Recent Advances in Vehicular Networking and Communications

Dear Colleagues,

The mobility of people and goods is ensured by transport systems. A great deal of time is sometimes spent moving people and goods due to difficult traffic conditions, namely traffic congestion, transport delays, or adverse weather conditions. These conditions negatively impact people’s lives and the environment, establishing circumstances for accidents and increasing pollution.

One of the ways to alleviate the aforementioned problems has been the introduction of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITSs) into the road network, which have contributed to improving the safety of people and goods, increasing efficiency, and ensuring the sustainability of transport systems.

ITS technologies cover a wide range of technological areas, including vehicular communications, protocol standardization, sensors, cloud-based applications for traffic control and management, cooperative ITS applications, the dissemination of ITS implementations, artificial intelligence (AI) applications, driver-assistance systems, cybersecurity, and autonomous vehicles.

This Special Issue aims to address the latest research results on vehicular communications, smart road infrastructure deployment, services and application development, and driver assistance systems. The topics covered include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Vehicular communications;
• Smart road infrastructure deployment;
• ITS services and applications;
• Connected and automated vehicles;
• Advanced driver assistance systems;
• In-vehicle information systems;
• Sensor data processing, analysis and visualization;
• Dedicated integrated circuits for ITS;
• Big data analytics;
• Artificial intelligence applications;
• Cloud-based traffic management technologies;
• Road transportation management;
• Cybersecurity, privacy, and safety systems.

Prof. Dr. António Manuel De Jesus Pereira
Dr. Paulo Loureiro
Prof. Dr. Sílvio Priem-Mendes
Guest Editors

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