Submission guidelines
Regular scientific papers of up to 8 pages can be submitted until 31 October 30 November 2024 via the easychair platform. Papers should use the template format according to the files below
All papers must be submitted via the easychair system
Papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Acceptance/rejection notifications, along with invitations for selected papers to upcoming Special Issues in closely aligned journals, will be issued by February 28, 2025.
In addition, we allow for the submission of up to 4 page “Short Communication Papers” that will undergo a simpler review process. These should be submissions with scientific novelty that provide, for example, practical insights, practice-ready software, case studies or discussion on the implementation of new technologies. Please note, marketing-focused submissions without scientific merit will not be accepted. This format is designed to appeal to both practitioners and academics who wish to share emerging ideas that may not yet be developed into a full paper. On acceptance, authors of such short papers, will be allowed to present their work as a poster or in a special sessions. Submissions must be completed by 31 January 2025 and should use the same paper format as regular papers.
Topics
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Planning (network design, timetabling, vehicle and staff scheduling)
- Operations (monitoring, control, robustness, flexibility, efficiency, reliability)
- Control (real-time strategies, synchronization)
- Policy (governance, economics, tendering)
- Optimization, visualization and behavioural models
- Simulation and digital innovations (digital twins and triples)
- Facilities and asset management (rolling stock, terminals, switches)
- Energy management (Electrification, V2G, hydrogen operated vehicles)
- On-demand services, ridescourcing, ridesharing and public micromobility; including integration with conventional public transport
- Other new public transport modes incl. urban passenger air transport systems
- Passenger information, trip planning, route guidance
- Travel and trip/tour demand analysis
- Impacts on mobility, accessibility, health, social equity and provision for an ageing and inclusive society
- Mobility as a Service (MaaS) and other fare product innovations
- Transport solutions for touristic cities
- Environmental impacts (emissions, noise control, energy)
Special Sessions (Focus Topics)
We highlight following three technical sessions that involve academic – industry collaboration for which we particularly invite contributions.
Together with the Mobility2Grid Research Campus of TU Berlin, a special session on electrification of public transport will be held. Opportunities and challenges of E-Bus operation as well as two-way charging of buses will be discussed. The technical session follows on from a workshop on Transition Process, Impacts and Risks of Public Transport Electrification held in Kyoto in May 2024.
Together with the Open Transit Software Foundation a special session will be held on the use of crowdsourced and open data for public transport planning. Open-source transit rider information tools such as OneBusAway, the increasing availability of publicly available GTFS feeds, and the ability to understand public transport usage trends from voluntary user contributions will be discussed.
Together with the Transport Strategy Centre (TSC) at Imperial College London a special session will be held on the topic of benchmarking public transport systems. TSC has over 25 years experience in benchmarking mass transit systems, including work on urban metros, mainline railways, light rail, buses, and airports. TSC has further recently expanded benchmarking into other public infrastructure systems. In the session in particular the challenges of comparing the performance of public transport systems given the changing role of mainstream public transport in cities will be discussed.
Special Issues
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to special issues in one of three prominent journals. These are Transportation Research Part C, Journal of Public Transportation (Elsevier) and Public Transport (Springer). The first two Special Issues are topical and open also to papers not submitted to the conference. Authors who submitted regular scientific papers to the conference, have the advantage that the review process will build on the initial reviews to facilitate faster publication.