Urban Smart Mobility and Public Transport: Opportunities, Challenges, and Planning
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 22 March 2025 | Viewed by 112
Special Issue Editors
Interests: share mobility; micro-scale street environment; travel behavior; gender disparity
Interests: urban mobility; built environment and travel behavior; transport economics and policy; road safety and environment
Interests: walkability; agent-based modeling; urban analytics
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Dear Colleagues,
Human mobility infiltrates into various aspects of peoples’ daily life. Effective mobility solutions become increasingly important for improving the quality of life for residents, mitigating the negative impact of urbanization on the environment, and promoting sustainable urban development. Public transport is a crucial component of urban mobility, providing affordable, efficient, and environmentally sustainable transportation options for urban residents. The increasing demand for public transit poses significant challenges for urban planners and policymakers to improve transportation infrastructure, enhance public transport services, and encourage more sustainable modes of transportation.
Urban mobility and public transport are closely intertwined with spatiality. Urban mobility exhibits different spatial distribution characteristics. The spatial configuration of cities determines the human mobility of different neighborhoods and districts, as well as the availability of various transportation options. The scope of this Special Issue is to explore possible pathways that link “human mobility” and “public transport” with “spatiotemporal characteristics of the built environment”.
This Special Issue seeks to explore the latest developments and emerging trends in urban mobility and public transport, with a focus on their spatiality. We hope to bring together distinguished researchers from a variety of academic backgrounds to share their knowledge and experiences in addressing the complex challenges of urban mobility and public transport from the spatial perspective. We hope to collect new concepts, perspectives, analyses, theoretical methods, and case studies that contribute to the development of more sustainable and livable cities.
Original research and review articles covering all sorts of mobility modes at all spatial scales are welcome. Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Spatial distribution characteristics of human mobility and public transport;
- The impacts spatial factors have on human mobility and transport systems;
- Spatial data mining and machine learning for public transport systems;
- Mobility networks and mobility geographical models;
- Spatial data-driven modeling for design and planning of public transport systems;
- Spatial practices and emerging trends of public transport planning and policy;
- MaaS and public transport system integration;
- Transit-oriented development;
- Challenges and opportunities of urban mobility/public transport development.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Waishan Qiu
Dr. Faan Chen
Dr. Xiaoran Huang
Dr. Wenjing Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- urban mobility
- spatial pattern
- spatial modeling
- public transport
- transit-oriented development
- sustainable transportation
- smart mobility
- intelligent transport system
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