ITSC 2022 Workshop on Co-Design and Coordination of Future Mobility Systems

In past decades, cities worldwide have observed a dramatic urbanization. Today, 55% of the world's population resides in urban areas, and in the next 30 years the proportion is expected to reach 68%A direct consequence of the population density growth is the increase of urban travel, and of the externalities it produces.In this rapidly expanding setting, cities have to take important decisions to adapt their transportation system to welcome larger travel demands. This is a very complex task for at least three reasons. 

First, cities need to accommodate the changing travel needs of the population, by predicting them, and by ensuring fairness and equity. Second, designed policies not only have to account for the citizens' satisfaction, but also for their impact on private Mobility Service Providers (MSPs) such as ride-hailing companies, micromobility, and, in a near future, Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand (AMoD) systems. Indeed, such services gained a considerable share of the transportation market in recent years; e.g., in NYC, ride-hailing companies have increased their daily trips by 1000% from 2012 to 2019. While offering more choices to travellers, these systems operate benefiting from public resources (such as roads and public spaces), are profit-oriented, and often lead to potentially disruptive consequences for the efficiency of the transportation system and for society at large.In this avenue, cities gain an important, onerous regulatory role.Third, policies have to be designed while meeting global sustainability goals. It is not surprising that cities are estimated to be responsible for 78% of the world's energy consumption and for over 60% of the global greenhouse emissions (30% of which is produced by transportation, in US). Indeed, sustainability is central in policy-making worldwide: NYC plans to increase sustainable trips from 68% to 80%, and EU plans a 90% reduction of emissions by 2050.Taken together, the aforementioned perspectives highlight the complexity of this socio-technical problem, and imperatively call for methods to inform and drive policy makers. In this context, developed methods need to inform the co-design of individual mobility solutions and the associated mobility systems, accounting for a range of heterogeneous stakeholders with conflicting objectives.

We believe that the problem described above can be tackled by adopting a system-level perspective and by explicitly considering interactions between mobility stakeholders (both at the planning, and operational level, e.g., via game theoretical tools). This workshop will gather experts from transportation, operations research, urban planning, and autonomy to

• Identify challenges and opportunities regarding the aforementioned problems;
• Present promising tools to address such challenges;
• Find interaction opportunities across diverse research communities to unite forces and tackle the problems.

We will have a series of keynote talks, followed by presentations from invited submissions.

Submission Guidelines

Disclaimer: this call for papers is unrelated to the proceedings-track one, which is organized directly by IEEE. Papers submitted through to this workshop will not be published in the conference proceedings. Accepted submissions will be assigned an oral presentation.

We welcome extended abstracts and articles which are already published/under review. All unpublished papers should be submitted as PDF, and should be created using standard IEEE templates (LaTex, MS Word).

Extended abstracts should be no longer than 2 pages (references excluded), and papers which are published/under review have no page limitations.

List of Topics

The list of topic includes (but certainly is not limited to):

• Advanced Road Transportation Management
• Social Transportation
• Parallel Transportation Systems
• Traffic Theory for ITS
• Human Factors in ITS
• Intelligent Logistics
• Connected and Automated Vehicles
• Shared Mobility
• Education in ITS
• Public Policy
• Regulatory and Societal Issues in ITS
• New Trends in ITS
• Co-Design
• Game-theory
• Optimization

Organizing committee

• Gioele Zardini, Institute for Dyamic Systems and Control, ETH Zürich
• Nicolas Lanzetti, Automatic Control Lab, ETH Zürich
• Andrea Censi, Institute for Dyamic Systems and Control, ETH Zürich
• Emilio Frazzoli, Institute for Dyamic Systems and Control, ETH Zürich

Speakers

The tentative schedule can be found here.

Contact

All questions should be emailed to Gioele Zardini.