Harnessing the Geospatial Data Revolution for Promoting Sustainable Transport Systems
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Earth Observation Data".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 April 2024) | Viewed by 2120
Special Issue Editors
Interests: GIS; spatial data science; transport geography; mobility analytics
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Interests: spatial analysis; remote sensing; human–environment interactions; social sensing; deep learning
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Interests: GIScience; geospatial big data; spatial computing; GeoAI
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A sustainable transport system plays a vital role in a successful society, the construction and operation of which require the support of considerable amounts of transport data from a variety of sources to inspect road asset conditions; track traffic flow dynamics; monitor transport emergencies; analyse traffic safety, equality, and accessibility, etc. With the advancement of new and scalable data sources, robust acquisition methodologies, and transmission techniques, unprecedented amounts of traffic information are being generated and collected from various data sources, such as roadside sensors, very-high-resolution (VHR)/HR satellite imagery, streetscape observations, sensor-rich mobile devices, and connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs). Compared with conventional data sources, these emerging geospatial big datasets are massive in size, spatiotemporally fine-scaled, and high-dimensional (e.g., multivariate and multivalued), providing researchers with rich and timely information to effectively manage transport systems and gain new insights into different transport challenges (e.g., crashes, congestion, emissions, mobility inequality). However, managing and analysing these big complex datasets expose new problems and challenges in terms of strategies to promote multiple aspects, including (1) data integration, enrichment, storage, archiving, and sharing; (2) data quality control (e.g., reducing data uncertainty and redundancy); (3) data security, integrity, and privacy; and (4) data processing, analysis, and visualization.
This Special Issue invites the submission of original research papers and review articles that showcase the latest developments, innovations, and applications of emerging transport data in sustainable transport management and operations. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Application of emerging geospatial data in road asset recognition, digitization, and inventorization;
- Application of emerging geospatial data in transport equity and accessibility, including environmental policy assessments;
- Application of new geo-visualization methods and platforms for exploring big transport data;
- Strategies for encouraging transport data sharing and protecting data privacy and security;
- Multi-source data fusion challenges and considerations in transport applications;
- Examining the role of geospatial big data in enhancing resilience and emergency responses for transport systems in the face of natural disasters, pandemics, and other crises.
You may choose our Joint Special Issue in ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information.
Dr. Xiao Li
Dr. Xiao Huang
Dr. Zhenlong Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable transport system
- emerging transport data
- big data analytics
- novel sensing technologies
- road asset recognition and digitization
- transport monitoring and assessment
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