals are invited for lectern and poster presentations, providing opportunities to discuss research ideas and works in progress.

Key Topics of Interest

Smart Growth Strategies

Urban densification and land-use planning, smart cities and IoT-enabled urban systems, equitable housing and mixed-use development, green building design and eco-friendly
infrastructure, and more.

Technology and Data in Urban Planning

Role of big data, AI, and digital twins in urban mobility, geospatial analytics for transport and urban design, smart parking and traffic management systems, and more.

Sustainable Transportation

Electric and autonomous vehicle integration, active transport (walking, cycling) infrastructure, public transit innovations and accessibility (rail and road), low-emission transport systems and policies, and more.

Environmental Impacts of Transport

Transport impacts on climate change, noise emissions, gaseous emissions, visual impacts, social equity and emissions exposure, and more.

Public Transport Concepts for Green Cities

Latest developments in propulsion systems, new and improved technologies, effects of transition from “vehicle-oriented” to “people‐oriented” ideology, public transport sustainability, system effectiveness indicators, latest planning and optimisation techniques in the railway industry and more.

Policy, Governance, and Equity

Public-private partnerships in urban projects, policies for decarbonizing transport systems, ensuring equity and inclusion in urban development, and more.

Criteria for acceptance:

Relevance: Alignment with the conference’s main theme and focus areas.
Scientific Quality: Robust methodologies and data handling.
Practical Usefulness: Supported by successful implementations and/or significance for scientific advancement.

For more information about paper submissions, please refer to the submission details and guidelines.

Conference Proceedings

Participants have the opportunity to publish their full papers as part of the Lecture Notes in Mobility book series by Springer.

Important Timelines for Paper Submissions

Item	Date
Abstract submission deadline	31 May 2025 (Extended)
Acceptance notification	15 July 2025 (Extended)
Full paper submission (optional)	10 October 2025
Final paper submission for publication	2 January 2026

Category	Early Bird Fees (Now till 31 July 2025)	Standard Fees (From 1 August 2025)
Regular Attendees	SGD 800.00	SGD 900.00
PhD Students*	SGD 700.00	SGD 800.00
TUM & NTU Students^	SGD 350.00	SGD 450.00
Non-TUM/NTU Students	SGD 450.00	SGD 550.00
TUM & NTU Employees	SGD 500.00	SGD 500.00

REGISTER HERE

The registration fee includes admission to the conference, as well as lunch and coffee breaks across all three days.
All fees quoted are in Singapore Dollars and are inclusive of the prevailing Goods and Services Tax (GST) imposed under the Singapore GST Act. The GST rate has been adjusted to 9% starting from 1 January 2024

*Certificate of enrolment required. Fees applicable to both TUM/NTU and non-TUM/non-NTU PhD students.
^Applicable to TUM and NTU Bachelor and Master Students.

