Call for Papers

The 6^thInternationalWorkshop on Computational Transportation Science (CTS 2014)

Hefei, Anhui, China

June 6-8, 2014

(Papers Due: March 20,2014)

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In the near future,vehicles, travelers, and the infrastructure will collectively have billions ofsensors that can communicate with each other. This environment will enablenumerous novel applications and order of magnitude improvement in theperformance of existing applications. However, information technology (IT) hasnot had the dramatic impact on transportation that it has had on other domainssuch as business and engineering. Transportation systems, due to theirdistributed/mobile nature, can become the ultimate test-bed for the computingenvironment of unprecedented scale. A related development is the emergence ofincreasingly more sophisticated geospatial and spatial-temporal informationmanagement capabilities. These factors have the potential to revolutionizetraveler services, and the provision and analysis of related information. Inthis revolution, travelers and sensors in the infrastructure and in vehicleswill all produce a vast amount of data that could be interpreted and acted uponto produce a sea change in transportation.

The purpose of this workshop is to bring researchers andpractitioners together in order to set up visions on how the advancedcomputational methods can be and are used for today's isolated IT-tools so asto model, simulate, and manage large-scale complex transportation systems. Theemerging discipline of computational transportation science (CTS) combines computerscience and engineering with the modeling, planning, and economic aspects of transportation. The discipline goes beyondvehicular technology, and addresses pedestrian systems on hand-held devices,non-real-time issues such as data mining, as well as data management issuesabove the networking layer. CTS applications will improve efficiency, equity,mobility, accessibility, and safety by taking advantage of ubiquitouscomputing.

TheInternational Workshop on Computational Transportation Science invitessubmissions of original, previously unpublished papers on CTS issues. Theworkshop will focus on, but not limited to, the following themes:

- Traffic flow theory

- Advanced solution algorithms for multifarioustransportation models

- Computational methods for uncertaininformation distributed among moving travelers/vehicles and the infrastructure

- Computation of costs of multi-modaltraveling

- Computational methods in relation to intelligenttransportation applications

- Data mining techniques for travelinformation

- Dynamic shortest path computations usingforecasts

- Human-computer interfaces in intelligenttransportation applications

- Information in pedestrian, biking, andother non-motorized transportation applications

- Mobile artificial-intelligence aspectsrelated to transportation

- Multi-agent simulation oftraffic/transportation scenarios

- Privacy and security computing intransportation

- Real-time negotiation among travelers

- Sensor information related totransportation

- Wireless communication with travelers andvehicles

- Transit schedulingand optimization

- Development of newenergy vehicles

- Transportationnetwork design

- Monitoring,assessment, prediction and control for urban traffic environment

- Low-carbon andsustainability transport policy

Original Papers are invited from prospectiveauthors with interest on the related areas. All the submitted papers should bewritten in English, using the attached template, including all tables, figures, andreferences. All papers must be submitted electronically in WORD format and bemailed tocts.6th@gmail.comwith the subject of “CTS 2014 Submission”.

All acceptedworkshop papers will be appeared in the Conference Proceedings, which will bemade available to registered participants. Furthermore, the workshop organizerscan recommend the extended versions of some selected high-quality workshoppapers to the special issues of the some international journals.

Deadline for paper submission ------ March20, 2014

Notification of acceptance ------ April 20, 2014

Deadline for camera-ready manuscriptsubmission ------ May 5, 2014

Professor Jiancheng Long, Hefei University of Technology, China ( jianchenglong@hfut.edu.cn )

Professor Qin Shi, Hefei University of Technology, China (shiqin@hfut.edu.cn)

Dr. Zhongjun Ding, Hefei University of Technology, China(dingzj@mail.ustc.edu.cn )