CALL FOR PAPERS

CASPT 2006

10th International Conference on Computer-Aided Scheduling of Public Transport

Leeds, U.K., June 21 - 23, 2006

(Previous events: San Diego, 2004, Berlin, 2000, Boston, 1997, Lisbon, 1993, Montreal, 1990, Hamburg, 1987, Montreal, 1983, Leeds, 1980, Chicago, 1975)

This conference is the tenth in a series of conferences that serve as a forum for an international community of researchers, practitioners and vendors on all aspects of computer-aided planning, scheduling and controlling passenger transport.

CASPT is a traditional scientific program that covers significant contributions to the theory and application of public transport planning and scheduling. CASPT will encourage not only the generation of new ideas, but will also motivate a productive collaboration between the participants.
The themes of the conference include (but are not limited to):

Network and route planning
Timetables planning and generation
Vehicle (bus, train, tram, ferry, ...) scheduling
Driver and crew scheduling
Rostering
Operations monitoring, control and management
Passenger information and trip planning
Practical experiences and case studies
Commercial packages

Submissions:

Authors are invited to submit presentations in one of two categories:

(a) Full Papers

Authors should submit papers describing significant, original and unpublished work. Such papers are expected to be approximately 10-20 pages in length but this guideline is not strict. These papers will be fully refereed by the programme committee.

(b) Abstracts

Abstracts of up to 1000 words in length (2-4 pages) can be submitted by those who wish to give a talk but do not want to write an academic paper.
Abstracts will be fully refereed.

Paper formats, style and submission process

Post conference publications:

We are planning, as in previous conferences of the series, to publish a post conference volume of selected papers. Previous volumes were published by Springer. The second round of refereeing for this volume will take place shortly after the conference. Authors of accepted abstracts will have the opportunity to write a paper (based on their abstract) and submit it for the selected papers volume.

Deadlines:

Paper/abstract submissions	January 10, 2006
Notification	February 20, 2006

Programme Committee:

Raymond Kwan (United Kingdom) - Conference Chair
Avi Ceder (Israel)
Joachim R. Daduna (Germany)
Mark Hickman (USA)
Hong Lo (Hong Kong)
Pitu Mirchandani (USA)
Jean-Marc Rousseau (Canada)
Paolo Toth (Italy)
Stefan Voss (Germany)
Nigel H.M. Wilson (USA)

For more information, contact:

Raymond Kwan
School of Computing
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
United Kingdom
e-mail: rsk@comp.leeds.ac.uk

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