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AI-Enabled Sustainable and Resilient Intelligent Transportation Systems for Smart Cities

edited by

Zhen Liu

, Yang Liu,

Tongfei Li

and

Yuyan Pan

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4454 | Submission Open

Keywords: intelligent transportation systems; cooperative vehicle–infrastructure systems; autonomous driving; traffic flow prediction; data-driven urban mobility; sustainable transportation; accessibility; mobility equity; smart cities; urban resilience

(This special issue belongs to the Section Smart Urban Mobility, Transport, and Logistics)

Smart Sustainable Cities: Pioneering Novel Frontiers for Green Urban Living

edited by

Luis M. Fernández-Ramírez

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 8 articles | Viewed by 11861 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart energy; smart mobility; sustainable infrastructure; urban operations; digital innovation; community well-being

New Trends in eHealth Technologies for Smart Cities

edited by

Javier Prieto

Soumya Prakash Rana

and

Marco Zurdo-Tabernero

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1630 | Submission Open

Keywords: eHealth; eHealth IoT connectivity; artificial intelligence for eHealth; healthcare resource optimization; epidemic modeling; urban health analytics

Energy Strategies of Smart Cities, 2nd Edition

edited by

George Cristian Lazaroiu

Mariacristina Roscia

and

Daniel G. Costa

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 7810 | Submission Open

Keywords: energy strategy; smart cities; technical innovation; engineering development; artificial-intelligence-driven energy systems; policy strategies; urban planning; sustainable development; climate change; Internet of Things; data management; business cases; social behavior; inclusive innovation; interdisciplinary development; governance frameworks

(This special issue belongs to the Section Smart Urban Energies and Integrated Systems)

Sustainable Mobility in Smart Cities: Advancing Accessibility, Efficiency, and Equity

edited by

Antonio Polimeni

, Massimo Di Gangi and

Orlando M. Belcore

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2145 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart cities; ICT; ITS; micromobility; transport models; urban planning; sustainable development

(This special issue belongs to the Section Smart Urban Mobility, Transport, and Logistics)

Spatiotemporal Intelligence in Smart Cities

edited by Guangyin Jin and Yuxuan Liang

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 398 | Submission Open

Keywords: spatiotemporal intelligence; urban computing; urban dynamics; big data mining

(This special issue belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence and LLM Agents for Data-Driven Decisions in Smart Cities)

Smart Mobility: Linking Research, Regulation, Innovation and Practice

edited by

Sara Guerra De Oliveira

and

Andrej Tibaut

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 17206 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart cities; information and communication technology (ICT); regulatory frameworks and standardisation; urban mobility planning; transportation technologies; data interoperability and integration; cooperative intelligent transportation systems (C-ITSs); mobility as a service (MaaS); Cloud of Things (CoT)

Leveraging AI and Deep Learning for Smart Cities: Challenges, Opportunities, and Applications to Sustainable Development

edited by

Rachid Belaroussi

Nuno Datia

and

Javier J. Sanchez-Medina

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7115 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence (AI); sustainable development goals (SDGs); deep learning; Internet of Things; big data analytics; computer vision; large language model; generative and agentic AI applications; ethical challenges

Beyond Inclusive Smart Cities: Toward Collective Urban Intelligence

edited by

Pieter van Wesemael

and

Cem Ataman

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 276 | Submission Open

Keywords: inclusive smart cities; collective urban intelligence; computational urbanism; urban informatics; artificial intelligence; machine learning; urban data analytics; digital twins; participatory planning; digital participation; digital urban commons; collective governance; systems thinking; inclusive complex systems; sustainability; resilience; more-than-human urban systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence and LLM Agents for Data-Driven Decisions in Smart Cities)

Last-Mile Delivery Innovations in Smart Cities

edited by

Wei Yue

and Lei Zhu

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 267 | Submission Open

Keywords: last-mile delivery; smart cities; urban logistics; autonomous vehicles; drone delivery; e-commerce logistics; intelligent transportation systems; sustainable freight; crowd-shipping; smart lockers; real-time optimization; urban mobility

