Sustainable Mobility and Energy Conservation
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (14 October 2021) | Viewed by 562
Special Issue Editor
Interests: transportation studies; sustainability studies; quantitative statistics; tourism
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Today in transport policy, it is widely assumed that “smart” and “innovative” forms of mobility are producing falls in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Recent examples include, for instance, app-based mobility solutions supporting collaborative forms of transportation (e.g., car-sharing, ride-hailing, ride-pooling) or Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) in general, the rise in local and neighborhood-centered lifestyles that are favorable for human-powered mobility (HPM), which has accelerated due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the intertwined rise of home-offices and coworking infrastructures in the last decade, and alternative drive system technologies, such as fuel cells or electromobility and so forth.
These examples lead to the tendency among early adopters that their private fossil fuel vehicles or their use of public transportation are becoming more and more obsolete with regard to their daily mobility. The herewith associated reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the transport sector is in line with the Paris Climate Agreement. However, only evidence-based research quantifying the levels of energy conservation is able to trace whether the transport sector has undergone major changes that are in line with the aim to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius.
So far, there is a lack of studies that are able to quantify greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation potential released by these various forms of sustainable mobility. This Special Issue is seeking to gather together work in the field of mobility and transportation studies that are able to state the amount of CO2 that is mitigated in the transport sector induced by sustainable forms of mobility, e.g., CO2-equivalent per person per year in a region or a nation state. This Special Issue aims to present work on how the energy saving potential of sustainable forms of mobility can be identified and quantified. Ideally, the question of "rebound" and “spillover” effects needs to be asked and addressed in these works. Papers selected for this Special Issue will be subject to a rigorous peer review procedure that aims at the rapid dissemination of research findings. The Special Issue aims towards a multi-disciplinary approach in order to examine and explore issues and advances in the area of sustainable mobility and energy conservation.
Prof. Dr. Timo Ohnmacht
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- CO2 emissions
- climate gas mitigation
- sustainable transport
- new forms of mobility
- Mobility-as-a-Service
- co-working
- home-office
