Intelligent Monitoring of Transport Infrastructure
Remote Sensing and Analytical Techniques
- 1st Edition - December 10, 2026
- Latest edition
- Editors: Mercedes Solla Carracelas, Jesús Balado Frías
- Language: English
Intelligent Monitoring of Transport Infrastructure comprehensively addresses the challenges of efficiently inspecting, managing, and maintaining transport systems, struct… Read more
Description
Description
Intelligent Monitoring of Transport Infrastructure comprehensively addresses the challenges of efficiently inspecting, managing, and maintaining transport systems, structures, and networks. It fundamentally proves how transformative the leveraging of cutting-edge instruments and accompanying techniques to enhance data collection, processing, and visualization can be for the field, resulting in more environmentally conscious as well as cost-efficient decision-making operations. From the latest advances in remote sensing, satellite imagery, digital twins, extended reality, and UAV applications to innovative uses of machine learning and artificial intelligence, the book offers a systematic overview whose added value is in the multitude of multi-disciplinary perspectives and invaluable actionable insights that it contributes.
The volume is divided into four sections, each of the first three focusing on a key area of development: data collection and analysis; data processing and AI applications; data visualization and management. Finally, the fourth section is fully dedicated to real-world case studies that illustrate data integration methods and the stumbling blocks of inherent implementation practices alongside lessons learnt and workable solution examples that readers from both academia and industry can benefit from, essentially enabling further investigations into enhancing the safety, resilience, and sustainability of transportation infrastructure.
The volume is divided into four sections, each of the first three focusing on a key area of development: data collection and analysis; data processing and AI applications; data visualization and management. Finally, the fourth section is fully dedicated to real-world case studies that illustrate data integration methods and the stumbling blocks of inherent implementation practices alongside lessons learnt and workable solution examples that readers from both academia and industry can benefit from, essentially enabling further investigations into enhancing the safety, resilience, and sustainability of transportation infrastructure.
Key features
Key features
- Ensures readers gain a solid understanding of advanced remote sensing equipment and their use
- Demonstrates how theoretical concepts and modern technologies are applied in practice through real-world case studies
- Emphasizes data collection, processing, and visualization for more accurate and multi-criteria effective decision-making
Readership
Readership
Postgraduate students, researchers, and academics in civil and structural engineering; transportation engineering; construction engineering and infrastructure resilience; environmental engineering; sustainable built environments’ design, operations, and management; geospatial engineering (geographic information science and computing; mapping sciences; spatial analytics; geophysics); urban planning, growth development, and regeneration
Table of contents
Table of contents
Section I. Emerging technologies for advanced data collection
1. Advances in remote sensing technologies for monitoring transport infrastructure
2. Digital management of maintenance processes for the improvement of transport systems
3. Standards, regulations, and guidelines for high resolution mapping of transportation infrastructure: an overview
4. Risk analysis and geohazard vulnerability in transport infrastructures: from satellites to UAVs
5. A survey of cost-effective sensor technologies in transportation infrastructure monitoring
6. GPR in autonomous platforms: challenges and developments
Section II. New trends on data processing and artificial intelligence
7. Machine learning applications for InSAR technology
8. VHR satellite and artificial intelligence developments for change detection in infrastructure
9. Road safety analysis using deep learning in RGB imagery and GPR data
10. Applications of deep learning for the automatic semantic and instance segmentation of inland transportation networks from point cloud data
11. What are visual foundation models and their role in transportation infrastructure monitoring
Section III. Advances on data visualization and management
12. Digitalization of transport infrastructures: challenges and trends on data integration
13. Novel multichannel ground-penetrating radar solutions for intelligent monitoring of transport infrastructure
14. Digital twin technologies applied for traffic management in real time
15. Extended reality for working with infrastructural digital twins
16. Control fuzzy design of light intersection intervals with Mamdani inference system
17. Maintenance management of communal roads, cycling and pedestrian facilities
Section IV. Case studies and data integration
18. Integrating multisensory remote sensing for analyzing synergies between green and gray infrastructures
19. Data space-enabled urban digital twins for sustainable transport and mobility: a case study of Sofia
20. Assessment of icing on road infrastructures through the use of geospatial analysis technologies