(This special issue belongs to the Section Smart Urban Mobility, Transport, and Logistics)

Innovative IoT Solutions for Sustainable Smart Cities

edited by

Giancarlo Nota

and

Giancarlo Fortino

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4588 | Submission Open

Keywords: IoT e CPSS for sustainable smart cities; mobility as a service; cultural heritage; smart energy; smart healthcare; environmental sustainability; cybersecurity

Cost-Effective Transportation Planning for Smart Cities, 2nd Edition

edited by

Cristian Poliziani

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1712 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart cities; transportation systems; transportation planning; cost–effective; accessibility; affordability; air quality; energy use; resilience; shared mobility; public transit; freight mobility; multimodal integration; simulation; optimization; transportation digital twins; artificial intelligence; transport demand management; connected and automated mobility; alternative fuels; telecommuting; agent-based modeling; economic analysis; transport policy; first and last mile connectivity; curb management; pricing strategies; active modes

(This special issue belongs to the Section Smart Urban Mobility, Transport, and Logistics)

Large Language Models for Intelligent Urban Digital Twins: Spatiotemporal Reasoning, Knowledge Graphs, and Simulation

edited by Xi Kuai, Biao He,

Minmin Li

and Haojia Lin

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 524 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban digital twins; large language models; spatiotemporal reasoning; knowledge graphs; urban simulation; scenario deduction; urban intelligence; geospatial AI; city information modeling; urban computing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Digital Twins and Urban Informatics)

Advances in Edge and Urban Computing for Smart Cities

edited by

Pietro Battistoni

and

Michele Grimaldi

submission deadline 28 Feb 2027 | Viewed by 230 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban computing; edge computing; smart cities; Internet of Things; machine learning at the edge; digital twin; urban sensing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things, Computing, and Communications Technologies in Smart Cities)

Smart Grids and Microgrids for Smart Cities: Integration and Optimization

edited by

Carlos León de Mora

and

Sebastian Garcia

submission deadline 28 Feb 2027 | Viewed by 142 | Submission Open

Keywords: microgrids; distributed energy resources (DERs); distribution networks; grid optimization; smart cities

(This special issue belongs to the Section Smart Urban Energies and Integrated Systems)

Paving the Future: Sustainable Road Design and Urban Mobility in Smart Cities, 2nd Edition

edited by

Maria Luisa Tumminello

Elżbieta Macioszek

Anna Granà

and

Tullio Giuffrè

submission deadline 31 Mar 2027 | 7 articles | Viewed by 10052 | Submission Open

Keywords: road design; urban mobility; sustainable transportation; road safety; shared mobility; microscopic traffic simulation modeling; LCA; road economy; traffic management; vulnerable road users; fuel consumption and emissions; energy saving solutions; connected and automated vehicles; intelligent transport systems (ITS); smart cities; smart traffic calming measures; road resilience; pedestrian safety

(This special issue belongs to the Section Smart Urban Mobility, Transport, and Logistics)

Advanced Risk Assessments for Resilient Smart Cities

edited by

Tsunhua Yang

and Pete Cheng-Chia Huang

submission deadline 31 Mar 2027 | Viewed by 136 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change adaptation; disaster risk reduction (DRR); urban resilience; natural hazard modeling; early warning systems; smart infrastructure; digital twins; extreme weather mitigation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Resilient Smart Cities)

Urban Foundation Models for Smart Cities: Theories, Methods, and Applications

edited by Jinzhou Cao,

Tianhong Zhao

and Bowen Zhang

submission deadline 31 Mar 2027 | Viewed by 92 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban foundation models; smart cities; spatiotemporal intelligence; urban big data; GeoAI; urban analytics; human mobility; multimodal representation learning; graph neural networks; large language models; urban informatics

Smart Urban Mobility and Its Coupling with Urban Energy Systems

edited by Xiaodan Shi and

Pei Huang

submission deadline 30 Apr 2027 | Submission Open

Keywords: mobility generation; energy systems; smart cities; articifical intelligence; digital twins; sector coupling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Smart Urban Mobility, Transport, and Logistics)

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