Health Monitoring and Maintenance of Road Pavements Using Emerging Sensing Technologies: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026 | Viewed by 894
Special Issue Editors
Interests: road pavements; infrastructures; asphalt materials; self-sensing materials; pavement health monitoring; smart materials; multifunctional pavements; sensors; non-destructive testing; digitalization; bitumen; nanomaterials; road infrastructure monitoring; pavement engineering; self-healing technologies
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Interests: asphalt pavement maintenance; self-healing pavement materials; recycling of pavement materials; bituminous materials; multifunctional pavements
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Interests: infrastructure monitoring; road pavements; persistent scatterers; SAR interferometry; sensors; bridge monitoring; structural monitoring; remote sensing; surface displacements; urban subsidence analysis; critical infrastructure monitoring road maintenance; bridge management systems
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to submit your research to the upcoming Special Issue of Sensors, entitled “Health Monitoring and Maintenance of Road Pavements Using Emerging Sensing Technologies: 2nd Edition”.
The monitoring of transport assets, especially road pavements, plays an essential role in aiding decision makers as they strive to formulate effective strategies for the assessment and maintenance of these vital assets over time. This research area is crucial due to its potential to enable administrative authorities and transport managers to enhance the resilience of road pavements to the challenges posed by aging, increased traffic flows, and, more generally, by climate change. In this context, health monitoring and maintenance operations are also fundamental to ensuring structural stability and operational safety.
This Special Issue aims to offer a comprehensive examination of recent advances in sensing technologies applicable to the health monitoring and maintenance operations of transport infrastructure systems, with a particular focus on road pavements, the implementation of emerging sensing technologies, and working at different scales. Within this context, we welcome applications focused on road health monitoring using cutting-edge sensors, including ground-based (embedded sensors, intrinsic self-sensing materials, IoT, and accelerometers), aerial (airborne Lidar and UAV), and spaceborne (satellite imageries) technologies. Furthermore, this SI aims to collect advanced research papers related to the exploration of how emerging sensing systems can be processed, analyzed, and effectively applied via the implementation of advanced processing techniques, including digital signal processing (DSP), machine learning, and DNNs. These technologies also have uses for augmented and virtual reality tools (AR/VR).
This Special Issue aims to present an overview of high-quality original research papers discussing recent developments and advances in emerging sensing technologies applied to road pavements. Therefore, authors are encouraged to submit papers that focus on topics such as the application of new technologies, approaches, or applications for road pavements, monitoring, rehabilitation, and conservation, with an emphasis on novel perspectives on pavement management systems (PMS). Additionally, review papers addressing the aforementioned research areas are also welcome.
Dr. Federico Gulisano
Prof. Dr. Juan Gallego Medina
Dr. Valerio Gagliardi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sensing systems
- pavement health monitoring
- embedded sensors
- self-sensing materials
- spaceborne (SAR, optical, multispectral), aerial (UAVs), and ground-based sensing applications for road health monitoring
- non-destructive testing surveys
- digital signal processing (DSP) in sensor applications
- pavement management systems (PMS)
- predictive and condition-based road maintenance
- machine learning, augmented and virtual reality tools
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