Dear Colleagues,

There will be a special session on "Urban Network Traffic Flow: Modelling, Operations and Control" in EWGT2015* meeting, Delft, Netherlands, 14-16 July 2015.

Important dates and deadlines: 

Deadline of abstract submission  - December 12, 2014.
Notification of acceptance - January 30, 2015.
Paper Submission - March 30, 2015.
Notification of acceptance (rejected, accepted, accepted with modifications) - May 2015.
Submission of the final version of accepted papers (full papers) - June 15, 2015.
Registration deadline to be present at EWGT - July 6, 2015.

For more details, please see below:

website: http://www.ewgt2015.org/

Urban Network Traffic Flow: Modelling, Operations and Control 

Organizers:

Mehdi Keyvan-Ekbatani, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, [log in to unmask]
Meead Saberi, Monash University,Australia, [log in to unmask]


Traffic congestion in metropolitan areas is persisting or even increasing around the globe. Although numerous real-time control strategies have been proposed to mitigate the congestion in urban networks, there is still space for more research and new developments. Several proposed control algorithms face some complications when implemented in a real traffic environment due to high computational complexity, low efficiency under over-saturated conditions, non-realistic assumptions in the developed control model and other practical infeasibilities.

The notion of Macroscopic or Network Fundamental Diagram (MFD or NFD) for urban road networks has been an issue of intensive investigations. Various aspects of NFD, such as: the conditions under which it appears, the impact of different signal control strategies, the possible hysteresis between the network filling and emptying phase etc. are still under the loop of ongoing analytical or empirical investigations and research. Nevertheless, based on what is known, the concept of NFD might be exploited for the derivation of elegant traffic control strategies.

Original papers on modelling and traffic management of urban networks are encouraged to be submitted. The topics of the submitted papers may include (but not limited to):

1) NFD modelling and properties; particularly for large-scale urban networks with heterogeneous spatial distribution of congestion
2)Traffic flow dynamics in multi-modal networks
3) Advanced Large-scale urban traffic control
4) Coordinated/Integrated urban traffic control
5) Traffic state estimation and prediction
6) ITS development for congested cities

On submitting your paper please select this special session.


*18th meeting of EURO Working Group on Transportation (EWGT2015) is organized by Delft University of Technology and is held under the patronage of the EURO Working Group on Transportation (EWGT) and the Association of European Operational Research Societies and the Transport Institute of Delft University of Technology.

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Dr. Mehdi Keyvan-Ekbatani

TU Delft / Transport & Planning
Faculty of Civil engineering and Geosciences
Gebouw 23
Stevinweg 1
2628 CN Delft
Postbus 5048
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