A special issue of Transportation Research Part B

“Optimization of Urban Transportation Service Networks”

Guest Editors (alphabetically):

Nikolas Geroliminis
Urban Transport Systems Lab.
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Lausanne, Switzerland
nikolas.geroliminis@epfl.ch
http://luts.epfl.ch/

Yu (Marco) Nie
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois, USA
y-nie@northwestern.edu
http://www.civil.northwestern.edu/people/profiles/nie.html

Yanfeng Ouyang
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois, USA
yfouyang@illinois.edu
http://web.engr.illinois.edu/~yfouyang/

Scope and topics

We define urban transportation service networks broadly as any interconnected infrastructure systems (physical or virtual) and the associated enabling technologies and operations that provide service to public or private transportation demand in an urban setting. Planning, operation and management of such networks generally involve multiple interacting stakeholders who endogenously make decisions based on individual, sometimes conflicting, objectives, and various stressors that are either steady (e.g., aging, deterioration) or transient (e.g., disasters). Rapid advances have been made recently, in terms of both new methodological approaches and innovative applications, to enhance efficiency, sustainability, and resilience of transportation service networks. This special issue aims to scrutinize the efforts the community has made so far and discuss opportunities that lie ahead. The scope will cover all aspects of urban transportation service networks, with an emphasis on large-scale systems, including but not limited to:

Planning and management of service infrastructures and fleets
Operations and control of transportation service networks
Cyber-enabled transportation service networks
Urban freight logistics and supply chains
Preparedness, robustness, and recovery of service networks against unexpected events
Traffic network management and control
Transit system design, operations, and control
Mechanism design for service management (e.g., pricing, rationing)
Emerging transportation services (e.g., car sharing, EV charging)

You are invited to submit a full paper to this special issue of Transportation Research Part B, a prestigious leading journal in the field.

Submission method

All submissions shall be submitted via the Transportation Research Part B online submission system and go through a normal peer review process.
Submission of full paper online June 15, 2014
Feedback from first-round reviews issued September 15, 2014
Revised manuscripts due November 15, 2014
Feedback from second-round reviews issued (if need be) January 15, 2015
Final manuscripts due February 15, 2015
Planned publication 2015