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Call for Papers
Special Issue: Operations Research for Transportation and Sustainable
Development
Journal of Advanced Transportation (Hindawi-Wiley, Open Access)
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jat/si/627526/cfp/
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Sustainable development is the core principle for meeting human development
goals while at the same time sustaining the ability of systems to produce,
extract, process, or manufacture the natural resources and services upon
which the economy and society depend.
Transportation produces water, noise, and air contamination, being a large
contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. These environmental shortcomings
can be mitigated by considering and integrating sustainable social,
environmental, and economic goals that impact and accelerate green and
supportable development. Furthermore, sustainable transportation can be
viewed and integrated as an essential ingredient in sustainable development
strategies. Components for evaluating transport sustainability include
particular transportation means used for road, water, or air transport; the
way they are organized, the source of energy, and the infrastructure used
to accommodate the transport. In this context, optimization plays a
relevant role. Methods from operations research have been extensively used
to successfully deal with many of these challenges.
This special issue aims at examining the current progress, challenges, and
approaches in transportation to achieve a sustainable development through
optimization. Thus, the scope of this issue covers high-quality original
research and review articles focusing on the use of operations research
techniques (mathematical programming, metaheuristics, simulation-based
approaches, game theory, etc.) to deal with transportation for promoting a
sustainable development, mitigating the negative environmental impacts, and
identifying main opportunities to accelerate the transition to
sustainability.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
* Sustainable maritime, road, rail, air, and multimodal transportation by
using operations research techniques
* Addressing resilience and disruptions in transportation systems through
optimization
* Operations research for traffic flow systems and sustainable development
* Sustainable passenger transportation based on operations research
* Operations research for transportation management in healthcare and
disaster response
* Algorithmic and decision support systems for sustainable development in
transportation
* Mathematical modeling and optimization for sustainable development in
transportation
* Green and environmental operations research approaches for real-world
applications
Authors can submit their manuscripts through the Manuscript Tracking System
at https://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/jat/otsd/.
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Submission Deadline: Friday, 14 December 2018
Publication Date: May 2019
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Papers are published upon acceptance, regardless of the Special Issue
publication date.
Lead Guest Editor
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Jesica de Armas, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Guest Editors
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Helena Ramalhinho, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Eduardo Lalla-Ruiz, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
Belen M. Batista, Universidad de La Laguna, La Laguna, Spain
Marcos M. Vega, Universidad de La Laguna, La Laguna, Spain
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