Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe Technik und Umwelt Institut für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse (ITAS)
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Ankündigung

First Announcement
9^th IFAC Symposium on Control in
Transportation Systems 2000
Braunschweig, Germany, June 13-15, 2000

Scope

The Symposium covers the system & control aspects of all transportation modes (road, public, rail, air, maritime and multimodal modes) for all purposes (passenger, goods, material). It will host a variety of contributed, invited and plenary papers from academia, traffic administrators and operators, industry and licensing authorities. It will cover theoretical and methodological results, recent research, future trends, practical operation and evaluation of transportation systems.

Functional aspects cover primarily methodological problems and solutions related to

• planning/scheduling;
• management/supervision;
• operating system;
• architecture;
• modelling;
• simulation;
• control methods and optimization;
• application/equipment;
• sensors/measurement/estimation;
• MMI;
• RAMS/dependability/safety;
• communication/telematics;
• navigation/location;
• economics/socials.

Traffic mode aspects in application areas

• guided systems traffic;
• road traffic;
• marine traffic;
• air traffic;
• multimodal traffic.

The official language of the symposium is English.