Intelligent Transportation Systems and Sustainable Multimodal Transport
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 May 2026 | Viewed by 1191
Special Issue Editors
Interests: road safety; driving simulation; field trials; accessibility; smart cities; electrification; micromobility; CCAM; (C-)ITS; MaaS
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Interests: road safety; driving simulation; field trials; accessibility; CCAM; (C-)ITS; MaaS; embedded and integrated solutions; smart infrastructure
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Radical technological progress and increasing deployment of intelligent transportation systems have so far revealed the significant benefits of such technologies in terms of transport, society and industry. Despite significant recent advancements in interrelated fields—such as artificial intelligence (AI), big data, digital twins, connectivity and cooperative connected and automated mobility (CCAM) systems and embedded solutions addressing both vessels and infrastructure and aiming for safety and energy efficiency—there are still shortcomings and grounds for further research and innovation seeking to ensure sustainability in multimodal transport. These research approaches mainly tackle optimal cross-modal data integration and (cyber)security, resilient cloud-edge architectures with hybrid connectivity and leveraged AI for cooperative intelligent transport systems (ITSs) and remote operation in CCAM as well as other value added services—all enabled by digital twins and the digitalisation of infrastructure—for multimodal transport value chain actors and supporting monitoring, assessment and decision-making in multi-layered traffic management and efficiently managing different modes, vehicles and user cohorts.
This Special Issue covers different topics that address the most recent advancements in ITSs and sustainable multimodal transport, their validation and assessment and the analysis of their effects in application. Thus, the topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:
- AI and big data applications in (C-)ITSs and CCAM;
- Infrastructure digitalisation and value added services;
- Cross-mode data exchange;
- Cloud-edge and cybersecurity solutions.
Dr. Evangelos Bekiaris
Dr. Maria Gkemou
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- artificial intelligence
- digital twins
- embedded solutions
- digitalisation of infrastructure
- cooperative connected automated driving
- physical and digital infrastructure
- sustainable multimodal transport
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