Traffic Flow Modelling and Simulation towards Sustainable Transportation

Dear Colleagues,

The planning, design, and management of a transportation system require the nature and extent of the relationships between transport and the environment to be understood and quantified. Further, the strategies and actions needed to alleviate the different externalities linked to the transport of people and goods must be defined. Within this context, the “universe of transport” is changing at a speed never seen before, driven by impetuous technological development and affected by continuous changes in users’ needs, behaviors, and expectations.

New emerging mobility paradigms are becoming both a business opportunity and a social opportunity, as well as a strategy to increase the sustainability of the transportation system (e.g., shared mobility, Mobility As A Service). The availability of a huge quantity of data (big data) has given rise to different transport system modeling and simulation approaches. Moreover, the rapid and wide market penetration of several information sources and of Intelligent Transportation Systems/infrastructures is changing the usual travel and driving behaviors (e.g., ATIS, ADAS, real-time intersection synchronization). Finally, the new automotive and communication technologies will change the traditional way of “moving” in a road network (e.g., electric/hybrid vehicles, connected vehicles V2V or V2I, automated vehicles, autonomous vehicles).

The overall objective of this Special Issue of Sustainability is to collect original and innovative contributions focused on modeling and simulation methodologies/tools supporting the design and management of a greener, safer, and more equitable transportation system.

Theoretical and applicative contributions may include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

• Connected and automated vehicles (solutions, market penetration, and real impacts on transport systems);
• Real-time vehicle management (technologies, methodologies, issues, solutions, and perspectives);
• Driving assistance technologies (issues, solutions, and perspectives);
• V2V and V2I communication (issues, solutions, and perspectives);
• Alternative fuel vehicles (solutions, market penetration, and environmental impact);
• Optimization of transportation systems;
• Simulation of transportation systems;
• Vehicle routing and route planning;
• Travel demand modeling and management;
• Real-time network optimization;
• Real-time public services optimization,
• Real-time signals setting design or traffic control;
• Mobility as a service,
• Shared mobility,
• Intelligent information systems,
• Smart city logistics,
• Energy consumption modeling and simulation of innovative powertrains.

Prof. Stefano De Luca
Prof. Roberta Di Pace
Dr. Chiara Fiori
Guest Editors

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