New Governance Model and Strategy to Improve a Sustainable Transport System
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2018) | Viewed by 69138
Special Issue Editors
Interests: transportation economics; sustainable transport system; transport behavior response
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: transport economics and sustainability; model choice in transport economics and tourism; tourism research; bioeconomics
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: environmental management; industrial ecology; environmental governance; local development
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Lack of coordinated governance among stakeholders leads to insufficient and inefficient supply of transportation facilities and services for regions and megacities around the world. The continuous urban expansion with consequent creation of megacities and city belts involves the need to have more efficient governance structures to maintain technologically, financially and environmentally sustainable transportation systems. Therefore, the new governance model and strategy for regional and urban transports to improve sustainable transport systems becomes increasingly important in China, as well as in developed countries.
From an academic point of view, only few papers are dedicated to the analysis of transport governance system in China and the main part of these works is focused exclusively on analysis of governance problems concerning ports activity while intercity and megacity transportation systems like high speed railway or rail transit are seldom addressed.
Moreover, the rapid regional economic integration and urban expansion process lead to an urban sprawl on the periphery with the well-known problems that these phenomena produce. Many studies are focused on the analysis of urban sprawl in its physical aspect and a low degree of local mixed land use in its functional aspect. However, there is not an organized work to investigate and describe the best practices and comparative analysis of different patterns of governance to mitigate or prevent the problems related to the cities grow and inefficient model of transport governance.
With this Special Issue, we aim to collect the most important contributes focused to analyze the policy implications of effective governance for sustainable transportation development.
Topics:
-
Stakeholders analysis in transportation governance
-
Transportation governance structures and characteristics at the national, regional and megacity levels
-
Governance innovations for cleaner technology in transport sector
-
Governance innovations for sustainable financial performance in transport sector
-
Governance innovations for smart transport
-
Governance innovations for sharing transport and sustainable urban travel
-
New policy issues to support a sustainable governance in transport sector
-
Case studies for governance of high speed railway, highway, commuting rail transit system and other transportation modes
Prof. Dr. Yacan Wang
Prof. Dr. Andrea Cirà
Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Ioppolo
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
-
Governance models and strategy
-
Sustainable transport system
-
Government regulation model and policy instrument
-
Travels’ response to transport governance innovation
Benefits of Publishing in a Special Issue
- Ease of navigation: Grouping papers by topic helps scholars navigate broad scope journals more efficiently.
- Greater discoverability: Special Issues support the reach and impact of scientific research. Articles in Special Issues are more discoverable and cited more frequently.
- Expansion of research network: Special Issues facilitate connections among authors, fostering scientific collaborations.
- External promotion: Articles in Special Issues are often promoted through the journal's social media, increasing their visibility.
- e-Book format: Special Issues with more than 10 articles can be published as dedicated e-books, ensuring wide and rapid dissemination.
Further information on MDPI's Special Issue polices can be found here.