<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;" align="center"><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;"><b>Special Section: Advances in Intelligent Transportation Systems in Smart Cities </b></span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" align="center"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" align="center"><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">International Journal of Distributed Sensor Network</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" align="center"><strong><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;" data-mce-style="font-weight: normal;">2017 Impact Factor</span></span></span></span></strong><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;" data-mce-style="font-weight: normal;">:</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;"> 1.787</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" align="center"><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;"><br> <br> </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;"><b>Deadline for manuscript submissions: </b></span></span></span><strong><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;"><b>June 30, 2019</b></span></span></span></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" align="justify"><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;"><br> <br> Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) comprise the union of several technologies with the aim of providing comprehensive optimization of the urban mobility of a city and bringing greater safety to drivers, as well as comfort and entertainment for passengers. As a result, ITS employ data, communication, and computing to provide services and applications for tackling and possibly solving a wide range of transportation problems in modern large cities. These applications rely on the collaboration between elements that integrate urban and transportation systems, such as sensors, mobile devices, and vehicles, for introducing real-time awareness of the environment. The appropriate junction of all these factors considerably contributes to the sensing and gathering of data for evaluation and later implementation of due responses by a control system.</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" align="justify"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" align="justify"><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">Due to the dynamic nature of entities in ITS, it offers a diverse set of challenges including, but not limited to, interoperability, high mobility, decentralization, anonymity, security, privacy, trust management, uncertainty, and pervasiveness. Besides these challenges, several issues like scalability, reliability, adaptability, and validity of available solutions are still unexplored.</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" align="justify"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" align="justify"><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">This Special Collection is expected to provide a platform for academics and industrial researchers to identify and debate technical problems and recent accomplishments associated with ITS. Specific topics include, but are not limited to:</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" align="justify"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">* Architecture, resource management and applications</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">* Leveraging Fog Computing (Edge Computing)</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">* Design challenges for protocol development in ITS</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">* ITS security and privacy</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">* Smart-cities-based Machine Learning;</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">* Intelligent data mining and forecasting;</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">* Multi-agent systems applications;</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">* Inteligent structural engineering;</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">* Computer graphics and performability;</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">* Blockchain and remote sensing;</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">* Ubiquitous computing;</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">* Fuzzy logic and emerging applications in smart IoT/Cloud paradigms;</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">* Designing energy efficient Road Side Units (RSUs)</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">* Quality of Service (QoS) in ITS</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">* Smart and connected vehicles: V2V; V2I V2X</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">* Cloud based VANETs</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">* Vehicular Cloud</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">* Demand responsive smart vehicles</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">* Detection, recognition, and classification of traffic</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">* Vehicle location and event prediction</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">* Autonomous vehicle technologies</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">* Context-aware computing and Internet of Things Services in ITS</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">* Artificial intelligent in ITS</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">* Protocols and infrastructure and standards for ITS</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;"><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;"><br> <br> <b>Guest Editors:</b></span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;"><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">Rodolfo Ipolito Meneguette, </span></span></span><em><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">Federal Institute of São Paulo, Brazi, </span></span></span></em></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;"><em><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">Luis Hideo Vasconcelos Nakamura, Federal Institute of São Paulo, Brazil</span></span></span></em></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;"><em><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">Thiago Augusto Lopes Genez, University of Bern, Switzerland</span></span></span></em></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;"><em><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, 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