ACM Launches Journal on Autonomous Transportation Systems

The potential of autonomous cars, buses and trucks to revolutionize transportation and society is one of the most anticipated subjects in technology. Several companies have already developed working prototypes of autonomous vehicles and billions of dollars have been invested in research and development. At the same time, important challenges remain in the effort to bring autonomous transportation to the general public.

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, announced it is now accepting submissions for a new publication, the ACM Journal on Autonomous Transportation Systems (JATS). In launching the new journal, the ACM JATS editorial team recognizes that the area of autonomous transportation systems is at a critical point where issues related to data, models, computation, and scale are increasingly important. Based on the significant growth in research activity around autonomous transportation in areas including computer science, electrical engineering, civil engineering, sensor technology, and artificial intelligence, the new journal is envisioned as a timely addition to the field.

The ACM Journal on Autonomous Transportation Systems aims to cover the topics in design, analysis, and control of autonomous transportation systems. The expected topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Data Science in autonomous transportation systems
• Communication and real-time control in connected transportation systems
• Smart traffic analysis, management, and control solutions
• Public transit planning and operation
• Algorithm design for autonomous transportation systems
• Mathematical modelling of traffic flow
• Computation in transportation networks
• Algorithms for urban and inter-city logistics systems
• The latest advances in unmanned aerial systems

For more details, see https://www.acm.org/media-center/2022/september/jats-launch