Development Trends of Sustainable Mobility

Dear Colleagues,

over the last years, the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and worldwide conflicts are generating several uncertainties from the economic, social, and energetic points of view. From the transportation perspective, several challenges are ongoing and new ones are coming. The main question is, what are the new development trends in the forthcoming future of transportation? The common point between governments, organizations, and citizens is that all would have cities with less congestion, less pollution, more accessibility, and better infrastructures. One of the well-known challenges in transportation is aiming at adopting more carbon-free vehicles for reducing GHG emissions. Another challenge is to provide more efficient shared mobility systems, e.g., car-sharing and bike-sharing, for reducing the ownership of private vehicles and traffic congestion. Furthermore, following the same goal, other challenges are focusing on promoting public transport and the management of micromobility systems including safety aspects. The most recent trends concerning sustainable mobility are also related to autonomous vehicles and Mobility as a Service (MaaS) developments and implementations. However, all the above-mentioned topics could present strengths and weaknesses due to the complexity of their developments and/or management in real-case and large-scale adoptions. Therefore, the goal of the proposed Special Issue is to deal with this emerging challenges and development trends including (but not limited to) novel strategies, concepts, models, methodologies, policies, data analysis, surveys and case studies applications that aim at optimizing and promoting sustainable mobility. In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Leonardo Caggiani
Dr. Luigi Pio Prencipe
Guest Editors

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