The 13th International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science (IWCTS 2020) 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, 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 computational approaches for (not limited to):

1. Transportation Planning & Modeling: travel behavioral analysis, modeling, and simulation of population movements and freight transportation systems.
2. Transportation Operations: Connected and Autonomous (CAVs), Computational traffic flow models and control algorithms, the role of transportation in community spread of a pandemic (COVID-19).
3. Infrastructure Sensing: Digital Twin, Data-driven approaches to transportation systems operations
4. Other Technologies: Urban sensing technologies, Geoinformatics and Regional Science

We welcome research papers from computer sciences, geosciences, transportation sciences, urban sciences, and other related sciences that address the above-mentioned focus areas. We will be organizing a panel alongside paper presentations/keynote. We seek to invite eminent people from industry, academia, and laboratories.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. 

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full papers (up to 10 pages): Original, unpublished research papers that belong to the scope of the workshop, i.e. computational transportation science and are not being considered for publication in any other forum.
• Short papers and Position Papers (up to 4 pages): Papers describing the early research results on original work on computational transportation science. Authors must clearly state the ongoing and future work and the relevance of the results presented in the context of the scope of this workshop.
• Demo Papers (up to 4 pages): Describing original systems for demonstration presentation at the conference.

Papers must be in ACM SIG format (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) (US Letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures and references. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM digital library under the condition that at least one author has registered for both the main SIGSPATIAL conference and the workshop, attends the workshop, and presents the accepted paper in the workshop. Otherwise, the accepted paper will not appear in the workshop proceedings or in the ACM Digital Library version of the workshop proceedings.

• Full papers: Due September 6, 2020 September 13, 2020 11:59PM (PDT)

Organizers and Committee

Chairs

• Kuldeep Kurte, Research Scientist, Computational Urban Sciences Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Anne Berres, Research Scientist, Computational Urban Sciences Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Co-chairs

• Srinath Ravulaparthy, Research Scientist, Computational Urban Sciences Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Jibonananda Sanyal, Group Leader, Computational Urban Sciences Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Gautam Thakur, Research Scientist, Geoinformatics Engineering, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Program Committee

• To be announced soon.

Contact

• iwcts2020@ornl.gov