This book covers multiple dimensions of future mobility systems in smart cities, mapping out the innovations that are needed, presenting ideas on how to address the challenges they present and exploring a holistic research path for future developments. The book considers the interaction between:
- technological developments in modes of transport and transportation systems like autonomous systems and shared mobility that lead to emerging mobility systems;
- the social behavior of the drivers and travelers who interact with these systems; and
- the institutional behavior of organized units such as the administrators responsible for the policies involved with transportation governance and regulation.
Transportation Mobility in Smart Cities provides methods to analyze, design, and optimize a mobility system, taking into consideration this constellation of social and institutional factors as well as the necessary technological requirements. The result is a mobility system that will be acceptable to travelers without imposing undue inequities in transportation on the smart city.
The holistic approach taken in addressing the problems involved with establishing a mobility system within a smart city makes this book attractive to researchers and practitioners, technologists, and policy makers alike. Graduate students working in areas connected with the evolution of transportation systems will also find the material presented in this book instructive.
Table of Contents:
1. A Safe Interaction Framework for Road Vehicle Control Towers.- 2. Automated Mobility and Cooperation Compliance in Mixed Vehicle Traffic Environments.- 3. Control of Traffic Networks Exploiting Vehicle Platooning: state of art, opportunities and challenges.- 4. Streaming-Data-Driven Traffic Density Estimation using Gaussian Processes.- 5. Traffic and Demand Management in the Era of Connected Vehicles.- 6. Highlights of Lane-Free Automated Vehicle Traffic with Nudging.- 7. Models and Control Algorithms for Electric Automated Buses in Smart Cities.- 8. E-Scooter Riding Behaviors and Risks from Naturalistic Driving Study and Crash Data Analysis.- 9. Challenges and Algorithms for Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Safety and Mobility in Smart Cities.- 10. Connected Autonomous Driving Using Reconfigurable Intelligent Metasurfaces.- 11. Curb Management for More Efficient Deliveries.- 12. Developing a Smart Sustainable Active Mobility Model for Accessibility and Connectivity.- 13. Centrally Coordinated Routing of Freight in Smart Cities.- 14. A Control Framework for Socially-Optimal Emerging Mobility Systems.- 15. Cost Sharing Mechanisms in Transportation.- 16. Autonomous Driving and People with Disabilities in Greece: Challenges and Promises in Perspective.- 17. Intelligent Transportation System Solutions in Disadvantaged Communities.- 18. Equitable Microtransit Services.- 19. Smart Cities and Transportation: Governance and Institutional Frameworks.
About the Author :
Dr. Petros Ioannou received a B.Sc. degree from University College, London, in 1978, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, in 1980 and 1982, respectively. In 1982, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California where he is currently the A.V. 'Bal' Balakrishnan chair professor and holds the prestigious title of University Professor. He is the founder and director of the Center of Advanced Transportation Technologies and co-founder and Associate Director for Research of METRANS and of the Pacific Southwest Regional University Transportation Center. He holds courtesy appointments with the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Industrial Systems Engineering. He is the founder and director of Master Program on Financial Engineering.
He is a fellow of IEEE, IFAC, AAAS and the author/co-author of 9 books and over 400 research papers in the areas of controls and intelligent transportation systems. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors and Foreign member of the Academia Europaea and European Academy of Sciences
Dr. Andreas Malikopoulos is a Professor in the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering and the Director of the Information and Decision Science Lab at Cornell University. Prior to these appointments, he was the Terri Connor Kelly and John Kelly Career Development Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (2017-2023) and the founding Director of the Sociotechnical Systems Center (2019-2023) at the University of Delaware (UD). Before he joined UD, he was the Alvin M. Weinberg Fellow (2010-2017) in the Energy & Transportation Science Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the Deputy Director of the Urban Dynamics Institute (2014-2017) at ORNL, and a Senior Researcher in General Motors Global Research & Development (2008-2010). He received a Diploma from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2004 and 2008, respectively, all in Mechanical Engineering.
He is a senior member of the IEEE, a fellow of the ASME, and a member of the Board of Governors in the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society.
