With the development of 5G communication and transportation infrastructure, transportation systems face challenges to serve future smart cities regarding effective operation and cost optimization for electric vehicle networks. Thus, heterogeneous networking optimization approaches for these vehicles have been investigated, which have great potential in real-time communications, intelligent processing, reliable understanding, and efficient management. The guest editors have selected 16 articles for review in this special issue. A summary of these articles is outlined below.

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未来智慧城市中电动汽车网络和异构网络的客座编辑优化

随着5G通信和运输基础设施的发展，在为电动汽车网络的有效运营和成本优化方面，运输系统面临着为未来的智慧城市服务的挑战。因此，已经研究了用于这些车辆的异构网络优化方法，这些方法在实时通信，智能处理，可靠的理解和有效的管理方面具有巨大的潜力。客座编辑已选择本期特刊中的16篇文章进行审阅。这些文章的摘要概述如下。