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Optimization of Intelligent Transport Systems Planning Energy Efficiency and Environmental Responsibility

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "G1: Smart Cities and Urban Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 March 2025 | Viewed by 3824

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Dr. Marcin Kłos

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Department of Transport Systems, Traffic Engineering and Logistics, Faculty of Transport and Aviation Engineering, Silesian University of Technology, Krasińskiego 8 Street, 40-019 Katowice, Poland
Interests: civil engineering; GIS analysis; ITS; mobility; QGIS; transportation; urban planning; travel behavior; traffic safety; transport planning and safety management
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Prof. Dr. Grzegorz Sierpiński

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Department Transport Systems, Traffic Engineering and Logistics, Faculty of Transport and Aviation Engineering, Silesian University of Technology, Krasińskiego Str. 8, 40-019 Katowice, Poland
Interests: sustainable transport; electromobility; travel behavior; environmentally friendly transport solutions; traffic engineering; traffic flow measurement; analysis and prognosis; transport systems modeling; optimization of transport networks
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of Energies, “Optimization of Intelligent Transport Systems Planning Energy Efficiency and Environmental Responsibility,” will consist of manuscripts describing problems and challenges for transport systems.

The modern approach to city planning generates new expectations for mobility. The geographic space is a kind of limited resource. Currently, dynamical changes in land-use are being observed. During that process, administrative units do not always prepare land-use planning while considering sustainable development. Vehicle numbers are increasing, as are the number of trips being made. This results from changes in people’s lifestyles, the habits created, and the increased convenience associated with personal transport. This development of individual transport, which contributes to the deterioration of road conditions (congestion), is harming the environment due to air and noise pollution and energy consumption and is causing the deterioration of residents’ health (due to increased use of personal transport).

To plan a modern transport system, it is necessary to plan it for citizens and design it around environmental friendliness and high accessibility. Transport systems should make optimal use of the available resources. Cities have limited space to build new roads and railways. The answer to the problem identified is the introduction of sustainable planning. One approach could be intelligent transport systems (supporting the development of public transport by prioritizing them). It is essential to take a holistic approach to the area to increase journeys made by public transport or eco-friendly mobility.

We invite all scientists and practitioners to submit articles related to modern solutions used for transport system planning. Ensuring the appropriate quality of its functioning is a big challenge facing smart cities. It requires a multicriteria approach, taking into account the principles of sustainable development. We hope that this Special Issue of Energies will be an opportunity to present the research results and exchange experiences.

Both original research and review works are welcome for submission. Research topics of interest include, but are not limited to, models and methods concerning:

  • Public transport optimization;
  • Introduction of electro-mobility infrastructure;
  • Spatial planning of electro-mobility infrastructure;
  • Transport development;
  • Sustainable mobility shaping and planning;
  • Information technologies in a public transport system;
  • Planning of intelligent transport systems;
  • Transit-oriented development strategies in urban areas;
  • Energy networks in smart cities;
  • Conventional, hybrid and electric drive systems;
  • Various communication environment and innovative new mobility service;
  • Safety in transport systems;
  • Autonomous vehicles and their impact for transport system;
  • The implementation of the MaaS integrating public transport systems.

Dr. Marcin Kłos
Dr. Grzegorz Sierpiński
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • intelligent transport systems
  • transport systems
  • energy efficiency
  • spatial analysis
  • environmental responsibility
  • public transport
  • sustainable urban mobility
  • sustainable development
  • smart city
  • spatio-temporal analysis
  • urban planning

