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Sustainable Transportation and Regional Economic Development

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 8215

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Stefan Tscharaktschiew

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Institute of Transport and Economics, Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden), 01187 Dresden, Germany
Interests: transport economics; urban economics; environmental economics; public economics

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Cities and regions are the centers of economic activity and host the majority of the world’s population. Transportation is the link between the economic activities of businesses and the places where individuals live, work, shop, enjoy their leisure time, etc., and thus its role is essential.

In the early days of transportation research the focus was on the importance of the provision of adequate transportation facilities to foster local economic development. At present, researchers and policymakers are often more concerned with the demand side, trying to find effective and efficient ways to tackle the adverse effects associated with transportation (noise, local and global pollution, congestion, soil sealing, etc.).

The purpose of this Special Issue is to stimulate high-quality research on economic aspects of sustainable transportation, focusing at a local (regional/urban) scale. Authors are invited to submit theoretical or empirical papers dealing with a wide range of issues connected to sustainable transportation at a local scale. Submissions must have a clear transportation economics perspective and be directed to one of the following issues:

  1. Ex-ante evaluation of planned (urban/regional) transportation policies (pricing, regulation, land use planning, etc.);
  2. Ex-post evaluation of realized (urban/regional) transportation policies (pricing, regulation, land use planning, etc.);
  3. Impacts of planned/realized transportation policies on the internal structure of cities/regions;
  4. Novel perspectives on the relationship between transportation and the environment at the local scale (e.g., how does transportation affect the urban heat island effect and vice versa?).

Submissions are required to adopt sound scientific methods (microeconomic theory, regressions, simulations, etc.).

Authors should clearly identify:

  • The impact/relevance of their research question;
  • The novelty of their approach;
  • Conclusions and implications.

Dr. Stefan Tscharaktschiew
Guest Editor

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • sustainable transportation
  • local economic development
  • transportation economics
  • transportation policies evaluation
  • transportation and environment

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Sustainable Firm Performance of Logistics Service Providers along Maritime Supply Chain
by Irina Dovbischuk
Sustainability 2021, 13(14), 8040; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13148040 - 19 Jul 2021
Cited by 6 | Viewed by 2347
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As a result of globalization and the growing importance of environmental and social issues, scholars have started to update the scope of logistics management and capture its complexity using different theoretical perspectives. The output of logistics services also encompasses the so-called negative by-products, [...] Read more.
As a result of globalization and the growing importance of environmental and social issues, scholars have started to update the scope of logistics management and capture its complexity using different theoretical perspectives. The output of logistics services also encompasses the so-called negative by-products, which have been increased in past decades and stress the need for a standardized, comprehensive and quantitative performance measurement. The reduction of the negative by-production, e.g., decarbonization in the transport industry, is commonly associated with a higher degree of logistics performance using different capabilities. Research aims of the study are twofold: to show the decisive components for sustainability performance of a logistics service provider (LSP) and to outline internal capabilities of LSPs as indicators of its sustainability-oriented firm performance. In the first step, firm performance is sampled using the lenses of sustainability. For this purpose, general and transport-related sustainability frameworks are summarized to identify how they differ in sustainability dimensions in order to help LSPs contribute to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. In the second step, decisive and evidence-based capabilities as indicators of sustainability-oriented performance are outlined using mixed methods by reviewing the literature. Full article
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The Valuation of Aesthetic Preferences and Consequences for Urban Transport Infrastructures
by Christos Evangelinos and Stefan Tscharaktschiew
Sustainability 2021, 13(9), 4977; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13094977 - 29 Apr 2021
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The importance of transport infrastructure for individual well-being and regional economic development and growth, but also its adverse side-effects, make a comprehensive assessment of the general appropriateness of new construction and rebuild indispensable. Assessments, however, often lack certain issues. For instance, aesthetic aspects [...] Read more.
The importance of transport infrastructure for individual well-being and regional economic development and growth, but also its adverse side-effects, make a comprehensive assessment of the general appropriateness of new construction and rebuild indispensable. Assessments, however, often lack certain issues. For instance, aesthetic aspects are usually not part of the (economic) evaluation of large infrastructure projects, albeit individuals may be (positively or negatively) affected by the aesthetic ‘value’ of infrastructures. This paper proposes the aesthetic index developed by Birkhoff as a method to quantify the aesthetic impact of buildings/facilities in urban areas. To test the basic applicability of the index for transport infrastructure facilities, we apply it at first to airport terminals in Germany. We also test the suitability of the index to derive the willingness to pay for aesthetic exterior design—since market prices are easy to obtain with respect to hotel room rates—using hotel architecture as the first example. Regression results of a hedonic price model indicate a significant relationship, suggesting the basic suitability of the index to uncover consumers’ willingness to pay for an aesthetic outward appearance. We suggest further research to test the suitability of Birkhoff’s index for general urban transport infrastructures in order to derive utility-based welfare measures toward aesthetic issues. For highly controversial urban (overground) infrastructures, we propose the inclusion of an aesthetic component in cost–benefit analysis. Full article
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Empirical Study of the Spatial Spillover Effect of Transportation Infrastructure on Green Total Factor Productivity
by Xi Liang and Pingan Li
Sustainability 2021, 13(1), 326; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13010326 - 31 Dec 2020
Cited by 19 | Viewed by 2402
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Transportation infrastructure promotes the regional flow of production. The construction and use of transportation infrastructure have a crucial effect on climate change, the sustainable development of the economy, and Green Total Factor Productivity (GTFP). Based on the panel data of 30 provinces in [...] Read more.
Transportation infrastructure promotes the regional flow of production. The construction and use of transportation infrastructure have a crucial effect on climate change, the sustainable development of the economy, and Green Total Factor Productivity (GTFP). Based on the panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2005 to 2017, this study empirically analyses the spatial spillover effect of transportation infrastructure on the GTFP using the Malmquist–Luenberger (ML) index and the dynamic spatial Durbin model. We found that transportation infrastructure has direct and spatial spillover effects on the growth of GTFP; highway density and railway density have significant positive spatial spillover effects, and especially-obvious immediate and lagging spatial spillover effects in the short-term. We also note that the passenger density and freight density of transportation infrastructure account for a relatively small contribution to the regional GTFP. Considering environmental pollution, energy consumption, and the enriching of the traffic infrastructure index system, we used the dynamic spatial Durbin model to study the spatial spillover effects of transportation infrastructure on GTFP. Full article
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