Advancing Public Transport and Urban Infrastructures for Micro-Mobility in Sustainable Cities
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Transportation and Future Mobility".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 3200
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cyclists; pedestrians; accessibility; urban mobility; modelling; public transport
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Interests: transport geography; urban geography; economic geography; regional planning
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Interests: railway research; the resilience of infrastructure including transport systems
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
To achieve sustainable cities, one requirement is to improve micro-mobility in public transport and urban infrastructure through the use of quantitative and qualitative methodologies. These methodologies allow us to study these systems with relation to their flow condition, and at the same time incorporate their relationship with their territory through the conception of the place in which they are being developed (e.g., a metro station as a node-place). This implies combining sustainability and interdisciplinary approaches, such as surveys, documentary analysis, field observation, experimentation, and simulation. In this Special Issue, we understand sustainability as the combination of social, environmental, and economic dimensions that require territorial governance that allows for a good articulation between them. This Special Issue is interested in studies related to railway infrastructure, bus systems, universality, intermodality, accessibility, inclusive design, equity, spatial analysis of mobility, service-level analysis, the use of innovative technologies, urban environment, public policies, and strategies to promote public and non-motorized transport. We also welcome studies that explore these issues at different scales, from the local to the regional, both in urban and rural areas, focused on micro-mobility. Overall, this Special Issue hopes to contribute theoretically and practically to generate proposals and strategies to promote greater sustainable development from the problems related to transport and mobility.
You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Sustainability.
Dr. Sebastian Seriani
Dr. Fernandes Vicente
Dr. Taku Fujiyama
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- equity, accessibility, and sustainability
- service-level analysis, intermodality, and railway infrastructure
- inclusive design and universal accessibility in public transport
- crowd management and public space
- spatial analysis of mobility and big data
- the use of innovative technologies and methodologies
- urban environment and mobility challenges
- public policies in sustainable mobility
- strategies for the promotion of public and non-motorized transport
- the resilience of public transport systems and urban infrastructure
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