21. Transportation infrastructure resilience in adverse events: wildfires
22. Advanced InSAR techniques for the monitoring of critical infrastructure: gas pipelines and road transport
23. General workflow for UAV-based bridge inspections
24. Rural road 3D point cloud segmentation
25. Assessing the impact of direct sun glare on urban safety
26. Complex cantilever concrete bridge inspection using multi-channel GPR technology
27. GPR assessment of flexible and rigid pavements
28. A data-driven evaluation of airfield pavements using NDT
29. Implementing emerging technologies for pavement management: crowd sourcing and data analysis with AI techniques
30. Influence of the presence of salts on the thermal response of construction materials
1. Advances in remote sensing technologies for monitoring transport infrastructure
2. Digital management of maintenance processes for the improvement of transport systems
3. Standards, regulations, and guidelines for high resolution mapping of transportation infrastructure: an overview
4. Risk analysis and geohazard vulnerability in transport infrastructures: from satellites to UAVs
5. A survey of cost-effective sensor technologies in transportation infrastructure monitoring
6. GPR in autonomous platforms: challenges and developments
Section II. New trends on data processing and artificial intelligence
7. Machine learning applications for InSAR technology
8. VHR satellite and artificial intelligence developments for change detection in infrastructure
9. Road safety analysis using deep learning in RGB imagery and GPR data
10. Applications of deep learning for the automatic semantic and instance segmentation of inland transportation networks from point cloud data
11. What are visual foundation models and their role in transportation infrastructure monitoring
Section III. Advances on data visualization and management
12. Digitalization of transport infrastructures: challenges and trends on data integration
13. Novel multichannel ground-penetrating radar solutions for intelligent monitoring of transport infrastructure
14. Digital twin technologies applied for traffic management in real time
15. Extended reality for working with infrastructural digital twins
16. Control fuzzy design of light intersection intervals with Mamdani inference system
17. Maintenance management of communal roads, cycling and pedestrian facilities
Section IV. Case studies and data integration
18. Integrating multisensory remote sensing for analyzing synergies between green and gray infrastructures
19. Data space-enabled urban digital twins for sustainable transport and mobility: a case study of Sofia
20. Assessment of icing on road infrastructures through the use of geospatial analysis technologies
21. Transportation infrastructure resilience in adverse events: wildfires
22. Advanced InSAR techniques for the monitoring of critical infrastructure: gas pipelines and road transport
23. General workflow for UAV-based bridge inspections
24. Rural road 3D point cloud segmentation
25. Assessing the impact of direct sun glare on urban safety
26. Complex cantilever concrete bridge inspection using multi-channel GPR technology
27. GPR assessment of flexible and rigid pavements
28. A data-driven evaluation of airfield pavements using NDT
29. Implementing emerging technologies for pavement management: crowd sourcing and data analysis with AI techniques
30. Influence of the presence of salts on the thermal response of construction materials
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: December 10, 2026
- Language: English
About the editors
About the editors
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Mercedes Solla Carracelas
Dr. Solla Carracelas is a distinguished Ramon & Cajal Researcher at the Department of Engineering of Natural Resources and Environment, Universidade de Vigo. She specializes in the application of remote sensing technologies to civil engineering, focusing primarily on the monitoring of transport infrastructures. She is not only a prolific author/editor, but actively collaborates in more than 30 national and European projects and to more than 40 R&D contracts with industry, for a number of this acting as Principal Investigator. She has over 15 years of experience in education and research in geographical information systems, remote sensing, surveying, and geophysics.
Affiliations and expertise
Ramon and Cajal Researcher, CINTECX – GEOTECH Research Group, Dept. of Engineering of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Vigo, Vigo, SpainJB
Jesús Balado Frías
Dr. Balado Frías is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Engineering of Natural Resources and Environment, Universidade de Vigo. He specializes in point cloud acquisition, processing, and visualization for civil and construction engineering, focusing on digital modeling, pedestrian mobility, and infrastructure safety. He is associate editor of The Photogrammetric Record (Willey). He holds the Abertis International award in Road Safety and the Honorific Mention Research from the Royal Galician Academy of Science. He is engaged in 15 national and European projects. He has more than 5 years of experience in education and research in geographical information systems, remote sensing, surveying, and construction.
Affiliations and expertise
Postdoctoral Fellow, CINTECX – GEOTECH Research Group, Dept. of Engineering of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain