Sustainable Road Construction and Maintenance and Disaster Prevention
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 16
Special Issue Editors
Interests: construction machinery design, manufacture, test, and validation; asphalt pavement recycling materials, technology, and equipment
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: ground penetrating radar (GPR); deep learning; road diseases; sustainable infrastructure; tunnel inspection; intelligent detection; non-destructivetesting
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the continuous improvement of infrastructure and the frequent occurrence of natural disasters—such as earthquakes, rainstorms, and mudslides—the development of highway transportation needs to accelerate its transformation from "incremental expansion" to a new stage of productive force development characterized by "quality improvement and efficiency enhancement". This requires an in-depth exploration of the significant impacts that climate, geological disasters, and the natural environment have on highways, as well as strategies to achieve intelligent disaster prevention and proactive reinforcement through technological means, thereby paving the way for sustainable development.
Infrastructure safety also faces a series of challenges. A systematic investigation of hidden risks and an assessment of the adaptability of engineering disaster prevention and mitigation measures are necessary to enhance highway safety and disaster resilience. The highway transportation network should incorporate sustainable development concepts throughout the entire lifecycle—planning, design, construction, maintenance, and operation—raising the overall development level and constructing a modern highway infrastructure system that is safe, reliable, resilient, durable, economical, and practical.
The purpose of this call for papers is to exchange recent scientific results related to highway and infrastructure design, construction, and maintenance under the theme “Sustainable Road Construction and Maintenance and Disaster Prevention”.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Highway and infrastructure digitization;
- Intelligent construction and maintenance;
- Non-destructive fault detection for highways, bridges, and tunnel;
- Intelligent defect identification
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Min Ye
Dr. Hongqiang Xiong
Dr. Xuetang Xiong
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainability
- highway and infrastructure
- digitization
- intelligent construction and maintenance
- intelligent defect identification
- non-destructive fault detection
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