Smart Mobility and Transportation Infrastructure

Dear Colleagues,

The transportation landscape is rapidly transforming with the rise of smart mobility, driven by advancements in connected technologies, automation, and data-driven solutions. Smart mobility redefines how people and goods move, prioritizing safety, efficiency, resilience, and sustainability. It leverages intelligent systems to optimize traffic flow, alleviate congestion, enhance robustness, and improve user experiences, while addressing environmental concerns through the integration of electrified and multimodal transportation options.

This evolution of mobility is intrinsically tied to advancements in transportation infrastructure, which now serves as the foundation for enabling smart systems. Modern infrastructure is no longer limited to physical assets like roads and bridges; it incorporates digital elements such as sensors, communication networks, and data processing platforms. These components work together to support traffic operations and traffic management while enabling their seamless integration with smart mobility solutions, creating a unified transportation system.

Despite these significant advancements, the integration of smart mobility and infrastructure faces several persistent challenges that require innovative research and collaborative solutions. These challenges span multiple domains. Technological hurdles include the seamless integration of emerging technologies and pressing concerns about cybersecurity and data privacy. On the operational front, issues such as traffic congestion, limited infrastructure capacity, aging transportation systems, and the complexities of managing diverse mobility modes pose significant barriers, especially in urban settings. Environmental challenges, meanwhile, center on sustainability goals and the need to bolster the resilience of infrastructure against the impacts of climate change. These interconnected challenges highlight the importance of coordinated, interdisciplinary efforts in creating future-ready transportation systems.

Researchers from academia and industry are invited to submit papers addressing, but not limited to, the following areas:

• The integration of emerging technologies, such as LLM, AI, IoT, and V2X communication, into transportation systems.
• Strategies for alleviating traffic congestion, optimizing infrastructure capacity, and managing traffic complexity.
• Mixed traffic management strategies for systems involving both human-driven vehicles (HDVs) and connected and automated vehicles (CAVs), focusing on safety, efficiency, and coordination.
• Sustainable transportation solutions, including electrification, the integration of renewable energy, and emission reduction technologies.
• Enhancing the resilience of transportation infrastructure to climate change, extreme weather events, and other disruptions.
• Innovative traffic management techniques for multi-modal and mixed-use transportation networks, especially in urban settings.
• The optimization and management of intermodal infrastructure to enable efficient transfers between transportation modes, including road, rail, air, and maritime systems.
• The deployment of advanced sensing, monitoring, and predictive maintenance technologies for intelligent infrastructure.
• Maintenance and modernization approaches that enable aging transportation infrastructure to meet current and future demands.
• The understanding and development of robust cybersecurity and data privacy solutions for connected and automated vehicles and infrastructure.

Dr. Yunlong Zhang
Dr. Yang Zhou
Dr. Jiaming Wu
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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• emerging technology applications in transportation (e.g., LLM, AI, IoT, V2X)
• connected and automated vehicles (CAVs)
• intelligent transportation systems (ITSs)
• intermodal infrastructure
• climate resilience in transportation
• electrification and sustainable mobility
• digital twin technologies for transportation
• cybersecurity and data privacy in mobility systems
• predictive maintenance for infrastructure management
• adaptable and resilient transportation infrastructure