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A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2022.
Special Issue Editors
Interests: transport planning; active mobility; walkability; accessibility; micromobility
Interests: transport planning; road safety; vulnerable road users; active mobility; micromobility
Interests: sustainable and resilient mobility; shared mobility; microscopic traffic simulation; active mobility; planning for accessibility
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Interests: smart cities; urban spatial transformation; climate challenge and environmental studies
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals
Interests: transport planning; active mobility; shared mobility
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Universities can be seen as important poles of attraction of trips within a city, but also as an entity with its own mobility characteristics. In some cases, universities are located close to city centres and consequently they largely affect the urban environment and urban transport systems. In other cases, they are located in the suburbs, and therefore they create the need for extended transport networks for the provision of sufficient accessibility. University students are a group of people that more or less share common attributes (e.g. age, status, occupation, income) and mobility needs. It has also been proven that the mobility behavior of university students presents different characteristics compared with the rest of the population.
Considering the above, the Special Issue aims to contain insights into university students’ mobility patterns, motivations, and challenges. This Special Issue particularly focuses on the attitudes of students towards active modes of transport, as well as on their behavior while using them during regular, COVID-19 and post-COVID-19 times.
More specifically, the scope of the Special Issue includes the following:
- Mobility challenges of university students
- Mobility preferences (mode and route choice) of university students
- Road safety behavior of university students as active mode users
- University students’ attitudes towards active mobility and emerging mobility schemes
- Behavioral change activities focusing on university students
- Universities and sharing mobility schemes
- Universities’ mobility plans
- Accessibility and walkability of university campuses/university cities
Prof. Dr. Socrates Basbas
Prof. Dr. Nick Stamatiadis
Prof. Dr. Tiziana Campisi
Prof. Dr. Kh Md Nahiduzzaman
Mr. Andreas Nikiforiadis
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
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-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1900 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- active mobility
- university students
- behavioral analysis
- vulnerable road users
- road safety
- micromobility
- walking
- cycling
- e-scooters