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Sustainability and Resilience in Carbon Neutral Mobility and Resilient Transport Infrastructures

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 October 2024 | Viewed by 2406

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Eva Kassens-Noor

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Institute of Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering, Technical University of Darmstadt, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany
Interests: transport planning and traffic engineering; artificial intelligence; extreme events; eHighway

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Mobility and the demands on their interrelated systems has greatly increased and unprecedentially challenged our interconnected transport systems in recent years. Similarly, climate change will stretch transport and traffic systems beyond their capacity in the coming decades, demanding its infrastructure to remain resilient and its operations to become carbon neutral or even negative. At the same time, we must meet the SDG goals. This Special Issue is dedicated to exploring the latest advances in sustainable and resilient mobility infrastructures and the transport systems’ ability to reduce carbon emissions.

The Special Issue seeks contributions on transport and traffic producing zero or carbon-negative emissions. These could be transport options and infrastructure innovations using renewable energy sources, or contributions revolving around electric vehicles and eHighway systems, mega charging infrastructures, active transportation options and micromobility solutions, public transit systems with green infrastructure and zero emission accessibility options, intelligent transit options and smart traffic infrastructures, efuels and hydrogen vehicles, or autonomous vehicles.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to engage in the ongoing debate on climate-resilient mobilities and the emerging trends in mobility infrastructures and innovations in sustainable transportation and their potential contribution to reducing carbon emissions while meeting the SDG goals.

Prof. Dr. Eva Kassens-Noor
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • mobility
  • resilience
  • sustainability
  • carbon neutral
  • transport
  • traffic

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Availability of an Overhead Contact Line System for the Electrification of Road Freight Transport
by Jürgen K. Wilke, Ferdinand Schöpp, Regina Linke, Laurenz Bremer, Maya Ada Scheyltjens, Niki Buggenhout and Eva Kassens-Noor
Sustainability 2024, 16(15), 6459; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16156459 - 28 Jul 2024
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The electrification of road freight transport on highways using an overhead contact line system is being tested in Germany. In this study, we investigated availability of an overhead contact line system based upon unique real-world data gathered in the ELISA field test. Based [...] Read more.
The electrification of road freight transport on highways using an overhead contact line system is being tested in Germany. In this study, we investigated availability of an overhead contact line system based upon unique real-world data gathered in the ELISA field test. Based on our investigation, we anticipate a high system availability in future operations. We concluded that the newness of the system can justify the longest downtimes. To confirm our findings, we first categorized causes of the downtimes. Building upon these data, we analyzed these downtimes, specifically focusing on the longest occurrences as they posed significant barriers to future operation and market implementation. Subsequently, we illustrated how the system’s availability changed when individual causes of downtimes were reduced over time. Our research is paving the way to chart potential future operational scenarios. Our contribution aids decision-makers and all individuals who need to determine whether overhead contact line technology should be employed on highways in the future. Full article
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Fiscal Policies on New Passenger Cars in Europe: Implications for the Competitiveness of Electric Cars
by Romeo Danielis
Sustainability 2023, 15(23), 16407; https://doi.org/10.3390/su152316407 - 29 Nov 2023
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The objective of this article is to review the fiscal policies applied to new passenger cars in 30 European countries. The fiscal policies considered include the value added tax, the vehicle registration tax, the purchase subsidy, the ownership tax, and the tax on [...] Read more.
The objective of this article is to review the fiscal policies applied to new passenger cars in 30 European countries. The fiscal policies considered include the value added tax, the vehicle registration tax, the purchase subsidy, the ownership tax, and the tax on fuels/electricity. The article illustrates their properties and their implementation in each country. In order to appreciate how the different national approaches translate into financial incentives/disincentives in relation to electric cars, each country’s fiscal policies were applied to the Tesla Model 3 and the Toyota Corolla. The resulting acquisition costs and fiscal burden were then calculated and compared with reference to the year 2023. The results indicate that in some countries the Tesla Model 3 is cost competitive already in the acquisition phase (up to EUR 8524 cheaper), while in others is much more expensive (up to EUR 6590). The difference in the fiscal burden between the two car models ranges from EUR 448 to EUR 16,022, depending on the country. These findings have strong implications for social welfare, state budgets sustainability, and the need for car fiscal policy adjustments in the European countries. Full article
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