Sustainable Urban Mobility

Dear Colleagues,

Mobility is a polysemic concept used in several sciences. It was originally specific to sociology and geography but has also expanded into traffic science because of the increased use of cars in recent years. Now unanimously accepted, the concept includes social mobility, spatial mobility (residential relocation and mobility as travel-traffic), intellectual mobility, and professional mobility. Between these mentioned components/understandings of mobility are inter-conditions that have become much more complex with the evolution of technological progress and with the evolution of the information society.

Mobility is a complex concept that requires understanding which multidisciplinary examinations are necessary, with a pronounced emphasis on interdisciplinarity.

In essence, mobility is the expression of the form and structure of activities and the way of life within an urban system. For the mobility of individuals, the essential component of ensuring mobility rights is represented by public transportation. For goods mobility, sustainable urban distribution logistics still present challenges for research.

We find mobility in the quality of life of the city's inhabitants and their desire for a higher common good. That is why we want the sustainable urban mobility theme that we propose to reflect an integrative treatment of mobility, connected to the requirements of sustainable development. Consequently, we invite engineers, computer scientists, urban planners, sociologists, economists, geographers, ecologists, statisticians, and anyone else who is interested in the correct, integrative, and systemic promotion of sustainable urban mobility to participate in the development of the theme. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:

• The interaction between mobility and urban planning: daily mobility vs. residential mobility.
• The coherent city: correlations between urban pattern and travel/ transport-mobility available options.
• Integrated urban networks for sustainable and smart mobility; the reliability and resilience of integrated mobility networks.
• The effects of urban space fragmentation on proximity travel.
• Public urban transportation: the impact of the transit network on real estate prices.
• Accessibility and attractiveness in urban space (without cars).
• Solutions to limit car dependence.
• Funding of the public transportation system.
• Equity/inclusiveness, effectiveness, and efficiency in urban public transportation.
• The success of Mobility as a Service (MaaS) and intellectual mobility.
• Modeling of sustainable urban mobility.
• New techniques and technologies for sustainable city logistics.

Prof. Dr. Mihaela Popa
Prof. Dr. Șerban Raicu
Prof. Dr. Dorinela Costescu
Dr. Grzegorz Karoń
Guest Editors

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• urban mobility
• public transportation
• integrated urban mobility networks
• smart mobility
• modeling of urban mobility
• sustainable city logistics