Day 1

Time	Activity
8:30 – 9:00 am	Registration
9:00 – 9:30 am	Welcome Address by NTU (TBC) Welcome Address by TUM (TBC)
9:30 – 10:00 am	Opening Address by German Embassy (TBC)
10:00 – 10:30 am	Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:00 pm	Keynote Presentation: Steering Sustainable Public Transport Journeys Mr Jeffrey Sim Vee Ming Group Chief Executive Officer, SBS Transit
11:00 – 12:30 pm	1A Technology and Data in Urban Planning 01. Shaping An Inclusive Public Transport Facility Action Plan For Iskandar Puteri Using Public Outreach And Big Data Michael Chadney, Arnold Alphonso and Sheng Lee 02. A Digital Work-life Twin: Managing Mobility Through User Understanding Gonzalo Haefner, Leander Kauschke, Andreas Wendemuth, Ellen Matthies, Andreas Nuernberger, Hartmut Zadek, Andreas Mueller, Benjamin Noack and Anja Koebrich-Leon 03. Are Digital Twins ‘just’ For The People? Examining Expert User Perceptions And Experiences In Data-driven Decision Making Claudia van der Laag, Wendy Tan, John Östh and Itzhak Benenson
12:30 – 1:30 pm	Lunch Break
1:30 – 3:00 pm	2A Technology And Data In Urban Planning (Parallel) 04. Cities In Autonomous Vehicle Innovation: A Comparative Analysis Of Pilot Cities’ Experimentation And Policy Strategies In China Qi Wang and Gregory Trencher 05. Propagation Mechanisms Of Traffic Conflict Chains: A Graph-based Approach Leveraging High-resolution Trajectory Data Xiao-Chi Ma, Jian Lu, Yiik Diew Wong and Xiao-Han Xia 06. Integrated Strategic-tactical Planning Framework For Urban Air Taxi Services: Enhancing Airport Accessibility And Airspace Efficiency Jiaxuan Wu, Xiaoqian Sun and Sebastian Wandelt 2B Smart Growth Strategies (Parallel) 07. Exploring Citizen-centric Accessibility: Integrating Proximity And Digital Connectivity Benjamin Büttner, Bartosz McCormick and Cecília Silva 08. Anticipating Urban Land Use Change In Polycentric Regions For Planning And Infrastructure Forecasting Yves Räth, Adrienne Grêt-Regmaey and Maarten van Strien
3:00 – 3:30 pm	Coffee Break
3:30 – 5:30pm	3A Sustainable Transportation (Parallel) 09. Driven To Change? Examining University Commutes In A Car-centric Context Karyn Scerri, Francesco Bruzzone, Raphael Mizzi, Maria Attard, Federico Cavallaro and Silvio Nocera 10. eCargo Vs. Conventional Bikes: Usage Patterns And Operational Challenges In Free-floating Bikesharing Lisa Urban and Alexander Baur 11. Agent-based Simulation Of Time-based Consolidation Strategies In Last-mile Parcel Delivery Lasse Bienzeisler, Felix Petre, Oskar Wage, Morten Flesser and Bernhard Friedrich 12. Solar Photovoltaic Potential For Ballastless And Ballasted Railway Tracks: A Singapore Case Study Ali Aryo Bawono, Ralf Fuchs, Bernhard Lechner and Carlos D. Rodríguez Gallegos 3B Environmental Impacts of Transport (Parallel) 13. Energy And Emission Impacts Of Bicyclist Integration In Combined Alternate Direction Lane Assignment And Reservation-based Intersection Control Milan Knezevic and Aleksandar Stevanovic 14. The Impact Of Smart Logistics On Carbon Emission Performance: An Empirical Analysis Of The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Urban Agglomeration Xi Chen and Tengyuan Long 15. Evaluating The Traffic Safety Implications Of Electric Vehicles In a Dense Urban Environment Jin Wang, and Ryan Cp Wong
END OF DAY 1 — Conference Dinner at Nanyang Lake, Yunnan Garden

