Dear Friends,
HKSTS is affiliated to the Eastern Asian Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS) which now comprises 16 member countries/areas in the Eastern Asia region; including Australia, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Lao, Malaysia, Myanmar (or Burma), New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. The 5th bi-annual conference of EASTS has recently been held in Fukuoka city of Japan on 29-31 October 2003. For further information relating to the activities of EASTS, you may visit the EASTS Web Site with address http://www.easts.info/. I cordially invite you to join our Society and make your contribution to transportation research and development (R & D) in the region. In fact, our R&D results in transportation are being recognized internationally. On one hand, the British Library and libraries of some well-known universities in North America have purchased and retained our conference proceedings continuously. On the other hand, I wish to congratulate one of our HKSTS board members, Dr. Hong Lo who has recently received the outstanding paper award from the 5th EASTS conference in Fukuoka. In 2004, the HKSTS is planning to launch a new transportation journal “Transportmetrica” so as to provide a discussion forum for transportation studies, and exchange of new and innovative ideas in transportation research and development. Look forward to your submission of papers to our new journal for publication. Apart from the new journal, I am pleased to announce the launch of the HKSTS outstanding student paper award in the 8th HKSTS conference that will be held on 13 December 2003.
We need your support. I encourage you to participate in the work of the HKSTS, to come to our technical seminars and to join our annual conferences. Details of our activities can be found in our web page. We welcome suggestions from members. Please feel free to contact any of the Board Members. Meanwhile, I hope you will enjoy browsing through our web page and find the information interesting and useful.
Prof. William H K Lam
President
Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies
November 15, 2003