Paving the Future: Sustainable Road Design and Urban Mobility in Smart Cities, 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is centered on the critical interplay of sustainable road design and urban mobility, aiming to explore innovative strategies for creating intelligent, eco-friendly, and safe transportation infrastructures. It focuses on the multifaceted dimensions of urban mobility in smart cities, examining solutions for road infrastructure, policy frameworks, and technological advancement.

The emphasis is on the convergence of advanced technologies with urban mobility, highlighting the role of intelligent traffic management, real-time data analytics, and cooperative driving technologies in optimizing road space, user flows, and overall efficiency. Road and intersection design should be inclusive, ensuring accessibility for pedestrians, cyclists, and individuals with diverse mobility needs to foster both efficiency and equity. Further exploration is needed to integrate renewable energy sources into road infrastructure, evaluating solutions like solar roadways and kinetic energy harvesting to power smart urban mobility systems sustainably. This Special Issue also addresses the resilience of roads and road networks to climate change and human or natural disruptions, emphasizing adaptive design strategies.

Global case studies from smart cities are invited to showcase successful sustainable road design implementation, offering replicable models and lessons. The overarching objective is to inspire the widespread adoption of eco-conscious urban mobility practices, promoting a collective movement towards a sustainable and resilient urban future.

Original research articles and review papers featured in this Special Issue will delve into diverse topics, including but not limited to:

• Sustainable road design principles;
• Planning shared mobility;
• Inclusive and accessible road design;
• Digital transition in road design;
• Innovative design solutions for intersections and interchanges;
• Reliability and safety of AI in transport operation;
• Intelligent traffic management;
• Smart technologies in urban mobility;
• Cooperative driving technologies;
• Disruptive innovation in intermodal transportation;
• Novel measures for urban resilience;
• Latest road economy trends;
• Energy harvesting from roads;
• Monitoring and mitigation of vehicular air and noise pollution;
• Contemporary challenges in road research;
• Global perspectives through case studies;
• Integrating traffic calming measures into smart roads;
• People-centered solutions for smart road design.

Dr. Maria Luisa Tumminello
Dr. Elżbieta Macioszek
Prof. Dr. Anna Granà
Dr. Tullio Giuffrè
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-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Smart Cities is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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