Special Issue "Advanced Modelling and Control for Cooperative Connected and Automated Mobility"

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "Electric Vehicles".

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Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Roberta Di Pace
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Department of Civil Engineering, University of Salerno, via Giovanni Paolo II, 132, 84084 Fisciano (SA), Italy
Interests: cooperative intelligent transportation systems; traffic management and control; within-day traffic flow modelling; models and algorithms for travel demand assignment to congested transportation networks under stationary conditions or with day-to-day or within-day dynamics; smart/sustainable mobility; traveller information systems; discrete choice models and alternative paradigms for travel behaviour analysis and modelling; enhanced paradigms for traveller learning process modelling; sharing mobility; transportation environmental impacts; terminal simulation modelling
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Dr. Chiara Fiori
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Dr. Facundo Storani
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Department of Civil Engineering, University of Salerno, via Giovanni Paolo II, 132, 84084 Fisciano (SA), Italy
Interests: traffic modelling; traffic optimization; intelligent transportation systems

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In the era of cooperative connected and automated mobility (CCAM), combining the information provided by intelligent vehicles and multiple sources allows more reliable real time traffic management. The field of transportation research is calling for new models, methodologies, and analytical frameworks to better understand complex interactions between transportation networks and urban mobility and to build the smart transportation systems of the future.

In particular, the modelling approaches and the traffic control strategies must be revised in another perspective considering new data sources and vehicle technologies. In case of passengers and freight mobility, CCAM-enabled shared mobility services allow the integration of public transport and Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) platforms. Concerning intelligent vehicles (IVs), advanced measurement and control techniques can improve driving safety, riding comfort, travel efficiency, and fuel economy. In particular, we explain that connectivity to other vehicles and infrastructure allows better anticipation of upcoming events, such as hills, curves, slow traffic, state of traffic signals, and movement of neighboring vehicles. Automation allows vehicles to adjust their motion more precisely in anticipation of upcoming events and save energy. Furthermore, intelligent transportation systems have changed from a conventional technology-driven system into a data-driven intelligent transportation system (D2ITS) in which data that are collected from multiple sources will play a key role in ITSs. The models and tools from machine learning and complexity research have shown great potential.

This Special Issue focuses on the development of quantitative modelling and optimization approaches for transportation systems management with the use of advanced sensing, communication, and information technologies. 

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following categories:

Modelling and Control

  • Dynamic network modelling.
  • Simulation and optimization of transportation systems.
  • Control and management of transportation systems.
  • Traffic flow modelling.

Planning and Operation

  • Public transport planning and operation.
  • Transportation planning and traffic engineering.
  • Multimodal transportation and terminals.
  • Sensors and automatic data collection methods.
  • Port and maritime operations.
  • City logistics.

Innovative Solutions

  • ITS for multimodal transportation systems.
  • Advanced mobility data collection.
  • Cooperative, connected and automated vehicle system applications.
  • Advanced vehicular communication technologies.
  • Shared mobility.
  • Urban mobility innovations.
  • Applications of IoT to transportation.
  • Smart cities and smart mobility.

Data-Driven Solutions

  • Big data in transportation.
  • Vision-, multisource-, and learning-driven ITSs.
  • Multisensor data fusion techniques.
  • AI-enabled travel behavior analysis and prediction in a multimodal environment.
  • Machine learning application in measure and control.

Prof. Dr. Roberta Di Pace
Dr. Chiara Fiori
Dr. Facundo Storani
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • dynamic network modelling
  • simulation and optimization of transportation systems
  • control and management of transportation systems
  • traffic flow modelling
  • public transport planning and operation
  • transportation planning and traffic engineering
  • multimodal transportation and terminals
  • sensors and automatic data collection methods
  • port and maritime operations
  • city logistics
  • ITS for multimodal transportation systems
  • advanced mobility data collection
  • cooperative, connected and automated vehicle system applications
  • advanced vehicular communication technologies
  • shared mobility
  • micromobility
  • urban mobility innovations
  • applications of IoT to transportation
  • MaaS
  • smart cities and smart mobility
  • big data in transportation
  • vision-, multisource-, and learning-driven ITS
  • multisensor data fusion techniques
  • AI-enabled travel behavior analysis and prediction in multimodal environment
  • machine learning application in measure and control

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The Influence of Introducing Autonomous Vehicles on Conventional Transport Modes and Travel Time
Energies 2021, 14(14), 4163; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14144163 - 09 Jul 2021
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Introducing autonomous vehicles (AVs) on the market is likely to bring changes in the mobility of travelers. In this work, extensive research is conducted to study the impact of different levels of automation on the mobility of people, and full driving automation needs [...] Read more.
Introducing autonomous vehicles (AVs) on the market is likely to bring changes in the mobility of travelers. In this work, extensive research is conducted to study the impact of different levels of automation on the mobility of people, and full driving automation needs further study because it is still under development. The impacts of AVs on travel behavior can be studied by integrating AVs into activity-based models. The contribution of this study is the estimation of AVs’ impacts on travelers’ mobility when different travel demands are provided, and also the estimation of AVs’ impact on the modal share considering the different willingness of pay to travel by AVs. This study analyses the potential impacts of AVs on travel behavior by investigating a sample of 8500 travelers who recorded their daily activity plans in Budapest, Hungary. Three scenarios are derived to study travel behavior and to find the impacts of the AVs on the conventional transport modes. The scenarios include (1) a simulation of the existing condition, (2) a simulation of AVs as a full replacement for conventional transport modes, and (3) a simulation of the AVs with conventional transport modes concerning different marginal utilities of travel time in AVs. The simulations are done by using the Multi-Agent Transport Simulation (MATSim) open-source software, which applies a co-evolutionary optimization algorithm. Using the scenarios in the study, we develop a base model, determine the required fleet size of AVs needed to fulfill the demand of the different groups of travelers, and predict the new modal shares of the transport modes when AVs appear on the market. The results demonstrate that the travelers are exposed to a reduction in travel time once conventional transport modes are replaced by AVs. The impact of the value of travel time (VOT) on the usage of AVs and the modal share is demonstrated. The decrease in the VOT of AVs increases the usage of AVs, and it particularly decreases the usage of cars even more than other transport modes. AVs strongly affect the public transport when the VOT of AVs gets close to the VOT of public transport. Finally, the result shows that 1 AV can replace 7.85 conventional vehicles with acceptable waiting time. Full article
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