Prof. Shiftan research has gained him wide international recognition and prominent posts. Most notable are:
- He was named one of three co-editors of Transport Policy, an international journal published by Elsevier (IF: 1.54) that aims to bridge the gap between theory and practice in transportation. His contribution has been substantial: in 2009, the last year before Yoram became co-editor, the journal published 37 papers, had an impact factor of 1.024, and 630 citations; in 2012, the journal published 112 papers, had an impact factor of 1.541, and 1366 citations.
- He was elected Chair of the International Association of Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR), which is the most important academic association in his field of research and in the field of transportation in general.
Prof. Shiftan has served as chair or member for numerous other prominent international organizations including:
- Member of the editorial boards of eight other academic journals in transportation and related fields, including Transportation Letters and the Journal of Choice Modelling:
- Transport Policy
- Logistic and Supply Chain Management
- Journal of Transport and Health
- Review of Regional Research
- ISRN Economics
- Journal of Environmental Protection
- Transportation Letters
- Journal of Choice Modeling
- The Open Transportation Journal
- Member of the World Conference Transportation Research (WCTR) scientific committee.
- Chair of the WCTR special interest group on Transport and Security.
- Member of three committees of the Transportation Research Board (TRB):
- Travel Behavior and Values Committee (recently finished a term of 9 years, the maximum allowed by TRB),
- Public Transportation Marketing and Fare Policy Committee, and
- Committee on Metropolitan Policy, Planning, and Processes.
- Co-chair of the Network on European Communications and Transport Activities Research (NECTAR) cluster on Environment and Policy.
- Member of the Management Committee of three European COST Actions:
- Wider Impacts and Scenario Evaluation of Autonomous and Connected Transport, Cost Action 16222, Member of the management committee, 2017-
- Transport Equity Analysis: assessment and integration of equity criteria in transportation planning (TEA), Cost Action TU1209. Member of the management committee 2012-2017
- Gender, Science, Technology and Environment (genderSTE), Cost Action TA1201. Member of the management committee 2012-2017
- Past member of two committees of the European Transport Conference:
- Methodological Innovations Committee, and
- Planning for Sustainable Land Use and Transport Program.
- In almost all conferences that Yoram participated he was invited to chair sessions. He was also invited and gave lectures in many leading universities including ETH Zurich, Imperial College, University of Toronto, University of California-Berkeley, University of California-Davis, MIT, Northwestern, Georgia-Tech, and University of Illinois at Chicago.
- He was invited by New South Wells University in Sydney as one of five international experts as guest speakers in an international workshop on activity based modeling (March 2014).
- He was invited to give a talk in the University of Sydney Business School prestige Leadership and Policy Seminar Series (August, 2013).
- He invited to give a keynote talk in an international cluster meeting of the Network on European Communications and Transport Activities Research (NECTAR) in Beer Sheva this month.
- He was invited as an External Ph.D. committee member by leading universities in Europe: ETH, EPFL, DTU, and KTH.