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New Perspectives in Intelligent Transportation Systems and Mobile Communications towards a Smart Cities Context

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A special issue of Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2018) | Viewed by 37178

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Dr. Giovanni Pau

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Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Kore University of Enna, 94100 Enna, Italy
Interests: wireless sensor networks; intelligent transportation systems; Internet of things; green communications; fuzzy logic
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Dr. Alessandro Severino

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Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Kore University of Enna, Enna, Italy
Interests: intelligent transportation systems; traffic light management; inter-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications; traffic operations management and control
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Dr. Antonino Canale

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Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, University of Enna Kore, Cittadella Universitaria, 94100 Enna (EN), Italy
Interests: sustainable and resilient mobility; shared mobility; microscopic traffic simulation; active mobility; planning for accessibility
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Dear Colleagues,

Future smart cities will be based, both, on intelligent transportation solutions and smart information and communication technologies. For this reason, these topics have attracted considerable interest in the research and development of smarter communication protocols. In fact, in recent years, important advancements in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) have been found in the evolution of in-vehicle systems by the application of artificial intelligence, in the connection of in-vehicle devices by wireless networks, and in in-vehicle services for autonomous driving using high-precision positioning and sensing systems. Furthermore, there has also been a meaningful improvement in mobile ad hoc and sensor networks and ubiquitous services in the area of mobile communications. It is clear that a sound synergy between ITS solutions and mobile communications can concretely open new perspectives for future smart cities.

This Special Issue solicits the submission of high-quality and unpublished papers that aim to solve open technical problems and challenges typical of mobile communications for ITS, integrating novel approaches efficiently, and focusing on the performance evaluation and comparison with existing solutions. Both theoretical and experimental studies for typical and future ITS scenarios are encouraged. Furthermore, also high-quality review and survey papers are welcome.

Specific Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for Transportation Systems
Smart Decision Systems (e.g., expert systems and intelligent agents)
Control Systems (e.g., adaptive, fuzzy, cooperative, neuro) for Transportation Networks
Driver and Traveler Support Systems
Renewable Energy-Based Vehicles for Green Transportation
Traffic Operations Management and Control
New Traffic Control Concepts that promote communications-based traffic control
Green Mobility and Intelligent Transportation Technology
Inter-vehicle and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communications
Future Network Architecture for Green Intelligent Transportation Systems
Energy Efficiency Content Delivery over Intelligent Transportation Systems
Internet of Vehicles (IoV) for improving ITS
Green and Sustainable Storage Designs for Intelligent Transportation Systems
Trust, Security, and Privacy in Transportation Network
Context and Location-Aware Intelligent Transportation Systems

Prof. Giovanni Pau
Dr. Alessandro Severino
Dr. Antonino Canale
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Future Internet is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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Special Issue “New Perspectives in Intelligent Transportation Systems and Mobile Communications towards a Smart Cities Context”

by Giovanni Pau, Alessandro Severino and Antonino Canale

Future Internet 2019, 11(11), 228; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi11110228 - 28 Oct 2019

Cited by 21 | Viewed by 3431

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Intelligent transportation solutions and smart information and communication technologies will be the core of future smart cities. For this purpose, these topics have captivated noteworthy interest in the investigation and construction of cleverer communication protocols or the application of artificial intelligence in the connection of in-vehicle devices by wireless networks, and in in-vehicle services for autonomous driving using high-precision positioning and sensing systems. This special issue has focused on the collection of high-quality papers aimed at solving open technical problems and challenges typical of mobile communications for Intelligent Transportation Systems. Full article

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Research on a Support System for Automatic Ship Navigation in Fairway

by Van Suong Nguyen

Future Internet 2019, 11(2), 38; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi11020038 - 03 Feb 2019

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In previous investigations, controllers for the track-keeping of ships were designed with the assumption of constant ship speed. However, when navigating in a fairway area, the ship’s speed is usually decreased to prepare for berthing. The existing track-keeping systems, which are applied when the ship navigates in the open sea with a constant ship speed, cannot be used to navigate the ship in the fairway. In this article, a support system is proposed for ship navigation in the fairway. This system performs three tasks. First, the ship is automatically controlled by regulating the rudder to follow planned tracks. Second, the ship’s speed is reduced step by step to approach the berth area at a low speed. Finally, at low speed, when the ship’s rudder is not effective enough to control the ship’s heading to a desired angle, the ship’s heading is adjusted appropriately by the bow thruster before changing the control mode into the automatic berthing system. By the proposed system, the automatic systems can be combined to obtain a fully automatic system for ship control. To validate the effectiveness of this proposed system for automatic ship navigation in the fairway, numerical simulations were conducted with a training ship model. Full article

