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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS, VOL. 15, NO. 6, DECEMBER 2014 2353 Scanning the Issue and Beyond: The T-ITS Awards and Future Transportation I have several happy announcements in this letter! First off, Optimal Scheduling for Highway Emergency Repairs this issue marks the successful first year of our Transactions Under Large-Scale Supply–Demand Perturbations in the new format and schedule, and second, I am very glad S. Yan, J. C. Chu, and Y.-L. Shih to let everyone know we plan on expanding the Transactions A model for emergency repair problems under large-scale further from a bi-monthly to a monthly publication in 2016, supply–demand perturbations is developed. First, a novel as suggested in the ExCom and BoG meetings of the IEEE time–space network flow technique is adopted to generate de- Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS) during the tailed schedules for repair teams and allow dynamic updates of October 2014 International IEEE Intelligent Transportation the network due to perturbations. Second, the original schedules Systems Conference (ITSC) in Qingdao, China. As the Co- prior to the perturbations are considered by controlling its General Chair of the 17th IEEE ITSC, I am very proud to total difference with the adjusted schedule. Third, the model inform everyone that this is a record-breaking event in confer- is formulated with different levels of detail. An ant colony ence history, an exciting reflection of how fast ITS research system-based hybrid global search algorithm is developed to is growing and developing.