IWCTS 2023 Workshop - Smart Mobility

The 16th International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science (IWCTS 2023) – Smart Mobility track is particularly timely given the prominence of human mobility data, such as probe data from cell phones and connected automated vehicles, volunteered geographic information, and other sensing and simulation data. This unprecedented access to sensing data of mobility, and of integration of this analytics into smart cities and mobility management has led to innovations in intelligent transportation systems, building information management, human dynamics modeling, and urban planning. Due to the scale of these data and simulations, these developments are deeply computational.
We will build upon the success of previous workshops to continue to focus on computational approaches for (not limited to):
  1. Smart City Operations:: Resiliency during extreme weather events (e.g., floods, tornadoes, etc), Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs), Building Information and Energy Modeling (BIM/BEM), electric grid management, decision support, and optimization.
  2. Infrastructure Sensing: Digital Twin technologies, urban sensing infrastructure, edge computing, ad-hoc mobile sensing and computing, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and cyber-physical systems.
  3. Human Dynamics Analysis: Modeling and simulation of population and freight movements, dynamic routing algorithms, computational traffic flow models and control algorithms, and the role of transportation in the smart city.
  4. Intermodal Transportation System: Simulation and analysis on the transportation and logistics of large-sized cargo in freight containers through two or more modes of transport (e.g., maritime, air, railroads, and highways).
  5. Cyberinfrastructure: Web-based platforms, software, or smartphone apps developed to facilitate (a) the acquisition, management, and sharing of mobility apps, (b) the sharing and coupling of traffic and mobility simulations, and (c) the delivery of smart mobility services for improving the quality and safety of the transportation system.
We welcome research papers from computer sciences, geosciences, geographic information science, transportation sciences, urban sciences, social sciences and other related sciences which address the above-mentioned focus areas. We will be organizing a panel alongside paper presentations / keynote. We seek to invite eminent people from industry, academia, and laboratories. We are offering IWCTS awards to the presentation and paper with the top quality and impact.

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Organizers

Dr. Andy Berres Research Scientist, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Dr. Femi A Omitaomu Senior R&D Staff, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Dr. Haowen Xu Research Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Computational Urban Sciences Group (CUSG), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)


Program Committee

IWCTS has developed an engaged community happy to support this workshop. We will go back to the PC members of previous workshops. Previous year’s workshop had an excellent number of 14 PC members. We will go back to the PC members of previous workshops as well as involve other experts in the field to expand the IWCTS community. The following PC members have already confirmed their availability:
Dr. Jibonananda Sanyal National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Dr. Ambarish Nag National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Dr. Qichao Wang National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Dr. Joe Severino National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Dr. Chieh Ross Wang Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dr. Tim LaClair Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dr. Jinghui Yuan Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dr. Gautam Thakur Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dr. Jackeline Rios Torres Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dr. Wan Li Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dr. Abhishek V Potnis Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dr. Xiao Li University of Oxford

Prof. Xiao Huang University of Arkansas
Prof. Husain Aziz Kansas State University
Prof. Vikash Gayah Penn State University
Dr. Qixing Wang University of Connecticut
Dr. Yunhe Cui University of Connecticut

PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

  • Full papers (up to 10 pages): Original, unpublished research papers which belong to the scope of the workshop, i.e. computational transportation science and are not being considered for publication in any other forum.
  • Short papers and Position Papers (up to 4 pages): Papers describing the early research results on original work on computational transportation science. Authors must clearly state the ongoing and future work and the relevance of the results presented in the context of the scope of this workshop.
  • Demo Papers (up to 4 pages): Describing original systems for demonstration/presentation at the conference.

Papers must be in ACM SIG format (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) (US Letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures and references. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM digital library under the condition that at least one author has registered for both the main SIGSPATIAL conference and the workshop, attends the workshop, and presents the accepted paper in the workshop. Otherwise, the accepted paper will not appear in the workshop proceedings or in the ACM Digital Library version of the workshop proceedings.

Please submit your papers to - https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwcts2023

Camera-ready Paper Submission

There are three important things to make sure while preparing the camera ready papers for the workshop:

  1. Authors must address all the comments and concerns from the reviewers.
  2. Authors must follow the instructions for preparing the camera ready paper 
  3. Providing copyright to ACM.

Deadline for submitting Camera-ready paper is October 1st, 2023.

Step-by-step procedure:

  1. Obtaining copyright block to be included in the camera-ready paper
    1. IWCTS workshop organizers have sent the metadata of the accepted papers to ACM for collecting copyright from authors
    2. Authors of workshop papers will receive the instructions for electronically sending the copyright release forms to acm. Let us know if you won't hear back from ACM by Oct 12. 
    3. Authors have to send copy-right form to ACM following the instructions.
    4. Authors will receive the confirmation e-mail from ACM including the correct ACM copyright block they have to edit in their camera-ready paper.
  2. Prepare and finalize the camera-ready paper and send them following the instructions they receive from the workshop organizers. The following is the checklist before you submit the final version:
    • a) is paper in PDF format?
    • b) is page size US-Letter 8.5x11?
    • c) is correct copyright block present with ISBN/YY/MM and copyright fee?
    • d) is the correct location, year present in copyright block?
    • e) ensure that there are no page numbers
  3. Submission of the Camera-ready paper: We have enabled the link on the easy chair submission portal to update the submission. You can upload the camera-ready paper there. For any reason, if you are not able to upload the camera-ready paper. You can send it to this email:iwcts@ornl.gov

Please direct any questions regarding Camera-ready submission to  iwcts@ornl.gov

  • Paper Submission Due: August 28th, 2023 11:59pm PDT (AoE) September 15th, 2023 11:59pm PDT (AoE)
  • Review Deadline: September 22th, 2023
    • September 28th, 2023
  • Notification to the Authors: September 25th, 2023
  • Camera Ready Papers Due: October 2nd, 2023
  • IWCTS Workshop: November 13th, 2023
  • ACM SIGSPATIAL Conference: November 13th – November 16th, 2023