Call for Paper

Workshop 1.  Reducing the Carbon Footprint of the Aviation

We are welcoming all the works associated with but not limited to the following issues:

  • Environmental impact of aviation climate change impacts on aviation
  • Aviation in EU Emissions Trading System
  • Risks to air transport resulting from changed atmospheric conditions,
  • Impact of ncreased temperatures on aircraft performance,
  • Viability of airports at coastal locations,
  • Mechanisms and cumulative effects of aviation on climate (carbon dioxide (CO2), oxides of nitrogen (NOx), water vapor (H2O), and contrails, particulates),
  • Aircraft efficiency (operations efficiency, alternative fuels, electric aircraft, reducing air travel),
  • Air quality,
  • Radiation exposure

Workshop 2.  Road transport: Reducing CO2 Emissions from Vehicles

We are welcoming all the works associated with but not limited to the following issues:

  • Strategies for low-emission mobility
  • Adapting urban transport to climate change,
  • Electric vehicles and their impact on electrical grids and energy systems.
  • Fuels (biodiesel, biogas/CNG, electric and hybrid Vehicles, LPG, hydrogen vehicle)
  • Light-duty vehicles – cars and light commercial vehicles (vans),
  • Heavy-duty vehicles – trucks and buses
  • Eco Driving, Eco Driving Tools, EcoMobility,
  • Emission Data Monitoring Technology,
  • CO2 emission standards for cars and vans,
  • CO2 labelling of cars
  • Measuring Fuel Consumption and CO2 Emissions,
  • batteries and energy storage, hydrogen storage;
  • compressed air engines;
  • internal combustion engines;
  • fuel cells, fuel efficiency;
  • hybrids and hydraulic hybrids;
  • health-promotion traffic facilities

Workshop 3.  Shipping and Climate Change

We are welcoming all the works associated with but not limited to the following issues:

  • Climate Change and Maritime Transport,
  • Shipping’s impact on air quality,
  • Decarbonising logistical activities,
  • Measurement and reporting of logistics-related emissions,
  • Comparing the carbon footprints of online and conventional retailing on a supply chain basis,
  • Carbon emissions from the maritime sector and the efforts being made to measure and reduce them,
  • Carbon reduction scenarios for the road freight sector.

Workshop 4.  Freight and Logistics

We are welcoming all the works associated with but not limited to the following issues:

  • digitalisation of transport and logistics,
  • Big Data for transport and logistics
  • freight policy development,
  • city logistics,
  • logistics and multimodal transport
  • trans-national networks,
  • air cargo transport,
  • ports and maritime policy,
  • global supply chain management, technology/application for supply chain,
  •  e-business and e-commerce,
  • smart contract and asset management,
  • production and delivery synchronization,
  • facility planning and management;
  • electronic documents for freight transport
  • performance management and human factors;
  • applications of artificial intelligence (robotics, truck platooning, and virtual agents)
  • LEAN and six-sigma;
  • modelling and simulation;
  • maintenance and reliability;
  • strategic alliances,
  • freight and environment, sustainability and green systems

Workshop 5.  Freeway Traffic Modelling and Control

We are welcoming all the works associated with but not limited to the following issues:

  • safety research,
  • incident management;
  • signing and telematics;
  • public transport priority systems;
  • traffic engineering, network management;
  • cooperative, connected and autonomous vehicles
  • mobility as a service, smart mobility
  • traffic management and train control;
  • highway design and traffic management;
  • vehicle dynamics and control;
  • applications of vehicular networks, including ITS
  • dynamic network modeling and optimization
  • dynamic fleet management
  • simulation and optimization of traffic and logistics systems
  • meta-heuristic methods in optimization
  • high performance computing in traffic simulation
  • vehicle routing
  • emergency management

Workshop 6.  Intelligent Transport Systems and Smart Mobility

We are welcoming all the works associated with but not limited to the following issues:

  • intelligent robotic vehicles;
  • advanced driver assistance systems;
  • advanced communication technologies (V2V, V2I, V2X…) and automated transportation systems
  • vehicular safety, active and passive;
  • vehicle environment perception, driver state and intent recognition;
  • wireless communications technologies (floating car data, sensing and computational technologies);
  • eco-driving and energy efficiency vehicles;
  • intelligent transport systems and its impact on traffic flows;
  • mobility-as-a-service (MaaS)
  • cooperative vehicle-infrastructure systems;
  • traffic collision avoidance and proximity detection technology;
  • pedestrian protection;
  • assistive mobility systems;
  • image, radar, LIDAR signal processing;
  • urban traffic modeling and analysis
  • information fusion;
  • vehicle control;
  • human factors.

Workshop 7.  Transport Data and Transport Models

We are welcoming all the works associated with but not limited to the following issues:

  • Big data and transport modelling
  • Big data in transport systems optimization
  • application of big data technologies in transport
  • data security and legal issues
  • big data analytics for travel data
  • transport Models
  • innovative and applied methods in transport planning
  • developing models for policy and decision-making
  • developing systems for transport simulation
  • global trends impacting transport

Workshop 8. Sustainable Transport Instruments

We are welcoming all the works associated with but not limited to the following issues:

  • sustainable Land use and transport interactions;
  • environmental-economic modelling
  • energy efficiency of municipal transportation facilities
  • energy and public utilities in transportation (including heat, electricity, gas and water supply);
  • energy price management and efficient pricing;
  • Sustainable Transport Instruments:
    — Planning Instruments
    — Regulatory Instruments
    — Economic Instruments
    — Information Instruments
    — Technology Improvements and Instruments
    — Assessing climate finance for sustainable transport