Sustainable Mobility: Challenges and Opportunities of Intelligent Transportation Systems
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 499
Special Issue Editor
Interests: intelligent transportation systems; artificial intelligence techniques for transportation planning; optimization and operations research models for transportation and logistics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the last decade, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) have obtained a central role in developing new sustainable transport solutions mainly due to the great advances made in their cooperative form (C-ITS). Different fields of expertise are involved in ITS development: from electronics to computer engineering, from automation to management and transportation engineering. All the involved fields, not limited to those previously mentioned, already started a constructive cooperation in proposing and developing new approaches and technologies for increasing ITS effectiveness in improving people and goods mobility to achieve sustainable global targets.
In 2019, the European Commission published its report on the ex-post evaluation of the first years of the ITS Directive 2010/40/EU implementation, where some opportunities and challenges arise for ITS adoption and deployment. Among these, the main open challenges refer to increasing interoperability by developing new ITS services, reduction of fatalities and injuries, decarbonization and improved efficiency in infrastructure usage, public transport promotion and automation, e-privacy and cybersecurity improvement and regulation. Although many opportunities introduced by existing ITS solutions provide a good base in facing all previous challenges, new ones should be afforded for country governments to speed up the transportation innovation process. Moreover, according to the recent and continuing advances in technologies and modeling approaches, new integrated frameworks should be investigated to improve interoperability between ITS components and infrastructures.
This Special Issue aims to gather significant contributions that cover almost all the research fields and subjects involved in ITS development such as the following:
- advanced and automated public transport systems
- ITS for traffic safety and security
- smart infrastructures and asset management
- traffic (big) data management and cybersecurity
- ITS for shared mobility
- interoperability in MaaS (Mobility-as-a-Service) and LaaS (Logistics-as-a-Service)
- e-freight and fleet management in urban areas
Original contributions proposing new insights in this context but not limited to the previously suggested subjects, including real test cases and review papers, are strongly encouraged.
Prof. Dr. Mario Marinelli
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- intelligent transportation systems
- smart mobility
- automated public transport
- smart infrastructures
- traffic big data
- shared mobility
- cybersecurity
- mobility-as-a-service
- logistics-as-a-service
- e-freight
