Climate Change and Transport

Dear Colleague,

More greenhouse gases are released into the atmosphere by transportation than by any other sector of our economy, which contributes to global warming. Rising global average temperatures and extreme weather events in turn can cause harm to infrastructure, disrupt transportation systems, and endanger public safety. This impact is hard felt both in the Global North as well as the Global South.

Cities are both the cause and solution to climate change. Globally, cities are trying to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, whereas many are also turning to adaptation measures and resilience. Urban climatologists study the interaction between urban areas and the atmosphere, including the effect transport has on the urban climate and how urban areas, and the people and services within, are impacted by climate change.

This Special Issue invites contributions that are preferably model-based and/or data-driven and which study the interaction between transport in urban areas and the urban climate. Papers from both Global North as well as the Global South contexts are welcome and could include topics, but not limited to:

• Impact of delivery services and last mile logistics on urban climate;
• Model-based scenario analysis for city-wide low emissions analysis;
• Health impacts of transport and climate change;
• Resilience in integrated urban transport;
• Analytical methods and techniques for modelling transport impacts on the urban climate;
• Digital twinning of urban areas for climate change research;
• Assessment of climate threats to transportation infrastructure;
• Modelling and analyzing the nexus transportation, air pollution, and climate change;
• Adaptation of transport to climate change;
• Decision-support tools for transport and climate change.

Dr. Mark Zuidgeest
Dr. Nnene Obiora
Dr. Teodoro Georgiadis
Guest Editors

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