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Editor-in-Chief
![Haiping Du](/files/editors/0e7f71db677d67f43c54bb9740558df2.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia
Research Keywords:
robust control theory and applications; vehicle system dynamics and control; smart materials and structures; active and semiactive vibration control; robotics and autonomous system
Advisory Board Member
![Ali Cemal Benim](/files/editors/be8c5a79c15ee4e32acaf277670f54e6.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
Center of Flow Simulation (CFS), Faculty of Mechanical and Process Engineering, Duesseldorf University of Applied Sciences, D-40476 Düsseldorf, Germany
Research Keywords:
computational fluid dynamics; heat and mass transfer; combustion; biofluid dynamics
Editorial Board Members
![Ahmed Al Kaisy](/files/editors/e91be9e714ad60c59d51c82980320898.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
Department of Civil Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA
Research Keywords:
traffic safety; traffic operations; intelligent transportation systems; traffic control and optimization; highway geometric design
![Adriano Alessandrini](/files/editors/2090a924caf394e028a1d1b32e2be6e6.png?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ambientale, Università degli Studi di Firenze, 50121 Firenze, Italy
Research Keywords:
the environmental impact of vehicles (and drivers) and automated transport systems; vehicle emissions; transportation systems; environmental engineering
![Nasser L. Azad](/files/editors/e670681bee54aeeec0f88cb88ffdb46e.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
Department of Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada
Research Keywords:
control design and automation; connected and automated vehicles; electric and hybrid vehicles; optimization; artificial intelligence
![Denis Benasciutti](/files/editors/1f081b58f70fdf2e8b5e166f8043eb6e.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
Department of Engineering, University of Ferrara, 44122 Ferrara, Italy
Research Keywords:
structural durability and fatigue under variable amplitude and random loadings; multiaxial fatigue, cyclic plasticity; finite element method; vibration energy harvesting
![Zoleikha A. Biron](/files/editors/fb551e57e4dc7867535caf55f4fb9a34.png?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Research Keywords:
security and control of cyber physical systems (CPS); intelligent transportation system, connected and autonomous vehicles; renewable energy and their integration with smart power systems; fault diagnosis of dynamics systems modeled with PDE and ODE; control theory, estimation, optimization
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Torino, Italy
Research Keywords:
design engineering; computer-aided engineering; finite element analysis; stress analysis; mechanical behavior of materials; mechanical testing; structural analysis; nonlinear analysis; modal analysis; dynamic analysis
![Nader Dolatabadi](/files/editors/ebb22aa328d971d6785c15e79023b60a.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, UK
Research Keywords:
dynamics (multi-body dynamics, nonlinear dynamics, NVH); nanotechnology and nanofluids (application in energy management of tribodynamic systems); numerical analysis (application in dynamics and energy systems); tribology/contact mechanics
![Alberto Doria](/files/editors/974d6981dad388c4185eaf90526a86df.png?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy
Research Keywords:
robotics; vibration and noise; vibrations energy harvesting; mechanics of machines; machine design;
vehicle dynamics; stability and comfort of bicycles
![Flavio Farroni](/files/editors/ee4163ad25116f647a498ba10bcf6bc8.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, 80131 Naples, Italy
Research Keywords:
vehicle dynamics; vehicle dynamics models; handling performances evaluation; tyre-road interaction; tyre friction and thermodynamics; human/machine interface; mechanical testing
![Abbas Fotouhi](/files/editors/c76b4a26bd13d829d3e1a3db7c1ba678.png?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing, Cranfield University, Bedfordshire, MK430AL, UK
Research Keywords:
battery; electric and hybrid vehicles; intelligent mobility; energy management; machine learning; mechatronics and advanced control
![Peter Gaspar](/files/editors/b070b5446d85a369c30d04dcdba9416e.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
1. MTA SZTAKI Systems and Control Laboratory, Institute for Computer Science and Control, H-1518 Budapest, Hungary
