Sustainable Transport Solutions And Construction Materials For Safer And Green Roads

Dear Colleagues,

Improving environmental sustainability and safety has been a key issue in infrastructure construction and management in recent decades. Innovative materials, created through reuse and recycling processes, lower CO₂ emissions from new projects, design and construction solutions supported by integrated information systems (BIM) and the use of ITS systems (which could transform typical infrastructure into an ultra-modern smart system through new modellistic approaches and device-based infrastructures) may contribute to reaching the goals of environmental impact compliance and user safety.

In sum, the safety of road and infrastructure systems can be seen as a global sustainable development issue, especially if combined with a quantitative environmental evaluation by the Life Cycle Assessment methodology (ISO 14040). In light of this, safer and green roads may help support the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Therefore, there is need to enrich the scientific literature about these topics, in order to propose advanced solutions, which can be introduced in common practice in road construction and road transport system development.

This Special Issue aims to collect contributions from researchers, scholars and practitioners in this articulated and multidisciplinary scenario, which is characterized by several aspects that can no longer be considered divisible.

Dr. Teresa Iuele
Prof. Rosolino Vaiana
Dr. Claudio Rocco
Guest Editors

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