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Vehicles, Volume 8, Issue 2

2026 February - 19 articles

Cover Story: Electric vehicles (EVs) can act as flexible energy resources for the electricity grid through vehicle‑to‑grid (V2G) technology. Using floating car data (FCD), this study identifies urban areas where EVs naturally park long enough to provide surplus energy. The available energy is estimated for each vehicle, and forecasting models—ARIMA (AutoRegressive Integrated Moving Average) and LSTM (Long Short‑Term Memory)—predict future grid support potential. The results show how data‑driven planning can enhance grid stability in medium‑sized cities. View this paper
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Articles (19)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,942 Views
22 Pages

Managing Design Variants in Formula Student Race Cars: A Digital Engineering Approach Across Multiple Teams

  • Julian Borowski,
  • Hinrich Emsmann,
  • Jannis Kneule,
  • Rico Ruess and
  • Stephan Rudolph

23 February 2026

Increasing product complexity, shorter development cycles and cross-domain integration demands pose significant challenges for modern race car engineering teams. In Formula Student teams, heterogeneous toolchains, manual data exchange, late system in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Vehicle Design Processes, 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,311 Views
39 Pages

FPGA Implementation and Performance Evaluation of Classic PID, IMC and DTC for BLDC Motor Control

  • Jaber Ouakrim,
  • Abdoulaye Bodian,
  • Dina Ouardani and
  • Alben Cardenas

22 February 2026

Brushless DC (BLDC) motors are widely used in mobile robotics and off-road vehicles due to their high efficiency, reliability, and compactness. However, achieving robust, high-performance speed control in embedded environments remains challenging due...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,312 Views
37 Pages

Autonomous Vehicles in the Traffic Ecosystem: A Comprehensive Review of Integration, Impacts, and Policy Implications

  • Eugen Valentin Butilă,
  • Gheorghe-Daniel Voinea,
  • Răzvan Gabriel Boboc and
  • Grigore Ambrosi

19 February 2026

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are expected to significantly influence road safety, traffic efficiency, and urban mobility. However, their real-world impacts depend not only on vehicle-level automation but also on interactions within the broader traffic e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Mobility and Sustainable Automotive Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,198 Views
35 Pages

18 February 2026

Tire blowouts represent one of the most hazardous fault scenarios for electric vehicles (EVs). While collaborative active steering control (ASC) and direct yaw moment control (DYC) can theoretically maintain stability during these events, the strong...

(This article belongs to the Topic Vehicle Dynamics and Control, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,683 Views
18 Pages

13 February 2026

Motorcyclists face a disproportionately high risk of severe injury or death compared to other road users, highlighting the need for intelligent rider assistance technologies. This paper presents an initial, modular, and interpretable AI pipeline that...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Road Safety, Aberrant Driver Behaviour and Sustainable Transportation Planning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
839 Views
30 Pages

Modeling and Optimization Research on the Location Selection of Taxi Charging Stations in Severe Cold Areas

  • Jiashuo Xu,
  • Chunguang He,
  • Ya Duan,
  • Yazan Mualla,
  • Mahjoub Dridi and
  • Abdeljalil Abbas-Turki

13 February 2026

Decarbonizing the transport sector is crucial for achieving global carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals. Electric taxis (e-taxis), which play a vital role in urban public transportation, are central to this transition. However, their operationa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Solutions and Technologies for Smart Mobility and Vehicle Safety in Transportation)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,753 Views
71 Pages

The Electric Vehicle Transition in Emerging Economies

  • Ibrahima Ka,
  • Ansoumana Noumou Djité,
  • Seynabou Anna Chimére Diop,
  • Godwin Kafui Ayetor and
  • Boucar Diouf

12 February 2026

The global shift toward electric mobility represents a cornerstone of sustainable energy transitions; however, developing countries face distinct structural, economic, and infrastructural challenges that constrain their participation in this transfor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Traffic and Mobility—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,201 Views
15 Pages

10 February 2026

Intelligent transportation systems (ITSs) are crucial for modern traffic management and law enforcement. This paper addresses the challenge of monitoring and managing extensive vehicle traffic in large cities like Lahore, Pakistan. We propose a deep...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Connected Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,279 Views
36 Pages

9 February 2026

This paper presents a hybrid qualitative–quantitative framework for assessing the technical feasibility and system readiness of emerging multimodal mobility concepts, with specific application to the Pods4Rail project. The methodology integrate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Solutions and Technologies for Smart Mobility and Vehicle Safety in Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,630 Views
21 Pages

