We are living through a pivotal era of mobility transformation. This integrated research agenda, developed by some of the coeditors-in-chief of the Transportation Research journal series, identifies critical directions across four interconnected pillars. First, reimagining future urban mobility systems requires the orchestration of microtransit ecosystems and low-altitude operations into ground–air cooperative networks. Second, core enabling technologies must advance verifiable autonomous intelligence, hierarchical vehicle–road–cloud (VRC) control, and decoupled development platforms to ensure safety and scalability. Third, translating data abundance into actionable insights demands rigorous methods for data fusion and bias correction, alongside sustained commitment to granular equity, accessibility, and mobility justice. Fourth, sustainability hinges on coherent policy instruments and equitable emissions allocation across passengers, cargo, and infrastructure. Across these pillars, technological innovation must be coupled with systemic integration, equitable governance, and rigorous sustainability metrics to build resilient, low-carbon, and human-centric mobility systems for the future.
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Freeway work zones have been traffic bottlenecks that lead to a series of problems, including long travel time, high-speed variation, driver’s dissatisfaction and traffic congestion. This research aims to develop a collaborative component of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) to alleviate negative effects caused by work zones.
The proposed cooperative component is incorporated in a cellular automata model to examine how and to what scale CAVs can help in improving traffic operations.
Simulation results show that, with the proposed component and penetration of CAVs, the average performances (travel time, safety and emission) can all be improved and the stochasticity of performances will be minimized too.
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first research that develops a cooperative mechanism of CAVs to improve work zone performance.
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