2025 THNS Forum
The THNS Forum is an International Symposium on the Sustainable Development of Urban Transport Systems, is organized by École nationale des ponts et chaussées and Tongji University. The Forum especially fosters the East-West exchange of knowledge advances: research outcomes, innovative technologies, implementation reports etc. It brings together academics, policy makers and business representatives (operators, constructors, consultants).
The THNS Forum jointly initiated in 2008 by Tongji University, ParisTech, and the French Ministry for the Environment. Over the years, it has been supported by Chinese and French Ministries of Transportation, Environment, Housing, Urban Planning, Rural Construction, Ecological and Solidary Transitions. All along its successive yearly editions starting from 2008, the major THNS topic has been the development of high-quality transport solutions: high quality to people as users, combined to high quality to the environment, with special emphasis on the urban environment including the relation to local dwellers. BRT and LRT lines make a prominent theme.
12-13 Nov. 2025
Tongji University & online
Program
This year's topics :
1. Quality of service
2. Value creation of rapid transit
3. Overall value to community and funding systems
4. Health and transportation
5. Transport and energy
6. Autonomous vehicles and their applications