7 February 2026

In electric vehicle and marine propulsion applications, the stable operation of permanent-magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drive systems relies on accurate rotor position information. Such information is typically obtained from position sensors, which...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Next-Generation Power Electronics and Charging Technologies for Electric Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,925 Views
26 Pages

6 February 2026

Electric scooters and other micromobility innovations are becoming standard fare in urban transportation networks. Yet there are several obstacles that must be overcome, including concerns about users’ satisfaction and safety. This study aimed...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,077 Views
30 Pages

Driving Simulator-Based Driving Behavioural Research: A Bibliometric and Narrative Review Providing Key Insights for New and Emerging Researchers

  • Muhammad Hussain,
  • Muladilijiang Baikejuli,
  • Jing Shi,
  • Amjad Pervez,
  • Matthew A. Albrecht,
  • Etikaf Hussain,
  • Razi Hasan and
  • Teresa Senserrick

6 February 2026

The driving simulator’s ability to provide practical, safe, and controlled environments has made it a widely used tool for evaluating driving behaviours in the realm of road safety. To consolidate the fragmented research in this area, this stud...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Road Safety, Aberrant Driver Behaviour and Sustainable Transportation Planning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
978 Views
17 Pages

6 February 2026

This study explores strategies for dynamic pricing and flexible refund fee setting in railway line services, aiming to optimize ticket sales revenue by integrating refund mechanisms into the revenue management framework. By introducing a consistent c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Models and Algorithms for Railway Line Planning Problems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,069 Views
19 Pages

Electric Vehicles to Support Grid Needs: Evidence from a Medium-Sized City

  • Antonio Comi,
  • Eskindir Ayele Atumo and
  • Elsiddig Elnour

4 February 2026

Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) services are gaining attention as a strategy to integrate electric vehicles (EVs) into sustainable energy systems. Although technological aspects have been widely studied, methodologies for identifying optimal V2G hubs and forec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Solutions and Technologies for Smart Mobility and Vehicle Safety in Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,493 Views
18 Pages

Fires in Urban Passenger Transport Vehicles Engine—Case Study

  • Hugo Raposo,
  • Jorge Raposo,
  • José Torres Farinha and
  • J. Edmundo de-Almeida-e-Pais

2 February 2026

Passenger transport companies have often been affected by fires in their vehicles, causing considerable damage. As a result, it is important to study the causes and effects of these fires, as well as to define the maintenance policies and strategies...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,186 Views
19 Pages

2 February 2026

Accurate depth perception is vital for autonomous driving and roadside monitoring. Traditional stereo vision methods are cost-effective but often fail under challenging conditions such as low texture, reflections, or complex lighting. This work prese...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Solutions and Technologies for Smart Mobility and Vehicle Safety in Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,198 Views
20 Pages

1 February 2026

This paper presents a semi-circular, non-contact current sensor designed to simplify the layout of automotive wiring harnesses and enhance measurement convenience and reliability. The sensor integrates a hybrid sensing array consisting of Hall-effect...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Vehicle Infrastructure Cooperative System (IVICS))
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,254 Views
32 Pages

Handling Stability Control for Multi-Axle Distributed Drive Vehicles Based on Model Predictive Control

  • Hongjie Cheng,
  • Zhenwei Hou,
  • Zhihao Liu,
  • Jianhua Li,
  • Jiashuo Zhang,
  • Yuan Zhao and
  • Xiuyu Liu

1 February 2026

Multi-axle vehicles are commonly used for heavy-duty special operations, which easily leads to high driving torque demands when adopting distributed electric drive configurations. This study achieves the objective of reducing the driving torque of ea...

(This article belongs to the Topic Dynamics, Control and Simulation of Electric Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,236 Views
21 Pages

Interpretability Evaluation Method for Driving Stability on Curved Road Sections with Trajectory Uncertainty

  • Xiaoyang Li,
  • Tao Chen,
  • Lebin Zhao,
  • Yang Luo,
  • Pengfei Zhang and
  • Meng Wang

1 February 2026

This study was conducted in order to enrich the safety evaluation system of vehicles on complex road sections and provide quantitative support for speed control and driving decision-making. To address the driving stability issue caused by trajectory...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Vehicle Infrastructure Cooperative System (IVICS))
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