Smart Solutions for Sustainable Transport Infrastructure

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is dedicated to papers focusing on enabling the sustainable development of transport infrastructure, by embracing smart technologies and frameworks for safer and more resilient mobility on future roads, railways, airports, and ports. Moreover, ‘smart’ here is intended not only to mean ‘intelligent’, but also to refer to the elegant solutions achievable through the use of emerging technologies and techniques that are new, or still at an early stage, in the transport infrastructure sector. The scientific papers might be covering both applied and fundamental research for urban and inter-urban surface transport and they can focus on any of the sustainability pillars. The papers must introduce frameworks, technologies and applications for improving current approaches for the design and management of sustainable transport infrastructure, by proposing new solutions which are derived from emerging themes, such as: investigating effective techniques for recycling waste/secondary materials; using life-cycle based techniques and a circular approach for technology development; enabling more sustainable asset management; proposing end-of-life strategies for materials, components and infrastructure itself; preserving existing infrastructures by conceiving resilient transportation; designing to guarantee safety; envisioning future transportation by introducing innovative applications of structural monitoring, earth observation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, cybersecurity, digitalization, big data, and connected and autonomous mobility.

Dr. Davide Lo Presti
Prof. Dr. Fernando Moreno-Navarro
Dr. Kamilla Vasconcelos Savasini
Prof. Dr. Cesare Sangiorgi
Prof. Dr. Daniel Fresno Castro
Guest Editors

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