Call for papers: Special Issue on Simulation in Urban Transportation Systems

Description

Simulation in urban transportation systems consists of computer-aided modeling techniques for citywide transportation planning, design, and operations. Due to their ability to study models and experimental tests that are too complicated for numerical treatment, simulation-based analysis and evaluation has been widely utilized by researchers and professionals in the transportation community for decades. The application of simulations in transportation planning is usually at the macroscopic level, such as urban transportation infrastructure developments, land use polices, and so on. Simulation models of transportation design and operations, however, are more microscopic and mainly address problems related to particular corridors, lane types, signal timing, and so on, with the aim of improving local system efficiency and effectiveness.

After decades of advancement, simulation in urban transportation systems has obtained considerable progress and has also encountered large numbers of problems. This special issue is devoted to presenting the very best research results, application investigations, problem solutions, and new challenges facing the area of urban transportation simulation, leading researchers and practitioners throughout the globe to facilitate the sharing of knowledge and collaborative research.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

Submissions should be original work with scientific contributions, and can neither have been published nor be under concurrent review of another journal or conference. All submitted papers should be written in English and follow the format standards of the Journal. Each paper will be subjected to the Journal’s usual peer-review process. Once a manuscript has been accepted for publication, it will undergo language copyediting, typesetting, and reference validation in order to provide the highest publication quality possible.

Important Dates

Submission deadline: February 1, 2015

First author notification: May 1, 2015

Deadline for revisions: July 1, 2015

Final notification: October 1, 2015

The expected publication time of the special issue will be at the end of 2015.

Submissions for Full Paper Review

All manuscripts must be submitted electronically through the paper submission system to the SIMULATION Manuscript Submission System (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/simulation). See the Submission Guidelines at http://www.scs.org/publications?q=node/92 for manuscript preparation instructions. In the title page, author(s) must specifically mark that the paper is intended for this special issue as follows: “Simulation in Urban Transportation Systems.”

Please contact one of the guest editors if you have any questions. Note: Manuscripts must not have been previously published or be submitted for publication elsewhere. Each submitted manuscript must include title, names, authors’ affiliations, postal and e-mail addresses, an extended paper, and a list of keywords. For multiple author submission, please identify the corresponding author. Each final submission must be prepared based on the SIMULATION journal requirements.

Guest Editors

Bin Yu, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, China (ybzhyb@163.com)

Yudong Zhang, Columbia University, New York, USA (zhangyudongnuaa@gmail.com)

Dr. Yu is a professor in the Transportation Management College at Dalian Maritime University. His research activity concerns transit system optimization, high-performance computing, swarm intelligence and vehicle routing problems. He is internationally known as an active scholar in the field of transportation, with more than 20 papers published in SCI-and SSCI-indexed journals and an ISI H-index citation rate of 11.

Professional activities

Dr. Zhang is a professor in the School of Information Science and Technology at Nanjing Normal University and has been an adjunct professor at Columbia University since 2013. He received a BS from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2004 and an MS from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2007. He received his PhD in signal and information processing from Southeast University in 2010. From 2010 to 2012, he worked at Columbia University as a postdoctoral student, and from 2012 to 2013 he worked as an assistant research scientist at Columbia University and New York State Psychiatry Institute. His research interests focus on knowledge engineering and magnetic resonance image processing. He is the author and co-author of 41 SCI-indexed papers.

Professional activities