2. Department of Control for Transportation and Vehicle Systems, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 1111 Budapest, Hungary
Research Keywords:
control design methods based on linear and nonlinear models; components of vehicle control; cooperative control of a vehicle platoon system; integrated control systems for vehicles; supervisory decentralized architecture
![Michelangelo Santo Gulino](/files/editors/7ee3712656468c51d4498e52569f16c0.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
Department of Industrial Engineering of Florence, Università degli Studi di Firenze, 50139 Florence, Italy
Research Keywords:
road accident reconstruction; ultrasonic; vehicle safety; vehicle testing; finite element analysis; structural dynamics; structural vibration
![Yuping He](/files/editors/ad7eee4bcd43f81de10a3f116ee31c2e.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
Department of Automotive and Mechatronics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, Ontario L1G 0C5, Canada
Research Keywords:
vehicle dynamics; vehicle systems design; active safety systems; applications of multidisciplinary design optimization; modelling and simulation; driver-vehicle-road interactions
![Kevin Heaslip](/files/editors/6d05f7f7ec56f28c7c266fe8ef9bc69c.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
Center for Transportation Research, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
Research Keywords:
transportation operations; critical infrastructure & transportation cybersecurity; public transportation; transportation automation and electrification
![Ludek Hyncik](/files/editors/4fd8eb5c4e846578e35bb6a8a23fe9f7.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
New Technologies - Research Centre, University of West Bohemia, 301 00 Pilsen, Czech Republic
Research Keywords:
impact biomechanics; mechanics of discrete systems; finite element method and particle methods
![Hocine Imine](/files/editors/a06c0b94d65a03d278b7ad9e8419eece.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
Laboratoire Exploitation, Perception, Simulateurs et Simulations (LEPSIS), Université Gustave Eiffel, Champs-sur-Marne, 77454 Marne-la-Vallée Cedex 2, France
Research Keywords:
modeling; control; variable structure systems; transportation; road safety
![Reza N. Jazar](/files/editors/f51aae188dc628802374b3228a69a3e2.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3083, Australia
Research Keywords:
nonlinear vibrations; vehicle dynamics; robotics; nonlinear dynamic
![Dimitrios Koulocheris](/files/editors/0b6ee985d0c84d0eebd588e0a7b62b31.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
Section of Mechanical Design & Automatic Control, School of Mechanical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 15780 Zografou, Athens, Greece
Research Keywords:
vehicle dynamics; suspension design; accident reconstruction; engineering optimization
![Anh Tuan Le](/files/editors/b3983a7725037d086bee6ce624f4ffd3.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
Department of Internal Combustion Engine, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam
Research Keywords:
alternative fuels (bio-ethanol, biodiesel, bio-oil, BTL, hydrogen, LPG); mixture formation and combustion in IC. Engines; fuel consumption improvement methods; emission measurements and emission reduction measures, emission factors, emission models and emission inventories; driving cycle development; advanced simulation tools for internal combustion engines
![Luis Le Moyne](/files/editors/3965710e1b580532df664060dd2c367a.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
Insitut Supérieur de l'Automobile et des Transports (ISAT), University of Burgundy, F-58027 Nevers, France
Research Keywords:
sprays, atomization; droplets, impact on walls; aerodynamical interactions, turbulence and combustion of sprays; fractals and sprays; new architectures of engines; heat recover in powertrains
![Basilio Lenzo](/files/editors/06f97d52c7e3392c0cfdabfb31009e31.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, 35122 Padova, Italy
Research Keywords:
vehicle dynamics; vehicle control; vehicle state estimation; robotics
![Alessandro Lidozzi](/files/editors/f4441514c0418543b10289d8c703c173.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
C-PED, Center for Power Electronics and Drives, Roma Tre University, 00146 Roma, Italy
Research Keywords:
power converter modeling and control; control of permanent magnet motor drives; control aspects for power electronics in diesel-electric generating units; four-leg converters and development of high-performance control platforms based on combined DSP-FPGA systems
