Enhancing Resilience in Road Transport Networks Within a Sustainable Perspective: Assessment, Risk Management, and Decision Support Systems
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 46
Special Issue Editors
Interests: transportation planning; sustainable mobility; particulate matter concentration; transportation environmental impacts; cost–benefit analyses; stakeholder engagement; travel demand modeling; discrete choice experiment; innovative technologies; transport market penetration; static traffic assignment; passengers/freight terminal simulation; intelligent transportation system; sharing mobility; mobility as a service
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Interests: seismic risk; probabilistic seismic hazard analysis; engineering seismology; structural damage; damage accumulation; structural reliability; structural vulnerability
Interests: planning transport; transportation decision-making process and public engagement; sustainable mobility; transportation environmental impacts and externalities
Interests: bridge engineering; cable supported bridges; Gerber girder; metallic structure; reinforced concrete; prestressed concrete; corrosion; bridge safety assessment
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The resilience of road transport networks is a crucial factor in ensuring the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of mobility systems, especially in countries with complex orographic and morphological conditions. Within the field of road infrastructure, bridges are among the most critical and often vulnerable elements, requiring innovative approaches to risk assessment, maintenance strategies, and resilience enhancement.
This Special Issue is proposed within the framework of the PRIN project DATAGRAM—DATa and strAteGies for Resilience AssessMent of existing road networks: a bridge-based application in Italy (C53C24000910006). It aims to collect high-quality research contributions on the development and application of methodologies, tools, and technologies for the assessment, management, and strengthening of road network resilience, with a specific focus on existing infrastructure.
To date, road network resilience has often been studied separately within the field of structural and transportation engineering, with a gap between the analysis of infrastructural vulnerability and the assessment of transport system impacts. This Special Issue seeks to bridge this divide by promoting contributions that address resilience in an integrated multidisciplinary way—both from the structural vulnerability and reinforcement perspective, as well as in terms of transport networks and mobility.
It welcomes studies that integrate advanced decision support systems (DSSs), data-driven strategies, geographic information systems (GISs), and multidisciplinary approaches to risk mitigation.
Relevant topics for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Methodologies for the resilience assessment of road transport networks and bridge infrastructures.
- Risk analysis and management strategies for existing transport infrastructures considering the combined effects of natural hazards (e.g., earthquakes and environmental degradation) and anthropogenic factors (e.g., traffic loads and lack of maintenance).
- Integration of GIS-based databases for network resilience analyses.
- Structural health monitoring and maintenance optimization for bridges.
- Effects of natural (e.g., earthquakes and environmental degradation) and anthropic (e.g., traffic loads) hazards on transport infrastructure.
- Development and application of decision support systems (DSSs) for proactive infrastructure management.
- Case studies and benchmark analyses for resilience assessment and policy recommendations.
Prof. Dr. Armando Cartenì
Dr. Eugenio Chioccarelli
Dr. Ilaria Henke
Prof. Dr. Antonino Recupero
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- road transport
- trnasport network resilience
- infrastructure vulnerability
- risk assessment
- infrastructure maintenance strategies
- resilient mobility planning
- sustainable development
- transportation plenning
- decision support systems (DSSs)
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