Vehicles, Drives and Transportation Systems and Processes: Opportunities and Challenges in the Context of the Environment
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "B: Energy and Environment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 7 February 2025 | Viewed by 18
Special Issue Editors
Interests: maintenance; management; reliability; technical diagnostics; transport; sustainable development; ageing of people; quality of life; computer support; simulation; artificial intelligence
Interests: production engineering; technology; energy; production management; mining; renewables; human-machine relation; virtual reality
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Interests: computer-aided engineering design; green transformation; information flow analysis; maintenance management; ICT-aided training; ergonomics; virtual reality; occupational safety; process approach
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
An important current problem of our civilization is the occurrence of threats to the natural environment. These include the depletion of natural resources such as natural gas and oil. This fact forces societies to reflect and take action in various areas of human activity to limit or eliminate these dangers. These activities include research aimed at reducing energy and media consumption in the transport sector and the negative impacts of transport on the natural environment. The expected result of this research is to obtain means of transport and transport infrastructure that are as environmentally friendly as possible. Work on vehicles with various types of drives—combustion, electric, hybrid, or hydrogen—is becoming increasingly common.
We invite interested authors to submit articles focused on various stages of the life cycle of vehicles with various types of drives and transport processes and systems, in the context of their impact on the natural environment. We assume the following thematic scope:
- Research on the harmful influence of transport (energy and media loss) on the natural environment;
- Problems of energy and media consumption, storage, supply, and transformation on the stages of design, production, and maintenance of vehicles, as well as the use of computer support;
- Innovative means and methods for reducing vehicle media and energy consumption;
- Energy and media saving in vehicle fleet organization and management;
- Sustainability in vehicle maintenance;
- Capabilities of technical diagnostics of transport vehicles and systems to protect the environment;
- Proecological technology assessment in transport;
- Economically oriented energy and media consumption by vehicles;
- Qualitative and quantitative models of rationalization of transportation processes and systems, taking into consideration the proenvironmental criteria;
- Education and shaping behaviours of people (children, adults, and older people) in proenvironmental aspects of transport.
Dr. Andrzej Wieczorek
Dr. Kinga Stecuła
Dr. Rozmus Magdalena
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- transport
- ecological vehicles
- environmental protection
- sustainability
- sustainable vehicles maintenance
- vehicles life cycle
- transportation process/system
- energy and media loss
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