![Elżbieta Macioszek](/files/editors/8ec9d65929dc178a4e3077e509395e66.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
Faculty of Transport and Aviation Engineering, Department of Transport Systems, Traffic Engineering, and Logistics, Silesian University of Technology, 40-019 Katowice, Poland
Research Keywords:
traffic engineering; civil engineering; transport
![T M Indra Mahlia](/files/editors/1c5a46bfce8bf193854affc026ade519.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW 2007, Australia
Research Keywords:
renewable energy; energy policy; energy modeling; energy efficiency; energy management
![Zhihong Man](/files/editors/a229aba2635f13eb406cece4432d8aec.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
School of Science, Computing and Engineering Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne VIC 3122, Australia
Research Keywords:
nonlinear control; signal processing; robotics; neural networks; vehicle dynamics & control
![Matteo Massaro](/files/editors/593ecd1ba793b5e67c843f0a306cdb31.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Via Venezia, 1 - Padova, Italy
Research Keywords:
automotive; vehicle dynamics; multibody dynamics; vibrations; mechanics of machines
![Umberto Montanaro](/files/editors/4bdffdb1e3992d516516daf72ca2fbe9.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
Department of Mechanical Engineering Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK
Research Keywords:
system and nonlinear control theory to control applications; adaptive control algorithms and their application to engineering problems
![Keiichi Motoyama](/files/editors/ecfe0e16bb26c9030bf509855df526ab.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS 39762, USA
Research Keywords:
testing technology of high-speed phenomenon; buckling theory; theory of nonlinear FEM; basic concept CAE for design
![Giuseppe Musolino](/files/editors/64a781928addffab214f232cf6414506.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, delle Infrastrutture e dell'Energia Sostenibile (DIIES), Laboratorio Analisi dei Sistemi di Trasporto (LAST), Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 89124 Reggio Calabria, Italy
Research Keywords:
intelligent transportation systems; traffic flow analysis; dynamic traffic assignment models: ordinary and emergency conditions; vehicle routing; maritime freight transport; commercial ports; public transport; city logistics; land use-transport interaction models; electric vehicles’ energy consumption models
![Fernando Ortenzi](/files/editors/ffe7b73992366e006b331fce547f3f1a.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
ENEA—Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, 00196 Rome, Italy
Research Keywords:
internal combustion engines; electric vehicles; hybrid vehicles; sustainable mobility
![Giorgio Previati](/files/editors/3ce5d15c62482511efd19bea4303f45e.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, 20158 Milan, Italy
Research Keywords:
design and optimization of complex mechanical systems, particularly road vehicles and their subsystems; numerical simulation of the mechanical behaviour of rubber
![Michal Puškár](/files/editors/41b3ee028fef2f0c69d77a376d021014.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
Department of Engineering for Design of Machines and Transport Equipment, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Kosice, 042 00 Kosice, Slovakia
Research Keywords:
emissions; mechanical engineering; vehicle
![Hesham A. Rakha](/files/editors/70641e3d7168bd561b0d514e1479f168.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
Research Keywords:
traveler and driver behavior modeling; large-scale transportation system modeling; transportation network control; dynamic traffic assignment, optimization; intelligent transportation systems; connected automated vehicles research; transportation energy and environmental modeling; transportation system safety modeling
![Giulio Reina](/files/editors/c2e55408fb47af294f5508bcc521d2bc.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
Department of Mechanics, Mathematics, and Management, Politecnico di Bari, 70125 Bari, Italy
Research Keywords:
field robotics; mobile robotics; agricultural robotics; vehicle dynamics; advanced driving assistance systems
Unit of Industrial Automation, Industrial Systems Institute, 26504 Rion Patras, Greece
Research Keywords:
control; robotics; mechatronics; electric power systems; computational intelligence; fault diagnosis; optimization
![Corrado Rindone](/files/editors/cd2a2743b1a65a868afd595582f94188.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
