Special Issue "Techno-Social Vision: New Societal Trends Influence Sustainable Development of Future Environment Systems"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2022.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Bo Zeng
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Guest Editor
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China
Interests: urban infrastructure planning; technical–social integration; behavioral modeling and simulation
Dr. Youbo Liu
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Guest Editor
Department of Electrical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Interests: artificial intelligence in power and energy system; energy market; power system planning and operation
Dr. Qinran Hu
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Guest Editor
School of Electrical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
Interests: grid-forming virtual power plant; reliable demand aggregation; economic analysis of low carbon energy systems; power system data analysis

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

With the increasing prominence and diversification of human activities, extensive social interaction has become a significant factor influencing the sustainable development of future cities. Human beings can affect the quality of the natural environment through various forms of social activities, such as energy consumption, population migration, culture propagation, etc. In turn, the natural environment can affect the survival and sustainability of human societies. This interactive relation explains many of the obstacles that human beings face in sustainable development, which can be traced back to specific human activities. Thus, transforming of human activities and adapting to the dynamic changes of environment systems will contribute to the sustainable development of future cities, which will in turn benefit all of the stakeholders involved.

The scope of this Special Issue includes (but is not limited to):

(1) The impact of COVID-19 on human and societal activities;

(2) Societal factors in urban power and energy systems;

(3) Cultural environment and sustainable development;

(4) Enabling technologies for sustainable physical–social systems;

(5) Behavior psychology simulation in human environment.

The aim of this Special Issue is to support the sustainable development of future environment systems from the perspective of social factorization and help to further enrich and improve the basics of existing practices.

Dr. Bo Zeng
Dr. Youbo Liu
Dr. Qinran Hu
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • human factor
  • social trend
  • environment system
  • behavior
  • sustainable development

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Shared Bicycle Distribution Connected to Subway Line Considering Citizens’ Morning Peak Social Characteristics for Urban Low-Carbon Development
Sustainability 2021, 13(16), 9263; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13169263 - 18 Aug 2021
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The transport sector has produced numerous carbon emissions in China, and it is important to promote low carbon commuting. As an emerging mode of urban low-carbon transportation in China, shared bicycles have been used by more and more citizens on a daily basis, [...] Read more.
The transport sector has produced numerous carbon emissions in China, and it is important to promote low carbon commuting. As an emerging mode of urban low-carbon transportation in China, shared bicycles have been used by more and more citizens on a daily basis, with advantages of green and low-carbon emissions to environment, flexibility for short trips, and convenience for covering the distance between the normal low-carbon transportation and destinations. However, the imbalanced distribution of shared bicycles along subway lines, especially during the morning peak hours, has directly restricted their performance in urban traffic. In this paper, an integer linear program model (ILPM) is proposed to obtain an optimal low-carbon distribution plan of shared bicycles connecting with the subway line (SBCSL) during the morning peak hours. First, an objective function is built to improve the carbon emission reduction of SBCSL. Second, constraint functions are extracted considering the quantity of bicycles to be distributed to the subway line as well as the distribution limits of each subway station. At last, a case study is conducted on the distribution of shared bicycles in Beijing Subway Line 13 of China during the morning peak hours. The results show that the ILPM is of significance to provide optimal distribution scheme of shared bicycles in subway line with different station types including office-oriented, residential-oriented, and hybrid-oriented stations. Full article
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