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The Future of Sustainable Urban Mobility

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 7020

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Edouard Ivanjko

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Department of Intelligent Transportation Systems, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences,University of Zagreb, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Interests: intelligent transport systems; adaptive traffic control; artificial intelligence; deep reinforcement learning; multi-agent systems; microscopic traffic simulation; connected and autonomous vehicles
Dr. Tiziana Campisi

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Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, University of Enna Kore, 94100 Enna, Italy
Interests: sustainable urban mobility; mobility management; first last mile logistics
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Prof. Dr. Hrvoje Kalinić

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Faculty of Science, University of Split, Ul. Ruđera Boškovića 33, HR-21000 Split, Croatia
Interests: artificial intelligence; machine learning; neural networks; data and signal processing; pattern recognition
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Today’s cities are prone to reoccurring daily congestions reducing the quality of life with long queues on intersections, increased travel time, delayed public transportation, and reduced air quality. Today, efforts and solutions related to building new infrastructure, mode-shift, and adaptive traffic control cannot cope with the ever-increasing traffic demand. New, data-based and graph-oriented analysis may provide new concepts for solving urban mobility problems. These concepts create the basis for a smart city, integrating all important aspects of managing a city into one framework. The existing frameworks for services from the intelligent transport system (ITS) domain with their traffic management systems provide a large amount of data and enable in-depth insight into the state of the traffic network and the build-up of shared mobility concepts. For such frameworks, communication between traffic entities becomes crucial, enabling more sustainable mobility. One can expect the application of Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication to further increase traffic safety, decrease the burden on drivers, improve road network throughput with cooperation between vehicles and traffic management system, and include electric vehicles in balancing the energy demands in the electric grid. The dawn of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) also adds to the possible answers for future sustainable mobility concepts using fewer vehicles on the streets to fulfill all mobility needs. Namely, CAVs can fulfill the mobility needs of their owner and serve in the scope of the Mobility as a Service (MaaS) concept for other users when not in use by their owner. To ensure the good functioning of MaaS, the creation of a good model of daily travel patterns of envisaged users is crucial. Thus, free-floating vehicles (human-driven cars and CAVS, (electric) bikes, and mopeds) can be optimally placed, dispatched, and users with (partly) identical travel patterns placed in the same vehicle. Analyzing travel patterns using methods from data science can find hidden user habits and behaviors that can be applied to improve the sustainability of urban mobility, especially when the needed amount of vehicles can be reduced using mobility sharing. This consequently positively affects air quality by reducing traffic-related pollution.

This Special Issue will focus on the new concept of urban mobility relying on ITS, CAVs, MaaS, mobility data sharing, V2X communication, and environmental aspects of sustainable traffic management that can meet the needs of future sustainable mobility. It will provide the most recent advances regarding the application of data science for travel pattern modeling, environmental-based traffic management, and new approaches to shared mobility.

Prof. Dr. Edouard Ivanjko
Dr. Tiziana Campisi
Prof. Dr. Hrvoje Kalinić
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Keywords

  • intelligent transport systems
  • connected autonomous vehicles in sustainable mobility
  • electric vehicles in sustainable mobility
  • shared mobility
  • ride sharing
  • multi- and intermodal mobility
  • demand-responsive transport (DRT)
  • spatial–temporal travel pattern modeling
  • graph-based transport network modeling
  • data science in urban mobility
  • environmental evaluations of new mobility concepts
  • Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication
  • Mobility as a Service (MaaS)
  • sustainable traffic management