Department of Information Engineering, Infrastructure and Sustainable Energy, Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria, 89125 Reggio Calabria, Italy
Research Keywords:
processes and products of planning and design of transport systems; local public transport planning; models and support tools for planning and design of transport systems; models for the analysis of road accidents; transport of dangerous goods; models for analysing mobility in emergency conditions; mobility of people and goods on an urban, regional, national and internation
![Alessandro Scattina](/files/editors/2efb95676e8307d7185774ad16259d7e.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Turin, Italy
Research Keywords:
car body design; vehicle crashworthiness; new light materials; finite element analysis
![Barys Shyrokau](/files/editors/08d61e1efaaaff95e1c7288b45f7f370.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
Section of Intelligent Vehicles, Department of Cognitive Robotics, Delft University of Technology, NL - 2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands
Research Keywords:
automotive; vehicle control; vehicle dynamics; automated driving
![Ralf Stetter](/files/editors/6a3f043a6595057cf29190b8cb481e71.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ravensburg-Weingarten University (RWU), 88216 Weingarten, Germany
Research Keywords:
mechatronics; design engineering; automobile engineering; CAD; product design and development; automation & robotics
![Aleksandar Stevanovic](/files/editors/d4b93cf88fbfcb50a2fe404b299e2400.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Research Keywords:
adaptive traffic control; innovative transportation concepts; intelligent transportation systems (ITS); multimodal transportation; traffic engineering
![Xinyan Wang](/files/editors/d37fa3cae38cbfaca27ac9f1bfe12d8d.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, UK
Research Keywords:
internal combustion engines; combustion; fuels; modeling and simulation; hybrid powertrain; optical diagnostics
![Chongfeng Wei](/files/editors/8a8279f30b7a32063f6cdf48af452449.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Quen's University Belfast, Belfast, BT7 1NN, UK
Research Keywords:
human-like planning and control of intelligent vehicles; cooperative decision making of mobile robots; interactive autonomous vehicle decision-making and planning; dynamics and control of mechanical systems; tyre and vehicle dynamics
![Nan Wu](/files/editors/8c790f01e5f65b9da91ebbeb04c5436f.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 5V6, Canada
Research Keywords:
vehicle dynamics; vehicle design; vibration testing
![Yang Xing](/files/editors/62cabba399a71a73ba7aee6d518ec56b.png?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
Centre for Autonomous and Cyberphysical Systems, School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing, Cranfield University, Cranfield, MK43 0AL, UK
Research Keywords:
human-machine systems; deep learning; cognitive automated driving
![Shaobing Xu](/files/editors/0b8660d48e8cc867d65c8d38152c2e5c.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
School of Vehicle and Mobility (SVM), Tsinghua University, Beijing 100086, China
Research Keywords:
motion control, path planning and decision making of autonomous cars; optimal control and optimization theory; reinforcement learning; eco-driving; design and development of connected automated vehicles
![Huadong Yao](/files/editors/e1034f808577b0eb3b83ee0dc4f29d64.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
Division of Fluid Dynamics, Department of Mechanics and Maritime Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-41296, Göteborg, Sweden
Research Keywords:
fluid-structure interaction; computational aero-acoustics; computational fluid dynamics; turbulence modeling; aero-vibro-acoustics
![Krzysztof Zboinski](/files/editors/cdddfdddfa6f4a8684dd9ed663aae9ff.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
Faculty of Transport, Warsaw University of Technology, 00-662 Warsaw, Poland
Research Keywords:
rail vehicle dynamics modelling (multibody systems, computer methods, and curved track motion); vehicle stability in a curved track; dynamics in transition curves; simulations of vehicle dynamics
![Argyrios Zolotas](/files/editors/021b49b393434dc5f5b8910a2dd37ce3.jpeg?v=c243f9db0f9173a)
Centre for Autonomous and Cyberphysical Systems, School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing, Cranfield University, Cranfield, MK43 0AL, UK
Research Keywords:
systems and control; autonomous systems; applied artificial intelligence; robust and reliable systems; applications in transportation
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