Special Issue "Urban Sustainability: Safety and Maintenance in Future Transportation Infrastructure"

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

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Amir Garmabaki
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Guest Editor
Divison of Operation and Maintenance Engineering, Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Lulea University of Technology, 97187 Luleå, Sweden
Interests: RAMS data analyst; climate change; transportation infrastructure maintenance modeling; remaining useful life estimation; software reliability; climate change adaptation
Dr. Stephen Mayowa Famurewa
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Department of Technology and Environment, Swedish Transport Administration, 97187 Luleå, Sweden
Interests: railway infrastructure maintenance; maintenance planning and optimization; life cycle cost (LCC) analysis; dependability management; reliability engineering and asset management
Dr. Gustav Strandberg
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Guest Editor
Rossby Centre, SMHI, SE-601 76 Norrköping, Sweden
Interests: interactions between vegetation and climate; model simulations of paleo climate; impacts of climate change
Dr. Matti Rantatalo
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Guest Editor
Divison of Operation and Maintenance Engineering, Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Lulea University of Technology, 97187 Luleå, Sweden
Interests: condition monitoring and condition-based maintenance of transport infrastructure

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Transport infrastructures such as roads, and railways, commonly referred to as distributed linear assets, are critical to the survival and normal functioning of modern society. The majority of these infrastructures were conceptualized, designed and built by public sectors or government agencies without any in-depth analysis of the future needs of society and subsequent maintenance requirements, triggered by aging or accelerated aging by increased use or demand on services. The situation is further aggravated by climate change, bringing additional pressures on these infrastructures, associated with resource and budgetary constraints for maintenance.

Here in this Special Issue (SI), we aim to deliver methodologies, technologies, and tools for effective and efficient just-in-time decisions for the safety and maintenance of infrastructure. This SI is also aiming to investigate these capabilities through a set of real-world on-site demonstrators, assessing the condition of the infrastructure using advanced data acquisition methods using multiple data sources. Big Data analytics and advanced forecasting methodologies and the information and knowledge of transport infrastructure health integrated into financial and business models to provide intelligent decisions considering the operational, organizational context are another interest of the SI. In addition, papers on critical issues and challenges arising due to climate change and necessitating action, e.g., climate adaptation and mitigation activities, are welcome.

Keywords

  • transport infrastructure
  • safety
  • maintenance
  • climate change
  • urban sustainability

Published Papers

This special issue is now open for submission.
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