The 28th International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies
9-10 December 2024, Hong Kong
http://www.hksts.org/conf.htm
Organizers:

Hong Kong Society forTransportation Studies

Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringandDepartment of Industrial and Systems Engineering
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

NOTES FOR PREPARING THE FULL PAPER
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GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS

The full paper in MS Word Standard Format (.docx) or Portable Document Format (.pdf) should
be submitted to the online submission system via https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=hksts2024 by
15 August 2024 Anywhere on Earth (AoE).
Papers submitted for publication in the Conference Proceedings must not have been published or underconsideration for publication elsewhere.
Authors who wish to be considered for (oral or poster) presentation ONLY must also submit a fullpaper. The full paper is for review purpose only and will NOT appear in the Conference proceedings.
Please note that submission of papers does not constitute registration for the Conference. All participants
must register and pay the appropriate registration fees; for more information, please visit the Conference
Website: http://www.hksts.org/conf.htm.
Please follow the Instructions to Authors: Online Paper Submission available on the Conference Website:
http://www.hksts.org/conf.htm to upload the paper.
Late submissions cannot be selected for publication in the HKSTS Conference Proceedings.
The manuscript should be in English.
2.

PAPER FORMAT••••••

A4 paper (210 mm wide by 290 mm deep) with 25 mm margins on all sides
Times New Roman typeface in 11 point pitch
Single spacing
8 pages maximum, including figures, tables, references, and appendices
Leave a blank line between paragraphs without indent
Text should be justified across whole page width3.

STRUCTURE OF PAPER

3.1

Covering pageThe covering page of the manuscript must contain the following, and in the order specified below:

1••••••The title of the paper
The name(s) of the authors(s) are typed in the sequence of: First name, then Middle name and Surname
lastly. Surname is typed in All CAPITALS.
Institutional Affiliation of the Author(s) (including Department, Name of Organization and Country)
and Author email address(es)An abstract
Up to five keywords
Subject area (may choose more than one):a) Innovative Technology in Transportationb) Innovative Services in Transportationc) Emerging and Future Mobilityd) Transportation Modeling and Surveyse) Transportation, Land Use and Built Environmentf)
Transit Management and Operationsg) Transportation Networksh) Regional and International Transportationi)
Logistics and Supply Chain Managementj)
Innovative Technology in Transportation••••

Preferred mode of presentation: Oral, Poster or No Preference
Name of Presenter or key speaker
Request for the consideration of publication in the Proceedings or not
Submission for the Outstanding Student Paper Award (You are a Postgraduate student and the soleauthor of the paper) or not

3.2

Second and following pages

These include the main body of the paper, divided into sections and (optionally) subsections with subsubsections. Sections must be numbered and their title typed in bold capitals (for example, 1. SECTIONS).
Subsections must be numbered using two digits and their titles typed in bold typeface (for example,1.1 Subsections). Sub-subsections must be numbered using three digits and their titles typed in bold
typeface (for example, 1.1.1 Sub-subsections). Two blank lines must be left before each title of the sections
and one blank line before each title of the subsections and sub-subsections, with the exception of new pages.

4.

EQUATIONS, TABLES AND FIGURES

4.1

Equations

Equations must be typeset with the same word processor. You may also type the equation in Mathtype (whichis available at www.mathtype.com, with 30 days free trial), and use its default setting. All equations mustbe numbered and appeared in the following format (font type must be TIMES NEW ROMAN):a+b=c(1)Z = Y x (U + B)
4.2

TablesTables are to be centred. Tables must be numbered sequentially, with their title centered above the table.
4.3

Figures2(2)All Figures will be reproduced in black and white. Figures must be drawn in ink or with good quality
graphic software. Figures are to be centred, with the reference and caption to be centred below the figure.
All Figures must be quoted in the text.
5.

REFERENCES

The Harvard System of referencing must be used (see, for example, Transportmetrica). In the body of thetext, papers or documents are referred to by the author’s surname with the year of publication in parenthesis;
if the quotation is itself in parenthesis, the year of publication is separated by a comma. If the reference has
more than two authors, only the surname of the first author followed by et al. in italics will appear in thebody of the text.
At the end of the paper, complete references must be given alphabetically by author’s surname including:surname(s) and initials of author(s), separated by a comma, year of publication in parenthesis, title of thepaper, title of the journal in italic typeface, volume of the journal, and first and last pages. In the case ofbooks, the title of the book must be in italic typeface, with first letter capitals; the publisher and the city ofpublication must also be indicated. Examples:
Kanafani, A. and Abbas, M.S. (1987) Local air service and economic impact of small airports. Journal ofTransportation Engineering 113, 42-55.
Button, K.J. (1982) Transport Economics. Heineman, London.
Nash, C.A. (1988) Integration of public transport: an economic assessment. Bus Deregulation andPrivatisation: An International Perspective, eds J.S. Dodgson and N.P. Topham, pp. 17-46. Wiley,
New York.
Grant, R.A. (1989) Building and testing a causal model and information technology’s impact. Proceedingsof the Tenth International Conference on Information Systems, Boston, MA, pp. 173-184.
Cardell, N.S. (1989) Extensions of multinomial logit: the hedonic demand model, the nonindependent logit
model and the ranked logit model. Ph.D. Thesis, Harvard University, U.S.A.

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