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Call for Papers: "The 21st Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Transportation 2018 (EWGT 2018)" Host: Institute of Transportation and Urban Engineering Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany Prof. Bernhard Friedrich EWGT is an international forum for researchers and practitioners to share information and experiences of research activities in the field of transport, traffic and logistic. After the 1st Meeting of EURO in 1992 in Landshut, the conference goes back to being held in Germany at the Technische Universität Braunschweig between the 17th and the 19th of September, 2018. MAIN TOPICS OF THE CONFERENCE The conference will cover several topics that are relevant in the transportation sector. In this respect, it will focus on issues of transport modeling and control, transport economics and policy, planning and operation as well as innovative solutions, since they proved to be useful in previous conferences. The following list suggests possible but not exclusive issues. 1) Transport Modelling and Control * Dynamic network modeling and optimization * Simulation and optimization of transportation systems * Control and management of transportation systems * Traffic flow modeling * Vehicle routing and route planning * Choice modeling * Heuristic methods in optimization * Human factors and travel behavior 2) Transport Economics and Policy * Decision support analysis and operation research * Transportation economics and financing * Impact assessments and ex-post evaluation * Energy consumption and emission modeling * Travel time reliability and wider economic benefits * Land use and transport interactions * Advanced modeling approaches in logistics * City logistics 3) Planning and Operation * Public transport planning and operation * Transportation planning and traffic engineering * Road safety * Multi-modal transportation * Traveler information systems * Automatic data collection methods * Survey applications * Management of intelligent rail transport systems * Air transport operations 4) Innovative Solutions * Autonomous vehicle system applications * Safety aspects of autonomous driving * Advanced vehicular communication technologies * Shared mobility * Active travel modes * Urban mobility * Big data in transportation * Smart cities and smart mobility SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Only original and previously unpublished manuscripts will be considered for a presentation at the conference. Extended Abstracts with a maximum of 3 pages need to be submitted by 1st December 2017 via ConfTool. Please provide us also the source file (Word, LaTeX) for the preparation of your abstract. Final notification of acceptance will be given on 1st February 2018. Full papers, with a maximum page count of 8 pages, must be submitted until 1st April 2018. Further information regarding this process will be announced on the EWGT website in due time. All electronically submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. Elsevier will publish accepted and registered full papers in Transportation Research Procedia. Moreover, the committee is currently establishing agreements with some top journals for special issues related to the works presented at the EWGT Meeting. PROGRAM In addition to the conference program, key speakers will present relevant state of the art topics in transportation research. Furthermore, social events are organized on both conference evenings. On the first evening, the conference participants are invited to the welcome reception at the Dornse, Braunschweig's old elegant medieval town hall. The gala dinner on the following day will take the participants inside the glamourous Gewandhaus at the Altstadtmarkt in Braunschweig. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: 1st December 2017 Notification of acceptance: 1st February 2018 Full paper submission: 1st April 2018 Notification of acceptance: 15th June 2018 Early bird registration: 1st July 2018 Conference Time: 17th-19th September 2018 CONFERENCE FEE Early bird Full Regular 400 EUR 500 EUR Students 200 EUR 300 EUR Accompanying Person 50 EUR 150 EUR IMPORTANT LINKS OF EWGT 2018 Homepage EWGT 2018: www.ewgt2018.org EWGT ConfTool: www.conftool.com/ewgt2018 We are looking forward to your contributions and would be glad to welcome you next year in September! Best regards, Quzhen Deng Local Organization Committee [log in to unmask]