New Trends in Sustainable Transportation
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 979
Special Issue Editors
Interests: road pavements; road safety; micromobility; road design; emerging technologies on roads; airports
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: road safety; vulnerable road users; micromobility; traffic calming; road design
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The world of transportation has faced several challenges in recent years, within different fields. These changes are mainly due to ever greater attention paid to the impact that transport has on society. In light of this consideration, new trends are rising in the transportation world to create a more sustainable environment. The concept of sustainability, in this case, can be addressed from multiple perspectives, starting from the idea of safer roads through the introduction of emerging technologies or valuable countermeasures that can reduce the crash frequency or severity. This result can also be achieved by relying on newly developed methodologies and models for road safety assessment that are more in line with the contingent traffic necessities. Sustainability in transport can also be interpreted in the more classic way of reducing pollution and increasing shared transport modalities, proposing valuable alternatives to the private vehicle in favor of micromobility, new bicycles, and pedestrians, or improving the already existent public transport with smart and efficient strategies. Working on transport means working on safety, on livable and walkable cities, on more sustainable environments for people, on optimizing travel times, and on reducing congestion. Another way to positively impact the road environment is by thinking about new innovative materials or recycling existing ones for sustainable pavements and subgrades. Not only are roads at urban and rural levels affected by new sustainable trends, but also railways and airports. These two factors hide the potential to provide innovative solutions at the infrastructural and transportation level.
Considering these premises, we are pleased to invite you to submit original research articles and reviews meeting the aforementioned purposes and goals. The latter are strictly linked to the aims and scope of the Sustainability journal, which is hosting the proposed Special Issue.
This Special Issue might tackle new proposals and trends in the transportation field, aiming at highlighting the emerging innovations and solutions that can contribute to creating a sustainable transport environment.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- New trends in road safety assessments;
- Emerging technologies or valuable countermeasures to reduce crash occurrence and severity;
- Innovative materials for transport infrastructures;
- Micromobility potentials;
- Improvements in the approach towards bike infrastructures;
- Smart and innovative strategies for the improvement of public means of transport;
- Innovation in the field of railways;
- Innovation in the field of airports.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Vittorio Ranieri
Dr. Paolo Intini
Dr. Stefano Coropulis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- road safety
- road safety assessments
- e-scooters
- vulnerable road users
- bikes
- cycle path
- public transport
- recycled materials
- innovative road pavements
- railways
- airports
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