Description

This theme establishes a comprehensive scientific, technological, computational, and engineering framework for investigating the development, integration, evaluation, and implementation of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs), intelligent road infrastructure, cooperative perception, vehicle-to-everything communication, and advanced smart mobility technologies. It examines the transformation of conventional road transportation networks into interconnected cyber-physical mobility systems capable of acquiring real-time traffic information, exchanging operational data, predicting transportation conditions, coordinating vehicle movements, and supporting increasingly automated transportation services. Particular emphasis is placed on the interactions among vehicles, road infrastructure, communication networks, edge computing, cloud platforms, traffic management centres, and digital transportation environments.