Health Monitoring and Maintenance of Road Pavements Using Emerging Sensing Technologies

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”.

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, increases in 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.

The 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 via cutting-edge sensors using ground-based (embedded sensors, intrinsic self-sensing materials, IoT, 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 use 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, emphasizing novel perspectives on pavement management systems (PMS). Additionally, review papers addressing the aforementioned research areas are welcomed.

Dr. Federico Gulisano
Prof. Dr. Juan Gallego Medina
Dr. Valerio Gagliardi
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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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-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sensors is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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