Challenges in the Integrated Physical–Virtual Modeling of Sustainable Smart Cities
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (26 March 2023) | Viewed by 2928
Special Issue Editors
Interests: GIScience; complex network; transportation geography; urban computing
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Interests: urban social sensing; data mining of human activities in geographical space; human movement in urban space
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Interests: ransportation systems modeling and analysis; transportation network reliability/vulnerability/flexibility/redundancy/resiliency analysis; transportation network design under uncertainty; transportation and the environment; non-motorized transportation modeling; path flow estimator and its applications in transportation planning; network modeling and large-scale solution algorithm development; sensor location for transportation networks; infrastructure management and disaster management; applied optimization in civil infrastructure problems
Interests: geographical information science; knowledge discovery; modeling, and visualization techniques to study and understand mobility (e.g., human dynamics); sustainable transportation in cities
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the advances in information and communication technologies, numerous sensors have been used by moving objects (human, vehicle, goods, etc.) in a mobile context and embedded in a variety of physical infrastructures. These ubiquitous sensors have enabled us to access streaming data about a city’s functioning in real-time, which constitutes what we call big data. Such data provide immediate updates to the system of our concern and are characterized by great variety, high velocity, and limitless volume. Such increasingly available data bring opportunities and challenges which call for new methods and models to re-examine our society and system toward the development of resilient, sustainable smart cities.
Nowadays, human activities are transforming from offline (physical space) to online (virtual space), in particular, during the pandemic. It is expected that this trend will continue even in the future new normal after the pandemic time. The contexts of human activities of daily activity are moving beyond places in physical space to being in virtual space. The co-existence of physical and virtual human activities has complexified the interaction between humans and the environment. In this context, this Special Issue “Challenges in the Integrated Physical–Virtual Modeling of Sustainable Smart Cities” welcomes research papers on current and future innovations in transportation systems for more sustainable operation, addressing one or more of the following research topics:
- Novel theoretical models for locations, places, activity, and mobility physical–virtual space
- Modeling human activity and mobility patterns in physical–virtual space
- Modeling integrated physical–virtual human interaction patterns
- Spatiotemporal evolution of physical–virtual interaction networks
- Scalability issues with location-based big data in physical–virtual space
- Data quality and representativeness of physical–virtual location-based big data
- Privacy and ethical issues in physical–virtual location-based big data
- Spatiotemporal analysis of physical–virtual location-based big data
- Geovisualization and visual analytics of physical–virtual space
- Modeling and predicting human physical–virtual behavior and activity
- Smart cities, transportation, and healthcare in the context of physical–virtual space
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Xintao Liu
Dr. Tao Jia
Prof. Dr. Anthony Chen
Prof. Dr. Hossein Chavoshi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- spatiotemporal big data
- physical–virtual space
- sustainable development
- artificial intelligence
- network analysis
