Data-Driven Intelligent Transportation Systems

Dear Colleagues,

The transportation sector is undergoing a fundamental shift driven by the unprecedented growth of data from diverse sources. Connected and automated vehicles, roadside and infrastructure-based sensors, mobile devices, and emerging mobility services generate continuous streams of information that capture detailed characteristics of vehicle trajectories, traffic states, infrastructure conditions, and traveler interactions. This rapidly expanding data ecosystem is becoming indispensable for modeling and managing complex transportation networks.

Advances in computational methods, including machine learning, statistical inference, high-performance simulation, and real-time analytics, now allow for these heterogeneous datasets to be processed, fused, and transformed into predictive and prescriptive insights. Such approaches support system-wide optimization, adaptive traffic management, infrastructure health monitoring, and data-informed planning. Data-driven methodologies are becoming a cornerstone for improving safety, operational efficiency, sustainability, and resilience in transportation systems.

For this Special Issue of Vehicles, titled “Data-Driven Intelligent Transportation Systems,” we invite original research that advances the use of data to analyze, model, and improve mobility systems. Contributions may focus on the development of new analytical frameworks, the integration of multi-source datasets, or applications demonstrating the impact of data-driven approaches on system performance and decision-making. Both theoretical and applied studies are welcome, and interdisciplinary research connecting transportation and data science is encouraged.

We invite you to share your research and contribute to this Special Issue.

Dr. Tanmoy Bhowmik
Dr. Sagar Dasgupta
Dr. Tanmay Das
Guest Editors

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