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Smart Cities, Eco-Cities, Green Transport and Sustainability

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 November 2024 | Viewed by 14074

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Prof. Dr. Atour Taghipour

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Faculty of International Business, Normandy University, 76600 Le Havre, France
Interests: supply chain; operations management; logistics
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Dear Colleagues,

Smart cities, eco-cities, green transport and sustainability are the main characteristics of the cities of future. In this context, the best example is Woven City, being constructed by Toyota as Japan's first smart city; with this project Toyota aims to develop a fully connected city. In this city the ecosystem runs on clean energy sources, specifically solar energy, hydrogen fuel cells and geothermal energy. The city will feature three types of streets: one dedicated to pedestrians; one for individuals with personal mobility vehicles; and one for automated driving. The inhabitants of this city of the future will be transported by autonomous zero-emission cars. This Special Issue aims to collect the original contributions of researchers, practitioners, and professionals from both industry and academia in the field of smart cities, eco-cities, green transport and sustainability.

This Special Issue will publish paper proposing solutions to eco-cities, green transport and sustainability. It will be written for academics and professionals who want to improve their understanding of smart cities, eco-cities, green transport and sustainability.

The target audience of this call for papers will be composed of professionals and researchers working in the field of smart cities, eco-cities, green transport and sustainability. Moreover, this Issue will provide insights and support executives concerned with the management of expertise, knowledge, information and organizational development in different types of work communities and environments.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Green cities.
  • Green transport.
  • Smart cities.
  • Planning, development and management
  • Circular economy at city level.
  • The community and the city.
  • Social, cultural and economic aspects.
  • Architectural issues.
  • Urban transportation and planning.
  • Water resources.
  • Waste management.
  • Impact of urban freight transport on the environment.
  • City logistics data collection processes and systems.
  • New trends in eco-logistics.
  • Digitalization of urban infrastructure and city logistics.
  • Digitalized platforms for freight distribution in urban areas.
  • Modelling freight distribution in urban areas.
  • Planning freight distribution in sustainable development.
  • Urban industrial infrastructure.
  • City marketing in sustainable development.
  • Effective logistics of metropolitan areas.
  • Economic and safe freight distribution in urban areas.
  • Sustainable logistics in urban areas.

Prof. Dr. Atour Taghipour
Guest Editor

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • eco-city
  • smart cities
  • green transport city of future
  • sustainability