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A Crowdsensing Platform for Monitoring of Vehicular Emissions: A Smart City Perspective

by Marianne Silva, Gabriel Signoretti, Julio Oliveira, Ivanovitch Silva and Daniel G. Costa

Future Internet 2019, 11(1), 13; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi11010013 - 08 Jan 2019

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Historically, cities follow reactive planning models where managers make decisions as problems occur. On the other hand, the exponential growth of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has allowed the connection of a diverse array of sensors, devices, systems, and objects. These objects can then generate data that can be transformed into information and used in a more efficient urban planning paradigm, one that allows decisions to be made before the occurrence of problems and emergencies. Therefore, this article aims to propose a platform capable of estimating the amount of carbon dioxide based on sensor readings in vehicles, indirectly contributing to a more proactive city planning based on the monitoring of vehicular pollution. Crowdsensing techniques and an On-Board Diagnostic (OBD-II) reader are used to extract data from vehicles in real time, which are then stored locally on the devices used to perform data collection. With the performed experiments, it was possible to extract information about the operation of the vehicles and their dynamics when moving in a city, providing valuable information that can support auxiliary tools for the management of urban centers. Full article

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The Optimization of Marine Diesel Engine Rotational Speed Control Process by Fuzzy Logic Control Based on Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm

by Tien Anh Tran

Future Internet 2018, 10(10), 99; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi10100099 - 04 Oct 2018

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The marine main diesel engine rotational speed automatic control plays a significant role in determining the optimal main diesel engine speed under impacting on navigation environment conditions. In this article, the application of fuzzy logic control theory for main diesel engine speed control has been associated with Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). Firstly, the controller is designed according to fuzzy logic control theory. Secondly, the fuzzy logic controller will be optimized by Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) in order to obtain the optimal adjustment of the membership functions only. Finally, the fuzzy logic controller has been completely innovated by Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm. The study results will be represented under digital simulation form, as well as comparison between traditional fuzzy logic controller with fuzzy logic control–particle swarm optimization speed controller being obtained. Full article

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Optimal Design of Demand-Responsive Feeder Transit Services with Passengers’ Multiple Time Windows and Satisfaction

by Bo Sun, Ming Wei and Senlai Zhu

Future Internet 2018, 10(3), 30; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi10030030 - 12 Mar 2018

Cited by 24 | Viewed by 5505

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This paper presents a mixed-integer linear programming model for demand-responsive feeder transit services to assign vehicles located at different depots to pick up passengers at the demand points and transport them to the rail station. The proposed model features passengers’ one or several preferred time windows for boarding vehicles at the demand point and their expected ride time. Moreover, passenger satisfaction that was related only to expected ride time is fully accounted for in the model. The objective is to simultaneously minimize the operation costs of total mileage and maximize passenger satisfaction. As the problem is an extension of the nondeterministic polynomial problem with integration of the vehicle route problem, this study further develops an improved bat algorithm to yield meta-optimal solutions for the model in a reasonable amount of time. When this was applied to a case study in Nanjing City, China, the mileage and satisfaction of the proposed model were reduced by 1.4 km and increased by 7.1%, respectively, compared with the traditional model. Sensitivity analyses were also performed to investigate the impact of the number of designed bus routes and weights of objective functions on the model performance. Finally, a comparison of Cplex, standard bat algorithm, and group search optimizer is analyzed to verify the validity of the proposed algorithm. Full article

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A Review of Vehicle to Vehicle Communication Protocols for VANETs in the Urban Environment

by Irshad Ahmed Abbasi and Adnan Shahid Khan

Future Internet 2018, 10(2), 14; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi10020014 - 31 Jan 2018

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Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) have been gaining significant attention from the research community due to their increasing importance for building an intelligent transportation system. The characteristics of VANETs, such as high mobility, network partitioning, intermittent connectivity and obstacles in city environments, make routing a challenging task. Due to these characteristics of VANETs, the performance of a routing protocol is degraded. The position-based routing is considered to be the most significant approach in VANETs. In this paper, we present a brief review of most significant position based unicast routing protocols designed for vehicle to vehicle communications in the urban environment. We provide them with their working features for exchanging information between vehicular nodes. We describe their pros and cons. This study also provides a comparison of the vehicle to vehicle communication based routing protocols. The comparative study is based on some significant factors such as mobility, traffic density, forwarding techniques and method of junction selection mechanism, and strategy used to handle a local optimum situation. It also provides the simulation based study of existing dynamic junction selection routing protocols and a static junction selection routing protocol. It provides a profound insight into the routing techniques suggested in this area and the most valuable solutions to advance VANETs. More importantly, it can be used as a source of references to other researchers in finding literature that is relevant to routing in VANETs. Full article

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