Special Issue "Planning Peripheral and Ultra-Peripheral Infrastructures"

A special issue of Infrastructures (ISSN 2412-3811).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2022.

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Ana Vulevic
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Department of Urban Planning and Architecture, Institute of Transportation—CIP, Belgrade, Serbia
Interests: geographic information systems (GIS); accessibility; connectivity; infrastructures planning; planning strategies; sustainable development
Prof. Dr. Gualter Couto
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School of Business and Economics and CEEAplA, Universidade dos Açores, Ponta Delgada, Portugal
Interests: finance; real options; eco-tourism; rural-tourism; creative-tourism; tourism sustainability
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Prof. Dr. José Manuel Naranjo Gómez
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Graphic Expression Department, School of Agricultural Engineering, University of Extremadura, 06007 Badajoz, Spain
Interests: geographic information systems (GIS); accessibility; connectivity; regional studies; infrastructures planning; sustainable planning
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

It is a fact that the peripheral and ultra-peripheral regions as Borderlands or Islands present several territorial specificities. Nevertheless, these territories also present several obstacles, barriers, and opportunities. Among all those issues, appropriate infrastructure planning is necessary to answer the local populations' needs. Therefore, studies regarding transportation and infrastructure planning and sustainability assessment in those territories are fundamental to achieving sustained growth.

Contextually, the present Special Issue (SI) expects to cross and analyze the dynamics and challenges ongoing in those peripheral territories regarding transportation and infrastructure planning and sustainability and with the related issues that may impact it.

Consequently, the editors encourage the submission of studies associated with the topics of transportation and infrastructure planning in peripheral and ultra-peripheral regions, as well as with the associated governance strategies and methods, regional planning, among several other sub-topics that could relate to the main scope of this Special Issue and, consequently, produce a literature enhancement about this particular typology of territories.

Prof. Dr. Rui Alexandre Castanho
Prof. Dr. Ana Vulevic
Prof. Dr. Gualter Couto
Prof. Dr. José Manuel Naranjo Gómez
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • accessibility
  • connectivity
  • infrastructures planning
  • planning strategies
  • geographic information systems (GIS)
  • insular and peripheral regions
  • low-density territories
  • sustainable development
  • sustainable development
  • sustainability

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Accessibility in European Peripheral Territories: Analyzing the Portuguese Mainland Connectivity Patterns from 1985 to 2020
Infrastructures 2021, 6(6), 92; https://doi.org/10.3390/infrastructures6060092 - 20 Jun 2021
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The inner periphery European countries, as is the case of Portugal, are characterized by poor access to essential areas and services of general and social relations. Contextually, this paper aims to explore the linkages between inner peripheries, ultra-peripherality concepts, and the concept of [...] Read more.
The inner periphery European countries, as is the case of Portugal, are characterized by poor access to essential areas and services of general and social relations. Contextually, this paper aims to explore the linkages between inner peripheries, ultra-peripherality concepts, and the concept of accessibility from 1985 to 2020, in parallel with the analysis of some demographic trends in the same research period. Thus, the study deals with accessibility and the analysis of accessibility-related spatial distribution to represent the traditional core—periphery pattern, with the highest accessibility in the center of the mainland and west coastal area, and the lowest accessibility in remote regions. The results show that the distribution of the road infrastructure is not uniform in Portugal. Furthermore, the NUTS II regions of PT13 Lisboa e Vale do Tejo (the Lisbon region) and PT11 Norte (northern Portugal) have the greatest road per km2. The Lisbon region has the highest concentration of national roads globally, while the northern region has the highest concentration of municipal roads. These two regions are, by far, the most densely populated, encompassing about ¾ of the national population and GDP. Full article
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Understanding Traffic Congestion via Network Analysis, Agent Modeling, and the Trajectory of Urban Expansion: A Coastal City Case
Infrastructures 2021, 6(6), 85; https://doi.org/10.3390/infrastructures6060085 - 06 Jun 2021
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The study of patterns of urban mobility is of utter importance for city growth projection and development planning. In this paper, we analyze the topological aspects of the street network of the coastal city of Cartagena de Indias employing graph theory and spatial [...] Read more.
The study of patterns of urban mobility is of utter importance for city growth projection and development planning. In this paper, we analyze the topological aspects of the street network of the coastal city of Cartagena de Indias employing graph theory and spatial syntax tools. We find that the resulting network can be understood on the basis of 400 years of the city’s history and its peripheral location that strongly influenced and shaped the growth of the city, and that the statistical properties of the network resemble those of self-organized cities. Moreover, we study the mobility through the network using a simple agent-based model that allows us to study the level of street congestion depending on the agents’ knowledge of the traffic while they travel through the network. We found that a purely shortest-path travel scheme is not an optimal strategy and that assigning small weights to traffic avoidance schemes increases the overall performance of the agents in terms of arrival success, occupancy of the streets, and traffic accumulation. Finally, we argue that localized congestion can be only partially ascribed to topological properties of the network and that it is important to consider the decision-making capability of the agents while moving through the network to explain the emergence of traffic congestion in the system. Full article
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