Advances in Urban Transport and Vehicle Routing: 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

The challenge of sustainable development is particularly important in cities. The central element of every city is the transport system that, on the one hand, allows economic and social development and, on the other, creates serious problems for environmental development. Recent years have seen the interaction of ICT systems and energy systems with transport systems. This has led to multiple advances in transport systems that are called upon to perform new functions with respect to both passengers and freight.

The two main directions of research and experimentation that can be investigated in this Special Issue are goods and passengers.

In the field of goods, research may concern both the classic types of purchase demand and supply of stores, and also the new forms of commerce, specified in the large field of e-commerce which, in turn, describes both the new behavior of users, and therefore the modification of demand, and the reorganization of supply, and subsequently reinterpretation of city logistics from the new vehicle routing processes to pick-up points.

In the field of passengers, research can concern the classic types of individual and collective transport both in supply and demand, and particularly interesting is research that deals with new forms of passenger travel, both in user behavior, presenting more advanced formulations of behavior, and in offer with forms of deep integration, as in the Maas.

In both fields, passenger and freight, research can concern the advances of the general formulation of "transport system modeling", with particular emphasis on all forms of dynamic modeling—from the routes of freight vehicles to passenger decision making in the Maas—intersecting the components previously introduced. In this context, research that considers not only the ordinary operating conditions of a transport system, but also extraordinary conditions due to the presence of anthropic or natural risks is of interest.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

Sustainable urban mobility;

Emerging technologies and advanced traffic management;

Public transportation and shared mobility;

Mobility as a service (Maas) and sustainable development in transportation;

E-commerce: advanced city logistics models;

E-commerce: advanced user behavioral models;

Sequential demand models;

Transit network modeling with dynamic approach;

Risk and resilience in urban transportation systems;

Intelligent transportation system and urban evacuation.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Massimo Di Gangi
Guest Editor

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• sustainable transportation
• smart city
• intelligent transportation systems
• mobility as a service (Maas)
• city logistics
• demand models
• dynamic simulations
• risk analysis
• transit assessment
• network design
• intelligent transportation systems

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