Novel Materials and Technologies for the Urban Roads of the Future

Dear Colleagues,

Growing unsustainable urbanization and intensified land-use are generating new urban scenarios for the built environment and causing the urgent need for novel and synergic approaches to the design, construction, and maintenance of existing and new urban road pavements. The development of sustainable, durable, smart, and functional materials is the new challenge that researchers all over the world are facing in order to tackle the aforementioned needs. Paving solutions for the urban roads of the future must have consistent properties, balancing the production and maintenance costs, as suggested by the circular economy concept, without jeopardizing the service performances.

This Special Issue entitled Novel Materials and Technologies for the Urban Roads of the Future will present the latest trends of research in the pavement engineering sector, focusing on the development of innovative materials and technologies for the conception of a new urban environment. The editors welcome the submission of high-quality research, technical papers, review contributions, and case histories on laboratory and in-situ applications. Papers for this Special Issue will be selected via a rigorous peer-review procedure with the aim of the rapid and wide dissemination of research results.

Prof. Cesare Sangiorgi
Prof. Daniel Castro-Fresno
Dr. Piergiorgio Tataranni
Guest Editors

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