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Virtual Special Issue:
A Deeper Look at Transportation Science by Topical Areas
Transportation Science celebrated its 50th anniversary with the publication of Transportation Science Classics. As we look forward to the next 50 years, we have introduced a new editorial structure by topical area to accommodate the significant growth in the journal. Transportation Science is now divided by topical areas: Logistics & Routing, led by Jean-Francois Cordeau and Barry Thomas; Modes & Industries, led by David Pisinger; Traffic, Demand & Network Analysis, led by Yafeng Yin; and Emerging & Cross-functional Topics, led by Ann Campbell. In this Virtual Special Issue, the Area Editors have selected papers from past Transportation Science issues to showcase the quality and breadth of research in their areas.
Logistics & Routing
Logistics and routing problems are a cornerstone of transportation science. The rapid pace of supply chain and transportation innovation offers significant opportunities for new advances and continued far reaching impact for logistics and routing research. The logistics and routing area features papers that advance models and solutions methods for classical and novel problems arising in vehicle routing, business logistics, and humanitarian logistics. Papers that study innovative applications in ways that advance the science of logistics and routing are also encouraged.
Offline–Online Approximate Dynamic Programming for Dynamic Vehicle Routing with Stochastic Requests
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An Inventory-Routing Problem with Pickups and Deliveries Arising in the Replenishment of Automated Teller Machines
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Modes & Industries
Researchers in transportation science have introduced models and methods that have significantly improved strategic, tactical, and operational decisions across the many modes and industries related to transportation globally. The modes and industries area focuses on research that is grounded in transportation modes or industries; e.g., aviation, rail, maritime, public transit. Included in this area is the study of the economics of transportation system supply and evaluation. While some problems are motivated by the characteristics of a specific mode or industry, others focus on features found across multiple modes or industries.
Traffic, Demand & Network Analysis
The study of human and vehicular traffic has always been at the core of transportation science, deepening our understanding of how travelers make choices and how they interact with a transportation facility or network, and how these interactions impact the performance of the facility or network. Human and vehicular traffic is being fundamentally changed by new technology, the availability of real time data and innovations to dynamically adjust systems to adapt to this data at a rapid pace. Papers in this area span the breadth of transportation systems analysis, vehicular and human traffic flow theories, traffic operations and management, network equilibrium and dynamics, and demand modeling and analysis.
A Fast Lax–Hopf Algorithm to Solve the Lighthill–Whitham–Richards Traffic Flow Model on Networks
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Emerging and Cross-functional Topics
Recognizing that many new and/or cross-functional areas of transportation science may not fit within the other areas, papers in this area represent emerging topics, as well as cross-functional applications and activities within transportation. Emerging topics are ones that have not yet been the topic of articles in Transportation Science, but are related to the topic of transportation. Cross-functional topics, by definition, are quite broad and varied, but challenge us to consider new perspectives on existing problems, new problems or solution methods involving features from multiple disciplines, and to examine the impact of various transportation policies on stakeholders.
Inventory-Allocation Distribution Models for Postdisaster Humanitarian Logistics with Explicit Consideration of Deprivation Costs
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Forecasting the Demand for Electric Vehicles: Accounting for Attitudes and Perceptions
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