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Intelligent Transportation Systems: Advanced Technologies and Future Prospects

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 May 2025 | Viewed by 2478

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Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China
Interests: road traffic; traffic information systems; automobiles; convolutional neural nets; graph theory; learning (artificial intelligence); recurrent neural nets; time series; traffic engineering computing; belief ne

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Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China
Interests: intelligent robot; microrobot; autonomous vehicle; reinforcement learning

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Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China
Interests: vehicle; intelligent transportation systems

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The rapid growth of smart cities is transforming transportation through advanced technologies. This Special Issue highlights the latest innovations and challenges in ITS. A key focus is Intelligent Infrastructure-Assisted ITS, which integrates vehicle–road–cloud information systems to enhance transportation management. By enabling real-time communication, data processing, and predictive analytics, this infrastructure improves traffic management, navigation, and safety while reducing accidents. With edge computing and distributed architectures, it ensures low-latency, cross-modal storage that is crucial for efficient ITS operations. This Special Issue also addresses challenges like energy management, security, and scalable global deployment, inviting high-quality manuscripts on these topics.

This Special Issue aims to provide a comprehensive overview of how such infrastructures are being developed, tested, and applied in urban environments while addressing future research directions and challenges. We encourage the submission of high-quality manuscripts that explore the following topics:

  • Novel architectures and frameworks for intelligent infrastructure in ITS.
  • Edge computing in real-time traffic management and control systems.
  • Low-latency communication methods and efficient data storage for ITS applications.
  • Cross-modal storage and collaborative computing for enhanced decision-making.
  • Energy management, security, and scalability in intelligent transportation infrastructures.
  • Multimodal spatiotemporal data integration in intelligent traffic monitoring and optimization.
  • Cross-domain traffic entity perception and fusion technologies in intelligent transportation systems.
  • Simulation and optimization of intelligent transportation systems based on digital twin technology.

Dr. Lei Peng
Dr. Jia Liu
Dr. Kun Xu
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • intelligent transportation system (ITS)
  • vehicle–road–cloud integration
  • intelligent infrastructure-assisted ITS
  • edge computing
  • spatiotemporal multimodal fusion perception
  • spatiotemporal multimodal data processing
  • traffic management and control

