SMARTI - Sustainable Multi-functional Automated Resilient Transport Infrastructure

Dear Colleagues,

The world’s surface transport network has developed over thousands of years, emerging from the need of providing more comfortable trips to Roman soldiers to the modern infrastructure enabling modern vehicles to travel at high speed. However, in the past two decades, the world has changed very quickly in terms of population growth, mobility, and business trades, creating greater traffic volumes and demand for minimal disruption to users, but also challenges such as climate change and more extreme weather events. At the same time, developments in digitalisation, vehicle design, mobile and wireless communications, and sensor technologies continue apace. It is within this environment and in close consultation with key stakeholders that this Special Issue will focus on providing an opportunity for scientific dissemination towards the paradigm shift to SMARTI, transport infrastructures conceived with the following features:

• SUSTAINABLE: Designed by using improved decision frameworks aimed at improving durability, maximising recycling, and minimising environmental, economic, and social impacts;
• MULTI-FUNCTIONAL: Conceived not only for transport purposes and works towards the optimisation of land use by adding energy harvesting capabilities;
• AUTOMATED: Equipped with low-cost wireless sensors to allow pro-active communication towards more intuitive use and simplified management;
• RESILIENT: Conceived to self-repair and be adaptable to changes due to natural and anthropogenic hazards.

Dr. Davide Lo Presti
Dr. Emannuel Chailleux
Dr. Mayca Rubio
Guest Editors

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