Transport Planning in Smart Cities and Sustainable Urban Design

Dear Colleagues,

The rapid evolution of smart cities, driven by digital technologies and data-driven solutions, is fundamentally transforming urban mobility and spatial design. Integrating intelligent transport systems (e.g., IoT, AI, and real-time analytics) with sustainable urban planning principles, such as land use, presents a critical pathway to address pressing global challenges, including traffic congestion, carbon emissions, land-use inefficiencies, and inequities. This interdisciplinary research area bridges transport planning, urban land use, travel behavior, data science, and policy studies, emphasizing holistic strategies that promote low-carbon/shared/smart mobility, enhance public transit accessibility, and create people-centric urban environments. The global push for urban digitalization underscores the importance of synthesizing smart technologies and mobility services with sustainability goals to foster inclusive, efficient, and ecologically balanced cities.

The objective of this Special Issue is to compile a collection of papers, encompassing both original research and review articles, that offer valuable insights into fostering a seamless integration of urban transport and land use in smart city contexts. We welcome contributions exploring green mobility integration, land-use transport optimization, socio-environmental impacts, and sustainable urban planning/design, particularly in response to the smart transport technologies and services (i.e., Transportation Network Company, Intelligent Unmanned Systems, micro-shared mobility, Mobility-as-a-Service). This journal is committed to tackling sophisticated land-related issues, and through this Special Issue, we aim to enrich the conversation by delivering critical perspectives on the interdependencies between transport planning and land use-related urban design domains.

We extend a heartfelt invitation to scholars across various disciplines to contribute innovative and avant-garde ideas and methodologies that can enhance land use planning practices, policies, and technologies. This Special Issue is eager to receive manuscripts that explore, but are not confined to, the following themes:

• Integrating shared mobility with public transport: Impacts on urban space and land use.
• Land value synergy: Planning and design for TOD with smart mobility.
• Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) and implications for urban space and lifestyle.
• Digital divide, mixed land use, and urban mobility.
• Shaping low-carbon urban form: Interplay between land development and optimal traffic layout.
• Spatial planning in response to the smart transport technologies and services (i.e., Transportation Network Company, Intelligent Unmanned Systems, and micro-shared mobility).

We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.

Dr. Yuanyuan Guo
Dr. Tao Liu
Dr. Bin Chi
Dr. Mengqiu Cao
Dr. Haitao Lian
Guest Editors

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