Transportation Infrastructure: Planning and Resilience
A special issue of Future Transportation (ISSN 2673-7590).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 August 2026
Special Issue Editors
Interests: transportation infrastructure; civil engineering; road engineering; asphalt materials; life cycle analysis (LCA)
Interests: transportation infrastructure; civil engineering; road engineering; asphalt materials
Interests: transportation infrastructure; civil engineering; road engineering; asphalt materials
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With global climate change intensifying and urbanization accelerating, transportation infrastructures face unprecedented threats, from extreme weather events to geopolitical disruptions and public health crises. Resilient planning has become critical to ensuring infrastructure reliability, minimizing socioeconomic losses, and supporting sustainable development. This research area bridges engineering, urban planning, and risk management, offering actionable solutions to build robust, adaptive transportation systems.
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue, ‘Transportation Infrastructure: Planning and Resilience’. We aim to gather cutting-edge research that advances the theory, methodology, and practice of resilient transportation infrastructure planning. Aligned with the journal’s focus on interdisciplinary transportation research, we seek to balance academic depth and practical relevance, avoiding overly broad or narrow scopes. We target at least ten high-quality articles, with the potential for book-form publication upon reaching this threshold.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Resilience assessment frameworks for roads, railways, and multimodal transportation networks;
- Climate-adaptive planning for infrastructure design and retrofitting;
- Risk modeling and mitigation strategies for disruptive events;
- Smart technologies for enhancing infrastructure resilience;
- Stakeholder collaboration and policy instruments for resilient planning;
- Post-disaster recovery and adaptive management of transportation systems.
Dr. Ling Xu
Dr. Yan Yuan
Dr. Song Xu
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Future Transportation is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1200 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- transportation infrastructure planning
- infrastructure resilience
- climate-adaptive transportation
- transportation risk mitigation
- smart infrastructure
- multimodal transportation resilience
- post-disaster infrastructure recovery
- resilience assessment framework
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