Day 2

Time	Activity
8:30 – 9:00 am	Registration
9:00 – 9:45 am	Keynote Presentation: Toward People-focussed Resilient Infrastructure Through Digitalisation Of The ISO22372 Standard Prof. Liz Varga Professor of Complex Systems in the Civil, Environmental, and Geomatics Engineering Department, University College London
10:15 – 12:30 pm	1A Sustainable Transportation (Parallel) 16. A First Look into Pedestrian Territoriality in Shared Space With Cyclists Jordan Poon and Yiik Diew Wong 17. Current Shared Mobility Behaviour And Theoretical Willingness To Use Of Residential Shared Mobility Hubs In Medium-sized Cities In Germany Franziska Weiser and Petra Schäfer 18. Airport Passengers’ Mode Choice Analysis At Singapore Changi Airport Longpai Pan, Buddhi Abeyweera, Chin Long Mak and Li Ping Cheng 19. A Jack Of All Trades? Balancing Traveling Speed And Robustness In Skip-Stop-Operations On Urban Rail Transit Lines Norman Weik 1B Technology and Data in Urban Planning (Parallel) 20. Placing Roadside Sensing Units Using Virtual-Real-Fusion Simulations Yang Ma, Yubing Zheng, Huiwen Liu, Yiik Diew Wong and Said Easa 21. A Data-driven Statistical Demand Modeling Approach For Simulating On-demand Autonomous Feeder Services In Singapore Karl Benedikt Kaesen, Zhipu Chen, Florian Dandl, Antonios Tsakarestos, Andreas Rau and Klaus Bogenberger 22. Understanding User Behavior In Dock-based And Free-floating E-bike Sharing Systems: A Multi-method Study From The Basel Metropolitan Area Michael Stiebe and Widar von Arx
12:30 – 1:30 pm	Lunch Break
1:30 – 3:00 pm	2A Technology and Data in Urban Planning (Parallel) 23. Beta-VAE-Latent Class Choice Model Masahiro Araki 24. The Role and Challenges of AVs in Australia’s Evolving Transport Landscape Fatimah Alturfi 25. A Queueing-Based Optimal Cycle Length Design in Multi-Server Systems with Random Flows Vinaya S Mattungal and Lelitha Vanajakshi 2B Policy, Governance and Equity (Parallel) 26. Measuring Residents’ Acceptability of Urban Transport Interventions in Barcelona through the ATRAPA-BCN Survey Oriol Marquet and Monika Maciejewska
3:00 – 3:30 pm	Coffee Break
3:30 – 5:30pm	3A Public Transport Concepts for Green Cities (Parallel) 27. Green Mobility Hubs In The Mediterranean Region: Assessing Stakeholder Perspectives Across Six Countries David Micallef, Maria Attard, Vasiliki Amprasi, Panagiotis Papantoniou, Dimosthenis Pavlou, Loukas Dimitriou and Christos Gkartzonikas 28. Counter-Mapping Pedestrian Impacts Of Traffic-induced Noise Pollution Using Psychoacoustics, Machine Learning And Isochrone Modelling David O’reilly, Marcus White, Nano Langenheim, Pantea Alambeigi, Tianyi Yang and Xiaoran Huang 29. Enhancing Local Feeder Operations For Metro Station Access In Bangkok Varameth Vichiensan, Vasinee Wasuntarasook, Sathita Malaitham and Atsushi Fukuda 30. Tramways In Mixed Traffic: Roadway And Curbside Management And Its Influence On Transit Performance Morten Flesser, Justus Kleine-onnebrink, Lasse Bienzeisler and Bernhard Friedrich 3B Policy, Governance and Equity (Parallel) 31. Sustainable Transformation Of The Transportation Sector: Foresight and Implications Frank Schätter and Florian Haas 32. Multi-stakeholder Perspectives On The Use Of Gamification For Understanding Willingness To Pay For A Sustainable Neighbourhood Alessia Grassi and Mauro Vallati 33. Bridging The Mobility Gap: Who Gets Left Behind In Public Transport Access To Jobs? Samantha Ivings, Giuliano Punzo and Hadi Arbabi 34. Analysing The Geographic And Socio-economic Disparity In EV Charging Infrastructure Between North And South Of England Hamdi Shaheen, Sanaa Mohammed Rabeek, Manu Sasidharan and Liz Varga
END OF DAY 2

Day 3

Time	Activity
8:30 – 9:00 am	Registration
9:00 – 9:45 am	Keynote Presentation: Investing Intelligently For The Future Of Mobility Prof. Chin Kian-Keong Adjunct Professor at School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University
9:45 – 10.:15 am	Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:30 pm	1A Policy, Governance And Equity (Parallel) 35. BEST’s Wet-leasing Dilemma – Striking A Balance Between Efficiency, Welfare, Quality, And Safety In Mumbai’s City Bus Services Suvedh Jaywant and Madhav Badami 36. Integrating Syntactical Methods And Microscale Analysis For Evaluating Just Streets Wendy Tan, Dipanjan Nag, Fredrik Boge, Elisabetta Vitale Brovarone and Isti Hidayati 37. The International Building Exhibition Munich As A Governance Platform For Mobility Transformation: Networks, Challenges, and Evaluation Approaches Laurenz Murken 38. Impacts, Designs And Politics Of Urban Road Pricing: An International Comparative Study Martina Hekler 1B Environmental Impacts of Transport (Parallel)
12:30 – 1:30 pm	Lunch Break
1:30 – 3:30 pm	PhD College/Best Paper Award Topic: TBC Prof. Dr. Norman Weik, TUM Topic: TBC Dr.-Ing. Andreas Rau, TUM Asia
3:30 – 4:00 pm	Coffee Break
4:00 – 5:30 pm	PhD College Topic: 15-minute City Or 20-minute Neighbourhoods? How Proximity-centred Accessibility Is Shaping The Way We Move And Live Dr.-Ing. Benjamin Büttner, TUM Topic: Resilient Urban Mobility: Strategies for Disaster Management Sharan Revanth Selvaraj Renugadevi, PTV Group
CLOSING ADDRESS — Prof. Norman Weik

Note: The conference programme is provisional and may be adjusted. Final details will be shared in due course.

