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A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2021.
Special Issue Editors
Interests: intelligent transportation management and control; emergency management; complex system analysis, optimization, and control; reinforcement learning for combinatorial optimization
Interests: technology and innovation management; health behaviour and management; consumer psychology and behaviour; maritime transport
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals
Interests: multimodal transportation system; green and smart logistics; system modeling and optimization; data analytics in operations management
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Multimodal transportation provides an efficient, flexible, economic, and resilient platform for both freight and passenger transportation. It could support sustainability by making efficient use of resources, improving transport structure, and enabling environmentally friendly transport choices. With the continuous growth of transport/travel demands and the need for sustainable development, multimodal transportation has attracted increasing attention from academic, industrial, and political communities. Tremendous research has been dedicated to establish, manage, and optimize the multimodal transportation system in the past few decades with rich outcomes in both theory and practices.
Recently, the emergence of novel technologies in big data, artificial intelligence, automation, and Internet of Things (IoT), as well as the advances of green technologies (e.g., electric vehicle), have created many promising opportunities for multimodal transportation from strategic, tactical, and operational perspectives. Leveraging these emerging technologies can lead to significant savings in operational costs and carbon emission, as well as boosts in transport efficiency. Nevertheless, these technologies also generate a new set of challenges and research questions from various dimensions of multimodal transportation. Substantial efforts are still needed to develop analytical models, intelligent approaches, and novel applications to further improve the practices of multimodal transportation.
The purposes of this Special Issue are to publish state-of-the-art research on technologies, operations management, policies, and applications for sustainable multimodal transportation. Topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Data analytics for multimodal transportation
- Network analysis, design, and optimization
- Policies and practices for sustainable multimodal transportation
- Risk analysis of multimodal transportation system
- Operations management in multimodal transportation
- Modeling and optimization for sustainability
- Intelligent transportation systems and applications
- Mobility as a service
Prof. Dr. Gangyan Xu
Prof. Dr. Kum Fai Yuen
Prof. Dr. Xuan Qiu
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1900 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- Multimodal transport
- Intelligent transportation systems
- Green logistics
- Decision analytics
- Mobility as a service