"Higher-Order Network Representations and Modeling Methods for Transportation Resilience"

Call for Papers-"Higher-Order Network Representations and Modeling Methods for Transportation Resilience"

Journal: Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Publisher: Elsevier

Submission Deadline: 14 Mar 2027

Key Requirements:

• Higher-order network methods are central to the issue.

• Focus on transportation resilience across road, rail, sea, air, and multimodal systems.

• Work should address theoretical, methodological, or applied resilience analysis using higher-order representations.

Detailed Overview

This special issue examines how transportation systems respond to disruptions such as extreme weather, infrastructure failures, operational incidents, and demand shocks. It emphasizes that traditional pairwise network models are often too limited to capture group interactions, interdependencies, and recovery dynamics. The issue welcomes research on hypergraphs, simplicial complexes, multilayer systems, temporal networks, optimization, and other higher-order methods that improve vulnerability, robustness, degradation, and recovery analysis.

Key Research Themes

• Higher-order representations of transportation systems.

• Hypergraph and simplicial complex models.

• Multilayer and interdependent transportation networks.

• High-order interactions among traffic flows, vehicles, and passengers.

• Vulnerability, robustness, degradation, and recovery processes.

• Data-driven construction of higher-order networks.

• Temporal and dynamic higher-order networks.

• Resilience metrics and resilience-oriented planning.

• Multimodal and cross-scale resilience analysis.

• Comparison of low-order and high-order models.

Submission Details

• Submit through the TRB online submission system.

• Select “VSI: Networks and Resilience” at the article type step.

• Follow the journal’s Guide for Authors.

• The issue covers rail, road, air, maritime, and other transport modes.

Guest Editors

• Professor Xin Yang

• Professor Anthony Chen

• Professor Roel Leus

• Associate Professor Jianxi Gao

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