IWCTS 2012 - Fifth ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science

The 5th International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science intends to bring together communities interested in the computation, knowledge discovery and technology policy aspects of surface transportation systems. The organizers of IWCTS welcomes papers from researchers in computer science, urban and regional planning, civil engineering, geography, geoinformatics and related disciplines to submit papers for consideration for presentation and discussion at the one-day workshop and for publication in the conference proceedings.
BACKGROUND
Trends in sensing, communication and urbanization generate significant research questions relating to computation, knowledge discovery and technology policy for intelligent transportation systems. Transportation systems, due to their distributed/mobile nature, can become the ultimate test-bed for a ubiquitous (i.e., embedded, highly-distributed, and sensor-laden) computing environment of unprecedented scale. Information technology is the foundation for implementing new strategies, particularly if they are to be made available in real-time to wireless devices in vehicles or in the hands of people. Contributing are increasingly more sophisticated geospatial and spatio-temporal information management capabilities. Human factors, technology adoption and use, and user feedback and user-centered design are areas of technology policy central to the success of this ubiquitous computing environment.
The emerging discipline of Computational Transportation Science (the science behind Intelligent Transportation Systems) combines computer science and engineering with the modeling, planning, and economic aspects of transportation planning and engineering to leverage developments in the above domains. By taking advantage of ubiquitous computing, Computational Transportation Science applications can help create more efficient, equitable, livable and sustainable transportation systems and communities.
SCOPE OF THE SUBMISSION
The International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science invites submissions of original, previously unpublished papers contributing to Computational Transportation Science. Position papers that report novel research directions or identify challenging problems are also invited. Papers incorporating one or more of the following themes are especially encouraged:
Collaborative transport, including collaborative multi-modal transport
Integrated public transport planning
Computational and artificial intelligence aspects of assisted driving, collaborative transport or multi-modal transport, including cost optimization, delay management and disposition
Sensing, crowdsourcing and participatory sensing in transport
Uncertain information in collaborative transport and assisted traveling
Simulation of traffic, passenger flows, assisted driving or collaborative transport
Travel information, including recommender systems and user feedback systems
Social media applications in travel
Human factors including adaptive driving, travel behaviour, persuasive technology
Data mining and statistical learning for travel information
Dynamic shortest path computations using forecasts
Human-computer interfaces in intelligent transportation applications
Privacy and security in transportation information
Social and institutional information related to travel
Novel applications targeted to health, mobility, livability and sustainability
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Authors should prepare an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of their full paper. Papers must be in English and not exceed 6 pages double column in ACM SIG format (US Letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures and references. Position papers are limited 4 pages. Each submission should start with: the title, abstract, and names, contact information of authors, type of the submission (research paper or position paper). Authors are asked to register the titles and abstract of their papers in advance. To submit a paper, please visit https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/IWCTS2012/. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM digital library. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submissions due: August 10, 2012
Notification to the authors: September 10, 2012
Camera ready papers due: September 23, 2012
IWCTS Workshop: November 6, 2012
ACM GIS 2012 Conference: November 7-9, 2012