Driving the Future: Innovations and Challenges in Sustainable Transportation
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 1613
Special Issue Editor
Interests: vehicle diagnostics; alternative drive systems; internal combustion engines
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Our aim is to encourage researchers to publish their experimental, computational, and theoretical research relating to natural and applied sciences, engineering, economics, social sciences, and humanities in detail to promote scientific and other understanding and to permit predictions and impact assessments of global change and development related to sustainability.
Purpose: to motivate researchers in the field of innovation and strengthen the relationship between stakeholders and the companies involved in development.
The importance of innovative and sustainable transport is growing, as for example, in Europe, 82% of citizens will be urban dwellers by 2050. A large number of conventional cars still on the road are still largely dependent on oil and account for almost a third of total energy consumption. Urban transport can be responsible for up to 25% of total CO2 emissions and up to 70% of total emissions in urban areas responsible for climate change. Alternative sources of energy are therefore very important, and the potential for energy savings and pollution must be analysed.
Nevertheless, more than 30% of road fatalities and serious injuries occur in urban areas, often affecting vulnerable road users (including pedestrians).
Another source of danger in cities is harmful exhaust emissions and particulate matter concentrations, which also cause significant pollution.
The specific communication needs of people with reduced mobility and accessible infrastructure must also be taken into account.
It is important that different transport solutions such as public transport, car sharing, cycling and vehicle rental services are seamlessly interconnected.
Interdisciplinary areas such as law and economics are of interest. After all, what is implemented in everyday life always has to satisfy several aspects at the same time.
We are focusing on the following topics:
- Intelligent Transport Systems (ITSs).
- The development of intelligent networks.
- The development of innovative models for the control of large-scale road traffic networks.
- Environmental improvements. Newly developed energy-efficient vehicles.
- Innovation in the development of security and safety.
- Road and urban transport development, organisation, management and control, software modelling results, new measurement procedures, concepts, trends and anomalies.
- Vehicle diagnostic methods.
- Autonomous vehicles.
- New techniques, technologies, materials, and improvements in road vehicle construction and in transport.
- Trajectories.
- Total cost of ownership (TCO).
- Law (e.g., legislation, standards, regulations).
Prof. Dr. István Lakatos
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- machine learning
- autonomous freight transportation
- 5G collaborative vehicles
- road environment recognition
- trajectories
- economy
- law
- vehicle diagnostics
- drive lines
- internal combustion engines
- emission
- noise
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