Decarbonizing Transport by 2035: The Triple Challenge of Meeting Mobility Demand, Reducing Emissions and Adapting to a Changing Climate
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 567
Special Issue Editor
Interests: sustainability and sustainable development; energy; transport; built environment
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The United Nations has identified the years 2020–2030 as the Decade of Action, with a call to accelerate ‘sustainable solutions to all the world’s biggest challenges’. The transport of people and goods remains a sector which is 90% dependent on fossil fuels; this saw the largest growth in emissions from end-use sectors in the years of 2010 to 2019 despite the wide variety of energy sources, propulsion technologies, and modal options available.
The magnitude of this challenge was illustrated plainly during the pandemic, which saw mixed impacts on transport activity, both domestic and international, passengers and freight, and by mode. Following the dip in transport emissions during 2020, the IEA reports that transport emissions rebounded and grew in 2021 to 7.7 Gt CO2.
Decarbonizing mobility faces multiple challenges: the first is to slow, stop, and reverse the growth in the emissions of the transport sector globally in the remaining years of the decade; second, to meet our mobility needs, which are expected to more than double by 2050, concentrated in emerging markets; and third, to adapt and become resilient to the already-changing physical environment.
This Special Issue is focused on publishing real-world case studies demonstrating system-level solutions to address the challenges towards decarbonizing mobility. Topics of interest for this Special Issue include technology and/or policy interventions in vehicles, fuels, network operation, urban/land use planning, and the natural environment.
Authors should clearly identify:
- The novelty of their approach;
- The scale of the impact, testing for sensitivity, and accounting for uncertainty;
- How unintended consequences and problem shifting may be accounted for and mitigated;
- Gaps in technology or policy necessary to deliver the research outcomes;
The broader relevance of the research to other transport systems.
Dr. Justin Bishop
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- sustainability
- sustainable development
- externalities
- urban planning
- natural environment
- vehicles
- public transport
- freight
