Role of Environmental Impact Assessment in Shaping an Eco-Friendly and Sustainable Public Transportation Infrastructure
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2026) | Viewed by 648
Special Issue Editor
Interests: transportation and infrastructure systems; highway/traffic safety; application of econometric and statistical methods to analyze various traffic safety related issues
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We invite researchers to submit papers for a Special Issue on “Role of Environmental Impact Assessment in Shaping an Eco-Friendly and Sustainable Public Transportation Infrastructure”. This Special Issue aims to encourage incorporating environmental impact assessment in the public infrastructure planning process to promote sustainable development in the field of public transportation and related infrastructures.
Focus:
The primary focus of this Special Issue is on the future of public transportation infrastructure planning and environmental impact assessment. The publication will highlight concepts that demonstrate addressing environmental impacts in the planning of public transportation infrastructures can impact service characteristics which is crucial for achieving efficient and sustainable mobility and increased ridership.
Scope of the Special Issue:
We welcome quantitative and data-driven research that addresses strategic planning of public transportation infrastructures that will transform the system towards more sustainable pathways. We seek papers that address application of innovative approaches for planning public transportation infrastructures in terms of sustainability and efficiency that can make integration of emerging vehicle technologies in a multimodal urban setting easier. This Special Issue particularly encourages studies that evaluate the environmental impacts in the public transportation infrastructure planning process. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Planning and design of public transportation infrastructures to promote sustainable mobility, to mitigate adverse impacts on the environment and to increase public transportation usage
- Adaptive infrastructure for environmental sustainability
- Environmental benefits of electric fleets, charging infrastructure for electric fleets
- Planning of infrastructures to facilitate seamless connections between public transit, shared services, and micromobility
- Applications of simulation and optimization for evaluating how innovations in the public transporttaion infrastructure planning can improve lives, reduce pollution and achieve economic development.
Purpose:
This Special Issue will serve as a starting point for further developments in regulations and strategies that will help to address challenges related to environmental impacts and sustainable developments in the context of mass mobility and transportation infrastructure systems. Our aim is to identify and quantify environmental impacts, and apply the results of these evaulations in planning, policy recommendations and regulations related to public transportation infrastructures to enhance quality of life and enable sustainable urban mobility.
Dr. Samantha Islam
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- public transportation infrastructure
- eco-friendly
- environmental impact assessment (EIA)
- sustainability
- adaptive infrastructure
- sustainable mobility
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