Scope

The IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems covers fundamental and applied research on all scientific and technical aspects of modern transportation systems, including but not limited to sensing, communications, controls, planning, design, and implementation of intelligent transportation systems. It covers theory, methodologies, modeling and simulation, experimentation, and evaluations of transportation systems that include multi-modal transportation, surface transportation traffic, coordinated multiple vehicles, infrastructure, and other road users (pedestrians, bicyclists, etc.) and their interactions. The Transactions also serve as a forum for the design, analysis, and control of information technology as it is applied to transportation systems. Read more on IEEE Xplore.

Interested in submitting? See below for submission information. Topics covered include, but are not limited to, the following:

    Communications (intervehicle and vehicle-to-road- side)
    Computers (hardware, software)
    Control (adaptive, fuzzy, cooperative, neuro)
    Decision Systems (expert systems, intelligent agents)
    Systems (engineering, architecture, evaluation)
    Information Systems (databases, data fusion, security)
    Man-Machine Interfaces (displays, artificial speech)
    Imaging & Real-Time Image Analysis
    Sensors (infrastructure and vehicle-based)
    Simulation (continuous, discrete, real-time)
    Signal Processing
    Standards
    Reliability & Quality Assurance
    Technology Forecasting & Transfer

Special Issue on Advanced Air Mobility Integration into Multimodal Transportation Systems
Submission Date: 2025-02-01

The vision of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) consists of using novel aircraft technologies (from
small drones to larger air taxis) to safely and efficiently transport people and goods in urban,
suburban, and rural settings. However, to maximize utility, AAM cannot be a siloed mode of
transportation: It needs to integrate effectively and seamlessly with other modes of transportation.
AAM entails more coupling between aviation and the other modes of transportation, which
includes complementary (AAM and other modes) and competitive (AAM or other modes)
interoperability. The vision is to augment the gate-to-gate perspective towards that of a door-to-
door, passenger-centric perspective, ensuring that the ultimate goal of better people and package
mobility is achieved.

With AAM there is an opportunity to shift the paradigm towards a holistic total mobility perspective
from the onset to ensure its success. New cross-cutting research is needed to achieve this multi-
modal perspective, including infrastructure, logistics, operations, data fabrics, technologies and
automation, security, seamlessness, and resilience. To collect, curate, and disseminate the
latest, high-quality research related to multimodal transportation and AAM, a joint SI
spanning multiple journals covering aviation, intelligent transportation systems, and
operations research/modeling, anchored by a diverse set of guest editors, is proposed.
Submitted papers will be reviewed for publication in a coordinated, joint SI between:

• AIAA Journal of Air Transportation
o Link: https://arc.aiaa.org/journal/jat
o Submissions will be peer reviewed according to the usual standards of AIAA
Journal of Air Transportation, and should be submitted online at:
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/aiaa-jat

• IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
o Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/aboutJournal.jsp?punumber=6979
o Submission will be peer reviewed according to the usual standards at IEEE
Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, and should be submitted
online at: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/t-its

• INFORMS Transportation Science
o Link: https://pubsonline.informs.org/journal/trsc
o Submissions will be peer reviewed according to the usual standards of
Transportation Science, and should be submitted online via ScholarOne
Manuscripts at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/transci

Potential topics of interest
The following non-exhaustive list of topics are of particular interest, although the guest editors
welcome any high-quality submissions that fit under the theme of multimodal transportation and
AAM:
- Passenger-oriented end-to-end models
- Vehicle-oriented models (e.g., vehicle/crew/fuel connectivity)
- Multimodal data fabric and information sharing
- Multimodal measures and metrics
- Multimodal planning optimization
- Air-ground integration
- Integration of fleet, crew, and traffic management
- Resiliency through multimodal integration
- Seamlessness across modes
- Technology and autonomy enablers of multimodality
- Multimodal security challenges
- Developing/deploying multimodal testbeds
- Economics of multimodal AAM
- Policies and regulations related to multimodal AAM

Guidance on paper submission / venue selection

This joint SI on AAM and multimodal transportation is of direct interest to AIAA’s Journal of Air
Transportation (AIAA JAT) as the SI will help the air transportation community to be exposed to
and engaged with the transformational changes induced by AAM and its multi-modal implications.
The SI will motivate the air transportation community to expand the air transportation state of the
art into the multi-modal dimension by considering inter-operability with the other modes of
transportation. Submissions handled by AIAA JAT will focus on the implications of the multi-modal
interoperability on the theory, application, technologies, operations, economics and policies of air
transportation.

Additionally, this joint SI is of direct interest for Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
(IEEE T-ITS), given the need for research into the design/analysis/control of information
technology between AAM modalities and existing transportation modalities. Additional areas of
alignment include multi-way interactions between vehicles, humans, information technology, and
physical infrastructure. Submissions to be handled by T-ITS will have explicitly identified research
focused on the intersections of AAM, multimodal transportation, and intelligent transportation
systems.

Lastly, this joint SI on AAM and multimodal transportation is of direct interest to INFORMS’
Transportation Science (INFORMS TS) as the SI will bring its multi-disciplinary transportation
scientific community to the forefront of setting the scientific foundation in terms of operations
research, optimization, and operations management of the transformations induced by AAM and
its multi-modal characteristics. Fundamental theories in addition to experimental studies are
needed to handle the unprecedented levels of heterogeneity and complexity involved with the
AAM transportation mode and its integration with the other modes of transportation. Submissions
handled by INFORMS TS will center scientific contributions in the multi-modal transportation plus
AAM, integrating planning, optimization, economics, performance analysis, and social impacts.

Guest Editors
Husni Idris, NASA, husni.r.idris@nasa.gov
Max Li, University of Michigan, maxzli@umich.edu
Craig Wanke, MITRE, cwanke@mitre.org
Hani Mahmassani, Northwestern University, masmah@northwestern.edu
Hamsa Balakrishnan, MIT, hamsa@mit.edu

Timeline
Call for paper released June 1, 2024
First round submission deadline Feb 1, 2025
First round decisions May 2025
Revised manuscript deadline August 2025
Second/final decisions Oct 2025
Special issue publication End of 2025