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Early May in Vienna could not have been more special: In the historic Kuppelsaal at the Technical University Vienna, TU Wien, we celebrated the 100th anniversary of the ÖVG (Austrian Society for Transport Sciences) and the 25th anniversary of the European Platform of Transport Sciences (EPTS Foundation).
This year's central theme was: Resilient & Reliable Mobility Systems.
We would like to thank the organizers of the ÖVG and the TU Wien very much for hosting the 24th European Transport Congress 2026. Together we cordially would like to thank you all for your participation and your contributions to this event.
The official images of this great event are available online:
official images 24th ETC
A prospect to 2027: The 25th ETC will be held in Györ, Hungary, from 09.-11.06.2027. Our Hungarian colleagues from the University of Györ are just planning the event.
Read more … Review - [ETC]: 24. ETC 2026, 7-8 May 2026, Vienna, Austria
We are very proud to announce the launch of European Transport Studies (ETS), a refereed international transport scientific journal published by Elsevier in collaboration with the European Platform of Transport Sciences.
ETS is fully open access, with APC waived to Zero until the end of 2025.
After that, all EPTS members will receive a 10% (Eastern Europe: 20%) discount on the APC.
Jonas DE VOS (UCL London) and Adam TÖRÖK (BME Budapest) together with their Editorial Board are looking forward to all your submissions. Our goal is a fast, reliable and high quality reviewing process. ETS
picture: ETS
~~ 11-12 June, 2026, 16. CoTS´, Győr, Hungary ~~ 22-26 June, 2026, Transport Problems, Katowice, Poland ~~ 29.6. - 3.7. 2026, Summer School 2026, Zilina, Slovakia ~~ 14-22 July, 2026, SISTERS 2026, Rome, Italy ~~ 15-16 September, 2026, 22. TSTP, Katowice, Poland ~~ 21-22 September, 2026, Euro-Trans 2026, Szczecin, Poland ~~ 7-8 October, 2026, DACH-Tagung, München, Germany ~~ 15 October, 2026, 21. Baltisches Verkehrsforum, Rostock-Warnemünde, Germany ~~ 15-16 October, 2026, CAMI, Venice, Italy ~~ 18-19 November, 2026, DMK, Frankfurt am Main, Germany ~~ 3 December, 2026, 8. ÖVG Congress, Vienna, Austria ~~ 30 March - 2 April 2027, WSSTL 2027, TU Wien Vienna, Austria ~~
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Back in June 2001, representatives from nine different national transport scientific associations signed the "Vienna Protocol", the official founding document of the European Platform of Transport Sciences.
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of this special event, the EPTS Foundation invited to a festive evening in Vienna. This was held at the Technical University Vienna on 06.05.2026, the day before the 24th European Transport Congress, which was hosted by our member ÖVG in the same place.
More than 80 participants of all generations and countries experienced an evening full of excellent entertainment and enriching conversation. We were given several international greeting messages and a festive lecture by Professor Ueli HAEFELI, Lucerne. Further highlights were the donation of the "Professor Hubert Bronk Award" to the Chair of the EPTS Executive Board, Professor János TÓTH, and the musical accompaniment by Duo Professores, Miroslav SVITEK and Ondrej PRIBYL, CTU Prague.
It was a brilliant venue, magnificently organised and with a perfect balance of dignity and levity to comfort all guests. A distinguished dinner buffet with local food and wine specialities completed this joyful evening, that many described as most exceptionally memorable.
Today the EPTS Foundation e.V. has 44 members from 22 different European countries. We are looking forward to developing the aasociation further in the upcoming 25 years and to become an even more diverse and sustainable organisation when celebrating our golden jubilee.
A grand photo gallery of the festive evening can be found on https://www.epts.eu/25-years-vienna-protocol.html . Our photographer Ruslan Ishchenko will be very delighted about source citation, when using them publicly.