Toward Sustainability: Transportation System Evaluation and Optimization
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2023) | Viewed by 6619
Special Issue Editor
Interests: transportation planning; transportation system design; intelligent transportation systems; behavioral modeling; intermodal transportation; logistics; multicriteria evaluation and optimization
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In an era of radical geospatial and technological changes, transportation systems are asked to deliver high-quality service while preserving the environment, enabling economic development and ensuring high living quality standards. Smart solutions for the accommodation of people’s and goods’ movements, coupled with the ability to measure real-time performance and tools developed for the optimization of systems’ operation are the means to improve transportation systems, in terms of efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability.
Electrification encounters climate change when allied with the use of renewable energy sources, while sharing and autonomous systems introduce new concepts in transportation potential. The growth of technology has resulted in an avalanche of available and highly active data at low cost. To transform data into value, traditional statistical methods need to be adjusted or new techniques and algorithms need to be developed, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence. Numerical methods, simulation, and multiple criteria analyses enable decision-making and transportation system optimization.
This Special Issue focuses on the latest research conducted in the field of evaluation and optimization of transportation systems, taking into account the trends in people’s mobility and goods movements. Its aim is to present findings about the sustainability of revolutionary transportation paradigms and highlight validated methodologies applied for their measurement, assessment, and evaluation. It covers topics related to the sustainability pillars (transportation, economy, environment, society) and enablers (satisfaction, acceptance, adoption, uptake). Both original research and review papers are welcome.
Prof. Dr. Eftihia Nathanail
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Data digitization
- Data analytics
- Transportation modeling
- Simulation
- Impact assessment
- Multiple criteria evaluation
- Optimization
- Decision making
- Business models
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