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Simulation Study on Freeway Toll Optimization Considering Bounded Rationality and Dynamic Relationships Among Toll Rates, Travel Demand, and Revenue
by Juan Shao, Jian Rong and Zeyu Wang
Appl. Sci. 2025, 15(8), 4421; https://doi.org/10.3390/app15084421 - 17 Apr 2025
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As an essential component of China’s comprehensive transportation network, freeways play an irreplaceable role in promoting regional economic integration, improving logistics efficiency, and serving public travel. However, the development of freeways faces challenges such as the underutilization of road resources, significant financial pressure [...] Read more.
As an essential component of China’s comprehensive transportation network, freeways play an irreplaceable role in promoting regional economic integration, improving logistics efficiency, and serving public travel. However, the development of freeways faces challenges such as the underutilization of road resources, significant financial pressure for construction and maintenance, and imbalanced revenue and expenditure leading to heavy debt burdens, which severely impact the sustainable development of freeways. Optimizing freeway toll rates is an effective measure to alleviate these issues, playing a crucial role in enhancing the operational efficiency of the road network and increasing the revenue of freeway operating enterprises. Existing studies have focused on finding the optimal toll rates for freeways based on bi-level programming models, neglecting the dynamic relationships among individual travel behavior preferences, toll rates, travel demand, and toll revenue. Grounded in bounded rationality theory, the research employs microscopic traffic simulation technology to analyze the dynamic relationships among freeway toll rates, travel demand, and toll revenue. The results confirm that travel demand decreases as toll rates increase, while toll revenue exhibits asymmetric “synchronization” and “asynchronization” phases, peaking at CYN 58.9 thousand (USD 8246) when the toll rate reaches CYN 0.45/km (USD 0.06/km). Additionally, users’ rationality levels significantly affect the stabilization time of toll revenue, and the speed difference between freeways and parallel roads demonstrates a threshold effect on travel demand and revenue. These findings provide theoretical and technical support for optimizing freeway toll strategies, enhancing operational efficiency, and promoting sustainable transportation development. Full article
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Enhancing Travel Reservation Benefits Through Incentive and Penalty Mechanisms in Urban Congested Roads
by Hengrui Chen, Ruiyu Zhou and Hong Chen
Appl. Sci. 2025, 15(3), 1393; https://doi.org/10.3390/app15031393 - 29 Jan 2025
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To enhance the refinement of urban traffic demand management, this study explores the impact of introducing incentive and penalty mechanisms in the urban road travel reservation strategy (TRS) on both heterogeneous users and the road network. The existing research on TRS has primarily [...] Read more.
To enhance the refinement of urban traffic demand management, this study explores the impact of introducing incentive and penalty mechanisms in the urban road travel reservation strategy (TRS) on both heterogeneous users and the road network. The existing research on TRS has primarily focused on static evaluations, which have limitations in terms of the one-sidedness of travel service methods and the homogeneity of users’ travel choices. Moreover, these studies overlook the multidimensional decision-making of travelers and the synergistic effects of urban multimodal transportation systems. To overcome these limitations, this paper introduces incentives and penalties for users and develops an agent-based multi-objective optimization model. The model optimizes travel incentive schemes to maximize social benefits, considering the interests of both system managers and travelers. Additionally, an agent-based dynamic traffic simulation model is constructed, incorporating individual travel decisions, real-time traffic conditions, and the balance of road supply and demand. The findings indicate that the introduction of incentive and penalty mechanisms increased the transportation system’s revenue by 17.26% and reduced travel costs by 2.67%. TRS implementation significantly improved traffic performance and reduced congestion across the road network. Specifically, the average speed, road saturation, and network traffic volume increased by 6.7%, 9.3%, and 3.7%, respectively. Moreover, the proportion of users participating in reservation travel increased by 48.5%, with travelers more willing to adjust their travel times. Heterogeneous travelers with different time valuations showed distinct responses to the TRS. In conclusion, TRS offers significant potential in promoting sustainable urban transportation, providing both theoretical insights and practical implications for urban planners and policymakers. Full article
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Grid Anchor Lane Detection Based on Attribute Correlation
by Qiaohui Feng, Cheng Chi, Fei Chen, Jianhao Shen, Gang Xu and Huajie Wen
Appl. Sci. 2025, 15(2), 699; https://doi.org/10.3390/app15020699 - 12 Jan 2025
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The detection of road features is a necessary approach to achieve autonomous driving. And lane lines are important two-dimensional features on roads, which are crucial for achieving autonomous driving. Currently, research on lane detection mainly focuses on the positioning detection of local features [...] Read more.
The detection of road features is a necessary approach to achieve autonomous driving. And lane lines are important two-dimensional features on roads, which are crucial for achieving autonomous driving. Currently, research on lane detection mainly focuses on the positioning detection of local features without considering the association of long-distance lane line features. A grid anchor lane detection model based on attribute correlation is proposed to address this issue. Firstly, a grid anchor lane line expression method containing attribute information is proposed, and the association relationship between adjacent features is established at the data layer. Secondly, a convolutional reordering upsampling method has been proposed, and the model integrates the global feature information generated by multi-layer perceptron (MLP), achieving the fusion of long-distance lane line features. The upsampling and MLP enhance the dual perception ability of the feature pyramid network in detail features and global features. Finally, the attribute correlation loss function was designed to construct feature associations between different grid anchors, enhancing the interdependence of anchor recognition results. The experimental results show that the proposed model achieved first-place F1 scores of 93.05 and 73.27 in the normal and curved scenes on the CULane dataset, respectively. This model can balance the robustness of lane detection in both normal and curved scenarios. Full article
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