Transportation Planning and Land Use in Urban and Rural Sustainable Development
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainability in Geographic Science".
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Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainable low-carbon transport; land use and urban-rural development; urban and regional planning
Interests: land use and land use planning; land consolidation; land policy
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Dear Colleagues,
In past decades, with rapid urbanization around the world, urban and rural sustainable development has faced many challenges, such as urban traffic congestion and built-up land expansion, rural transportation insufficiency and village land hollowing out, the urban–rural gap and inequality widening, ect. In 2015, the United Nations proposed 17 Sustainable Development Goals with the aim of realizing these objectives by 2030, which would require strengthening urban–rural connections and narrowing the gap between urban and rural areas, especially in developing countries. The interaction of transportation and land use, key elements of the human–earth system, greatly influences the urban–rural relationship and sustainable development. For one thing, land use patterns affect travel behavior and determine transportation needs and modes, informing transportation planning. For another, transportation decisions affect population migration and indstrial distribution, guiding the spatial structure of land use. Recently, in developing countries, especially China, both tranportation and land use have undergone a transformation, manifesting in rural road network expansion, rural e-commerce logistics construction, high-speed railway development, urban construction, land-intensive use, and integration of urban and rural land markets, which have inevitably influenced the relationship between transport planning and land use and brought about opportunities for urban–rural sustainable development. Despite the substantial number of existing studies on transport and land use, the majority of these focus on urban areas; thus, more studies on rural areas are needed. Meanwhile, theoretical and practical efforts are still needed to quantify the interaction effects of transportation planning and land use; explore their interaction pathways and mechanisms; determine their regional disparity; discover their interaction effect on urban–rural sustainable development, including poverty, health and wellbeing, climate change, and equality; and constrcut urban–rural transportation and land use models and planning.
This Special Issue will present orginal research and review articles considering the relationsihp between transportation planning and land use in urban and rural sustainable development. Submissions concerning theories, methods, models, and emprical research are encouraged.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Rural accessbility and social exclusion;
- Transportation disadvantage in rural areas;
- Transit-oriented development;
- Land use and spatial planning;
- Sustainable land use;
- Urban–rural land use transition;
- Urban–rural mobility and connectivity;
- Rural spatial restructuring and rural revitalization;
- Built environment and transportation planning;
- Transportation development and urban expansion;
- Transportation development and rural spatial restructuring;
- Land use effect of high-speed railways;
- Land use effect of e-commerce logistics;
- Transportation infrastructure and urban–rural inequality;
- Integrated transportation and land use models and planning.
Dr. Linna Li
Prof. Dr. Zhengfeng Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- rural accessbility
- land use restructuring
- urban–rural relationship
- transportation planning
- integrated transportation and land use models
- sustainability
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