Changes, Challenges and Commitments for the Future of Cities
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 5103
Special Issue Editors
Interests: smart sustainable cities; deprivation; well-being; aging
Interests: urban economics; urban transport; aging; local public transport
Interests: business; business and economic crisis; entrepreneurship; social entrepreneurship; strategic management; tourism management; smart city and social statistics
Interests: probability theory applied to the construction of econometric and actuarial models
Interests: probabilities and its application to the estimation and projection of economic and financial phenomena; valuation of financial assets; social forecasting and models for dynamic phenomena in general.
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The changes that the city is experiencing due to the new phase of demographic transition and the strong process of urbanisation add up to the changes resulting from the need for greater urban sustainability and the disruptive fracture of life patterns caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The scale and speed of urbanisation, as well as the demographic transition, generate risks for the urban system from the point of view of service efficiency (rising costs), from the point of view of service effectiveness (supply must adapt to the new needs of the city and its inhabitants), and from the point of view of the environment (notably land use and urban transport).
The use of the goods and services that the city makes available is highly dependent on the capacity of the transport system to deal effectively with the challenges of the changing city. Demographic change, environmental crisis, the pandemic and the public finance situation present us with a context that requires in-depth analysis of urban transport systems in order to identify correct strategies for action and pathways to reform transport networks that need to change. These changes operate both within transport companies, which are facing major challenges (cost and revenue divergence due to the pandemic, the need to contain environmental impacts, changes towards an older and more fragile demand), and the urban territory of which transport is the circulatory system.
This Special Issue is concerned with, but not limited to, methodologies, applications, best practices and overviews about changes and consequent commitments for decision makers and it focuses on the commitments for the future of cities. In particular the main topics are:
- strategies in urban land use;
- challenges for local public transport companies;
- changes in traditional transport services;
- development of innovative transport services
- study of urban transport demand for an increasingly ageing population
Other, synergistic topics can be accepted in this special issue. This Special Issue invites original research papers, reviews, essays, and case studies on these topics based on previous or related issues.
Original works in this context, as well as review papers, are strongly encouraged
Dr. Enrico Ivaldi
Leading Guest Editor
Prof. Claudia Burlando
Dr. Andrea Ciacci
Prof. Mirta L. González
Prof. Alberto M. Landro
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- urban development
- smart sustainable cities
- aging
- urban transport
- urban deprivation
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