IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems | Early Access | IEEE Xplore

Issue 9 • Sept.-2023

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Publication Year: 2023,Page(s):C1 - C4

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IEEE INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS SOCIETY

Publication Year: 2023,Page(s):C2 - C2

IEEE INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS SOCIETY

Scanning the Issue

Azim Eskandarian

Publication Year: 2023,Page(s):8899 - 8918

Scanning the Issue

Azim Eskandarian

Edge intelligence (EI) is becoming one of the research hotspots among researchers, which is believed to help empower intelligent transportation systems (ITS). ITS generates a large amount of data at the network edge by millions of devices and sensors. Data-driven artificial intelligence (AI) is at the core of ITS development. By pushing the AI frontier to the network edge, EI enables ITS AI applic...Show More
As part of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Electronic toll collection (ETC) is a type of toll collection system (TCS) which is getting more and more popular as it can not only help to finance the government’s road infrastructure but also it can play a crucial role in pollution reduction and congestion management. As most of the traditional ETC schemes (ETCS) require identifying their use...Show More
Autonomous driving is considered one of the revolutionary technologies shaping humanity’s future mobility and quality of life. However, safety remains a critical hurdle in the way of commercialization and widespread deployment of autonomous vehicles on public roads. Safety concerns require the autonomous driving system to handle uncertainties from multiple sources that are either preexisting, e.g....Show More
Platooning is a cooperative driving technology for driving in a longitudinal formation. Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication is the key enabling technology. Platooning is considered to be a closed application between well-known participants that use V2V data for their operation. For the deployment of platooning, multi-brand, i.e. interoperable, solutions are paramount. To achieve this, the Europ...Show More
In this work we present a traffic model to simulate network-level traffic evolution under the impact of controlled autonomous vehicles acting as moving bottlenecks. We first extend the Newell-Daganzo method to track the trajectories of moving bottlenecks and calculate the cumulative number of vehicles passing each moving bottleneck. By integrating the solutions to the cumulative number of vehicles...Show More
Path dispersion (the spatial distribution of vehicular paths) is an important feature of traffic flow inside intersections and differs from traffic flow running along traffic lanes at road segment, especially under conflicting movements. The path dispersion reflects the operational features of traffic flow and is related to driving behaviour, arrival flow patterns, layout design, and the traffic c...Show More
There is a need for a large-scale, real world, diverse, and context rich vehicle acceleration catalog that can be used to design, analyze, and compare various intelligent transportation systems. This paper fulfills three primary objectives. First, it provides such a catalog through the Surface Accelerations Reference, which is openly available as an interactive analytics tool as well as an open an...Show More
The dramatically growing trend of vehicles equipped with driving camera recorders has allowed realizing real-time crowdsourced video sharing in vehicular edge computing (VEC). Such cameras can assist in monitoring objects directly in front of and behind the vehicles, enabling them to provide important visual information through real-time video streaming in case of possible accidents. Exploiting th...Show More
Unmanned aerial systems, known as “drones,” are relatively new in collecting traffic data. Data from drone videography can have potential applications for traffic research. Drones can record the vehicles from their aerial point-of-view and provide their naturalistic driving behavior. Processing raw data from drones to remove noise and anomalies is crucial to ensure that the data are fit for subseq...Show More
Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) have the characteristics of high mobility, frequently changing topology and uneven distribution, which made it a challenge to design an efficient and robust routing protocol with low latency and high packet delivery rate. Currently, intersection-based routing method and full-path based routing method are two popular solutions for the packet routing in VANETs. Alt...Show More
Teleoperation provides the human operator with sophisticated perceptual and cognitive skills in an over-the-network control loop. It gives hope of addressing some challenges related to vehicular autonomy which is based on artificial intelligence by providing a fallback plan. Variable network time-delay in data transmission is the major problem in teleoperating a vehicle. On 4G network, variability...Show More
A major challenge to adopting battery electric buses into bus fleets is the scheduling of the battery charging while considering route timing constraints and battery charge. This work develops a scheduling framework to balance the use of slow and fast chargers assuming the bus routes and charger locations are fixed. Slow chargers are utilized when possible to lower the cost of charging and fast ch...Show More
In the European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS), the Route Control Centre System (RCCS) supervises the distance between consecutive trains and generates movement authorities, i.e. the permission for a train to move to a specific location within the constraints of the infrastructure and with supervision of speed. In this work, a control model aimed at determining the speed and position of a ...Show More
Electric location-routing problem is a challenging problem consisting of the optimization of electric vehicle routing and charging facility location, simultaneously. Existing algorithms generally adopt the two-phase search strategy to alternately optimize the routing and the location. However, they are usually criticized for the inefficiency as the problem scale increases. In order to improve the ...Show More
The increasing population density in public places necessitates urgent attention to address safety concerns via effective crowd management. In many congested scenarios such as peak-hour subway stations, the utilization of fences to guide crowd movement has become a widely adopted approach to alleviate congestion. This work presents a method that combines crowd simulation and management, focusing o...Show More
The electric vehicles (EVs) charging stations (CSs) at public premises have higher installation and power consumption costs. The potential benefits of public CSs rely on their efficient utilization. However, the conventional charging methods obligate a long waiting time and thereby deteriorate their efficiency with low utilization. This paper suggests a novel fuzzy integer linear programming and a...Show More
The static distribution of the static secondary suspension load has a significant impact on the adhesion, rim wear and passenger comfort of the locomotive. At present, the locomotive secondary suspension load adjustment is mainly realized by artificial padding to adjust the height of the spring. This process is not predictable, so it is difficult to complete the adjustment at one time, and it is l...Show More
The application of drones in last-mile distribution has been a contentious research topic in recent years. Existing urban distribution modes mostly depend on trucks. This paper proposes a novel package pickup and delivery mode and system wherein multiple drones collaborate with automatic devices. The proposed mode uses free areas on top of residential buildings to set automatic devices as delivery...Show More
Nonlinear model predictive control has been used in motion cueing algorithms recently to consider the nonlinear dynamics model of the system. The entire motion cueing algorithm indexes, including the physical and dynamical constraints of the actuators and physical constraints of passive joints, can be controlled with precision using nonlinear model predictive control. However, several weighting pa...Show More
Learning-based algorithms for automated license plate recognition implicitly assume that the training and test data are well aligned. However, this may not be the case under extreme environmental conditions, or in forensic applications where the system cannot be trained for a specific acquisition device. Predictions on such out-of-distribution images have an increased chance of failing. But this f...Show More
An autonomous vehicle would benefit from being able to predict trajectories of other vehicles in its vicinity for improved safety. In order for the self-driving car to plan safe trajectories, paths of nearby vehicles are required to be predicted for risk assessment, decision making, and motion planning. In this study, a trajectory prediction algorithm based on the Interacting Multiple Model (IMM) ...Show More
In this paper, we rethink our earlier work on self-attention based crack segmentation, and propose an upgraded CrackFormer network (CrackFormer-II) for pavement crack segmentation, instead of only for fine-grained crack-detection tasks. This work embeds novel Transformer encoder modules into a SegNet-like encoder-decoder structure, where the basic module is composed of novel Transformer encoder bl...Show More

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