Autonomous Traffic Management and Control Systems

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue, "Autonomous Traffic Management and Control Systems", aims to showcase cutting-edge theories, methods, and applications that advance the autonomy of urban traffic management and control systems. The rapid deployment of connected and automated vehicles, multi-source sensing infrastructures, V2X communication, and digital twin platforms is driving a paradigm shift—from rule-based, human-supervised operations toward data-driven, self-adaptive, and cooperative autonomy.

We invite submissions of original research and comprehensive reviews on key enabling technologies, including but not limited to:

• Multi-source perception and fusion for network-wide traffic state estimation.
• Autonomous signal control and lane management based on artificial intelligence and reinforcement learning.
• Digital twin-driven evaluation, diagnosis, optimization, and closed-loop frameworks.
• Human–machine collaboration mechanisms in traffic control centers.
• Interoperable architectures and standards for autonomous traffic management.
• Large-scale simulation, testing, and verification approaches for safety, robustness, and explainability.

We particularly encourage contributions that bridge theory and real-world deployment, demonstrate measurable operational benefits, or reveal new insights into scalable and trustworthy autonomous traffic control.

Prof. Dr. Keshuang Tang
Dr. Hong Zhu
Guest Editors

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