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* * * The Paper/Abstract submission deadline is now January 10, 2006 * * *
CALL FOR PAPERS
CASPT 2006
10th International Conference on Computer-Aided Scheduling
of Public Transport
Leeds, U.K., June 21 - 23, 2006
(Previous events: San Diego, 2004, Berlin, 2000, Boston, 1997,
Lisbon, 1993, Montreal, 1990, Hamburg, 1987, Montreal, 1983,
Leeds, 1980, Chicago, 1975)
Conference web page:
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/caspt06/index.php
This conference is the tenth in a series of conferences that serve as
a forum for an international community of researchers, practitioners and
vendors on all aspects of computer-aided planning, scheduling and controlling
passenger transport.
CASPT is a traditional scientific program that covers significant
contributions to
the theory and application of public transport planning and scheduling. CASPT
will encourage not only the generation of new ideas, but will also motivate a
productive collaboration between the participants.
The themes of the conference include (but are not limited to):
o Network and route planning
o Timetables planning and generation
o Vehicle (bus, train, tram, ferry, ...) scheduling
o Driver and crew scheduling
o Rostering
o Operations monitoring, control and management
o Passenger information and trip planning
o Practical experiences and case studies
o Commercial packages
Submissions:
Authors are invited to submit presentations in one of two categories:
(a) Full Papers
Authors should submit papers describing significant, original and
unpublished work. Such papers are expected to be approximately 10-20
pages in length but this guideline is not strict. These papers will be
fully refereed by the programme committee.
(b) Abstracts
Abstracts of up to 1000 words in length (2-4 pages) can be submitted by
those who wish to give a talk but do not want to write an academic paper.
Abstracts will be fully refereed.
Post conference publications:
We are planning, as in previous conferences of the series, to publish a post
conference volume of selected papers. Previous volumes were published
by Springer. The second round of refereeing for this volume will take
place shortly after the conference. Authors of accepted abstracts will have
the opportunity to write a paper (based on their abstract) and submit it for
the selected papers volume.
Paper formats, style and submission:
Please check the following web page
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/caspt06/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=32
Deadlines:
Paper/abstract submissions January 10, 2006
Notification February 20, 2006
Programme Committee:
Raymond Kwan (United Kingdom) - Conference Chair
Avi Ceder (Israel)
Joachim R. Daduna (Germany)
Mark Hickman (USA)
Hong Lo (Hong Kong)
Pitu Mirchandani (USA)
Jean-Marc Rousseau (Canada)
Paolo Toth (Italy)
Stefan Voss (Germany)
Nigel H.M. Wilson (USA)
For more information, contact:
Raymond Kwan
School of Computing
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
United Kingdom
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