Autonomous Vehicles impact on roads and Control strategies
A special issue of Actuators (ISSN 2076-0825). This special issue belongs to the section "Actuators for Surface Vehicles".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 February 2026
Special Issue Editor
Interests: Road Safety; Sustainable Mobility; Emerging Technologies on Roads; Micromobility; Traffic Calming
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Dear Colleagues,
Introducing autonomous vehicles into the overall panorama of transportation systems raises several challenges and possibilities. Urban design can be modified according to moving vehicles that do not require parking spots, meaning that an increase in accessibility and equity for all the passengers can be reached, and different strategies can be deployed for sharing, pooling, and purchasing these vehicles, giving more space and safety to vulnerable users. In both urban and rural contexts, autonomous vehicles are believed to drastically reduce crash occurrences, especially in multi-vehicle scenarios. One of the main focuses of this Special Issue is the passive and active vehicle safety systems and actuators that are used for collision avoidance. In fact, to improve safety, the sensors must be accurately designed, preventing malfunctioning and misperceptions, for instance, under bad light or adverse weather conditions. In this regard, considering the aspects of the vehicle becomes extremly important. Therefore, research on autonomous vehicles is a complex task that requires examinations of multiple different aspects (safety, environment, planning, operation, equity, technology), but also requires different perspectives—on the one hand from the vehicle side, and on the other hand from the road-user side—accounting for regular and vulnerable road users. Tackling all of these aspects and different views is the main aim of this Special Issue. We also aim to promote new driving system solutions and collision-avoidance strategies based on actuators. This Special Issue will bring together original and high-quality articles through an international standard peer-review process. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Planning of autonomous vehicles;
- ADAS and ADS;
- Vehicle detection;
- Vehicle interactions;
- Sensor performance;
- Active and passive vehicle safety systems.;
- Dynamical modeling, control, and optimization of autonomous vehicles;
- Cooperative and connected vehicle systems;
- Intelligent transportation systems.
Dr. Stefano Coropulis
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- intelligent vehicles
- vehicle control strategies
- remote operators
- active and passive safety systems
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