Use of Mobile Sensing Technology in Traffic and Data Management

Call for Papers

Advances in wireless network and mobile devices (e.g., GPS units and smartphones) have not only revolutionized the way people communicate and interact, but also provided an opportunity to collect high quality, high density traffic data by sampling a portion of the travelling vehicles' trajectory from the traffic stream with relatively low cost. It has motivated an increasing interest from both academia and industry in the potential of applying the mobile sensing technology in transportation research.

Such research opportunities open up research problems regarding not only the design of protocol and mechanism of sharing complex data among vehicular network, but also the area of traffic management with the aims to provide drivers with customized information services and responsible agencies with next-generation tools to improve mobility, safety, and reliability of the transportation system.

The goal of this special issue is to bring together the state-of-the-art research contribution that describes original and unpublished work exploring and examining the implications of mobile sensing technology on traffic management and welcome papers from any related disciplinary background on different topics. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Real-time or offline aggregation and dissemination of mobile sensor data
• Mobile sensor database management and mining, for example, traveler decision-making, behavioral study, and origin-destination estimation
• Use of mobile sensing technology in recurrent traffic congestion management
• Use of mobile sensing technology in nonrecurrent event traffic management, for example, incidents, work zones, special events, or man-made or natural disasters
• Use of mobile sensing technology in traffic and vehicular safety management
• Use of mobile sensing technology in management of other transportation models
• Use of mobile sensor data in advanced traveler information system (ATIS)
• New systems, applications, tools, and services using mobile sensor data and technology

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijvt/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:

Lead Guest Editor

• Yue Liu, Department of Civil Engineering and Mechanics, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA

Guest Editors

• Gang-Len Chang, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
• Lee D. Han, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, The University of Tennessee, TN, Knoxville, USA
• Xiao-Guang Yang, Department of Traffic Engineering, School of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
• Chun-Fu Shao, Department of Traffic Engineering, School of Traffic and Transportation, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China