Reliable and Resilient Infrastructures for Sustainable Transport Systems
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (24 February 2022) | Viewed by 5800
Special Issue Editors
2. CONSTRUCT, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
Interests: instrumentation and monitoring of transport infrastructures; structural analysis of railway tracks; asset management of railway and road infrastructures; railway track degradation behavior; sustainable materials and technologies for transport infrastructures; mechanical and morphological characterization of bound and unbound granular materials
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Interests: transportation infrastructures (design, build, renewal, characterization, monitoring, modeling, and analysis of the behavior); physical and numerical modeling of the mechanical behavior of geomaterials; laboratory and “in situ” characterization of geomaterials; asset management
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The current paradigm of sustainable transportation and construction has introduced new challenges to our society and has been encouraging the technical and scientific community to put efforts into finding new solutions to meet the established goals of efficiency and effectiveness for transport systems and their resilience to climate changes and impacts on the environment.
In addition to the necessary changes in mobility patterns, shift to means of transportation with higher fuel efficiency and lower emissions, and migration to renewable energy sources, transport infrastructures need to adapt to meet those changes and cope with future challenges. In recent years, many transport infrastructures throughout the world have also been facing a decline in investment, and the condition of their assets has been deteriorating rapidly. Thus, new design, materials, and monitoring solutions and measures are urgent to enhance the resilience of the infrastructures during their lifecycle and to face this new paradigm.
This Special Issue on “Reliable and Resilient Infrastructures for Sustainable Transport Systems” of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050) aims to bring together specialists, researchers, designers, infrastructure owners, operators, and asset managers involved in the different fields of transport infrastructures to promote and disseminate the latest research, achievements, and developments in this topic. We invite papers that focus on transport infrastructure design and monitoring solutions to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of transportation systems to cope with the sustainability paradigm and resilience to climate changes.
The scope of this Special Issue includes but is not limited to:
- Sustainable materials and construction technologies
- Sustainable design, maintenance, rehabilitation, retrofitting, and demolition
- Innovative diagnostic data based on smart strategies for maintenance
- Non-destructive and non-intrusive infrastructure diagnostics
- Structural health monitoring
- Continuous monitoring (on-board and/or wayside)
- Innovative asset management strategies
- Structural management and implementation
- Risk mitigation measures and strategies
- Extreme event management
- Decision support planning and modelling
- Monitoring data handling, big data, and artificial intelligence applications
- Information delivery and visualization
Dr. André Paixão
Prof. Dr. Eduardo Fortunato
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- transport infrastructures
- sustainable construction
- infrastructure monitoring
- asset management
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