Advances in Urban Transport and Vehicle Routing

Dear Colleagues,

The challenge of sustainable development is particularly important in cities. The central element of every city is the transport system, which on the one hand allows economic and social development and on the other creates serious problems for environmental development. Recent years have seen the interaction of ICT systems and energy systems with transport systems. This has led to multiple advances in transport systems that are called upon to perform new functions with respect to both passengers and freight.

The two main directions of research and experimentation that we hope to focus on in this Special Issue are goods and passengers.

Research on goods may concern not only the classic types of purchase demand and supply associated with brick-and-mortar stores, but also the new forms of commerce involved in the large field of e-commerce. A further research interest in in how e-commerce is, in turn, specialized for the new user behavior, and therefore for the modification of demand and the reorganization of supply. Finally, we are interested in the reinterpretation of city logistics, from the new vehicle routing processes to pick-up points.

Regarding passengers, research can concern the classic types of individual and collective transport both in supply and demand; we would be particularly interested in research that deals with new forms of passenger travel, both in user behavior, presenting more advanced formulations of behavior, and with travel that emerges with forms of deep integration such as MaaS.

In both passenger and freight, research may concern the advances of the general formulation of "transport system modelling", with particular attention paid to all forms of dynamic modeling: from the routes of freight vehicles to passenger decision-making in MaaS, covering all the previously introduced components. In this context, research may be of interest which considers not only the ordinary operating conditions of a transport system, but also extraordinary conditions due to the presence of anthropic or natural risks.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Sustainable urban mobility;
• Emerging technologies and advanced traffic management;
• Public transportation and shared mobility;
• Mobility as a service (MaaS) and sustainable development in transportation;
• E-commerce: advanced city logistics models;
• E-commerce: advanced user behavioral models;
• Sequential demand models;
• Transit network modelling with dynamic approach;
• Risk and resilience in urban transportation systems;
• Intelligent transportation systems and urban evacuation.

Looking forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Massimo Di Gangi
Guest Editor

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