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A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2022) | Viewed by 9098

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Interests: public transportation; vehicle automation; swarm intelligence
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Dear Colleagues,

The demand for public and individual transport will continue to rise according to long-term economic prospects. As an obvious consequence, urban traffic congestion can be expected to become more intricate, further leading to negative environmental, social, and economic impacts. The application of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) can mitigate these impacts and improve sustainable development. Recent evolutions in information and artificial intelligence technology such as data analytics and machine learning further raise the prospects for ITS to be designed in response to specific needs. Therefore, utilizing the huge potential of big data for traffic management and ITS is a key challenge.

It is anticipated that data-driven research will create new breakthroughs for ITS and sustainability. This Special Issue aims to collect papers that reflect up-to-date findings, research achievements, and innovative ideas of data-driven design of intelligent transportation systems. Particular attention will be given to the following theme areas; however, it should be stressed that a broad range of submissions are encouraged. We welcome papers on the following topics from a data-driven perspective:

ITS element deployment and optimization such as detector location and capacity allocation, including analysis of stakeholder costs, system benefits, and so on;
Modeling the behavior and preference of travelers taking ITS modes such as shared mobility and autonomous driving;
Establishing the analytic architecture of ITS network performance, for example, to what extent ITS applications facilitate urban transportation from a sustainable development perspective;
Designing the policy and strategy for ITS operation and management, aimed at enhancing the safety and efficiency of urban transportation;
Case studies of ITS applications, such as data-enabled incident management and emergency evacuation, intelligent supply chains, intelligent parking assist system;
Future perspectives on data-driven design of ITS.

Prof. Dr. Baozhen Yao
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Modeling HDV and CAV Mixed Traffic Flow on a Foggy Two-Lane Highway with Cellular Automata and Game Theory Model

by Bowen Gong, Fanting Wang, Ciyun Lin and Dayong Wu

Sustainability 2022, 14(10), 5899; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su14105899 - 12 May 2022

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Mixed traffic composed of human-driven vehicles (HDVs) and CAVs will exist for an extended period before connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) are fully employed on the road. There is a consensus that dense fog can cause serious traffic accidents and reduce traffic efficiency. In order to enhance the safety, mobility, and efficiency of highway networks in adverse weather conditions, it is necessary to explore the characteristics of mixed traffic. Therefore, we develop a novel cellular automata model for mixed traffic considering the limited visual distance and exploring the influence of visibility levels and CAV market penetration on traffic efficiency. We design acceleration, deceleration, and randomization rules for different car-following scenes. For lane-changing, considering the interaction of CAVs and surrounding vehicles, we introduce game theory (GT) to lane-changing policies for CAVs. This paper presents the following main findings. In reduced visibility conditions, the introduction of CAVs is beneficial to improve mixed traffic efficiency on metrics such as free-flow speed and traffic capacity (e.g., 100% CAVs could increase the traffic capacity up to around 182% in environments of dense fog). In addition, the critical density increases as the proportion of CAVs increases, which is more pronounced in conditions of dense fog according to the simulation results. In addition, we compared the proposed GT-based lane-changing strategy to the traditional STCA lane-changing strategy. The results showed that the average speed is significantly improved under the proposed lane-changing strategy. The model presented in this paper can evaluate the overall performance and provide a reference for future management and control of mixed traffic flow in fog conditions. Full article

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Study on the Extraction Method of Sub-Network for Optimal Operation of Connected and Automated Vehicle-Based Mobility Service and Its Implication

by Sehyun Tak, Jeongyun Kim and Donghoun Lee

Sustainability 2022, 14(6), 3688; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su14063688 - 21 Mar 2022

