5 August 2013

Call for papers: "Transport"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Engineering Management and Economics.

A sustainable and competitive transport system is an essential part to the well-being of every society. But the health and competitiveness of a transport system starts at the sub-system level where components, processes and well-managed externalities – whether they are safety-oriented or operations-oriented – are all engineered and/or managed to optimally function in concert within the overall transport system, be it at the local or national network level.

This special issue will focus on innovative approaches to designing, operating or managing the subcomponents of a transport system to achieve levels necessary for its competitiveness and sustainability.

The issue will be of interest to academics and practitioners involved in putting transport systems in place to meet their demands. Papers are solicited on the management and operation of different aspects of transport systems. Papers that demonstrate innovative applications and/or solutions of optimisation algorithms, innovative designs of physical components or policies aimed at managing safety or operations and integration of practices and designs are invited.

The issue will carry revised and substantially extended versions of selected papers presented at the International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimization (ICMSAO’2013), but we also strongly encourage researchers unable to participate in the conference to submit articles for this call.

Suitable topics include but are not limited to:
  • Control and management of mixed traffic
  • Design of system components for safety
  • Freight and passenger traffic routing
  • Transport network design
  • Control design of signalised networks
  • Modelling and design of measures of effectiveness (MOE)
  • Integration of computation and communication technologies into transport systems
  • Context-sensitive design and operation of transport system components
  • Innovative maintenance strategies and practices
  • Public transit signal priority control
  • Driver behaviour and control
  • Control of congested networks
  • Transport in supply chains
  • Eco-friendly transport design
  • Energy-efficient transport operation/design
  • Transport resource allocation and management
  • Equitable transport operations and designs
  • Transport investment strategies
  • Other related topics
Important Dates
Submission of manuscripts: 31 January, 2014
Notification of final acceptance: 1 June, 2014

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