Sustainable Transportation and Traffic in Smart Cities
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 27709
Special Issue Editors
Interests: autonomous transportation; electric transportation; smart mobility; traffic congestion management; sustainable transportation systems
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Interests: policy implications of smart mobility technologies; sustainable transportation systems; transportation planning; disaster management; big data analytics in transportation
Interests: transportation systems analysis and modeling; urban traffic management and operations; interdependent infrastructure systems resilience
Interests: transportation performance modeling; life-cycle cost analysis; connected and automated
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The smart cities concept has received increasing interest in the last decade. In a smart city, the quality of life of urban residents is improved using disruptive technologies in various areas, such as energy efficiency, communications technology, and transportation mobility. The need for smart cities is accentuated by ever-increasing population growth and urbanization, which are barriers to the achievement of sustainable urban development. The three pillars of sustainability are environmental, economic, and social sustainability. Sustainability has been recognized as one of the main drivers of the smart city, the goal of which is to curb resource consumption in the face of climate pressures in the era of massive urban development. A sustainable transportation system is an essential component of sustainable urban infrastructure development. Although rapid urbanization has caused tremendous stress on urban transportation systems, several disruptive transportation technologies can assist metropolitan authorities to achieve sustainable urban development. These technologies include (i) autonomous vehicles, (ii) connected vehicles, (iii) electric vehicles, and (iv) ridesharing.
This Special Issue is intended to crystallize current thinking and future directions regarding the role of smart cities and the aforementioned disruptive transportation technologies on sustainable transportation systems. It provides a forum for discussing and presenting current groundbreaking research work involving these four transformative technologies that can profoundly change transportation outcomes in a manner that promotes sustainability. This Special Issue also seeks to further our understanding not only of the holistic effects of any combination of these technologies on travel behaviors, but also on the six pillars of the smart city, which include (i) smart governance, (ii) smart mobility, (iii) smart living, (iv) smart people, (v) smart economy, and (vi) smart environment. This Special Issue welcomes papers that address the concept of smart cities and the associated disruptive transportation technologies to achieve social, economic, and environmentally sound urban development. Contributors from different fields are invited to submit papers related to this theme.
Dr. Mohammad Miralinaghi
Prof. Dr. Ramin Shabanpour
Prof. Dr. Xiaozheng (Sean) He
Prof. Dr. Samuel Labi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- smart mobility
- autonomous vehicles
- connected vehicles
- electric vehicles
- sustainable transportation systems
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