Advances in Transportation and Smart City
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 2026 | Viewed by 6
Special Issue Editors
Interests: urban mobility; transport-related social exclusion; smart transport; smart logistics; smart mobility; transport in developing economies
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Interests: ICT4D; digital skills; applied data science
Interests: logistics outsourcing; supply chain management; mixed methods; structural equation modelling; smart mobility
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Smart cities can enhance the quality of life and achieve excellent levels of efficiency if they are underpinned by excellent and smart transport systems. This Special Issue focuses on developments in transportation to further the aims of smart cities. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Connected transport;
- IoT in transport;
- Transport technologies;
- Sustainable transport in smart cities;
- Advances in last-mile deliveries;
- Intelligent transport systems;
- Societal impact of smart transport systems;
- Machine learning;
- Smart charging / smart grid;
- Crowd shipping;
- Mobility as a service (MaaS);
- Vehicle route optimization;
- Smart transport.
Prof. Dr. Rose Luke
Prof. Dr. Hossana Twinomurinzi
Prof. Dr. Joash Mageto
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- smart cities
- transport advances
- smart transport
- intelligent transport
- sustainability
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