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THE transportation sector accounts for almost one-third of the global energy demand and contributes more than 20% carbon footprint. Facing the carbon-neutral target for global temperature control, transportation electrification has become an irreversible trend in all the attached sectors, including electric vehicles, railways, ships, and airplanes, which has drawn more and more attention in both industrial and academic ways. The trend of electrification will undoubtedly drive the emergence of energy and transportation systems as “energy-transportation nexus.” To facilitate the development of this “energy-transportation nexus” toward a low-carbon future, it becomes more and more critical to coordinate the operation and planning of energy and transportation systems to fully explore their respective flexible potentials to enhance the industrial and social economy and reduce the carbon emission as an integrated system, which provides a vast platform for the utilization of different advanced methodologies and equipment. This special issue aims to identify, address, and disseminate state-of-the-art research works that optimize the operation and planning of “energy-transportation nexus” and improve social welfare toward a low-carbon future. A large number of papers have been received from different research groups around the world, with diverse perspectives. After a detailed and rigorous examination of these papers by expert reviewers in the relevant fields, the editorial board finally selected 11 original articles to be included in this special section. We divide these articles into the following four categories: 1) system operation; 2) resilience control; 3) electric vehicle battery management; 4) energy consumption estimation.