Sustainable Transportation Engineering and Mobility Safety Management
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 13 March 2025 | Viewed by 1199
Special Issue Editors
Interests: the assessment and evaluation of the risk and resilience of transport networks following relevant events; the implementation of electric mobility for private and collective transport and the relationship between transportation systems and territory; the planning, management, and optimization of transport systems for people and goods
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Interests: transit network design; assessment of demand-responsive transport systems to substitute or complement conventional public transport; modelling and simulation of transport systems; traffic flow forecasting
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Mobility policies for people and goods globally have set ambitious goals that require sustainable, efficient, safe, and resilient solutions in both urban and suburban areas. Negative externalities such as environmental pollution, congestion, and accidents significantly impact social well-being. Moreover, major anthropogenic and natural events can disrupt transportation systems, influencing the socioeconomic system of one or more countries.
In this regard, a strategic, cooperative, and systemic approach is essential to promoting and adopting innovative forms of mobility. This involves acting basically on three key issues: vehicle technology, infrastructure design, and service management/organization. It is therefore necessary to address, on the one hand, the processes of decarbonization and energy transition to zero-emission vehicles and solutions and, on the other hand, the challenges related to safety and resilience, to understand the system response in case of disruption.
Particularly in urban areas, there is a need to plan and design multimodal mobility services by optimizing resources and services. Redesigning urban spaces into multifunctional and green infrastructure can ensure sustainability, safety, and livability.
This Special Issue aims to collect research, case studies, and reviews from researchers and practitioners, and to explore methods, models, and applications defining the role that different transport systems for people and goods will play in the development of sustainable, shared, safe, and resilient mobility. In this perspective, applications involving Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Big Data Analytics are also of great interest.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Decarbonization strategies in transport and logistic;
- Mobility as a Service (MaaS);
- Public and Urban Transport planning and management;
- Shared Mobility and Micro-Mobility;
- Demand-Responsive Transport services (DRT);
- Efficient and interconnected multimodal transport system;
- Public Transport time prediction via Machine Learning;
- Smart solutions for sustainable transport and logistics;
- Resilience in transport solutions;
- Infrastructure risk assessment and management.
Dr. Fabio Borghetti
Dr. Giovanni Calabrò
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- transportation planning
- sustainable mobility
- public transport
- transportation decarbonization
- transportation systems
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