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Intelligent Mobility and Sustainable Automotive Technologies

edited by

Nicolae Vlad Burnete

Florin Mariasiu

and

Calin Iclodean

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 12 articles | Viewed by 11277 | Submission Open

Keywords: automotive engineering; advanced simulation and modeling; cyber– physical systems; hybrid and electric vehicles; powertrain and propulsion; manufacturing technologies; advanced materials; green vehicle solutions; road safety and traffic management; transportation engineering

AI-Empowered Assisted and Autonomous Driving

edited by Xubin Sun and Weifeng Zhong

submission deadline 20 Apr 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5664 | Submission Open

Keywords: intelligent train control; ADAS; autonomous driving; enforcement learning; deep learning; energy saving

Next-Generation Power Electronics and Charging Technologies for Electric Vehicles

edited by

Jingfang Wang

, Yuefeng Liao and

Chenwei Ma

submission deadline 20 Apr 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2233 | Submission Open

Keywords: electric vehicles (EVs); power electronic converters; thermal management; battery safety; smart charging; wireless power transfer; bidirectional charging / V2G / G2V; control strategies and modeling; power quality; renewable energy integration; energy storage systems

Air Vehicle Operations: Opportunities, Challenges and Future Trends

edited by

Saba Al-Rubaye

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 5996 | Submission Open

Keywords: air vehicles; urban air mobility; 6G communication and networking; autonomous systems; non-terrestrial networks (NTNs); applications in aerospace systems

Energy Management Strategy of Hybrid Electric Vehicles

edited by

Weiwei Yang

and Yang Tian

submission deadline 15 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 940 | Submission Open

Keywords: energy management strategy; battery life optimization; real-time power distribution; intelligent control technology; vehicle– road– cloud collaboration; multi-objective optimization

V2X Communication

edited by

G. G. Md. Nawaz Ali

and

Arun Kumar

submission deadline 30 May 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2797 | Submission Open

Keywords: V2X communication; 5G and beyond for V2X; autonomous driving systems; security in V2X; V2X simulation

Crash Modeling and Risk Assessment for Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs)

edited by Xiao Wen, Hongliang Ding and

Chunxi Huang

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 284 | Submission Open

Keywords: crash data; risk perception; deep learning; surrogate safety measures; connected and automated vehicles

Sustainable Traffic and Mobility—2nd Edition

edited by

Yanyan Xu

Yu Shen

and Chunxiao Li

submission deadline 5 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2115 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart transportation; public transportation; travel behavior; shared mobility; environmentally friendly mobility

Vehicle Systems and Road Infrastructure Integration for Smarter Transportation Systems

edited by

Anna Grana

Elżbieta Macioszek

and

Maria Luisa Tumminello

submission deadline 10 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2459 | Submission Open

Keywords: vehicle systems; road infrastructure; life-cycle analysis; smart mobility; energy harvesting and energy-efficient road design solutions; smart city planning; adaptive traffic management; smart and connected transportation systems; internet of vehicles (IoV); digital solutions for integrated vehicle-road projects

Planning and Operations for Modern Railway Transport Systems

edited by Yao Chen, Yongxiang Zhang and Jungang Shi

submission deadline 26 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 475 | Submission Open

Keywords: network; line and route planning; resource scheduling; timetable optimization; disruption management; real-time train operations; resilience in railway transport

Vehicle Design Processes, 3rd Edition

edited by

Ralf Stetter

Udo Pulm

and

Markus Till

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4029 | Submission Open

Keywords: design processes; vehicle design; design engineering; digital design; robotics; product data management; multi-domain design processes; vehicle dynamics; vehicle safety; vehicle ergonomics

Models and Algorithms for Railway Line Planning Problems

edited by Yuan Gao, Shuguang Zhan and Chuntian Zhang

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2764 | Submission Open

Keywords: railway system; line planning; train scheduling; mathematical model; algorithm

Optimization and Management of Urban Rail Transit Network

edited by

Songpo Yang

, Lishan Sun and Danni Cao

submission deadline 1 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1001 | Submission Open

