TPMDC 2024: 15th International Conference on Transportation Planning and Implementation Methodologies for Developing Countries Mumbai, India, December 18-20, 2024

The practical problems associated with transportation systems engineering in many developing countries including India and developed countries are different and complex. Therefore, researchers and agencies have been working to tackle these challenges and to identify implementable solutions for various transportation engineering related problems as per prevailing conditions. In this direction, TPMDC 2024 brings an ideal platform for researchers, practitioners, and agencies to share their experience and practical solutions to various transportation engineering problems. This conference invites extended abstract related to various themes under the umbrella of transportation systems engineering.

The TPMDC conference is being organized by the Transportation Systems Engineering (TSE) group of the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India. The TSE group started in 1988 and currently has ten faculty members and more than fifty graduate students, working in various research areas. The TPMDC workshop/conference started in 1996 and conducted biennially at IIT Bombay. The organizing committee has decided to organize the 15th version of TPMDC on 18 to 20 December 2024 at IIT Bombay, Mumbai (India).

The submissions are invited on the broad areas covering the following themes:

Track I: Transport Modes: General (Highways, Railways, Airways and Waterways)

This theme includes general aspects of all transport modes including air transport, rail-based transport, inland and international waterways, and non-motorized transport modes. The theme covers research on various topics such as air traffic control and management; port, harbor, and fleeting services; railway system planning, design, operation, and management; freight transportation and operations using rail, water, and air modes. Research on infrastructure planning and geometric design aspects of transportation projects are also included in this theme.

Track II: Pavement Systems Engineering

This theme will focus on all aspects of material characterization, analysis, design, construction, evaluation, and maintenance of pavement structures. These aspects include broad areas of characterization of conventional and innovative pavement materials; pavement material modelling; pavement recycling; stabilization of pavement layers; analysis and design of bituminous, concrete, composite, and other kinds of pavements; life cycle cost analysis; pavement maintenance and management systems; pavement drainage; airport pavements and railway track.

Track III: Transportation Planning, Policy and Economics

This theme includes research on theoretical and empirical aspects of travel demand and behavioral modelling and forecasting, network design for passenger and freight transport, planning of urban transport systems, and logistics planning. The theme covers several aspects of transportation economics such as public transport pricing, user impact of transport projects, cost benefit analysis and project evaluation, and transport as a means for economic development. The theme also includes research on transport policy analysis, and social equity in transport.

Track IV: Traffic Management, Operations, and Safety

This theme deals with traffic aspects of highways and urban roads such as traffic flow theory and modelling, traffic control and management, transport network analysis, operations and management of passenger and freight traffic, ICT for traffic systems. This theme also includes the various aspects of transport safety such as driver and infrastructural factors, externalities and policies for transport safety aspects, vulnerable road user safety, safety in public transit, and other modes of transport. The theme also covers topic on operations and management of public transport systems.

Track V: Emerging Transportation Technologies

This theme focuses on all aspects of technological advances in transportation systems. The topics broadly include battery and electric operated vehicles, connected and autonomous vehicles; internet of things, V2X communication, and intelligent transportation systems; technology enabled models for mobility services of passenger and freight transport; technology enabled multi-modal integration; robotics, artificial intelligence, human-machine interfaces, computer vision, image processing, and augmented reality in transportation; big data analytics for transportation.

Track VI: Sustainable Mobility in Transportation

This theme includes research related to environmental impact assessment of transport projects and mitigation strategies; various interactions between transport, health and associated policies; emissions from vehicles and other transport infrastructure; policies and planning for sustainability in transport systems; renewable energy applications in  transport sector; pollution and environmental issues of all transport modes; strategies, technological interventions, policies and management of sustainable and socially inclusive transport systems.

Note: Papers meeting the broad areas of the tracks would also be considered.

The submission guidelines are as follows:

The word template for paper submission can be found here.

The full paper length in the prescribed format should not exceed 15 pages. There are no restrictions on the tables and figures. However, the figures should be clearly visible (at least 300 dpi). Authors are requested to adhere to the given format for font size, line spacing, indentation, and table design.

Authors can use the above template and submit their full paper on the paper submission portal of TPMDC 2024.

The accepted papers will be invited to present at the TPMDC conference in December 2024, and further papers will be published in the conference proceedings. A few selected papers would be eligible for publication in the special issue, upon clearing the next rounds of review, if required.

For any other queries, please visit:

https://www.civil.iitb.ac.in/tpmdc/GuidelinesforPaper.php

or contact us at: 

tpmdc@civil.iitb.ac.in