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17 pages, 1996 KiB  
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A Sustainable Approach to the Conversion of Waste into Energy: Landfill Gas-to-Fuel Technology
by Cagri Un
Sustainability 2023, 15(20), 14782; https://doi.org/10.3390/su152014782 - 12 Oct 2023
Cited by 2 | Viewed by 2817
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Landfill gas (LFG) is a methane-rich gas produced by the decomposition of organic waste in landfills. It has the potential to be a greenhouse gas, but it can also be a valuable source of energy. LFG can be used to generate electricity, heat, [...] Read more.
Landfill gas (LFG) is a methane-rich gas produced by the decomposition of organic waste in landfills. It has the potential to be a greenhouse gas, but it can also be a valuable source of energy. LFG can be used to generate electricity, heat, or fuel. Renewable natural gas, abundant in methane derived from organic matter or waste streams, can undergo processing to align with established specifications for conventional fossil natural gas pipelines and vehicle use. This article assesses the present state of understanding concerning the transformation of landfill gas into a valuable fuel resource. This study shows the methods for LFG collection and conversion into usable fuels, along with the environmental benefits and challenges associated with its utilization and usage. In this study, a thorough examination was conducted concerning the waste generated in residential communities, specifically within the rural districts of Adana, known as the Yedigoze region. This research focused on assessing the gas potential derived from these waste materials and their potential environmental implications when employed as a fuel source for municipal buses. The transitioning analysis of 50 diesel buses to compressed natural gas (CNG) buses resulted in a remarkable reduction of 950,625 kg of CO2 emissions in one year. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Cities, Eco-Cities, Green Transport and Sustainability)
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Decoding Urban Archetypes: Exploring Mobility-Related Homogeneity among Cities
by Sascha von Behren, Maximilian Turek, Lukas Barthelmes, Hanna Scholta, Frank Hansen, Martin Kagerbauer and Christine Eisenmann
Sustainability 2023, 15(19), 14231; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151914231 - 26 Sep 2023
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To make cities more sustainable and livable and to achieve climate targets in transportation, cities around the globe must undergo sustainable transformations. However, disparities in initial conditions pose challenges when trying to implement these sustainable changes. Identifying these differences aids in the comprehension [...] Read more.
To make cities more sustainable and livable and to achieve climate targets in transportation, cities around the globe must undergo sustainable transformations. However, disparities in initial conditions pose challenges when trying to implement these sustainable changes. Identifying these differences aids in the comprehension of future developments. In this study, we establish an international comparison by decoding the mobility-related characteristics of cities and determining urban archetypes. Using publicly accessible data, we analyze and classify 96 cities in different countries. Therefore, we utilize principal component analysis to simplify the data. The emerging components serve as input for segmentation. This approach yields nine unique urban archetypes, ranging from Well-Functioning and Ancient Hybrid Cities in Europe to Paratransit and Traffic-Saturated Cities in the southern hemisphere. Our results show that there is a significant advantage to using a multidimensional segmentation basis, which we identify in an extensive literature review. The result is a finer segmentation, which is especially clear for European cities that demonstrate four different clusters. We discuss that the effect of future restrictions on private car usage will vary widely between the urban archetypes. Full article
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Environmental Sustainability within Attaining Sustainable Development Goals: The Role of Digitalization and the Transport Sector
by Aleksy Kwilinski, Oleksii Lyulyov and Tetyana Pimonenko
Sustainability 2023, 15(14), 11282; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151411282 - 20 Jul 2023
Cited by 31 | Viewed by 2638
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Accepting sustainable development goals leads to the reorientation of all sectors at all levels. The European Union (EU) actively accepts a vast range of policies to achieve environmental sustainability due to declining carbon dioxide emissions. Within the Green Deal Policy, and in particular [...] Read more.
Accepting sustainable development goals leads to the reorientation of all sectors at all levels. The European Union (EU) actively accepts a vast range of policies to achieve environmental sustainability due to declining carbon dioxide emissions. Within the Green Deal Policy, and in particular the Fit for 55 packages, the EU declared ambitious goals to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by at least 55% from the transport industry by 2030 and 100% by 2035. These goals require introducing appropriate digital technologies into the ecologically friendly functioning of the transport sector to attain sustainable development. This paper aims at analyzing the impact of digitalization on environmental sustainability by providing an effective transport sector that functions with minimum environmental degradation. The object of research is the EU countries for the period 2006–2020. This study applies the panel-corrected standard errors technique to achieve the paper’s aims. The findings allow us to conclude that digitalization is conducive to environmental sustainability. Thus, digital inclusion, the input of the IT sector to GDP, and e-commerce have direct negative and statistically significant linear effects on carbon dioxide emissions. Growth of digital inclusion, input of the IT sector to GDP, and enterprises with web sales by one point allow for decreasing CO2 emissions by 0.136, 2.289, and 0.266, respectively. However, key enablers and digital public services for citizens have a nonlinear, statistically significant impact on carbon dioxide emissions. The findings could be the basis for upgrading incentive policies for reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Cities, Eco-Cities, Green Transport and Sustainability)
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Criteria Clustering and Supplier Segmentation Based on Sustainable Shared Value Using BWM and PROMETHEE
by Atour Taghipour, Arvin Fooladvand, Moein Khazaei and Mohammad Ramezani
Sustainability 2023, 15(11), 8670; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15118670 - 26 May 2023
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With the advent of healthy visions, two of the trends that have become extremely important in the supply chain in recent decades are corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability, which have affected the activities of buyers and suppliers. The next trend that is [...] Read more.
