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Call for Papers
Special Issue: Operations Research for
Transportation and Sustainable Development
Journal of Advanced Transportation
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 health care 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
Department of Economics and Business
R. Trias Fargas 25-27 | 08005 Barcelona, Spain
http://lena.upf.edu/