Keywords: train operation; crew operation; maintenance operation; emergency response; passenger forecasting; passenger analysis; energy forecasting; energy analysis; urban transit hub; integrative operation; integrative infrastructure; integrative service

Trajectory Tracking of Autonomous Vehicles

edited by

Wei Han

, Cetengfei Zhang and Quan Zhou

submission deadline 30 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 191 | Submission Open

Keywords: autonomous vehicles; trajectory tracking; control strategy; sensor fusion; state estimation; V2X communication; multi-agent cooperative driving; reinforcement learning

Novel Solutions for Transportation Safety, 2nd Edition

edited by

Tai-Jin Song

and Yao Cheng

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2686 | Submission Open

Keywords: vehicle safety; autonomous vehicle; data-driven approach; incident management

Intelligent Vehicle Infrastructure Cooperative System (IVICS)

edited by Tao Chen

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1562 | Submission Open

Keywords: Intelligent Vehicle Infrastructure Cooperative System (IVICS); intelligent vehicles; traffic control; machine learning

Accessible Electric and Autonomous Vehicles: Designing for Inclusion and Mobility

edited by Sivashankar Sivakanthan and Rory A. Cooper

submission deadline 15 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2681 | Submission Open

Keywords: user-centered design; accessible transportation; disabilities; assistive technology; accessibility

Distributed Control of UAVs

edited by Zhanshan Zhao and

Rao Fu

submission deadline 15 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 148 | Submission Open

Keywords: UAV control; distributed control; multi-UAV systems; swarm intelligence; cooperative control

Advanced Vehicle Dynamics and Autonomous Driving Applications

edited by

Fernando Viadero-Monasterio

, Daniel Garcia-Pozuelo,

Basilio Lenzo

Pablo de Villeros

and

José Ramón Trillo

submission deadline 25 Aug 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5808 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; automated vehicles; human-machine shared control; intelligent tire; intelligent transportation systems; path tracking control; robust control; torque vectoring; vehicle comfort; vehicle dynamics; vehicle platoon; vehicle safety; vehicle suspension; vehicle sustainability; V2V and V2I communication

Road Safety, Aberrant Driver Behaviour and Sustainable Transportation Planning

edited by

Muhammad Hussain

Xiaomeng Li

, Paul Roberts and

Amjad Pervez

submission deadline 15 Sep 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3436 | Submission Open

Keywords: transportation systems; road safety; driver behaviour; Intelligent Transport Systems (ITSs); sustainable mobility; data-driven modelling; vehicle automation; connected vehicle systems

Tire and Suspension Dynamics for Vehicle Performance Advancement

edited by

Ye Zhuang

, Xueliang Gao and Shida Nie

submission deadline 15 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3272 | Submission Open

Keywords: tire modeling and dynamics; suspension modeling and dynamics; vehicle performance; suspension control; tire-road interaction; hardware-in- the loop test; tire sensing technology

Thermal Management and Energy Recovery Systems for Vehicle Batteries

edited by

Qinghua Yu

and Zu-Guo Shen

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 191 | Submission Open

Keywords: thermal management systems; energy recovery technologies; vehicle batteries

Electric Vehicle Battery Technologies: From Present States to Future Systems

edited by

Zeyu Chen

and

Nan Zhou

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 98 | Submission Open

Keywords: electric vehicle batteries; battery management systems (BMS); battery safety and thermal management; state estimation; fault diagnosis; intelligent battery systems; multi-physics modeling

Data-Driven Smart Transportation Planning

edited by Zuoxian Gan, Linchao Li and

Zhuangbin Shi

submission deadline 22 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 148 | Submission Open

Keywords: data-driven planning; emerging mobility; explainable AI; travel behavior; policy interaction

Data-Driven Intelligent Transportation Systems

edited by

Tanmoy Bhowmik

, Sagar Dasgupta and Tanmay Das

submission deadline 25 Oct 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1127 | Submission Open

Keywords: data-driven transportation; intelligent transportation systems; connected and automated vehicles; multi-source transportation data; machine learning in transportation; mobility data analytics; transportation system optimization; transportation big data

Advanced Control Strategies for Vehicle Dynamics and Aerodynamics

edited by Lingwei Zeng,

Shiqing Li

, Hao Zhou and

Fabio Alberti

submission deadline 30 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 148 | Submission Open

