Recent Advances in Pavement Monitoring

Dear Colleagues,

Pavement monitoring is essential for assessing and maintaining transportation infrastructure in roads and airports, ensuring safety and reliable performance. With increasing traffic, climate change, and more complex service environments, understanding pavement conditions, tracking performance changes, and predicting damage are becoming critical tasks. New technologies, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and big data, are transforming pavement monitoring by making it smarter, more accurate, and better connected. These advances provide new ways to improve infrastructure health and extend its lifespan.

This Special Issue focuses on recent developments in pavement monitoring. We welcome studies on sensing technologies, data fusion methods, and smart analytical models. Topics include embedded sensor networks, fiber optic sensors, UAV-based remote sensing, satellite InSAR, and using multi-scale data in complex traffic conditions. Papers on combining and analyzing dynamic monitoring data or using machine learning for performance predictions are especially encouraged. Review papers on these topics are also welcome.

We invite you to share innovative research and explore how advanced monitoring technologies can help evaluate pavement conditions, optimize functionality, and contribute to both practical applications and theoretical progress in this field.

Dr. Mengyuan Zeng
Dr. Xianyong Ma
Guest Editors

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