The 18th COTA conference International Conference of Transportation Professionals (CICTP2018) will be held during July 5-8, 2018, in Beijing, China, jointly organized by Chinese Overseas Transportation Association (COTA) and Tsinghua University (THU). As the hosts and organizers of CICTP2018, COTA and THU invite submissions of original research and innovative practice from both researchers and practitioners. CICTP2018 will address challenges and opportunities emerging from the development of new technologies. Transportation research that supports the exploration of intelligence connection and mobility is especially encouraged. The conference will host a series of technical sessions, plenary sessions, and special forums, including the World Bank Forum, the Dean’s Forum, and COTA Career Development Forum for Young Scholars and Students. The best-paper awards and other professional awards will be granted to the authors of excellent papers or institutes/enterprises which have made outstanding contributions to the development of transportation systems in China.

Highlight Events of CICTP 2018:

• Dean Summit
• Young Scholar Forum
• World Bank Forum
• Meet the Journal Editor-in-Chiefs
• Keynote Speech on Intelligence, Connection, and Mobility
• Career Development Forum for Young Faculty and Postdocs
• Traffic Big Data Forum
• Electrification of Transportation System
• Future Transportation System Forum
• Green & Shareing Transportation System Forum

Conference Spotlight Theme: Intelligence, Connection, and Mobility

Areas

We welcome any topics in the following areas, but not limited to:

• Intelligent and Connected Transportation Systems (ITS)
• Autonomous and Connected Vehicles
• Electrification of Transportation
• Smart Mobility and Shared Economy
• Pavement and Materials Engineering, and Highway Construction and Maintenance
• Public Transit
• Rail Operations, Management and Control
• Logistics and Freight Transportation
• Road Traffic Operations, Management, and Control
• Transportation Policy, Planning and Modeling
• Traffic Safety, Security and Emergency Responses
• Transportation Energy, Environment and Sustainability
• Transportation Cloud, Data Mining and Applications
• V2X Technologies

Abstract Submission

The online abstract submission opens via the CICTP2018 conference website at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CICTP2018. The abstract, no more than 300 words, must be written in English and include the paper title, the names of authors and their affiliations as well as no more than five keywords.

Important Dates

Proceedings and Publication

The conference proceedings will be published and indexed via the EI Compendex. Selected papers from previous CICTPs have been invited to submit to special issues of SCI-indexed journals such as IET Intelligent Transportation Systems Journal, ASCE Journal of Urban Planning and Development, Transportation Research Part C and Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems. We plan to continue this tradition and seek to publish special journal issues for CICTP2018 on internationally recognized journals, including:

• ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering
• ASCE Journal of Urban Planning and Development
• Transportation Research (Part A through C)
• Journal of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles

Conference Sponsors

Transportation and Development Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), USA

Transportation Research Board (TRB), USA

Contact Information

For more information about CICTP 2018. please visit the conference website through (http://cota-home.org/cictp/cictp2018.html. Questions about this conference should be directed to

Tsinghua University: Dr. Diange Yang (ydg@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn)
COTA: Dr. Xiaokun (Cara) Wang (wangx18@rpi.edu)
or Dr. Yu Zhang (yuzhang@usf.edu).