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Sustainable Mobility Challenges in the Latin American Context
by Vicente Aprigliano, Gabriel Teixeira Barros, Marcos Vinicius Silva Maia Santos, Catalina Toro, Gonzalo Rojas, Sebastian Seriani, Marcelino Aurelio Vieira da Silva and Ualison Rébula de Oliveira
Sustainability 2023, 15(20), 14748; https://doi.org/10.3390/su152014748 - 11 Oct 2023
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Sustainable mobility and transport are topics that have been rising exponentially since the 2000s within the academic community and society. One of the main drivers for this is the intensification of the urbanization processes on a global scale, which leads to higher demand [...] Read more.
Sustainable mobility and transport are topics that have been rising exponentially since the 2000s within the academic community and society. One of the main drivers for this is the intensification of the urbanization processes on a global scale, which leads to higher demand for services and transport systems, consequently bringing more severe concern regarding social, environmental, and economic issues. However, nations do not seem to advance at the same pace regarding the proposition of policies and the implementation of strategies to promote sustainable mobility and transport. Latin American countries have long been striving to improve and implement, on a larger scale, mobility solutions toward more sustainable human agglomerations. Therefore, this article analyzes the sustainable mobility challenges in the Latin American context through a systematic literature review process. The main results show that within the Latin American context, there is a significant focus on the social inequality of mobility in urban areas, which is developed in studies through mobility indicators and modeling, participatory and other qualitative approaches, and a critical analysis of public policies. However, there is a need to explore, through alternative methodologies, such as experimental and in-situ evaluations, the paths/routes of trips within the Latin American context at different scales to promote a better understanding and strategies to advance towards more sustainable cities and mobilities and deliver a better mobility experience for citizens, adding value to the mobility itself. Full article
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Air Pollution Modeling for Sustainable Urban Mobility with COVID-19 Impact Analysis: Case Study of Skopje
by Mladen Miletić, Edouard Ivanjko, Tomislav Fratrović and Borna Abramović
Sustainability 2023, 15(2), 1370; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15021370 - 11 Jan 2023
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Air pollution is one of the major problems in today’s urban areas. With increasing development and the need for the transport of goods and people, it has become imperative to seek sustainable urban mobility solutions. The impact of restrictive COVID-19 pandemic measures provides [...] Read more.
Air pollution is one of the major problems in today’s urban areas. With increasing development and the need for the transport of goods and people, it has become imperative to seek sustainable urban mobility solutions. The impact of restrictive COVID-19 pandemic measures provides a unique insight into the possible reductions in air pollution. This paper presents a case study on the city of Skopje, North Macedonia, and attempts to identify the effect of traffic emissions on air quality. Resultant correlation analysis and linear regression models show the impacts of multiple factors contributing to air pollution. Finally, a discussion on the impact of COVID-19 measures on air pollution is provided. The main findings of this research are the observed drop in air pollution levels during COVID-19 measures, the effects on air pollution models, and the identification of primary pollutants in the city of Skopje. Full article
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Sustainable Urban Delivery: The Learning Process of Path Costs Enhanced by Information and Communication Technologies
by Francesco Russo and Antonio Comi
Sustainability 2021, 13(23), 13103; https://doi.org/10.3390/su132313103 - 26 Nov 2021
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Today, local administrations are faced with the presence of greater constraints in terms of the use of space and time. At the same time, large amount of data is available to fleet managers that can be used for controlling their fleets. This work [...] Read more.
Today, local administrations are faced with the presence of greater constraints in terms of the use of space and time. At the same time, large amount of data is available to fleet managers that can be used for controlling their fleets. This work is set in the context defined by sustainable city logistics, and information and communication technologies (ICTs), to formalize the three themes of the smart city (transport, ICTs and energy savings) in a single problem. Following this, the main purpose of the study is to propose a unified formulation of the basic problem of fleets, i.e., the traveling salesman problem (TSP), which explicitly includes the use of emerging information and communication technologies (e-ICTs) pointing out the learning process of path costs in urban delivery. This research explores the opportunity to extend the path cost formation with a within-day and day-to-day learning process, including the specification of the attributes provided by e-ICTs. As shown through a real test case, the research answers to queries coming from operators and collectivities to improve city liveability and sustainability. It includes both economic sustainability for companies/enterprises and environmental sustainability for local administrations (and collectivities). Besides contributing to reduce the times and kms travelled by commercial vehicles, as well as the interference of freight vehicles with other traffic components, it also contributes to road accident reduction (social sustainability). Therefore, after the re-exanimation of TSP, this paper presents the proposed unitary formulation and its benefits through the discussion of results obtained in a real case study. Finally, the possible innovation guided by e-ICT is pointed out. Full article
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