Sustainable Land Transport
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2020) | Viewed by 139
Special Issue Editor
Interests: land use transport integration; transport policy; transport and social inclusion; environmental impacts of land transport; governance in land transport; public transport economics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Land transport is an important influencer of personal and societal wellbeing as well as the wellbeing of the planet. When done well, it supports economic productivity and social inclusion though sometimes at a high price to the environment. Sustainable land transport is about all elements in the transport triple bottom line (economic, social, and environment, including health and safety therein) working together to drive better outcomes for society and the planet. When integrated with strategic land use planning, the benefits of improved and sustainable land transport facilities/services can be very substantial. Governments that ignore such interdependencies, however, do so at their peril and at risk to sustainability outcomes that matter to their communities and to the planet.
This Special Issue will take a close look at what sustainable land transport means and what constitutes best practice in delivery and how this can be achieved. For example, in urban land transport plans, the editors have identified around twenty different ways of expressing what sustainable land transport might mean in terms of social outcomes. Such an evident lack of clarity in the purpose means that it is very difficult to assemble a body of evidence to inform better practice in this field. Economic and environmental goals and dependencies, however, seem to be better understood.
For this Special Issue we are seeking papers taking economic, social, and/or environmental perspectives on land transport sustainability. To maintain some consistency of approach, the papers will be expected to:
- Discuss what sustainability means in the context of their proposed paper’s subject matter toward enabling further understanding of the (sometimes) fuzzy concept of sustainability;
- Highlight what is best practice in the paper’s subject area, who delivers best practice, and what sets them apart (e.g., leadership; institutional arrangements?);
- Explain how the subject of the paper improves sustainability outcomes from land transport;
- Identify the key requirements for implementation of the sustainability initiative(s) discussed in the paper.
We welcome papers from all over the globe to illustrate how challenges and solutions may vary substantially, depending on context.
Prof. John Stanley
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- sustainability
- sustainable land transport
- integrated land use transport planning
- external benefits and costs
- user benefits
- congestion costs
- wider economic benefits
- economic impacts of transport
- environmental impacts of transport
- climate change
- greenhouse gas emissions
- air pollution
- noise pollution
- social inclusion
- transport disadvantage
- transport equity
- social capital
- community connectedness
- wellbeing
- transport governance
- urban governance
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