"Mathematical Foundations for Trustworthy AI Applications in Transportation Systems"

Call for Papers-"Mathematical Foundations for Trustworthy AI Applications in Transportation Systems"

Journal: Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Publisher: Elsevier

Submission Deadline: 01 Dec 2026

Key Requirements:

• Methodological or theoretical contribution required; purely empirical AI applications are out of scope.

• Trustworthy AI emphasis: safe, secure, resilient, accountable, transparent, interpretable, privacy-enhanced, and fair.

• Transportation systems focus across any mode is welcome.

Overview

This special issue seeks original research that strengthens the mathematical foundations of AI in transportation. It emphasizes rigorous theory, novel formulations, foundational algorithms, and provable guarantees that help AI systems become reliable and trustworthy in safety-critical transport settings. The issue is especially interested in work that links AI with transportation-specific structures such as traffic flow, queuing, network constraints, route choice, and behavior theory.

Key Research Themes

• Physics-informed and theory-guided AI models for transportation problems.

• New optimization, learning, and reinforcement learning algorithms with provable properties.

• Equilibrium and game-theoretic foundations for AI-driven transportation systems.

• Statistical and learning-theoretic foundations such as generalization, sample complexity, identifiability, and stability.

• Formal guarantees for fairness, explainability, verification, validation, and certification.

Submission Details

• Submit electronically through the TRB online submission system.

• Select “Math AI for Transport Sys” at the article type step.

• Follow the journal’s Guide for Authors carefully.

• The special issue welcomes all transportation modes and systems.

Guest Editors

• Lili Du

• Zhiwei Chen

• Neda Masoud

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