ERIS特刊征稿|聚焦交通和运输基础设施可持续性的互联互通

特刊详情

客座编辑

• Daniel Posen，加拿大多伦多大学
• Sonia Mangones，哥伦比亚国立大学
• Jon Mckechnie，英国诺丁汉大学
• Paul Kishimoto，奥地利国际应用系统分析研究所
• John Helveston，美国乔治·华盛顿大学

主题范围

The sustainability of mobility and transport infrastructures is a question that bridges scales, scopes, topics, and disciplines. At one extreme, a condition where even one or a few people lack decent mobility and transport/energy services is unjust and not socially sustainable; at another extreme, when the aggregate environmental impacts of delivering mobility exceed locally (e.g., air quality) or globally (e.g., climate change) imposed thresholds then sustainability is also not achieved. These outcomes are linked through complex, interconnected, open, sociotechnical systems including energy and infrastructure systems; markets; institutions and informal social systems; and others.

Transport systems underlie both local and global economies and can simultaneously enable, hinder, or constrain sustainability goals by providing access to critical services and linking industries; burdening energy systems; or locking in technologies and behaviours (either beneficially or detrimentally). The nature of these phenomena and relationships is specific to social, and spatial contexts, and mediated by available or potential future technologies, business models, etc. In the global scope, charting a course forward invokes, on the one hand, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs, linked to process and outcome justice for individuals and the access to goods and services that mobility provides) and on the other the challenges to global planetary boundaries associated with meeting infrastructure and energy demands imposed by transport systems. At this, as well as national and local scopes, knowledge from scientific research is key to policymaking and action towards a sustainable future.

For this special issue, we invite contributions that advance knowledge, methods, data, or practice within the broad space of transport and sustainability – especially in relation to capturing interactions across application areas or methods. We invite work that draws on methods in the disciplines and domains—however named—that touch on any part of the transport-related systems and contexts.

Contributors are encouraged to consider a “2+” rubric to situate their submissions in this multi-, inter- or transdisciplinary space. We are especially interested in making linkages between domains that are otherwise often analysed separately, such as:

2+ sectors: Research on the interaction (or juxtaposition) of transport-as-a-sector with other conceptual sectors, such as industry, energy, services, housing, etc.

Example 1: Analysis of building energy use jointly with electric vehicle charging and how these together influence efforts to decarbonize the electric grid.

Example 2: A comprehensive study examining the integration of public transport systems and its implications for urban housing development and sustainable city planning

2+ modes: Research on trade-offs and interactions between alternate forms of transport and mobility, or alternatives to mobility such as telepresence.

Example 1: Environmental impacts of multi-modal freight routes such as linking international marine or aviation with domestic rail and last mile via trucking.

Example 2: Differential impacts of telecommuting on passenger vs freight travel.

2+ scales: Research linking individual, disaggregated, or bottom-up data / methods / perspectives with the aggregate, top-down, or collective.

Example: Integration of local bottom-up travel surveys with national scale models for energy system planning.

2+ scopes or geographical locations / contexts: Research that compares or examines connections in mobility across cities, countries, or other entities.

Example: Differences in environmental outcomes of similar mobility interventions implemented in different communities, or across different levels of government.

2+ methods: Mixed-methods research, particularly linking qualitative and quantitative, but also novel combinations of 2+ quantitative or qualitative methods.

Example 1: Quantitative life cycle assessment of transport technologies coupled with participatory community-based research on local appropriate use of technology.

Example 2: Combining behavioural and policy realism in models of transport systems.

2+ dimensions of sustainability: especially those including environmental impacts coupled with implications for one of social sustainability, economic sustainability or system resilience.

Example 1: Environmental impacts (e.g., air quality) coupled with social implications (e.g., environmental justice).

Example 2: How transport decarbonization efforts (e.g. vehicle electrification) may help or hinder local resilience to extreme events.

We encourage submissions that include open data and models and other materials for reproduction, such that findings are ‘FAIR’; particularly, Reusable by other researchers and practitioners facing the same knowledge and policy challenges in other contexts. The special issue will thus collect multiple interventions that build bridges towards a linked and coherent knowledge of mobility and infrastructure sustainability. We anticipate accepting articles that will be later taken up by systematic reviews and assessment processes, such as the reports of the IPCC’s Seventh Assessment cycle (AR7).

投稿流程

特刊文章与ERIS期刊常规文章遵循相同的审稿流程和内容标准，并采用同样的投稿模式。

有关准备文章及投稿的详细信息，可以参阅IOPscience页面的作者指南。

作者可登入期刊主页进行在线投稿，在“文章类型”中选择“特刊文章”，并在“选择特刊”的下拉框中选择“Focus on Interconnections for Sustainability of Mobility and Transport Infrastructures”。

投稿截止日期：2025年5月31日。