The 2^nd International Conference on Transportation Information and Safety (ICTIS 2013)

WUHAN, CHINA

June 28-July 1, 2013

The 2^nd International Conference on Transportation Information and Safety (ICTIS 2013) was sponsored by Wuhan University of Technology, co-sponsored by China Communications and Transportation Association (CCTA), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE). The conference was held at the Holiday Inn Riverside Wuhan. The theme of ICTIS 2013 is “Transportation Safety in the Age of Internet of Things”, which includes a broad range of topics related to the theories, technologies and applications in transportation safety and information technology. More than 280 experts and scholars of transportation field from 15 countries and regions participated the academic events.

The conference received a total of 494 academic abstracts from domestic and foreign, and nearly 400 effective full manuscripts. 75 domestic and foreign experts were arranged for over 700 peered paper reviewers. Finally the conference proceedings included a total of 355 papers from fifteen countries and regions. At the end of November 2013, all 339 papers published in the "Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Transportation Information and Safety" (ISBN 9780784413036) were indexed by EI.

The conference lasted three days. On June 29th, there were 3 plenary sessions, a total of 10 domestic and foreign experts made keynote speeches. On the second and third days, there were 12 technical sessions, consists of a total of 24 invited speeches and 113 academic reports. The conference gives a good communication on transportation information and safety.