Call for Papers

International Workshop on Intelligent & Sustainable Urban Transportation (in conjunction with ISCC 2017)

July 3, 2017 Heraklion, Crete, Greece


(http://isut.aegean.gr/)


Workshop chairs

Damianos Gavalas (University of the Aegean, Greece)

Charalampos Konstantopoulos (University of Piraeus, Greece)

Grammati Pantziou (Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Greece)

Christos Zaroliagis (University of Patras, Greece)


Scope and objectives

In the light of the continuous growth of urban areas with respect to population and size, urban transportation systems are facing significant challenges such as traffic congestion, overcrowding, demand management and service availability. Sustainable transportation makes a positive contribution in addressing those challenges, as to its social, economic and environmental impact. It provides affordable access to all groups of citizens, promotes green vehicles, public transportation, new sharing paradigms like vehicle sharing and carpooling and encourages non-motorized modes of transport such as walking and biking. Policy makers, urban traffic planners and transportation system operators realize the need for sustainable transportation, robust transportation policies and demand management strategies. Along this line, they work towards alleviating congestion, making public transport more attractive, maintaining a high level of operational efficiency in the transportation system, responding -and, if possible, predicting and preventing- traffic incidents.

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) aim at providing sophisticated management models and tools across all transport modes, traffic management, new-generation systems for infrastructure charging, and innovative real time travel information services. ITS facilitate city authorities and transportation professionals realize their visions as regards implementing and managing multimodal transportation networks and enabling citizens to be informed and make better use of these networks. It is a matter of critical importance for such systems and tools to scale so as to enable cities with different budgets to deploy them.

The ISUT workshop aims at soliciting original research related to frameworks, algorithmic solutions, applications and case studies in the scope of ITS and sustainable mobility in urban environments.


Topics of interest

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
ITS planning and implementation
ITS technologies
Green ITS
Public transport network planning
Time-dependent route planning
Dynamic multimodal routing
Multi-criteria multimodal routing
Freight transportation management and planning
Smart parking solutions
Mobility as a Service and single ticketing solutions
Mobility in smart cities
Electric and hybrid vehicles charging and routing: models and solutions
Algorithmic approaches and models in vehicle sharing and carpooling
Traffic prediction
Safety systems and safety aspects of smart transportation
Big data in transportation
Communications in ITS
Vehicular networks
Sustainable urban mobility: planning, implementation and performance indicators
Projects and field operational trials

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: April 12, 2017
Paper Acceptance Notification: May 1, 2017
Camera Ready Papers: May 8, 2017


Technical program committee

Andrea D'Ariano (Universit`a degli Studi “RomaTre”, Italy)
Feng Chu (Université d'Evry Val d'Essonne, France)
Jing Dong (Iowa State University, USA)
Marc Goerigk (Lancaster University, UK)
Andreas Hegyi (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Dionisios Kehagias (Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece)
Spyros Kontogiannis (University of Ioannina, Greece)
Marco Laumanns (IBM Research, Switzerland)
Xiaoliang Ma (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Valentin Polishchuk (Linköping University, Sweden)
Sudha Ram (University of Arizona, USA)
Bart De Schutter (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Grazia Speranza (Universita Degli Studi di Brescia, Italy)
Pieter Vansteenwegen (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Dorothea Wagner (KIT, Germany)
Ouri Wolfson (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)