The year 2023 marks the 30th Anniversary of Transportation Research: Part C (TR_C) journal. To commemorate this important milestone, a special event is organized on September 2-4, 2024, at the prestigious venue of the Cultural Conference Center of Heraklion in Crete, Greece.

The focus of the symposium is high-quality, scholarly research that addresses development, applications, and implications, in the field of transportation systems and emerging technologies. The interest is not in the individual technologies per se but in their ultimate implications for the planning, design, operation, control, maintenance, and rehabilitation of transportation systems, services, and components. In other words, the intellectual core of the symposium is on the transportation side, not on the technology side. The integration of quantitative methods from fields such as operations research, control systems, complex networks, computer science, and artificial intelligence is encouraged. Of particular interest are the impacts of emerging technologies on transportation system performance, in terms of monitoring, efficiency, safety, reliability, resource consumption, and the environment.