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Sustainability in Transport Systems: Policy, Planning and Exploitation (Second Volume)

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

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2023) | Viewed by 4180

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Rosário Macário

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1. Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability (CERIS), Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal
2. Department of Transport and Regional Economics (TPR), Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Antwerp, B-2000 Antwerp, Belgium
Interests: transport systems; governance; public policy
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Dr. Vasco Reis

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Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability (CERIS), Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal
Interests: mobility and transport systems; agent-based modelling
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Further to the success of the Special Issue of Sustainability on “Transport Systems for Sustainability: Policy, Planning and Exploitation”, we are delighted to open a new Special Issue entitled “Sustainability in Transport Systems: Policy, Planning and Exploitation (Second Volume)”.

Sharing a common global vision for the improvement of the world, accompanied by a framework that operationalizes this vision, is a crucial step for the long-term sustainability of the planet and its people. Transport needs are created by the territorial activities undertaken by societies, being also influenced by the degree of freedom in transactions between countries and/or regions. Movements of both freight and people are a direct result of how societies operate.

This Special Issue aims to gather contributions from transport policy and planning to the sustainability of the world. Looking to past decades, several societal changes can be observed. Their consequences have implications for how transport can contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as defined by the United Nations. The SDGs do not explicitly state that transport is a main contributor to that endeavor; however, this sector is present in all of the 17 SDG goals. Thus, this Special Issue aims to address these issues and collect the output of different high quality studies.

The papers to be included in this issue should reflect policies and measures taken at different decision levels (i.e., strategic decisions, tactical planning, and operational outcomes) and cover passengers and freight, as well as services, infrastructure, and third party providers.

The ultimate goal of this Special Issue is to provide a set of measures, policies, and actions toward sustainability.

We look forward to receiving your papers.

Prof. Dr. Rosário Macário
Dr. Vasco Reis
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • sustainability
  • environment
  • policy
  • planning
  • decision making
  • infrastructures
  • urban
  • interurban
  • passengers
  • freight
  • intelligent systems

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Factors Influencing Continuance Intention of Time-Sharing Cars
by Huiping Huang and Ganlin Nan
Sustainability 2023, 15(13), 10625; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151310625 - 5 Jul 2023
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Time-sharing cars, as a sustainable model for transport, have seen rapid developments in recent years. Prior studies on car sharing paid little attention to the continuance intention among users. But understanding ways to cultivate user habits is important to enhance car sharing’s contribution [...] Read more.
Time-sharing cars, as a sustainable model for transport, have seen rapid developments in recent years. Prior studies on car sharing paid little attention to the continuance intention among users. But understanding ways to cultivate user habits is important to enhance car sharing’s contribution to sustainability. Based on the expectation confirmation model (ECM), this study adopts a user-centered perspective to explore factors affecting the continuance intention of time-sharing electric vehicles through personal cognitive variables (i.e., psychological ownership, familiarity, and trust) and external environmental variables (i.e., facilitating conditions and service quality). An online survey was conducted, and a total of 1072 valid samples were collected. The results of the structural equation modeling show that offline service quality and facilitating conditions had the greatest impact on the perceptions of usefulness and satisfaction users have for car sharing. Perceived usefulness and satisfaction positively predicted continuance intention, as in the ECM. Among customer variables, environmentalism, familiarity, and trust in peers positively predicted the perceived usefulness of car sharing. Psychological ownership played a subtle function by negatively affecting perceived usefulness but positively affecting satisfaction. We discuss the findings and practical implications for stakeholders and offer suggestions for future research. Full article
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Walkability and Bikeability for Sustainable Spatial Planning in the City of Novi Sad (Serbia)
by Tijana Đorđević, Nemanja Tomić and Dajana Tešić
Sustainability 2023, 15(4), 3785; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15043785 - 19 Feb 2023
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The global trend of increasing urbanization and motorization represents a major obstacle in the sustainable development and planning of cities. This trend did not bypass the city of Novi Sad (Serbia), which, despite good cultural and historical preconditions for the development of sustainable [...] Read more.
The global trend of increasing urbanization and motorization represents a major obstacle in the sustainable development and planning of cities. This trend did not bypass the city of Novi Sad (Serbia), which, despite good cultural and historical preconditions for the development of sustainable forms of transport, did not resist the sudden increase in the degree of motorization. The aim of this work is to present how favorable the existing structure of the city is for the development of sustainable types of traffic (mainly walking and cycling). Furthermore, this research aims to establish the link between bikeability and walkability and walking and cycling in the city through a survey questionnaire thus aiming to show how much the planned land use affects the increase or decrease in walkability and bikeability in the city of Novi Sad in order to establish whether the planning documents respect the principle of sustainability defined by law. The methodological procedure is adapted to European cities and the information base available in the researched area is based on the walkability and bikeability index. The results showed that the city of Novi Sad has the potential and morphology to support sustainable modes of transport, but the planning documents do not recognize the imperative of change towards sustainability. Full article
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