Innovative Road Materials and Pavement Design—Functional Materials and Intelligent Sensing Pavement

Dear Colleagues,

The functionalization and intelligence of transportation infrastructure are the cornerstone of future traffic with safety, intelligence, and green and shared development. There are some hot research technical directions in the development of contemporary highway transportation to meet the major needs of future transportation development. These include, in the direction of functional materials, the research and development of new pavement materials and structures with self-heating, self-melting snow, self-energy harvesting, and self-sensing suitable for different environments and vehicle operation scenes; and in the direction of intelligent sensing pavement, research and development of multidimensional intelligent sensing systems for pavement and evaluation methods of pavement service performance. These research technical directions have great and far-reaching significance for the essential improvement of transportation infrastructure service levels and the development of international transportation.

The topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

• Reviews and summaries of the latest achievements in the field of functional materials and intelligent sensing pavement, and discussion around future research directions and development;
• Development and design methods for self-heating/self-cooling/self-snow melting pavement materials;
• Self-sensing pavement and its supporting sensing system technology;
• Self-healing pavement and its diagnosis system technology;
• Evaluation methods of service performance of functional pavement;
• Self-energy harvesting pavement and its energy conversion system technology;
• Environmentally friendly pavement materials and structure;
• Development of self-cleaning pavement materials and their service performance;
• Development and establishment of multidimensional intelligent sensing system platforms for pavement;
• Processing and analysis method of massive data of intelligent sensing pavement.

Prof. Dr. Yiqiu Tan
Dr. Huining Xu
Prof. Dr. Wei Jiang
Prof. Dr. Feng Li
Dr. Quantao Liu
Prof. Dr. Xingyi Zhu
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

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. Materials is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.