Internet of Vehicles for Intelligent Transportation System

Dear Colleagues,

The Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is a distributed network that supports the use of data created by connected cars and vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). The goal of the IoV is to allow vehicles to communicate in real time with their human drivers, pedestrians, other vehicles, roadside infrastructure, and fleet management systems. It is predicted that the global IoV market is expected to be worth over USD 200 billion by 2024. The IoV supports five types of network communication: Intra-Vehicle; Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V); Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I); Vehicle to Cloud (V2C); and Vehicle to Pedestrian (V2P). These five types of networks mentioned above are sometimes referred to as Vehicle to Everything (V2X) communication. In this Special Issue, we would like to mainly focus on research, technology development, engineering policy, and management studies that are related to the field of electric vehicles where IoV is a significant medium. As IoV-focused systems need energy in the same way that all electronic devices do, potential authors are strongly encouraged to relate their research to energy supply, conversion, and dispatch technologies, though research on other technologies is welcome as well.

Autonomous Vehicles (electric vehicles) are technologies that co-exist and co-support  Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). IoV and V2X communication are considered to be frameworks of the ITS. It has been generally accepted that IoV together with ITS focuses on a certain branch of transport, namely road transport. However, some authors have defined the term Internal Intelligent Transport System as “an information and communication system aimed at providing services related to various subjects of transport/logistics/production engineering and management (…), allowing and ensuring safer, more coordinated, smarter use of internal transport and better information flow between various subjects” (https://doi.org/10.3390/en14164919). Therefore, this Special Issue welcomes fresh insights that relate to the space around us in the context of terms that are also complementary to intelligent transport.

This Special Issue aims at highlighting the latest developments in identifying the key challenges in IoV along with their available and potential solutions. The Special Issue is expected to provide a platform for academics and industry researchers to identify and debate technical problems and recent accomplishments that are associated with IoV.

We invite researchers and industry representatives in the global IT, transportation, logistics, and production communities to contribute original research papers as well as review articles and empirical studies that will stimulate debate in the examination of different aspects of smart vehicles and transport systems such as enabling technologies, human factors, analyses of social and economic impacts, resource management, high-performance computing, security, privacy, trust management, the complexity of routing algorithms, and environmental issues, as well as other relevant topics in the field. The topics of interest include but are not limited to the following keywords.

Prof. Dr. Lorna Uden
Dr. Mariusz Kostrzewski
Guest Editors

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