With the advent of healthy visions, two of the trends that have become extremely important in the supply chain in recent decades are corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability, which have affected the activities of buyers and suppliers. The next trend that is emerging is the vision of creating shared value (CSV), which wants to move the supply chain toward solving social problems in a completely strategic way. This research intends to develop a step-by-step framework for evaluating and segmenting suppliers based on CSV criteria in the supply chain. In the first stage, the criteria for creating sustainable shared value (CSSV) are obtained through existing activities in the field of CSR. The obtained criteria are then divided into two categories, strategic and critical, and then the weight of each criterion is obtained using the best–worst method (BWM). In the next step, based on the Kraljic model, the suppliers are divided into four clusters using the preference ranking organization method for enrichment evaluation (PROMETHEE) technique. This framework helps the buyer to conclude and select purchasing decisions and relationships with suppliers through the lenses of CSV and sustainability. Full article
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How Cities Study Quality of Life and Use This Information: Results of an Empirical Study
by Mariusz J. Ligarski and Tomasz Owczarek
Sustainability 2023, 15(10), 8221; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15108221 - 18 May 2023
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Quality-of-life surveys can play an important role in obtaining information for sustainable urban development. To collect such data, a proper understanding and preparation of these surveys by city offices are needed. The research team developed a research concept to investigate how city offices [...] Read more.
Quality-of-life surveys can play an important role in obtaining information for sustainable urban development. To collect such data, a proper understanding and preparation of these surveys by city offices are needed. The research team developed a research concept to investigate how city offices conduct quality-of-life surveys and use this information. The paper presents the results of a survey conducted on a sample of all cities with a population over 50,000 in Poland. The surveyed cities were divided into two groups, cities that conduct formalized quality-of-life surveys and cities that do not conduct such surveys. The survey examined how cities understand the areas that affect quality of life and how they determine the influence of the local government on the quality of life of residents. Similarities and differences were considered in the two groups of offices surveyed. The necessity of including a large number of areas that affect the quality of life in the surveys conducted by cities was emphasized. Such an approach provides an opportunity to collect a variety of data that can be used for the city’s needs. It was found that cities conducting formalized quality-of-life surveys stand definitely higher in determining the impact of the local government on the quality of life of residents. Full article
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Enhancing Sustainable Business Models for Green Transportation
by Vasco Simões, Leandro Pereira and Álvaro Dias
Sustainability 2023, 15(9), 7272; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15097272 - 27 Apr 2023
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Business models (BMs) are crucial for the successful market penetration and diffusion of sustainable innovations. Nonetheless, consumer preference knowledge about adopting electric vehicles (EVs) under innovative BMs is low. Drawing on existing conceptualizations of BMs, this investigation studied consumer preferences for three innovative [...] Read more.
Business models (BMs) are crucial for the successful market penetration and diffusion of sustainable innovations. Nonetheless, consumer preference knowledge about adopting electric vehicles (EVs) under innovative BMs is low. Drawing on existing conceptualizations of BMs, this investigation studied consumer preferences for three innovative BMs (EV-leasing; battery-leasing; B2C EV-sharing) and the traditional total purchase BM. This research aimed to analyze the growth of the EV market, as well as to understand consumer preferences regarding business models and how these can overcome the barriers to EV purchase. During this study, an empirical study was applied based on a quantitative method. Data were collected through Google Forms and disseminated via social media. Using survey data to conduct a quantitative analysis, the findings showed that most people have an interest in EVs but consider their high cost the main barrier. The environmental benefits are the main motivation for buying an EV, since people are very concerned about the environment. Regarding the innovative business models (IBMs), most people were not aware of their existence but believed that they were fundamental for EV acquisition. Full article
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Smart Transportation Behavior through the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Ride-Hailing System in Iran
by Atour Taghipour, Mohammad Ramezani, Moein Khazaei, Vahid Roohparvar and Erfan Hassannayebi
Sustainability 2023, 15(5), 4178; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15054178 - 25 Feb 2023
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, significant changes occurred in customer behavior, especially in traffic and urban transmission systems. In this context, there is a need for more scientific research and managerial approaches to develop behavior-based smart transportation solutions to deal with recent changes in [...] Read more.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, significant changes occurred in customer behavior, especially in traffic and urban transmission systems. In this context, there is a need for more scientific research and managerial approaches to develop behavior-based smart transportation solutions to deal with recent changes in customers, drivers, and traffic behaviors, including the volume of traffic and traffic routes. This research has tried to find a comprehensive view of novel travel behavior in different routes using a new social network analysis method. Our research is rooted in graph theory/network analysis and application of centrality concepts in social network analysis, particularly in the ride-hailing transportation systems under monumental competition. In this study, a big city, with near to ten million habitants (Tehran), is considered. All city areas were studied and clustered based on the primary measures of centrality, including degree centrality, Katz centrality, special vector centrality, page rank centrality, proximity centrality, and intermediate centrality. Our data were the trips of this system in Tehran, where the nodes in this network represent Tehran’s districts, and the connection between the two districts indicates the trips made between those two districts. Also, each link’s weight is the number of trips between the two nodes (district). The districts of Tehran were ranked in the smart transportation network based on six criteria: degree centrality, degree centrality of input, degree centrality of output, special vector centrality, hub, and reference points. Finally, according to comprehensive data-driven analysis, the studied company was suggested to create shared value and sustainability through the platform to perform a legitimate system to meet the new challenges. Our proposed system can help managers and governments to develop a behavior-based smart transportation system for big cities. Full article
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