Call for Papers: Transportation System Analysis for Better Policy-Making
Journal of Transportation
Special Issue Call for Papers
Transportation System Analysis for Better Policy-Making
The rise of shared mobility, manifested by services such as car-sharing, ridesourcing, bike-sharing and crowdsourcing delivery, is fundamentally changing the landscape of travel and transport. As the vehicle automation and connectivity technology matures, these shared mobility services could eventually evolve into a powerful alternative to the current model of car ownership. Moreover, the collective ownership, being more rational and having a greater bargaining power for infrastructure improvement, may favor electricity as the primary fuel due to much lower operating and environmental costs. These three trends, namely sharing, automation and electrification, have occupied much of the ongoing research efforts in the field of transportation in recent years. As researchers begin to engineer the next generation of analytical tools tailored to these emerging conditions, a daunting challenge is how to apply these tools to properly inform public policies pertinent to design, operations and management of the future transportation systems. Because policies typically aim to achieve certain societal goals by influencing human behaviors, policy making processes must anticipate complex policy-human interaction and take their effects into account. It is this particular challenge that the present Special Issue of Transportation is focused on. Specifically, submissions that broadly fit the following profile are most welcome:
Addressing a system application related to one (or more) of the following themes as explained above: sharing, automation and electrification;
Employing a quantitative system analysis tool. Network models is probably the most obvious example, although other system analysis tools may be accepted as the editors see fit; and
Considering policy-behavior interactions in the tool and/or exploring policy implications in the analysis.
Important dates:
Special issue article type becomes available in EES: October 1, 2017
Submission deadline – December 1st, 2017
Author notification of first round of reviews – March 1st, 2018
Author notification of second round of reviews (if needed) – September 1st, 2018
Special issue completed –January 31, 2019
Guest Editors
Yu (Marco) Nie Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois, USA y-nie@northwestern.edu http://www.civil.northwestern.edu/people/profiles/nie.html
Xuegang (Jeff) Ban Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Washington Seattle, WA 98115 banx@uw.edu faculty.washington.edu/banx
Amanda Stathopoulos Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois, USA a-stathopoulos@northwestern.edu http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/research-faculty/directory/profiles/stathopoulos-amanda.html