Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies Special Issue: Advances in alternative fuel vehicle transportation systems

Guest Editors: Yongxi (Eric) Huang, Clemson University, USA, yxhuang@clemson.edumailto:yxhuang@clemson.edu Michael Kuby, Arizona State University, USA, mikekuby@asu.edumailto:mikekuby@asu.edu Joseph Y.J. Chow, Ryerson University, Canada, joseph.chow@ryerson.camailto:joseph.chow@ryerson.ca

Introduction The increasing pace of worldwide modernization and urbanization now requires the creation of more sustainable approaches to mitigate the effects of climate change and to manage large urban population centers. The transportation sector is facing a grand challenge regarding the evolution of new renewable energy sources to reduce the dependence on oil with a concurrent environmental stewardship. Recent technological advances in alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs) (e.g., electric, natural gas, biofuel, and hydrogen) lend evidence to that continuing evolution.

However, before AFVs can be widely adopted in the marketplace, several deficiencies in these systems must first be resolved. For example, more alternative fueling stations (AFSs) must be built to alleviate range anxiety. New routing and scheduling strategies must be designed for service fleets and public transit systems that employ AFV technologies. Complex (often dynamic and nonlinear) interactions between users, technologies, and the underlying economy need to be better understood. Technologies and systems solutions are thereby needed in order to better understand the interactions between infrastructure, vehicles, and the users.

Scope of the Special Issue

This special issue will be focused on new problem formulations, models, and more effective exact or approximate solution approaches. Potential topics could come from different aspects that include but are not limited to the following:

* AFS near-and-long term planning on network

* Alternative fuel transit system planning and operations

* Smart AFV routing strategies

* Interactions between users, technologies, and economy

* Integrated models to evaluate broad impacts of AFV technologies, e.g., transportation-energy-land use interactions

* Interaction of public and private sectors in driving the technologies to marketplace

* New business/operational models enabled by AFVs, e.g., vehicle-to-grid operations

Submission Method

All submissions will go through the journal's standard peer-review process. For guidelines to prepare your manuscript and for manuscript submission, please visit http://ees.elsevier.com/trc. When submitting your manuscript, please choose "SI: AFV transport systems" for "Article Type". This is to ensure that your submission will be considered for this special issue instead of being handled as a regular paper. All submissions will be subject to the journal's standard peer review process. Criteria for acceptance include originality, contribution, and scientific merit.

Important Dates

Submission website opens: January 5, 2015

Submission deadline of full paper online: April 5, 2015

Feedback from first-round reviews: July 15, 2015

Feedback from second-round reviews (if indicated): October 15, 2015

Final manuscripts due: December 15, 2015

Planned publication: 2016

Inquires

All inquiries regarding this call for papers should be directed to Guest Editors, Drs. Yongxi (Eric) Huang (yxhuang@clemson.edumailto:yxhuang@clemson.edu), Michael Kuby (mikekuby@asu.edumailto:mikekuby@asu.edu), and Joseph Chow (joseph.chow@ryerson.camailto:joseph.chow@ryerson.ca) or to the Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Yafeng Yin (yafeng@ce.ufl.edumailto:yafeng@ce.ufl.edu).

Michael Kuby, Professor School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-5302 480-965-6850 (phone) 480-965-8313 (fax) http://geoplan.asu.edu/kuby