AI and Technology Disruptions: Impacts on Transportation, Road Safety and Urban Form
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 29 November 2026 | Viewed by 2
Special Issue Editors
Interests: road safety; road safety management; road crash investigation and road crash analyses
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Current technological disruptions and advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) will impact every aspect of society over the next few years. These disruptions will create unprecedented opportunities to rethink how we provide transportation for society and how we create and plan our urban environments to ensure safe, green, and sustainable environments for all.
The aim of this Special Issue is to explore the major technological disruptions that are already underway and which will result in fundamental changes in energy and transportation. These changes, in turn, will shape the structure, activities, liveability, and sustainability of our cities. With 50% of world population already living in urban areas, rising to 70% by 2050, cities will continue to be the dominant engines of economic growth and the societal structures within which most of the world’s population will live. The purpose of this Special Issue is to explore the radical changes that are likely to occur in transportation over the next decade and show why and how this will offer unprecedented opportunities to reshape our cities, re-purpose urban buildings, and re-allocate urban spaces to create greener and more sustainable transportation, urban areas, and livable cities.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas affecting transportation and its catalyst role in delivering more sustainable and liveable cities may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- The impacts of the switch to electric vehicles on urban safety and pollution;
- The impacts of autonomous driving and robotaxis on future urban traffic volumes;
- The increasing role of AI in urban traffic management and transport planning;
- The impact of AI and autonomous vehicles on traffic management;
- The impacts of increased usage of drones for delivery instead of vans/lorries;
- Regulation/control and management of flying cars;
- Repurposing excess road space and surplus parking due to autonomous vehicles and robot-taxis reducing the need for parked cars in city centres;
- Repurposing multi-storey carparks as vertical farms to reduce food miles;
- The effects of food production in urban areas, e.g., precision fermentation;
- Innovative business models for free public transport 24 hrs/day;
- The impact of AI and autonomous driving on driving jobs (buses/lorries taxi drivers);
- New innovative transportation modes for urban areas, etc.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Krsto Lipovac
Dr. Alan Ross
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainability
- transportation
- autonomous vehicles
- electric vehicles
- AI
- urban farming
- 15-minute cities
- smart cities
- green walls
- liveable cities
- road safety
- traffic management
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