Process Engineering in Electrified Roadway Systems: Design, Integration, and Sustainability

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue focuses on the latest advances in electrified pavements with wireless charging systems, an emerging technology that has the potential to revolutionize sustainable transportation. By embedding wireless power transfer components directly into roadway infrastructure, electrified pavements enable dynamic charging of electric vehicles, reducing range anxiety, minimizing reliance on large onboard batteries, and improving overall energy efficiency. Progress in this field requires not only innovations in material and structural design, but also comprehensive understanding of multi-physics interactions, construction practices, and long-term performance. In addition, integrating life cycle cost analysis and environmental life cycle assessment is essential to ensure the economic feasibility and sustainability of this next-generation infrastructure.

Contributions are invited on, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Material and structural design for pavements with wireless charging systems;
• Wireless charging system design, efficiency evaluation, and optimization;
• Multiphysics analysis of electrified pavements;
• Life cycle cost analysis and life cycle assessment of electrified pavements.

Dr. Xiao Chen
Dr. Dongdong Han
Dr. Guangji Xu
Guest Editors

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