IWCTS 2013 - Workshop on Computational Transportation Science (IWCTS)

The 6th 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, transportation science, urban and regional planning, civil engineering, geography, geoinformatics, computer vision 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
In the near future, vehicles, travellers, and the infrastructure will collectively have billions of sensors that can communicate with each other. 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. This environment will enable numerous novel applications and order of magnitude improvement of the performance of existing applications. 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, user feedback and incentives for collaborative behaviour 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 modelling, 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, liveable 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The International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science invites submissions of original, previously unpublished papers contributing to Computational Transportation Science.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
Computational and artificial intelligence aspects of assisted driving, collaborative transport or multi-modal transport
Crowd sourcing and participatory sensing in transport
Cameras as sensors for trajectory acquisition and event recognition
Context aware analysis of movement data
New processing frameworks for handling masses of transport data (e.g. Hadoop)
Uncertain information in collaborative transport and assisted travelling
Mechanism design for collaborative behaviour
Data mining and statistical learning for travel information
Human-computer interfaces in intelligent transportation applications
Privacy, security, and trust in transportation information
Novel applications targeted to health, mobility, liveability and sustainability