Calls for papers

 

International Journal of Engineering Management and Economics

 

Special Issue on: "Transport"

Guest Editor:
Dr. Ghassan Abulebdeh, American University of Sharjah, UAE

A sustainable and competitive transport system is an essential part to the well-being of every society. But the health and competitiveness of a transport system starts at the sub-system level where components, processes and well-managed externalities – whether they are safety-oriented or operations-oriented – are all engineered and/or managed to optimally function in concert within the overall transport system, be it at the local or national network level.

This special issue will focus on innovative approaches to designing, operating or managing the subcomponents of a transport system to achieve levels necessary for its competitiveness and sustainability.

The issue will be of interest to academics and practitioners involved in putting transport systems in place to meet their demands. Papers are solicited on the management and operation of different aspects of transport systems. Papers that demonstrate innovative applications and/or solutions of optimisation algorithms, innovative designs of physical components or policies aimed at managing safety or operations and integration of practices and designs are invited.

The issue will carry revised and substantially extended versions of selected papers presented at the International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimization (ICMSAO’2013), but we also strongly encourage researchers unable to participate in the conference to submit articles for this call.

Subject Coverage
Suitable topics include but are not limited to:

• Control and management of mixed traffic
• Design of system components for safety
• Freight and passenger traffic routing
• Transport network design
• Control design of signalised networks
• Modelling and design of measures of effectiveness (MOE)
• Integration of computation and communication technologies into transport systems
• Context-sensitive design and operation of transport system components
• Innovative maintenance strategies and practices
• Public transit signal priority control
• Driver behaviour and control
• Control of congested networks
• Transport in supply chains
• Eco-friendly transport design
• Energy-efficient transport operation/design
• Transport resource allocation and management
• Equitable transport operations and designs
• Transport investment strategies
• Other related topics

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written and if appropriate written permissions have been obtained from any copyright holders of the original paper).

All papers are refereed through a peer review process.

All papers must be submitted online. To submit a paper, please read our Submitting articles page.

The Guest Editor is happy to discuss initial ideas for papers, and can be contacted directly:
Dr. Ghassan Abu-Lebdeh: gabulebdeh@aus.edu

Important Dates

Manuscripts due by: 31 January, 2014

Notification of final acceptance: 1 June, 2014