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SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Member	Institute
Aleksandar Stevanovic	University of Pittsburgh, USA
Ali Aryo Bawono	Technical University of Munich (TUM) Asia, Singapore
Andreas Rau	Technical University of Munich (TUM) Asia, Singapore
Arkadiusz Drabicki	Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany
Arnauld De la Fortelle	Mines Paris Tech, France
Athanasios Theofilatos	Loughborough University, UK
Ben Heydecker	University College London, UK
Benjamin Buttner	Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany
Bernhard Friedrich	TU Braunschweig, Germany
Bruno Dalla Chiara	Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Carlo G Prato	University of Melbourne, Australia
Eleni Christofa	University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Emmanouil Chaniotakis	University College London, UK
Evan Gwee	Land Transport Authority (LTA), Singapore
Feng Zhu	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Jan-Dirk Schmoecker	Kyoto University, Japan
João de Abreu E Silva	Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Kenan Zhang	EPF Lausanne, Switzerland
Larry Head	University of Arizona, USA
Lynette Cheah	University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia
Matilde Gasparetto	Universita IUAV di Venezia, Italy
Michael G H Bell	University of Sydney, Australia
Ray Krishna	Ramboll Pte Ltd, Singapore
Richard Sprosen	Ramboll Pte Ltd, Singapore
Silvio Nocera	Universita IUAV di Venezia, Italy
Stephan Winter	University of Melbourne, Australia
Vitorio Marzano	University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Zhiwei Wang	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Day 1

Jeffrey Sim

Jeffrey Sim is the Group Chief Executive Officer of SBS Transit, a multi-modal public transport operator in Singapore. With a strong background in engineering as a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Singapore, he leads the drive towards a greener and sustainable public transport system. Under his leadership, the company has advanced initiatives in electric buses, solar energy deployment, AI and data-driven operations and maintenance, and workforce upskilling among others to support national low-carbon goals.

Jeffrey is the UITP National Ambassador for Singapore, chairs the UITP Asia-Pacific Urban Rail committee and serves on the International Railway Safety Council. He also sits on advisory boards of leading universities, where he contributes to education and research in transport systems and sustainability.

Keynote: Steering Sustainable Public Transport Journeys

Day 2

Liz Varga

Liz Varga is Professor of Complex Systems in the Civil, Environmental, and Geomatics Engineering Department of University College London (UCL) where she leads the Infrastructure Systems Institute. She was awarded Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in the King’s birthday honours (June 2024) for services to critical infrastructure. Prof Varga teaches, writes, and advises globally on energy, transport, digital communications, water, and waste systems. Her key research themes include infrastructure resilience, sustainable innovation, and decarbonisation. She uses digital methods including digital twins, computational ontologies, AI and agent based models and she is a member of the governing board of the Data and Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure.

She is a commissioner with the National Preparedness Commission and the project manager for a new international standard ISO 22372 on infrastructure resilience. She is director of UKCRIC Limited, and on the Executive of UKCRIC a 15 university collaboration for Research in Infrastructure and Cities.

Keynote: Toward People-Focussed Resilient Infrastructure Through Digitalisation of The ISO22372 Standard

Day 3

Chin Kian-Keong

Chin Kian-Keong is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University. His focus has always been on transportation and now shares his experiences at the school from his 39 years of public service at the Public Works Department and the Land Transport Authority in various leadership roles.

He is now a senior consultant at ST Engineering, a global technology and defence company based in Singapore, as well as an Advisor for the Intelligent Transportation Society (ITS) Singapore. He also co-chairs the Intelligent Transport Systems (Standards) Technical Committee, under Enterprise Singapore.

Keynote: Investing Intelligently for the Future of Mobility