Second International Workshop on
Computational Transportation Science
Workshop Program
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pdf, txtImportant Dates
- Paper Submission Deadline:
July 31, 2009
August 7, 2009 - Notification of Acceptance:September 14, 2009
- Camera-Ready Submissions:September 28, 2009
- Workshop in Seattle:November 3, 2009
- ACMGIS09 in Seattle:November 4 - 6, 2009
Contact Information
- Email: glenn.geers at nicta.com.au
General Co-Chairs
- Shashi ShekharUniversity of Minnesota, USA
- Glenn GeersNICTA, Australia
Program Committee Co-Chairs
- Betsy GeorgeOracle
- Sangho KimESRI
Steering Committee
- Ouri WolfsonUniversity of Illinois at Chicago, USA
- Budhendra BhaduriOak Ridge National Laboratory
Program Committee
- Walid ArefPurdue University, USA
- Claus BrennerLeibniz Universitat Hannover, Germany
- Chen CaiNeville Roach Laboratory, National ICT Australia
- Oscar FranzeseOak Ridge National Laboratory
- Kostas GouliasUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
- Le GruenwaldUniversity of Oklahoma, USA
- Wee-Liang HengESRI
- Der-Horng LeeNational University of Singapore
- Harvey MillerUniversity of Utah, USA
- Jim NutaroOak Ridge National Laboratory
- Stacy PattersonUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
- Jay SandhuESRI
- Monika SesterUniversity of Hannover, Germany
- Pravin VaraiyaUniversity of California, Berkeley, USA
- Stephan WinterThe University of Melbourne, Australia
- Jack WangOracle Corporation, USA
- Bo XuUniversity of Illinois at Chicago, USA
- Gennady AndrienkoFraunhofer Institute IAIS, Germany
- Cheng LiuOak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
- Bruce RalstonUniversity of Tennessee, USA
to be held in conjunction with The 17th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2009)
November 3, 2009 - Seattle, Washington
Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and the ACM digital library.
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PURPOSE OF THIS WORKSHOP
In the near future, vehicles, travelers, and the infrastructure will collectively have billions of sensors that can communicate with each other. This environment will enable numerous novel applications and order of magnitude improvement in the performance of existing applications. However, information technology (IT) has not had the dramatic impact on day-to-day transportation that it has had on other domains such as business and science. In terms of the real-time information available to most travelers, with the exception of car navigation systems, the transportation experience has not changed much in the last 30-40 years. During this same time, the miniaturization of computing devices and advances in wireless communication and sensor technology have been propagating computing from the stationary desktop to the mobile outdoors, and making it ubiquitous. Transportation systems, due to their distributed/mobile nature, can become the ultimate test-bed for this ubiquitous (i.e., embedded, highly-distributed, and sensor-laden) computing environment of unprecedented scale. Information technology is the foundation for implementing new strategies, particularly if they are to be made available in real-time to wireless devices such as cell phones and PDAs. A related development is the emergence of increasingly more sophisticated geospatial and spatio-temporal information management capabilities. These factors have the potential to revolutionize traveler services, and the provision and analysis of related information. In this revolution, travelers and sensors in the infrastructure and in vehicles will all produce a vast amount of data that could be interpreted and acted upon to produce a sea change in transportation.
The emerging discipline of computational transportation science (CTS) combines computer science and engineering with the modeling, planning, and economic aspects of transportation. The discipline goes beyond vehicular technology, and addresses pedestrian systems on hand-held devices, non-real-time issues such as data mining, as well as data management issues above the networking layer. CTS applications will improve efficiency, equity, mobility, accessibility, and safety by taking advantage of ubiquitous computing.
SCOPE OF THE SUBMISSION
The International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science invites submissions of original, previously unpublished papers on CTS issues. Position papers that report novel research directions or identify challenging problems are also invited. Papers incorporating one or more of the following themes are especially encouraged:
HOW TO SUBMIT A PAPER
Authors should prepare an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of their full paper. Papers must be in English and not exceed 6 pages double column in ACM SIG format (US Letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures and references. Position papers are limited 4 pages. Each submission should start with: the title, abstract, and names, contact information of authors, type of the submission (research paper or position paper). Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and the ACM digital library. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop.
All papers will be submitted electronically via the Microsoft Conference Management Service system. Authors are asked to register the titles and abstract of their papers in advance. To register or submit a paper, please visit the following URL: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/IWCTS09/ or click here.
If you have any questions regarding submission, please email Sangho Kim at skim at esri.com.
Registration for the IWCTS09 will be handled through ACMGIS09. Please visit the conference site to register, and for additional information on nearby accommodations.
Updated by: Sangho Kim, skim at esri.com .