Smart Cities and Infrastructures

Dear Colleagues,

The 2019 International Conference on Smart Cities (2019 ICSC) will be held in Seoul, South Korea, 17–19 July 2019 (icsc2019.org: chaired by Hosin “David” Lee). Select papers from ICSC 2019 will be invited for possible publication in Special Issues of the MDPI journal Infrastructures.

The sustainable and resilient management of smart cities is becoming a key challenge worldwide. The objective of this Special Issue of MDPI’s Infrastructures is to compile and archive technological and managerial innovations for designing and managing sustainable and resilient smart cities, which include smart sensors, buildings, pavements, infrastructures, and systems.

Papers are sought in the following areas:

• Smart pavements, roads and bridges;
• Smart sensors for homes, buildings, and infrastructures;
• Smart building maintenance management systems;
• Smart infrastructure asset management systems;
• Smart underground pipes and structures;
• Clean air and air quality monitoring systems;
• Smart parks and recreation facilities;
• Clean water and efficient distribution systems;
• Smart energy metering and power grids;
• Autonomous and efficient transportation;
• Smart parking meters and operations;
• e-Government;
• Smart video surveillance and crime prevention systems;
• Smart disaster prevention and response;
• Smart big data and life-cycle analysis;
• Operation, maintenance, and safety of smart cities;
• Smart city and urban planning.

We look forward to listening to your presentations at ICSC 2019 and hope you will consider your paper for possible publication in this Special Issue of the MDPI journal Infrastructures based on peer reviews. Please submit your paper directly to Infrastructures following the journal’s paper submission guidelines before 15 March 2020.

Dr. Davide Lo Presti
Dr. Nizar Lajnef
Dr. Hosin “David” Lee
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Infrastructures is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1800 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.