Title: Smart Transportation in the Era of Climate Change: AI Innovations for
Emergency and Low-Carbon Mobility
As climate change intensifies, transportation systems must evolve to withstand
extreme weather disruptions, reduce carbon emissions, and ensure sustainable
mobility. Recent breakthroughs in large language models (LLMs), attention
mechanisms, generative AI, spatial intelligence, and reinforcement learning present
unprecedented opportunities to enhance the resilience, efficiency, and adaptability of
intelligent transportation systems. LLMs, with their powerful contextual
understanding and predictive capabilities, can revolutionize decision-making in
emergency response, traffic management, and climate-resilient infrastructure
planning.
This special issue will explore how cutting-edge AI innovations can drive
climate-adaptive and low-carbon transportation solutions, particularly in areas such as
real-time disaster response, AI-powered electrification strategies, and multimodal
optimization for sustainable mobility. We encourage interdisciplinary contributions
that integrate digital twins, deep learning, graph neural networks (GNNs), and
self-supervised learning to develop robust and scalable transport systems that can
withstand climate-induced disruptions while minimizing environmental impact.
With AI's transformative potential rapidly advancing, this special issue aligns with
IEEE TITS’s mission to push the boundaries of intelligent transportation research. By
bridging AI-driven automation, climate resilience, and carbon reduction, the findings
will provide critical insights for policymakers, engineers, and researchers striving to
create future-proof, AI-empowered transportation networks in an era of climate
uncertainty.
Potential topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Climate-Resilient Transportation Infrastructure Monitoring Using Digital Twins
and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs)
AI-Powered Disaster Response and Evacuation Planning Using Reinforcement
Learning and Large Language Models (LLMs)
Optimizing Low-Carbon Mobility in Smart Cities Through Multi-Agent Systems
and Federated Learning
Enhancing Transport Network Resilience to Extreme Weather Events with Spatial
Intelligence and Real-Time Predictive Analytics
Generative AI for Traffic Simulation and Policy Design in Climate-Adaptive
Transportation Systems
Large Language Models (LLMs) for Real-Time Traffic Management and
Decision Support During Natural Disasters
Reducing Carbon Emissions in Urban Freight and Logistics via AI-Driven Route
Optimization and Demand Forecasting
AI-Enabled Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Optimization for Decarbonizing
Transportation and Enhancing Grid Resilience
Reinforcement Learning-Based Adaptive Control for Smart Public Transport
Scheduling Under Climate Uncertainty
Self-Supervised Learning for Predictive Maintenance of Transport Infrastructure
in Extreme Climate Conditions
Autonomous Vehicles’ Adaptation to Climate-Induced Road Disruptions Using
Deep Learning and Sensor Fusion
Multi-Modal Transport Optimization for Sustainable Mobility Using
Attention-Based Neural Networks
Ethical and Social Implications of AI-Driven Climate-Adaptive Transportation
Systems with Explainable AI (XAI)
Edge AI for Real-Time Decision Making in Emergency Transportation
Management Under Climate Stressors
Timelines:
First submission deadline: 28th Feb 2026
Notification of first decision: 31st May 2026
First revision submission deadline: 31st July 2026
Notification of final decision: 30th Nov 2026
Final manuscript (camera ready) submission deadline: 31st December 2026
Issue of Publication:28th Feb 2027
Guest Editors:
Wen-Long Shang (Lead Guest Editor)
Imperial College London, UK
Email: [email protected]
Cristina Olaverri-Monreal
Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Email: [email protected]
Dengfeng Sun
Purdue University, USA
Email: [email protected]
Jinjin Tang
Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Email: [email protected]
