MOVICI-MOYCOT 2018: Joint Conference for Urban Mobility in the Smarty City Medellín, Colombia, April 18-20, 2018

Achieving a sustainable mobility is considered one of the most important challenges to be solved by humanity. In recent years, new challenges around recent developments in the field of transportation have evolved. Digitalization has brought new concepts and actors into the mobility sector; non-motorized transport has risen in many cities, whilst urbanization tendencies have increased the overall pressure on cities’ mobility systems. Furthermore, challenges that exist since a long time, such as congestion or high emissions, have not yet been solved. In this regard, the joint conference MOVICI – MOYCOT will focus on showing advancements in related topics that contribute to this propose. This joint conference will bring together academic experts, practitioners and decision makers to discuss the challenges of the Building the City of Tomorrow.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. In this context, we are looking for high-quality submissions for Joint Conference MOVICI-MOYCOT 2018 which is organized by Universidad Nacional de Colombia and German Aerospace Centre (DLR).

The official language of the conference is English but articles in Spanish are also welcome. Article abstracts should be submitted through the easychair platform no later than October 30th 2017 and should have a maximum length of 500 words. Articles should be submitted through the easychair platform no later than December 22th 2017 and should have a maximum length of 7000 words. Articles should include contact information of the author(s) and specify the topic where it should be categorized. Full papers must be submitted in pdf, using the IEEE conference template in either Word or Latex.

Abstract and article submissions must be done through the easychair platform by first creating an account in the signup page. After that, submit your article in the submissions site. All papers will be peer-reviewed by an international scientific committee.

Authors are invited to contribute with technical papers related (but not limited) to the following topics:

List of Topics

1. Traffic modelling  & simulation
   Demand modelling
   Emissions models
   Multimodal and intermodal traffic models
   Multi-scale traffic modelling
   Public transportation
   Case studies
   Microsimulation (SUMO and others software)
   Calibration of scenario
   Large scale simulations
    
2. Traffic management & ITS
   Traffic light control
   Coordinate traffic control
   Road safety
   Traffic sensors
   Incidents
   Logistics solutions
   Artificial intelligence
   Advanced algorithms
   Machine learning
   Advanced driving assistant systems (ADAS)
   Smart signals
   Vehicular communications
   Image processing of Traffic
    
3. Mobility & userS
   Travel behavior and Mobility-as-a-Service & Ride-selling
   Sharing: Possibilities and impact
   Active mobility (Walking and Cycling)
   Accessibility
   Intermodality  and integrating modes
    
4. Data and Methods
   Crowd Sourcing
   Big data and data fusion
   New ways for data collection (GPS tracking, Smartphones, Apps, )
   New mobility prospects for cities
   GTFS
   Remote Sensing
   Machine learning
    
5. Mobility and Smart cities
   Intermodality
   Built environment
   Hubs&Nodes
   Mobility as a Service
   Electric Mobility
   Smart Pricing
   Urban Planning
    
6. Governance
   Digitalisation: Challenges from Blockchain-Technologies
   New Business Models (Uber, Rappi, ZipCar, ...)
   Cooperation
   Financing
   Policies and Measures
   Regulation
7. Urban Freight / Freight and Logistics
   Changing consumption patterns (e-commerce)
   New technologies in Urban Freight (cargo bikes)
   City logistics (micro-consolidation)

Special Sessions

• Workshop "Optimization Models for City Logistics" (WOMCL)
  Submissions site is open. Go to the CFP of this workshop
  Editors:
  Julian Andres Zapata Cortés , Ph.D. – Institución Universitaria CEIPA
  Martín Dario Arango Serna, Ph.D.  – Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellín
  Conrado Augusto Serna, Ph.D. - Universidad de San Buenaventura, Seccional Medellín
   
• Workshop "Technologies and Developments in Electric Mobility Systems" (WTDSME)
  Submissions site is open. Go to the CFP of this workshop. This workshop is organized by Universidad EAFIT.
  Editors:
  Ph.D. Ricardo Mejía-Gutiérrez
  Ph.D. Gilberto Osorio-Gómez
  Ph.D. Alejandro Montoya
  M.Sc. Alejandro Velásquez-López
  Ph.D. (Cand.) Esteban Betancur-Valencia 
  M.Sc. Mauricio Fernández-Montoya
  M.Sc. David Esteban González-correa
   
