Connected and Cooperative Transportation Systems for the Future Society

Dear Colleagues,

We are dreaming of a future society that will provide a highly efficient, comfortable, economically-sound, and quality life to everyone by integrating cyber and physical spaces for sharing of cross-sectional knowledge for cooperation and economic advancements. Such a society will provide human-centered services and solve social and environmental problems. Transportation, as a key driver of social development, must play a critical role in realizing such an advanced society by providing the safest, most reliable, efficient, and environmentaly-friendly services to enable people having access to education, health, jobs, and goods. This Special Issue focuses on the most recent and relevant developments towards the realization of such multimodal cooperative future transportation systems.

The emergence of connectivity and automation is transforming road transportation and enabling unique opportunities to develop innovative controls for improving the operation of both individual vehicles and overall traffic. Both vehicles and users with high-speed wireless connectivity in various forms can help in enhancing the perception of the entire traffic network in a city. Introduction of automated vehicles will provide opportunities for cooperative management of the individual vehicles, traffic networks, and other modes of transportation and will allow the introduction of various services to maximize the benefits and overall comfort of the users. This Special Issue welcomes innovative research on new integrated transport services and cooperative management and control technologies in the context of intelligent transportation systems (ITS). In particular, this issue welcomes contributions in, but not limited to, the following relevant areas:

• Smart city transportation network and services;
• Cooperative automated vehicles;
• Connected and automated transportation;
• Cooperative and distributed traffic management;
• Multimodal connected automated systems and IoT;
• Applications of artificial intelligence for intelligent transportation systems;
• Connectivity and automation in freight systems;
• Ride sharing systems;
• Multimodal transportation connectivity;
• Cyber-physical systems and IoT for Transporation;
• Mobility as a service.

Dr. Md Abdus Samad Kamal
Dr. Jackeline Ríos-Torres
Dr. Susilawati
Guest Editors

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