Sustainability in Transportation Planning
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2021) | Viewed by 740
Special Issue Editor
Interests: transport planning; environmental impact appraisal of transport infrastructures; transport management; mobile computing applied to transportation systems; railway engineering
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The aim of transport planning is to plan, design, deliver, manage, and review transport, balancing the needs of society, the economy, and the environment (Transport Planning Society, 2006).
Transportation planning has developed a wide range of methods and models for analyzing transport demand and supply, as well as mutual interactions; it has also developed methods for the simulation of plan scenarios and the evaluation of interventions. The objective of this Special Issue is to investigate some recently emerged topics that have a significant impact on the planning of transport systems, such as:
- The presence of new models of economic development, the strong urbanization in progress, changes in lifestyles;
- The need to govern the structure of the land use - transport system in integrated way;
- The development of intelligent transport systems, which open new perspectives in the management and use of transport systems, in particular as regards the integration of public transport with new forms of shared mobility;
- The availability of big data on transport systems, which opens new perspectives, for example, also in estimating the characteristics of the mobility;
- The emergence of mobility as a service which does not focus on the possession of vehicles, but on the use of shared vehicles;
- The need to adopt forms of mobility management, aimed at guiding users towards sustainable forms of transport;
- The evolution of decision-making processes, and the development of the participation of all users;
- Sensitivity to the environment and the need for equitable development;
- The growing demand for quality from users of transport systems;
- The need for greater safety of transport systems, in particular roads, towards a vision of zero accidents;
- The need to develop transport systems resilient to external threats, from natural disasters to human criminal actions; this requirement becomes maximal in the current conditions of health emergency, connected to the on-going pandemic of COVID 19.
Prof. Dr. Demetrio Carmine Festa
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Transportation planning
- Equitable development
- Urban and regional planning
- Land use and transport interaction model (LUTI model)
- Transit oriented development
- Travel behavior modelling
- Mobility management
- Shared mobility
- Mobility as a service (MAAS)
- Public transport service quality
- Smart technologies
- ICT
- Big data
- Resilience of the transport system
- Public engagement
- Decision-making processes
- Sustainability
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