New Technology for Road Surface Detection
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Transportation and Future Mobility".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 February 2025 | Viewed by 4468
Special Issue Editors
Interests: intelligent sensing; pavement maintenance; pavement detection
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Roads are essential transportation infrastructures within and between cities, and their timely and efficient maintenance and operation are crucial for ensuring their structural and functional performance. The use of advanced technologies to quickly and accurately detect and perceive the road surface performance is a key link to achieving these objectives. Under the long-term influence of loads and environmental impacts, road surfaces inevitably develop surface damages, such as cracks and potholes, as well as invisible defects such as voids and debonding. The use of advanced detection or sensor technologies to identify and assess these defects or early-stage performance deterioration has always been a research focus in the field of road maintenance and management.
In the "New Technologies for Road Surface Detection" Special Issue, we aim to explore, discuss, and highlight the emerging technologies revolutionizing the field of road surface detection. This Special Issue offers an interdisciplinary platform for researchers, engineers, technologists, and policymakers to share the latest advancements, methodologies, and applications in road surface detection technology.
Our focus revolves around innovative techniques that improve the efficiency, accuracy, and comprehensiveness of road surface analysis. This includes, but is not limited to, ground penetrating radar technology, video imaging technology, satellite remote sensing technology, lidar technology, fiber optic sensing technology, and applications of artificial intelligence, such as deep learning in this context.
We also encourage the discussion of the practical implications of these technologies, including the challenges and opportunities associated with their implementation, their impact on road maintenance and safety, and the economic and environmental implications of their use.
Dr. Difei Wu
Prof. Dr. Hongduo Zhao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- non-destructive testing
- smart sensing in road surface monitoring
- AI in road surface detection
- ground penetrating radar (gpr)
- satellite remote sensing in road surface detection
- road maintenance
- road surface performance evaluation
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