Safety and Sustainability in Future Transportation

Dear Colleagues,

Transportation systems face remarkable opportunities and challenges with the rapid development and application of emerging technologies such as intelligent perception, extensive data analysis, supercomputing, and next-generation communication. Emerging technologies are making transportation systems more transparent: real-time dynamic operational data are collected and will influence management and decision-making; information exchanges between autonomous vehicles and other participants and infrastructure enable system optimization; the popularity of new energy vehicles has made the transportation industry greener, which relies on traditional fossil energy. These revolutionary trends are well known, but more intensive and intelligent transportation systems have also brought unknown safety and sustainability concerns while improving efficiency. Multi-perspective research based on accurate data and cases can better reveal laws and impacts and provide strong support for forming transportation policies. The topics of this Special Issue mainly include, but are not limited to:

(1) Research on the development and application of emerging technologies in the field of transportation;

(2) Next-generation intelligent transportation technologies represented by autonomous driving and intelligent connected vehicles;

(3) Research on multi-modal traffic big data and data mining;

(4) Opportunities and challenges brought by next-generation intelligent transportation technology to traffic safety and security;

(5) Opportunities and challenges brought by next-generation intelligent transportation technologies to green transportation and transportation sustainability;

(6) Research on the evolution mechanism of transportation network resilience (including safety and sustainability) under the influence of disasters.

Dr. Linjun Lu
Prof. Dr. Qingchang Lu
Prof. Dr. Chen Wang
Dr. Tao Lu
Guest Editors

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