Call for paper

The year 2023 marks the 30th Anniversary of Transportation Research: Part C (TR_C) journal. To commemorate this important milestone, a special event is organized on September 2-4, 2024, at the prestigious venue of the Cultural Conference Center of Heraklion in Crete, Greece.

The focus of the symposium is high-quality, scholarly research that addresses development, applications, and implications, in the field of transportation systems and emerging technologies. The interest is not in the individual technologies per se but in their ultimate implications for the planning, design, operation, control, maintenance, and rehabilitation of transportation systems, services, and components. In other words, the intellectual core of the symposium is on the transportation side, not on the technology side. The integration of quantitative methods from fields such as operations research, control systems, complex networks, computer science, and artificial intelligence is encouraged. Of particular interest are the impacts of emerging technologies on transportation system performance, in terms of monitoring, efficiency, safety, reliability, resource consumption, and the environment.

We invite submissions with significant and substantial contributions to the emerging technologies on transportation system performance. The conference is followed up with a special issue in Transportation Research Part C.  Selected quality papers will be invited to be submitted for full consideration in Transportation Research Part C.

The scope of the symposium includes, but is not limited to:

• multimodal and intermodal transportation;
• on-demand transport;
• intelligent transportation systems;
• traffic and demand management;
• real-time operations;
• connected and autonomous vehicles;
• logistics;
• railways;
• resource and infrastructure management;
• aviation;
• pedestrians and soft modes.

Important dates

Extended abstracts:

• Deadline for extended abstract submission: 15 April 2024
• Notification of acceptance: 15 May 2024

• Deadline for early registration: 30 June 2024