IWCTS 2017 - 10th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science

The 10th International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science (IWCTS 2017) is particularly timely given the prominence of connected automated vehicles technologies in the global auto industry’s near-term growth strategies, of big data analytics and unprecedented access to sensing data of mobility, and of integration of this analytics into the optimization of mobility and transport. These developments are deeply computational. We will build upon the success of previous workshops to continue to focus on computation, knowledge discovery, and technology aspects of transportation systems while welcoming research papers in computer science, transportation science, urban and regional planning, the automotive arena, civil engineering, robotics, geography, geo-informatics, and other related disciplines.
Background
Computational methods for Transportation Science are the drivers for intelligent transportation systems, and thus essence for a sustainable future of cities with regard to urban mobility (people) and transport (freight). The fundamentals of these computational methods are rooted in space and time, and thus at the core of ACM SIGSPATIAL. In fact, the conference itself had always a significant portion of papers dedicated to these topics. A focused workshop at the beginning of the conference can:
Raise further the profile of ACM SIGSPATIAL in the transportation and operation research communities;
Provide a dedicated discussion forum to this significant application field of computation and geographic information science;
Attract further participants to the conference both by reaching out to non-traditional conference participants and by accepting short papers.
We are committed to provide an intellectual, scientific, and industry platform to share findings, discuss directions, and develop networks through this workshop. Integrated with the conference, the workshop will enable the whole ACM SIGSPATIAL community to benefit from crosspollination of new ideas and discoveries.
Scope of Submissions
The International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science invites submissions of original, previously unpublished papers contributing to Computational Transportation Science.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
Computer Vision-based information extraction from image sequences
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 behavior
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, livability and sustainability