Methods for Improving Sustainability of Passenger and Freight Transport

Dear Colleagues,

High standards of living, fast industrialization, and population growth consistently increase the demand for both passenger and freight transport around the world every year. In certain cases, the existing infrastructure is not capable of handling the growing demand for passenger and freight transport, which further causes some negative externalities, including congestion of transportation networks, enormous traffic delays in large metropolitan areas, vehicle crashes, emission of harmful substances, global warming, supply chain disruptions, and late product deliveries to the end customers. Researchers and practitioners have to come up with effective approaches that can be used to serve the demand for passenger and freight transport as well as to ensure sustainable movement of passengers and goods.

Sustainable transport captures three sustainability dimensions that encompass economic sustainability, social sustainability, and environmental sustainability. While economic sustainability supports a long-term economic growth of passenger and freight transport sectors, social sustainability aims to ensure the wellbeing of the population and meet the customer needs. On the other hand, environmental sustainability minimizes negative environmental externalities that are associated with passenger and freight transport. This Special Issue aims to comprehensively analyze the existing methods and reveal the new methods that can improve sustainability of passenger and freight transport. The submissions that focus on the following topics are welcome:

• Optimization and simulation models for sustainable passenger and freight transport;
• Collaborative agreements between different stakeholders for improving infrastructure performance;
• Game theoretic models that capture sustainability issues;
• Connected and autonomous vehicle applications for sustainable passenger and freight transport;
• Enhancing infrastructure performance under uncertainties and disruptive events;
• New techniques and innovative approaches for congestion mitigation;
• Models and solution algorithms that address operational challenges at passenger and freight terminals;
• Holistic models that capture conflicting objectives throughout passenger and freight transport.

Dr. Maxim A. Dulebenets
Guest Editor

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