10th Anniversary of Infrastructures—Recent Advances and Perspectives

Dear Colleagues,

To celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Infrastructures, this Special Issue highlights breakthrough research redefining how we design, build, monitor, and manage transportation and other critical infrastructures for the next decade. Roads, railways, bridges, tunnels, water, ports, airports, and energy corridors are increasingly exposed to accelerated ageing, heavier traffic demands, and more frequent climate-driven extremes. In parallel, rapid advances in sensing, geomatics, and artificial intelligence are enabling a shift from periodic, reactive inspections to continuous, predictive, and risk-informed asset management at network scale.

Contributions are invited on the emerging digital thread that connects planning, construction, and operation through interoperable BIM/GIS, digital twins, and data-centric decision support. We especially welcome next-generation data pipelines that combine multi-scale observations (mobile mapping and LiDAR, UAV data, satellite InSAR and Earth observation, in situ IoT/SHM sensors, and crowdsourced data) with advanced analytics (self-supervised learning and foundation models, physics-informed and hybrid modelling, uncertainty quantification, anomaly detection, and prognostics for predictive maintenance).

This Special Issue also welcomes research and case studies on resilience and sustainability, including multi-hazard risk assessment, climate adaptation, nature-based and circular solutions, life-cycle carbon and cost optimisation, and safety and cyber–physical security for connected and automated transportation infrastructures. Interdisciplinary submissions combining engineering, data science, and policy/practice perspectives are strongly encouraged. We invite high-quality original research, reviews, benchmark datasets, and field demonstrators with the potential to accelerate adoption and define the next decade of smart, safe, and sustainable infrastructures.

Dr. Pedro Arias-Sánchez
Guest Editor

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• digital twins and BIM-GIS interoperability for infrastructure assets
• multimodal sensing and inspection (IoT, LiDAR/mobile mapping, UAV)
• AI-driven SHM and damage diagnosis (self-supervised, physics-informed)
• prognostics and lifecycle asset management (predictive maintenance)
• climate adaptation and multi-hazard resilience of infrastructure networks
• safety and cyber–physical security of critical infrastructures