It is our great pleasure to welcome you all to the 19th COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals (CICTP 2019) in Nanjing, China. The CICTP2019 is jointly organized by Chinese Overseas Transportation Association (COTA), Southeast University, and Jiaotong International Cooperation Service Center of Ministry of Transport. The CICTP annual conference series was established by COTA back in 2001 and in the past two decades benefited from support from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Transportation Research Board (TRB), and many other organizations and partners.
We are pleased to announce that the CICTP2019 received a large number of high-quality technical contributions: among the nearly 1,200 paper submissions, a total of 500 full papers were accepted for publication in the proceedings. These published papers went through a rigorous technical review and English editing process for quality assurance. Centering around the theme “Transportation in China 2025: Connecting the World”, the CICTP2019 proceedings papers address a wide range of topics. We hope the research and studies gathered in this conference will contribute to solving future needs of a multimodal transportation system, and help to advance transportation sustainability, energy independence, economic vitality, and quality of life. CICTP2019 will issue several awards, including Best Papers, Outstanding Area Editors, and Outstanding English Editing Chairs, to recognize the authors, reviewers and editors’ contributions and their dedication to the conference and transportation research and practice in general. The authors of selected papers will also be invited to submit their papers to three journal special issues in Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, IET Intelligent Transportation Systems, and Journal of Transport and Land Use.
CICTP2019, the highest-quality, comprehensive transportation conference in China, has attracted more than 1500 participants internationally from countries and regions all over the world, including mainland China, United States of America, Hong Kong, Canada, Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom, Sweden, India, Japan, Belgium, Switzerland and more. Nearly fifty conference sessions such as plenary, invited, and technical sessions,
as well as special forums are organized this year. All accepted papers are presented at
the conference in podium or poster sessions. The CICTP2019 Executive and Organizing Committee has invited more than 40 internationally recognized, prestigious experts and scholars to deliver talks in keynote and plenary sessions. These invitees will share their insights, thoughts, visions, and experiences on a variety of current practices and state-of-the-art research topics. More than 50 additional internationally recognized researchers and practitioners are also invited to present recent research findings and best practices at CICTP 2019.
CICTP2019 special forums will focus on issues that are of interest to our attendees, including Government Forum for Transportation Policy, World Bank Transportation Development Forum, Deans’ Forum for Chinese University Transportation Schools, and COTA Professional Development Forum for Young Scholars and Students. COTA will also present professional awards such as COTA life-time achievement award, outstanding leadership award, and/or outstanding service award, will be granted to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the development of transportation systems
in China and internationally. The 9th China Transportation Research and Technology Exhibition will be also held in conjunction with CICTP2019 to showcase the latest achievements of research and practices, which include the exhibition of innovative and creative research results by companies, agencies, researchers, and graduate students.
On behalf of the CICTP 2019 Organizing Council, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to all authors and conference participants for their great contributions. We
are grateful to all paper reviewers and English editors for their excellent efforts. Special thanks go to Southeast University, COTA members including COTA Board of Directors, and Jiaotong International Cooperation Service Center staffs for their generous support to the conference and offering their time and efforts. Last but not least, we also wish to thank all conference committee members, sponsors, invited speakers, session chairs, conference staff members, and volunteers for their hard work that make CICTP 2019 a great success!
The CICTP conference series have been an open, high-quality, and inclusive platform for information exchange, experience sharing, and professional networking over the past nineteen years. We hope that you will enjoy the technical and social activities of this year’s conference and that you will also find time to explore Nanjing, the capital of China’s Jiangsu Province.
