Sustainable, Safe and Resilient Mobility in a Telecoupled World: Transport Challenges Under Climate Change
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Road Safety; Accident modelling; Road user behavior; Autonomous vehicle; Smart mobility; Data analysis; Safe System approach
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: regional planning; biodiversity and conservation; sustainable development; urban planning; urban sustainability; spatial planning; urban development; spatial analysis; environmental impact assessment
Interests: Road Safety; Naturalistic Driving Study; Traffic Safety; Traffic Engineering; Transportation Planning; Accident Analysis; Pedestrian Safety; Mobility; Urban Planning; Urban Transportation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to explore research, innovations, and practical solutions that integrate sustainability, safety, and resilient mobility in the context of a telecoupled world, where distant human and environmental systems are increasingly interconnected. Global challenges such as climate change and extreme events, including floods, wildfires, and landslides, intensify pressures on transport infrastructures, exposing vulnerabilities in road networks, logistics, urban mobility systems, and safety management.
We invite multidisciplinary studies addressing the assessment and mitigation of transport-related risks, the impacts of climate-induced extreme events, and the integration of sustainability and telecoupling principles into transport planning, the safe system approach, design, and policy. Topics of interest include sustainable and safe road design, traffic simulations and modelling for risk and resilience assessment, active and inclusive mobility, intelligent transportation systems for accident prevention, human factors in road safety, and policy frameworks that promote resilient, low-carbon, and equitable transport systems. By gathering high-quality contributions, this Special Issue aims to deepen the understanding of the interconnections among sustainability, safety, and resilience, while fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and providing practical recommendations for engineers, planners, and policymakers facing emerging challenges in global transportation systems.
Dr. Sara Ferreira
Prof. Dr. Tatiana Maria Cecy Gadda
Prof. Dr. Jorge Tiago Bastos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainability
- road safety
- resilient mobility
- telecoupling
- climate change
- extreme events
- transport infrastructure
- risk assessment
- intelligent transportation systems
- sustainable transport policy
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