• Workshop "Meteorology, Traffic and Urban Air Quality" (WMTUAQ2018)
  Submissions site is open. Go to the CFP of this workshop.
  Editors:
  César Augusto Gómez Pérez, PhD - Universidad Nacional de Colombia
  José Fernando Jiménez Mejia, PhD - Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Scientific Committee

• Jairo Espinosa, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL)
• Iván Sarmiento Ordosgoitia, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL)
• Victor Valencia, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL)
• Jorge Espinosa, Politecnico Colombiano Jaime Isaza Cadavid (PJIC)
• Victor Cantillo, Universidad del Norte (UN)
• Julían Arellana Ochoa, Universidad del Norte (UN)
• Felipe Valencia, Solar Energy Research Center (SERC)
• Luis Felipe Herrera Quintero, Universidad Piloto & Ministerio de Transporte Colombia
• Daniel Paes, Universidad Los Andes (Uniandes)
• Ricardo Hurtubia, Universidad Catolica Santiago de Chile (UC)
• Barbara Lenz, German Aerospace Center (DLR) and HU Berlin
• Dirk Heinrichs, German Aerospace Center (DLR) and TU Berlin
• Peter Wagner, German Aerospace Center (DLR) and TU Berlin
• Robert Hilbrich, German Aerospace Center (DLR)
• Gaby Gurczik, German Aerospace Center (DLR)
• Jürgen Krimmling, Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden)
• Alfredo Núñez, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
• Bart De Schutter, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
• Alejandro Marquez, Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE)
• Sergio Velastin, University Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M)

Invited Speakers

• Prof. Sergio Velastín, Ph.D., M.Sc.
  
  The Potential of Video Analysis to improve Urban Traffic
  The world is inexorably becoming more and more urbanised as cities (and in some cases mega cities) act as attractors to people searching for what they imagine is a better quality of life (not always fulfilled). This net migration to the cities has been especially marked in emerging economies such as China, India, South East Asia and Latin America. As per more established cities in the world, emerging cities see new challenges associated with expectations of mobility, social inclusion and environmental quality that, on the one hand, are difficult to fulfil with limited resources and short-term neo-liberal economic models while, on the other hand, having less legacy infrastructure presents opportunities to innovate technically and socially that “older” economies might find more difficult to deploy. An important aspect of what we might call a “smart city” is “smart transport”, understood as a seamless combination of multiple and flexible means (from the private to the public) means of mobility. For environmental reasons, single car occupancy needs to be discouraged while making options such as public transport, cycling, motorbikes and walking more attractive and safer. A key enabler to improve safety and traffic flow is to sense what is happening on urban roads. Traditional methods such as inductive loops are cumbersome to install and maintain and do not provide the necessary information especially in the type of cluttered traffic typical of emerging economies, involving cheaper means of transport such as motorbikes. In such cases, video analysis is regarded as a promising and cost-effective technology to monitor complex patterns of traffic behaviour. The technology is relatively mature for highways where traffic is relatively structured and predictable, but there remains important challenges when dealing with busy urban traffic especially in countries where driver behaviour is erratic, not easy to predict and somewhat aggressive. Unfortunately, in such environments the most vulnerable road users (pedestrians, cyclist, motorcyclists) are the ones that make up the larger number of fatalities and injuries, discouraging potential users of such modes of transport. In this talk we will illustrate some video analysis techniques to detect many types of road users in urban environments and to obtain measures of traffic flow parameters that can be used by traffic engineers for a more efficient management of roads. We will present techniques to localise moving objects using data from conventional CCTV cameras and the use of machine learning to train systems to recognise particular class of vehicles (such as motorbikes). We expect to present illustrative results using methods developed in our labs as well as through the use of advanced commercial systems.

Organizers

• Jairo Espinosa, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL)
• Andres Felipe Acosta Gil, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL)
• Christian Portilla, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL)
• Dirk Heinrichs, German Aerospace Center (DLR)
• Mirko Goletz, German Aerospace Center (DLR)
• Daniel Fernando Escobar Castilla, German Aerospace Center (DLR)
• Katharina Karnahl, German Aerospace Center (DLR)
• Mathias Höhne, German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Publication

Best paper of MOVICI-MOYCOT 2018 proceedings will be published in Journal “International Transportation” from Trialog, Germany.

Venue

The conference will be held in Medellín, Colombia. The exact Venue will be announced here soon.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Jairo Espinosa (jairo.espinosa@ieee.org) or conference@movici.co