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The Attractiveness of Regional Transport as a Direction for Improving Transport Energy Efficiency
by Wojciech Miechowicz, Marcin Kiciński, Izabela Miechowicz and Agnieszka Merkisz-Guranowska
Energies 2024, 17(19), 4844; https://doi.org/10.3390/en17194844 - 27 Sep 2024
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One of the ways to improve energy efficiency in transportation is through efforts aimed at increasing the usage of public transportation by residents. This, in turn, is closely related to residents’ preferences. One of the most frequently cited factors influencing the attractiveness and [...] Read more.
One of the ways to improve energy efficiency in transportation is through efforts aimed at increasing the usage of public transportation by residents. This, in turn, is closely related to residents’ preferences. One of the most frequently cited factors influencing the attractiveness and quality of public transportation is the frequency of connections. This is important not only for urban transport but also regional transport, which has significantly lower passenger flows. This paper aims to present how the frequency of connections affects the attractiveness of regional transport. An original method for determining the attractiveness of public transport, based on the share of adult, senior, and youth passengers with single tickets and monthly passes, is introduced. The results of research on the structure of passengers and flows to/from the district center are presented. Based on the research results, attractiveness factors are calculated for each town. The statistical analysis clearly indicates there is a strong correlation between the attractiveness of regional transport and the frequency of connections (Rs = 0.807, p = 0.001). Moreover, for every connection increase, the number of adult passengers will increase by an average of 1.5. Assuming that these additional passengers switch from individual to public transportation, the resulting reduction in energy consumption due to an increase of one connection is 0.33–0.69 kWh for each kilometer traveled by these passengers. Full article
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Reliable Energy Optimization Strategy for Fuel Cell Hybrid Electric Vehicles Considering Fuel Cell and Battery Health
by Cong Ji, Elkhatib Kamal and Reza Ghorbani
Energies 2024, 17(18), 4686; https://doi.org/10.3390/en17184686 - 20 Sep 2024
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To enhance the fuel efficiency of fuel cell hybrid electric vehicles (FCHEVs), we propose a hierarchical energy management strategy (HEMS) to efficiently allocate power to a hybrid system comprising a fuel cell and a battery. Firstly, the upper-layer supervisor employs a fuzzy fault-tolerant [...] Read more.
To enhance the fuel efficiency of fuel cell hybrid electric vehicles (FCHEVs), we propose a hierarchical energy management strategy (HEMS) to efficiently allocate power to a hybrid system comprising a fuel cell and a battery. Firstly, the upper-layer supervisor employs a fuzzy fault-tolerant control and prediction strategy for the battery and fuel cell management system, ensuring vehicle stability and maintaining a healthy state of charge for both the battery and fuel cell, even during faults. Secondly, in the lower layer, dynamic programming and Pontryagin’s minimum principle are utilized to distribute the necessary power between the fuel cell system and the battery. This layer also incorporates an optimized proportional-integral controller for precise tracking of vehicle subsystem set-points. Finally, we compare the economic and dynamic performance of the vehicle using HEMS with other strategies, such as the equivalent consumption minimization strategy and fuzzy logic control strategy. Simulation results demonstrate that HEMS reduces hydrogen consumption and enhances overall vehicle energy efficiency across all operating conditions, indicating superior economic performance. Additionally, the dynamic performance of the vehicle shows significant improvement. Full article
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The Influence of Stops on the Selected Route of the City ITS on the Energy Efficiency of the Public Bus
by Miroslaw Smieszek, Vasyl Mateichyk and Jakub Mosciszewski
Energies 2024, 17(16), 4179; https://doi.org/10.3390/en17164179 - 22 Aug 2024
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Public transport is an important part of sustainable economic development, sustainable cities, and communities. Reducing energy consumption in public transport can be achieved through better organisation of the transport system, changes in infrastructure, the use of new energy-efficient means of transport, and other [...] Read more.
Public transport is an important part of sustainable economic development, sustainable cities, and communities. Reducing energy consumption in public transport can be achieved through better organisation of the transport system, changes in infrastructure, the use of new energy-efficient means of transport, and other ways to achieve intelligent mobility. The operation of a city bus involves frequent stops. These stops are due to the need to exchange passengers at bus stops and traffic conditions. Each stop and the subsequent acceleration process require additional energy consumption. In this paper, an analysis of bus operation within the Rzeszów ITS on a selected route is carried out to determine the energy consumption in these special modes. First, the number and duration of stops were determined based on data recorded during the bus operation using the tracker. Then, taking into account the idle fuel consumption and the energy consumption required to reach a set speed, the total energy consumption associated with the stops was determined. The results obtained on the selected route indicate a significant share of energy associated with stops at bus stops and outside bus stops in total fuel consumption. These shares are about 26.2% and about 42.5%, respectively. The opportunity to improve the energy efficiency of the city bus on the route due to the reduction of stops at bus stops by introducing on-demand stops as one of the elements of ITS has been evaluated. The number of stops related to traffic conditions can be reduced by further improving traffic management and measures to modify urban infrastructure. Full article
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Manifold Learning in Electric Power System Transient Stability Analysis
by Petar Sarajcev and Dino Lovric
Energies 2023, 16(23), 7810; https://doi.org/10.3390/en16237810 - 27 Nov 2023
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This paper examines the use of manifold learning in the context of electric power system transient stability analysis. Since wide-area monitoring systems (WAMSs) introduced a big data paradigm into the power system operation, manifold learning can be seen as a means of condensing [...] Read more.
This paper examines the use of manifold learning in the context of electric power system transient stability analysis. Since wide-area monitoring systems (WAMSs) introduced a big data paradigm into the power system operation, manifold learning can be seen as a means of condensing these high-dimensional data into an appropriate low-dimensional representation (i.e., embedding) which preserves as much information as possible. In this paper, we consider several embedding methods (principal component analysis (PCA) and its variants, singular value decomposition, isomap and spectral embedding, locally linear embedding (LLE) and its variants, multidimensional scaling (MDS), and others) and apply them to the dataset derived from the IEEE New England 39-bus power system transient simulations. We found that PCA with a radial basis function kernel is well suited to this type of power system data (where features are instances of three-phase phasor values). We also found that the LLE (including its variants) did not produce a good embedding with this particular kind of data. Furthermore, we found that a support vector machine, trained on top of the embedding produced by several different methods was able to detect power system disturbances from WAMS data. Full article
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