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Intelligent Transportation Systems for Sustainable Mobility

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Transportation and Future Mobility".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 March 2025 | Viewed by 911

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Interests: public transportation systems; network design; simulation

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Dear Colleagues,

Sustainable mobility requires safe, equitable, and adaptable multi-modal transportation systems. Automated vehicle technology, smart infrastructure, and connected systems impact these systems in both their design and operations in sometimes new and unexpected manners. Often lost in the discussion of vehicle automation and smart infrastructure is the human element—as ultimately new transportation technology will interact with humans. Facing the next generation of transportation engineers, researchers, and scientists is the challenge of designing and operating sustainable mobility systems that are safe, effective, and equitable.

This Special Issue seeks papers focusing on research investigating the safety impacts of new automated vehicle technology on all modes of travel, the equitable design and operation of multi-modal systems in the context of smart infrastructure and human impacts, and interactions with the next generation of sustainable mobility infrastructure.

Dr. Nicholas E. Lownes
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Keywords

  • transportation safety
  • smart infrastructure
  • sustainability
  • automated vehicles
  • equitable design
  • multi-modal transportation

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15 pages, 4786 KiB  
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Development of Integrated Driving Evaluation Index by Proportion of Autonomous Vehicles for Future Intelligent Transportation Systems
by Minkyung Kim, Hoseon Kim and Cheol Oh
Appl. Sci. 2024, 14(20), 9322; https://doi.org/10.3390/app14209322 - 13 Oct 2024
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As the market penetration rate (MPR) of autonomous vehicles increases, it is expected that the safety of mixed traffic situations will change due to interactions between vehicles. A proactive safety analysis of mixed traffic situations is needed for future intelligent transportation systems; thus, [...] Read more.
As the market penetration rate (MPR) of autonomous vehicles increases, it is expected that the safety of mixed traffic situations will change due to interactions between vehicles. A proactive safety analysis of mixed traffic situations is needed for future intelligent transportation systems; thus, it is necessary to determine the driving safety evaluation indicators that have a significant impact on identifying hazardous sections of actual roads by each MPR. The purpose of this study is to simulate autonomous vehicle behavior by analyzing real-world autonomous vehicle data and to derive a promising integrated driving safety evaluation index for mixed traffic. Autonomous vehicle driving data from an autonomous mobility testbed in Seoul were collected and analyzed to assess autonomous vehicle behavior in VISSIM. The simulation environment was established to match the real road environment. Decision tree (DT) analysis was adopted to derive the indicators influencing the classification of hazardous sections of real roads by MPR. The vehicle–vehicle interaction indicators used to evaluate driving safety were applied as the input variables of the DT, and the classification of real-world hazardous road sections was the output variable. An integrated evaluation index was developed using the promising evaluation indicators and information gains derived for each MPR. The most hazardous section and the factors affecting the driving safety of the section based on the integrated evaluation index for each MPR were then presented. The results of this study can be utilized to proactively identify hazardous road sections in the real world through simulations of mixed traffic conditions. Full article
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Title: Development of integrated driving safety evaluation index by the proportion of autonomous vehicles for future intelligent transportation systems
Authors: Cheol Oh
Affiliation: Department of Smart City Engineering, Hanyang University Erica Campus, 55 Hanyangdaehak-ro, Sangnok-gu, Ansan 15588, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

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