Special Issue Foreword

Abstract

This special issue contains 6 papers solicited from researchers working for the Center for Automotive Research (JKK) in the past few months. They are all associated with the ongoing works related to the research and development of intelligent and future generation vehicles and transportation systems. Papers were sought to encompass the activity of the JKK briefly that is characterized by its highly interdisciplinary nature in this area. In particular, the articles reflect research spanning from the basic control theoretic approaches (linear and nonlinear approaches are equally weighted) to large-scale interdisciplinary views, which are designed to exploit information at multiple scales. This was done in an attempt to demonstrate how stand-alone control methods and solutions can be integrated in the analysis and synthesis of large-scale interconnected vehicle and transportation systems.