Communication Technology for Smart Mobility Systems
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2025 | Viewed by 754
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mobile/wireless communications; future internet; intelligent network and services; cloud computing; mobile edge computing; V2X communications
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In line with the "Connectivity and Convergence" megatrend, “Smart Mobility” is naturally emerging as an important evolutionary direction that will make our future lives more convenient and safer. Experts anticipate that smart mobility will be driven by trends such as autonomous, connected, electric, and shared mobility. A range of diverse means of transportation, including autonomous vehicles and small personal mobility devices, need to be connected to each other with or without infrastructure. Also, the latest technological advances, such as sensors, 5G/6G communications, mixed reality, bigdata analysis, and artificial intelligence (AI), need to be integrated to a very smart and flexible system which provides seamless “mobility as a service (MaaS)” over a metropolitan area. The basis for all these possibilities could be accurate and fast information exchange among various transportation devices and management systems.
This Special Issue aims to focus on the purpose of presenting new ideas and experimental results in the field of “Communication Technology for Smart Mobility Systems” from design, algorithm, service, and theory to its practical use. We invite researchers, practitioners, and experts in this field to submit their original work, reviews, and case studies. Topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Communication infrastructure for smart mobility systems;
- Vehicle-to-X (V2X) communications for autonomous vehicles;
- Mobility as a Service (MaaS) management and applications;
- Intelligent Transport Systems (ITSs);
- Traffic information sharing framework and protocols;
- Shared mobility services;
- Connected vehicles: sensors and IoT applications;
- Pedestrian and driver safety services;
- AGV and robot communications for Smart Logistics Service (SLS);
- Ultra-reliable and low-latency communication technology.
Prof. Dr. Kyounghee Lee
Prof. Dr. Christos J. Bouras
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- smart mobility
- mobility as a service (MaaS)
- autonomous vehicle
- V2X communications
- intelligent transport system (ITS)
- shared mobility
- connected car
- low-latency communications
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