Greening Aerial and Ground Transport Systems
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Aerospace Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 3702
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainable transport; aeronautic transport; fluid dynamics; aerodynamics; propulsion system; more electric vehicles
Interests: impact analysis; more electric vehicles; green transport; irreversibility and exergy analysis; fluid dynamics; thermodynamics; innovative design methods; constructal law
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The transport sector is one of the primary actors of global greenhouse gas emissions and is the leading cause of noise and air pollution in cities, often facing air pollution levels which are dangerous for human health. It must necessarily change at an accelerating pace due to several factors in many diverse but interconnected fields to meet ambitious global targets such as the ones by the COP 21 Paris Agreement on the fight against climate change and by the UN in support of 2050 Sustainable Development Goals.
Over the next few years, significant improvements are necessary toward building a low-carbon, climate-resilient future. Research and innovation activities are supporting the transition toward zero-emission and quieter mobility across all transport modes. Therefore, significant progress toward low-emission mobility is an essential component of the broader shift to the low-carbon economy needed. This requires defining new trajectories, which can accelerate the transition toward zero-emission and quieter mobility across all transport modes. This process needs a set of concurrent multidisciplinary contributions, ranging from technological innovations on vehicle architecture and design to improved vehicle lifecycle management, innovative systems and infrastructures, socioeconomic and regulatory aspects, initiatives for increasing public awareness, sustainable planning, new models of mobility and improved control and detection mechanisms, and integration with satellites for information and atmosphere monitoring systems.
This Special Issue focuses on any topic related to the future and research and innovation priorities for an integrated and mode-specific approach as appropriate. Therefore, any contribution related to the greening of Aerial and Ground Transport Systems is welcome, and in particular:
- Low-carbon and sustainable transport modes and vehicles;
- New vehicles inside an evolutionary path toward and increased sustainability and usability;
- Vehicle improvement and optimization;
- Innovative energy recovery and energy harvesting systems for use onboard of specific category vehicles;
- Smart city integration of transport and infrastructures toward more electrical urban mobility;
- Transport nodes design to act as refueling stations of renewable energy for green vehicles;
- Safe, integrated, and resilient transport systems and infrastructure;
- Instruments for mitigating the risk of infection spreading on vehicles and multimodal exchange transport nodes;
- Digital and space-based technologies in automated, connected, and cooperative vehicles;
- Smart and low-impact transport infrastructure, logistics operations, aeronautics, and safety applications;
- Improved tools and mechanisms for monitoring and detecting emissions and noise in road vehicles, ships, and airplanes;
- New operation models based on increased connectivity between infrastructure, transport means, travelers, and goods;
- Seamless door-to-door mobility to face major socioeconomic trends, such as aging population, migration, and urbanization;
- Integrated LCA and exergy analysis tools which may improve the accounting of the resources, which are effectively requested and considering their quality;
- New planning methods and tools to provide cities, regional and national authorities, and spatial planners with real instruments which allow perceiving the effect of any choice in terms of both environmental impacts;
- Business models to support decision making processes in policy and planning.
Breakthrough innovations in any of the cited areas are welcome.
Prof. Dr. José Carlos Páscoa
Dr. Michele Trancossi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainability
- mobility, sustainable mobility
- sustainable vehicles
- resilience
- environment
- sustainable development
- sustainable transport
- spatial uniformity of development
- green vehicle design
- LCA
- exergy analysis
- irreversibility analysis
- vehicle optimization
- design methods
- aerodynamic optimization
- energy saving
- reduction of emissions
- more sustainable fuels
- hydrogen
- renewable energy
- solar-powered vehicles
- new propulsion concepts
- energy conversions
- GHG emissions
- CO2 emissions
- renewable energy
- detecting emission
- energy recovery
- energy harvesting
- transport planning
- logistic for the environment
- impact transport infrastructure
- more electric vehicle
- more electric aircraft
- smart city integration
- transport impacts
- predictive tools
- decision tools
- governmental decisions
- resilient transport systems
- resilient infrastructure
- business models, sociotechnical analysis
- socioeconomic impacts
- social acceptance
- infection risk mitigation, infection spread reduction
