Scope of topics and interest
Transportation sector is a major source of emissions, including greenhouse gases. It is important to promote green transportation in urban areas to provide a better living environment without affecting the mobility of goods and people. This special issue focuses on methodologies to model and deal with recent green transportation problems in urban areas, ranging from system modeling, planning, design, control, and management. The topics include, but not limited to, the following:
• autonomous vehicle
• bicycle and vehicle sharing
• dial-a-ride
• electric vehicle
• public transport and paratransit
• walking and cycling
Manuscript Submission
All submissions should be submitted via the Transportation Research Part B online submission system. When you submit your paper to the special issue, please choose article type “SI: Green Urban Transportation”. For author guidelines, please visit the Journal home page to learn more.
Transportation Research: Part B publishes papers on all methodological aspects of the subject, particularly those that require mathematical analysis. The general theme of the journal is the development and solution of problems that are adequately motivated to deal with important aspects of the design and/or analysis of transportation systems.
Important dates
Submission window opens on: 22 February 2016
First submission deadline: June 30, 2016
Notification of first decision: October 15, 2016
First revision submission deadline: January 1, 2017
Notification of revised decision: April 15, 2017
Second revision submission deadline: August 30, 2017
Final manuscripts deadline: November 15, 2017
Planned publication: Late 2017
Guest Editors
W.Y. Szeto, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong ([log in to unmask])
Anthony Chen, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University ([log in to unmask])
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