Transportation and Sustainable Mobility; Users’ Transitions for a Greener Future
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2024 | Viewed by 1037
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainable mobility; user experience; comfort/discomfort in transport modes; carpooling use; carsharing use
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The transition to environmentally friendly mobility inevitably requires users to adopt sustainable modes of transport: soft modes such as cycling and walking, public transport, shared cars (carpooling, car sharing, shared taxi), and electric vehicles (two-wheelers, small cars). Users’ acceptance of these modes is not self-evident and must be built up. This Special Issue will consider the obstacles, advantages and levers of these sustainable modes of transport from the perspective of users, and will reveal how transitions towards a more ecologically virtuous future can be made; this will take into account users' positive or negative perceptions, reluctance, acceptance factors, discomforts and expectations. These studies will focus on acceptability and users’ experiences of these modes, or the experience of transitions towards sustainable modes; they will also cover both current and future modes. Knowledge of these user points of view will help to enhance the design of transport modes, services, incentives and/or infrastructure. These improvements will make it easier for travelers to embrace sustainable mobility and will lead them to reduce their solo use of cars for their usual journeys.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Béatrice Cahour
Dr. Sonia Adelé
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable mobility modes
- users’ acceptance
- users’ experience
- users’ expectations
- users’ motivations
- soft modes
- shared cars
- public transport
- electric vehicles
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