The ATRF is the
principal transport
research conference
in Australia and
New Zealand.
History of the ATRF
The Australasian Transport Research Forum (ATRF) was originally established in 1975 as the Australian Transport Research Forum. In 1988 the Forum was expanded to include New Zealand and the South Pacific and rebadged accordingly. The ATRF was incorporated as a registered association in June 2017.
Hosting arrangements of the Australasian Transport Research Forum (ATRF) have historically been shared by transport-related government agencies and transport-focussed academic departments, on broadly rotating geographic basis. The table below in lists all previous conference locations and host organisations.
The J H Taplin award, established in 1991, is presented to the author(s) adjudged to have delivered the best paper and presentation at the conference. The David Willis award, established in 1998, is presented to the author(s) adjudged to have delivered the best paper and presentation by a young researcher at the conference. Previous recipients of the J H Taplin and David Willis awards are also listed in the table below.
| Year | No. | Place | John H Taplin Prize (from 1991) |
David Willis Memorial Prize (from 1998) |
Host organisation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 1st | Sydney | Bureau of Transport Economics | ||
| 1976 | 2nd | Adelaide | SA Department of Transport | ||
| 1977 | 3rd | Melbourne | Vic Ministry of Transport | ||
| 1978 | 4th | Perth | WA Office of the Director-General of Transport | ||
| 1979 | 5th | Sydney | NSW Ministry of Transport | ||
| 1980 | 6th | Brisbane | Metropolitan Transit Authority, Brisbane | ||
| 1981 | Not held | Not held | Not held | ||
| 1982 | 7th | Hobart | Transport Tasmania | ||
| 1983 | 8th | Canberra | Bureau of Transport Economics | ||
| 1984 | 9th | Adelaide | SA Department of Transport | ||
| 1985 | 10th | Melbourne | Australian Road Research Board | ||
| 1986 | 11th | Darwin | NT Department of Transport and Works | ||
| 1987 | 12th | Brisbane | Qld Transport Department | ||
| 1988* | 13th | Christchurch | NZ Ministry of Transport | ||
| 1989 | 14th | Perth | WA Department of Transport | ||
| 1990 | 15th | Sydney | NSW Department of Transport | ||
| 1991 | 16th | Hobart | Ian Ker, Lance Chambers | Tas Department of Roads and Transport | |
| 1992 | 17th | Canberra | Peter Forsyth | Bureau of Transport and Communications Economics | |
| 1993 | 18th | Gold Coast | Neil Gentle, Stephen Wheatstone | University of Queensland | |
| 1994 | 19th | Lorne (TAS) | Ian Radbone | Transport Research Centre | |
| 1995 | Not held | Not held | Not held | Not held | |
| 1996 | 20th | Auckland | Damien Yeo | NZ Ministry of Transport | |
| 1997 | 21st | Adelaide | David Bray, Peter Tisato | Transport Systems Centre, University of SA | |
| 1998 | 22nd | Sydney | Vivian Salim | Stuart Clement | NSW Department of Transport; Institute of Transport Studies, University of Sydney |
| 1999 | 23rd | Perth | Upali Vandebona | Craig McPherson | WA Department of Transport |
| 2000 | Not held | Not held | Not held | Not held | Not held |
| 2001 | 24th | Hobart | Michael Yeates | Rochelle Bowler, Michelle McCormick | Tas Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources |
| 2002 | 25th | Canberra | Mark Harvey | Min Xu | Bureau of Transport and Regional Economics |
| 2003 | 26th | Wellington | Charles Sullivan, Carolyn OFallon | Nathan Harper | Greater Wellington Regional Council; Transit NZ; Transfund NZ; NZ Ministry of Transport |
| 2004 | 27th | Adelaide | Clare Rees, Anna Lyth | Nikolaos Vogiatzis | SA Department of Transport & Urban Planning; Transport Systems Centre, University of SA |
| 2005 | 28th | Sydney | Neil Douglas, George Karpouzis | Rita Seethaler | Transport and Population Data Centre; NSW Department of Planning |
| 2006 | 29th | Gold Coast | Jago Dodson, Neil Sipe | Andrew Collins | Queensland Transport |
| 2007 | 30th | Melbourne | Lloyd Davis | Sumeet Jaiswal | Department of Infrastructure (Victoria), Institute of Transport Studies (Monash University) |
| 2008 | 31st | Gold Coast | Gavin Alford, Jeremy Whiteman | Demi Chung | Department of Transport (Victoria), Institute of Transport Studies (Monash University) |
| 2009 | 32nd | Auckland | Peter Jones, Natalya Boujenko |
Sara Moridpour | NZ Ministry of Transport |
| 2010 | 33rd | Canberra | David Mitchell | Daniel Veryard | Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics |
| 2011 | 34th | Adelaide | Markus Botte and Doina Olaru | Ahmad Tavassoli Hojati | South Australian Department for Transport, Energy and Infrastructure; University of South Australia |
| 2012 | 35th | Perth | Chinh Ho and Corinne Mulley | Chi-Hong Tsai, Corinne Mulley & Geoffrey Clifton | WA Department of Transport |
| 2013 | 36th | Brisbane | — | — | The University of Queensland; Queensland University of Technology; Griffith University |
| 2014 | Not held | Not held | Not held | Not held | Not held |
| 2015 | 37th | Sydney | Chris Loader, Naomi Langdon, Effie Robotis | Edward Robson | Bureau of Statistics and Analytics, Transport for NSW; rCITI, University of NSW |
| 2016 | 38th | Melbourne | Marion Terrill, Brendan Coates and Lucille Danks | Mohadeseh Rahbar, Mahmoud Mesbah, Mark Hickman and Ahmad Tavassoli | Monash University/Victorian Government through (DEDJTR & VicRoads) in cooperation with ARRB |
| 2017 | 39th | Auckland | Graham Currie and Chris De Gruyter | Alexa Delbosc, Rahman Shafi, Dinith Wanninayake and Joseph Mascaro | University of Auckland, Auckland Forecasting Centre, NZ Ministry of Transport & NZ Transport Agency |
| 2018 | 40th | Darwin | Akshay Vij, Stacey Ryan, Spring Sampson and Susan Harris | Yale Wong, David Hensher & Corinne Mulley | NT Department of Infrastructure, Planning & Logistics |
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