交通研究C部分的重點是高質量的學術研究，它涉及交通領域中來自運籌學、計算機科學、電子、控制系統、人工智能和電信等領域的新興技術的發展、應用和影響。其興趣不在于單個技術或方法本身，而在于它們對交通系統、服務和組件的規劃、設計、運行、控制、管理、維護和修復的最終影響。特別值得關注的是新興技術對運輸系統性能的影響，包括服務水平、容量、安全性、可靠性、資源消耗和環境、經濟和金融、隱私、標準和責任。第C部分鼓勵在以下運輸領域提交：新興技術對所有模式和聯運的影響；智能運輸系統；實時操作；物流；資源管理；消費者/旅行者采用、接受和使用新技術；基礎設施應用新興技術的數量。

The focus of Transportation Research-Part C is high-quality, scholarly research that addresses development, applications, and implications, in the field of transportation, of emerging technologies from such fields as operations research, computer science, electronics, control systems, artificial intelligence, and telecommunications, among others. The interest is not in the individual technologies or methodologies per se, but in their ultimate implications for the planning, design, operation, control, management, maintenance and rehabilitation of transportation systems, services and components.Of particular interest are the impacts of emerging technologies on transportation system performance, in terms of level of service, capacity, safety, reliability, resource consumption and the environment, economics and finance, privacy, standards, and liability. Submissions in the following areas of transportation are encouraged by Part C: the impact of emerging technologies for all modes and for intermodal transportation; intelligent transportation systems; real-time operations; logistics; resource management; consumer/traveler adoption, acceptance and usage of new technologies; infrastructure applications of emerging technologies.