Sustainable Transport and Air Quality
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2021) | Viewed by 10509
Special Issue Editor
Interests: air quality; transportation; sustainable mobility; satellite remote sensing; computer vision; health impacts
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sustainable transport is becoming one of the major challenges for the future of our mobility. This topic goes together with the mitigation actions to lower pollution emissions at city level. Sustainable transport is also related to human mobility and the way in which people migrate from one region to another one as well as they move within cities and points of interests.
Air pollution, as well as emission from pollution sources, is strictly correlated to the number of people and their anthropogenic activities. In larger cities, transport is the major source of pollution and therefore, one on the major health hazard for people, above all children.
New disruptive technologies such as the electrification of vehicles and the possibility to have combined vehicles-to-grid in order to support sustainable energy in cities, should lead to tangible abatement of pollutant emissions.
This Special Issue aims to collect studies showing how any form of sustainable transport has had an impact on air quality in cities. Papers should report an overview about the characterization of the demography of urban/suburban areas, the actions taken by the local administration in order to abate pollution and, most importantly, which of these actions are related to sustainable mobility/transport. It should be interesting to see how the penetration of electric vehicles in urban life resulted in lower emissions levels compared to the traditional engine working with oil combustion.
Dr. Federico Karagulian
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Sustainable transport/mobility
- Pollution
- Air Quality
- Pollutant emissions
- Electrification
- Electric Vehicles
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