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There have been enormous efforts to implement automated vehicle-based mobility (AVM) by considering smart infrastructure such as cooperative intelligent transportation system. However, there is lack of consideration on economical approach for an optimal deployment strategy of the AVM service and smart infrastructure. Furthermore, the influence of travel demand in service area has been ignored. We develop a new framework for maximizing the profit of connected and automated vehicle-based mobility (CAV-M) service using cost modeling and metaheuristic optimization algorithm. The proposed framework extracts an optimal sub-network, which is selected by a set of optimal links in the service area, and identifies an optimal construction strategy for the smart infrastructure depending on given operational design domain and travel demand. Based on service network analyses with varying demand patterns and volumes, we observe that the optimal sub-network varies with the combination of trip demand patterns and volumes. It is also found that the benefit of deploying the smart infrastructure is obtainable only when there are sufficient travel demands. Furthermore, the optimal sub-network is always superior to raw network in terms of economical profit, which suggests the proposed framework has great potential to prioritize road links in the target area for the CAV-M service. Full article

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An Auction Bidding Approach to Balance Performance Bonuses in Vehicle Routing Problems with Time Windows

by Chen-Yang Cheng, Kuo-Ching Ying, Chung-Cheng Lu, Chumpol Yuangyai and Wan-Chen Chiang

Sustainability 2021, 13(16), 9430; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su13169430 - 22 Aug 2021

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In the field of operations research, the vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW) has been widely studied because it is extensively used in practical applications. Real-life situations discussed in the relevant research include time windows and vehicle capabilities. Among the constraints in a VRPTW, the practical consideration of the fairness of drivers’ performance bonuses has seldom been discussed in the literature. However, the shortest routes and balanced performance bonuses for all sales drivers are usually in conflict. To balance the bonuses awarded to all drivers, an auction bidding approach was developed to address this practical consideration. The fairness of performance bonuses was considered in the proposed mathematical model. The nearest urgent candidate heuristic used in the auction bidding approach determined the auction price of the sales drivers. The proposed algorithm both achieved a performance bonus balance and planned the shortest route for each driver. To evaluate the performance of the auction bidding approach, several test instances were generated based on VRPTW benchmark data instances. This study also involved sensitivity and scenario analyses to assess the effect of the algorithm’s parameters on the solutions. The results show that the proposed approach efficiently obtained the optimal routes and satisfied the practical concerns in the VRPTW. Full article

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An NN-Based Double Parallel Longitudinal and Lateral Driving Strategy for Self-Driving Transport Vehicles in Structured Road Scenarios

by Huiyuan Xiong, Huan Liu, Jian Ma, Yuelong Pan and Ronghui Zhang

Sustainability 2021, 13(8), 4531; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su13084531 - 19 Apr 2021

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Studies on self-driving transport vehicles have focused on longitudinal and lateral driving strategies in automated structured road scenarios. In this study, a double parallel network (DP-Net) combined with longitudinal and lateral strategy networks is constructed for self-driving transport vehicles in structured road scenarios, which is based on a convolutional neural network (CNN) and a long short-term memory network (LSTM). First, in feature extraction and perception, a preprocessing module is introduced that can ensure the effective extraction of visual information under complex illumination. Then, a parallel CNN sub-network is designed that is based on multifeature fusion to ensure better autonomous driving strategies. Meanwhile, a parallel LSTM sub-network is designed, which uses vehicle kinematic features as physical constraints to improve the prediction accuracy for steering angle and speed. The Udacity Challenge II dataset is used as the training set with the proposed DP-Net input requirements. Finally, for the proposed DP-Net, the root mean square error (RMSE) is used as the loss function, the mean absolute error (MAE) is used as the metric, and Adam is used as the optimization method. Compared with competing models such as PilotNet, CgNet, and E2E multimodal multitask network, the proposed DP-Net is more robust in handling complex illumination. The RMSE and MAE values for predicting the steering angle of the E2E multimodal multitask network are 0.0584 and 0.0163 rad, respectively; for the proposed DP-Net, those values are 0.0107 and 0.0054 rad, i.e., 81.7% and 66.9% lower, respectively. In addition, the proposed DP-Net also has higher accuracy in speed prediction. Upon testing the collected SYSU Campus dataset, good predictions are also obtained. These results should provide significant guidance for using a DP-Net to deploy multi-axle transport vehicles. Full article

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