Call for Papers:
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Special Issue on Social Network Analysis in Future Transportation Systems: Contributions on Observability, Behaviour and Structure.

http://www.journals.elsevier.com/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies/call-for-papers/call-for-papersocial-network-analysis-in-future-transportati/

Transportation systems analysis, an interdisciplinary epistemological area from its fundamental conceptual beginnings, has relied upon assumptions related to social/collective and/or personal/disaggregate organization of desires expressed or satisfied by the mobility of people and goods. Thus, transportation systems analysis therefore reflects the need for social connectivity, social behaviour and social integration. Although the analytical frameworks proposed and used both for social networks, as well as in transportation systems, take advantage of a wide spectrum of modelling approaches, the recent advances in information technology, in particular related with data availability, the connectivity provided by the Internet, the people participation in media platforms and the development of specialized communication means (social media, phone-based ‘apps’, public or personalized services, etc.), raise new threats and opportunities that may lead to the transportation sector structural re-organization. In the above transformations that either have started or are about to begin, an essential component stands for focused research connecting social networks with transportation systems analysis, that -after all- are part of the same substratum.

In this Special Issue, solid contributions are invited that aim to provide analytical frameworks, applications, or introduce new concepts in social networks analysis and transportation systems. In particular, the submission of contributions providing rigorous analytical (of data or methodological) frameworks, combining social and transportation networks is encouraged. Of special interest are contributions related to (i) the social structure analysis (and its dynamics) that may induce information on behavioural characteristics of transport, (ii) social observability requirements and limitations for realistic transportation applications and (iii) transportation systems structural analysis related to the social processes and phenomena. This Special Issue will provide an important collection of contributions, identifying analytical and methodological differences/similarities and bridging the gap between social network and transportation systems analysis.

List of topics:
-	Transportation systems observability by monitoring social network activity
-	Social network information as inference of travel behaviour
-	Using social networks analysis to map urban structures and processes
-	Mobility pattern recognition through Social/Public/Opportunistic data
-	Mining internet for contextual data about travel behaviour
-	Social data analysis for anomaly/extreme events detection and prediction
-	Supplementing traffic information with social media information
-	Natural language processing technologies for social and transportation network analysis
-	Sentiment analysis and opinion mining in transport demand modelling

Important dates:
-	Special issue article type becomes available in EES: February 1, 2016
-	Submission deadline – May 30, 2016
-	Author notification of first round of reviews – August 30, 2016
-	Author notification of second round of reviews (if needed) – December 30, 2016
-	Special issue completed – March 30, 2017

Guest Editors:

Francisco Pereira, Ph.D.
DTU Transport
Technical University of Denmark
Bygningstorvet, Building 115, room 005, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby
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Constantinos Antoniou, Ph.D.
School of Rural and Surveying Engineering
National Technical University of Athens,
9 Heroon Polytechniou, 15773 Zografou, Athens, Greece
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Loukas Dimitriou, Ph.D.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of Cyprus,
75 Kallipoleos Str., P.O. Box 20537, 1678 Nicosia, Cyprus
Tel: +35722892286
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