Workshop
Transit Vehicle Technologies and Their Impact on Sustainable Transport -
TVT
2016
23 - 24 April, 2016 - Rome, Italy
In conjunction with the International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems - VEHITS 2016
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CHAIR
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Rachel Liu
Independent Researcher
United States
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Brief Bio
Dr. Liu is a transportation professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). Her research interests include Intermodal and Multimodal Transportation Planning and Engineering, Operation Research and Network Simulations, and transportation safety performance analyses. Rachel was the Chair for TRB Committee AP040: Automated Transit system (ATS) for 2008-2014. Dr. Liu has authored a number of books, book chapters, referred journal papers. She also made more than a hundred presentations in the transportation, urban planning, and related fields. She has just completed a book titled: Automated Transit: Planning, Operation and Applications, which will be published by Wiley and Sons.
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SCOPE
The workshop will showcase various transit vehicle technologies and operations that have significant impact on the sustainable development of urban environment. The occasion will bring together researchers, practitioners, and decision makers from all over the world to explore the interaction between transportation, especially urban transit, and nature and built environment, energy consumption, and sociecty values.
TOPICS OF INTEREST:
- Transit Planning and Operations
- Transit Oriented Development
- Automated Transit including but not limited to: Automated Bus, Driverless Metro, AGT, PRT, and APM.
WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Available soon.
PAPER SUBMISSION
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above.
Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at: Paper Templates
Please also check the Guidelines.
Papers must be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system using the appropriated button on this page.
PUBLICATIONS
After thorough reviewing by the workshop program committee, all accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings book - under an ISBN reference and on digital support.
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/).
SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).