Currently, we observe in transportation a switch to new concepts of passenger transportation and mobility, including (but not limited to) the application of autonomous vehicles, micromobility, ride-hailing, and the design of flexible on-demand systems. Many of these solutions are strongly supported by highly advanced technologies.

New research is required to demonstrate and tackle the current challenges in the field, namely, to present original, hybrid approaches to transportation modeling, demonstrate data exploration techniques generated by modern technologies and their application in transportation modeling, and show the development of new computational algorithms and procedures for solving complex decision problems associated with new mobility paradigms.

The aim of the Special Issue is to present the most promising approaches of modeling newly introduced transportation concepts and mobility paradigms. We want to show the complexity of the required analysis and present how to solve the problems associated with the implementation of new solutions based on highly advanced technologies. The Special Issue will be focused on modeling techniques and quantitative analysis of original, technologically advanced transportation solutions resulting in the development of new mobility concepts and paradigms. Our objective is to benchmark / compare possible options and assess them. Methodologically advanced tools, procedures, and algorithms should be applied and developed. We expect that machine learning tools will be presented, metaheuristic algorithms will be developed, and multiple criteria analysis will be applied. Papers are sought to show new approaches for risk and uncertainty analysis in transportation, and to present the state of the art in the modeling and quantitative evaluation of modern ideas of moving people.

This Conference Issue is being run in partnership with the EURO Working Group on Transportation Meeting (EWGT 2021), held remotely in Aveiro, Portugal, from 8th to 10th September 2021 (https://ewgt2021.web.ua.pt/). While submissions are invited from all researchers, we particularly welcome full length articles both from attendees and those that have submitted abstracts and posters for consideration at this conference.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Dynamic network modelling
• Traffic modelling
• Energy consumption and emissions modelling
• Safety modelling
• Demand and mode choice modeling
• Advanced hybrid modelling approaches
• Urban mobility innovations
• New innovative transportation solutions
• Big data and machine learning in transportation and data exploration in transportation
• Smart decision making in transportation
• Multiple criteria analysis in transportation