Sensors and Data-Driven Intelligent Transportation Systems
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2022) | Viewed by 1831
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Transportation Engineering; Transportation Systems Analysis; Intelligent Transportation Systems; Optimization and Simulation Methods
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: Intelligent Transportation Systems; Transportation Safety; Traffic Control and Simulation; Data Analytics
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: transportation safety and security; intelligent transportation systems; traffic simulation; big data and data mining
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sensors are essential components of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), such as connected vehicles, automated vehicles, traveler information systems, and advanced traffic control systems. They include loop detectors, mobile devices, traffic cameras, radar and lidar sensors, drones, etc. These sensors generate an enormous amount of data that are important for guiding decision making in transportation and for efficient operation of the transportation system.
Numerous critical issues can be addressed by the wide range of the sensor applications in ITS. Some examples of such issues are: how to optimally place sensors and quantify their benefits, how to effectively visualize, analyze and integrate data from various sources using advanced models, and how nontraditional sensor data can be used to develop innovative solutions to traffic operations problems (e.g., incident detection, traffic re-routing, etc.) and traffic safety applications (e.g., hotspot identification).
This Special Joint Issue focuses on innovative ITS solutions enabled by both traditional and nontraditional sensors. Submissions related to all aspects of sensor-enabled innovative ITS applications are encouraged. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Optimal placement of sensors
- Development and evaluation of new sensor applications for ITS problems
- Innovative traffic safety solutions based on advanced sensors, such as Surrogate Safety Measures (SSM) derived from sensor data
- Crash count and hotspot modeling based on emerging data sources
- Development of advanced statistical and Artificial Intelligence (AI) models using ITS sensor data (e.g., asset conditions, traffic videos, telemetry data)
- Advanced transportation decision making models based on sensor data
- Deriving critical transportation planning data such as travel demands, Origin-Destination (OD) information, travel times, traffic volumes from data collected using cameras, loop detectors, smartphones, microwave detectors, Bluetooth, etc.
- Using sensor data for real-time route guidance and parking information
- Development of innovative traffic signal control strategies based on sensor information (e.g., adaptive signal control,transit signal priority, perimeter gating control, connected vehicles, Automated Traffic Signal Performance Measures)
- Incident detection from multi-sourced data
- Sensors and highway operations (e.g., work zone operations, queue warning, distracted and fatigued drivers, occupancy detection for High-Occupancy Vehicle Lane operations)
- Wireless sensor networks and Internet of Things (IoT) for ITS (e.g., traffic monitoring, smart parking, traffic controller status monitoring)
- Real-time traveler information system such as roadway weather systems (e.g., black ice and flooding detection)
- Structural and vehicle health monitoring (e.g., bridge, pavement, rail track, rolling stock)
- Mobile sensor networks (e.g., data mining using smartphone data, connected vehicles, commercial fleets, buses, GPS)
You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Systems.
Prof. Dr. Nathan Gartner
Prof. Dr. Yuanchang Xie
Prof. Dr. Chen Wang
Guest Editors
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