Keywords: vehicle dynamics; passive and active aerodynamics; flow control; computational fluid dynamics; stability and handling; machine learning; collision safety

Vehicle Lightweight Material Design and Manufacturing Technology

edited by Geng Luo, De'an Meng and

Liangyu Fei

submission deadline 7 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 112 | Submission Open

Keywords: metamaterials; AI; manufacturing technology; additive manufacturing; multi-scale simulation

Computer Vision Applications in Autonomous Vehicles

edited by

Peixing Zhang

Jin Chen

and

Yuande Jiang

submission deadline 15 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 177 | Submission Open

Keywords: vision-based perception for autonomous driving; object detection and tracking in traffic scenes; semantic and panoptic scene understanding; visual localization and mapping (V-SLAM); corner and extreme scenario perception; multi-modal sensor fusion with vision; learning-based lane and road structure detection; vision-driven motion prediction and intent recognition; simulation and synthetic data for vision systems; safety; robustness; and reliability of vision-based system

Trustworthy and Explainable AI for Vehicle Perception and Driver Monitoring

edited by

Marcos Nieto

Carlos R. del Blanco

and

Nerea Aranjuelo

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 1 | Submission Open

Keywords: trustworthy AI; generative AI; vision– language-models (VLA); end-to-end (E2E); driver monitoring systems; human– machine interface (HMI)

(This special issue belongs to the Section Intelligent and Connected Mobility)

Application of Machine Learning in Electric Vehicles

edited by

Bin Li

Jianghui Wen

and

Qiao Wang

submission deadline 2 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 85 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; electric vehicles; battery management; energy optimization; intelligent transportation systems

Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Communications

edited by Yong Liao,

Chunguo Li

and Pei Liu

submission deadline 20 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 131 | Submission Open

Keywords: intelligent and connected vehicles; V2X (vehicle-to-everything) communication; ISAC (integrated sensing and communication); edge intelligent; URLLC (ultra-reliable & low-latency communication); network architecture; collaborative sensing; resource allocation; communication security; smart transportation

Emerging Solutions and Technologies for Smart Mobility and Vehicle Safety in Transportation, 2nd Edition

edited by

Eva Michelaraki

and

George Yannis

submission deadline 25 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 211 | Submission Open

Keywords: road safety; travel behavior; smart mobility; transportation systems; cooperative; connected and automated mobility; intelligent connected vehicles; vehicular communication technologies; autonomous vehicles

The Application of Deep Learning in Intelligent Vehicle Perception Systems

edited by Lie Yang and Xiangkun He

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 9752 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; intelligent vehicle perception systems; sensors; autonomous vehicles; decision-making

Reliability Analysis and Evaluation of Automotive Systems, 2nd Edition

edited by Lihui Zhao and Christoph Bleicher

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 623 | Submission Open

Keywords: failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA); fault tree analysis (FTA); reliability testing; prognostics and health management (PHM); risk assessment; failure prediction; maintenance strategies; warranty analysis; quality control; reliability modeling and simulation

Battery Technologies, Management, and System Integration for Vehicle Electrification

edited by

Yiqun Liu

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 70 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable battery technologies; vehicle electrification; advanced battery materials; next-generation battery chemistries; battery lifecycle assessment; battery recycling and second-life applications; battery management and safety; electric and hybrid vehicles

Advanced Vehicle Powertrain Control and Energy Management Strategies

edited by

Yong Chen

Qin Li

and Jie Li

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 123 | Submission Open

Keywords: vehicle powertrain; intelligent control technology; energy management strategy; distributed-drive electric vehicle; vehicle– road– cloud collaboration; autonomous vehicles; multi-objective optimization

Emerging Transportation Safety and Operations: Practical Perspectives, 3rd Edition

edited by

Deogratias Eustace

, Bhaven Naik,

Heng Wei

and

Parth Bhavsar

submission deadline 25 Feb 2027 | Viewed by 91 | Submission Open

Keywords: traffic safety; surrogate measures; injury severity; crash severity; connected/automated vehicle safety; safety methods; intelligent transportation systems

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