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This section welcomes high-quality and original contributions addressing scientific questions arising from urban mobility issues, integrated mobility concepts, new technologies, business models and use-cases for mobility platforms, as well as their ethical and social impact.
Read More Urban Transportation Systems and Mobility is currently experiencing a number of disruptive forces that are profoundly changing the manner in which citizens interact with cities. Younger citizens want on-demand access to mobility solutions without the inconvenience of ownership of cars, while older citizens want the personal freedom guaranteed by long-term access to personal mobility solutions. Regulators, driven by challenges such as global warming, air quality, noise pollution, as well as the economic and societal cost of congestion, are placing ever more stringent requirements on mobility solutions and the manner in which they integrate into the urban settings. Advances in areas such as communication networks, IoT, distributed ledger technology (Blockchain), smart cities, and in cyber-physics, are also placing increased expectations on the performance of urban mobility solutions. All this is happening at a time when the workhorse of urban mobility, the motor vehicle, is itself undergoing a transformative technological revolution. Cars have basically been in the same form, with the same functionality, since the invention of the diesel engine over 100 years ago. Now suddenly, innovation is coming in every direction. The future of the automobile is no longer the internal combustion engine, but rather as mobility platforms that are autonomous, electric, connected, shared, and can be delivered as part of integrated mobility solutions, as well as for delivering services to both passengers/drivers and citizens alike. In future, these mobility solutions will be based on proactive devices that strive to serve the needs of those in need of mobility, but also strive to mitigate their effect on the general public (congestion, pollution, energy consumption). These forces, and new actuation possibilities, are causing a fundamental rethink of the way mobility solutions are designed in urban settings, necessitating not only technological innovation, but also the development of new ownership and business models, new ethical models, as well as new social and economic policies.
The objective of our specialty section is to be at the forefront of this revolution and report on the latest developments in this exciting area. Original research articles in the following and related areas are welcome:
1-New Scientific Questions arising from Urban Mobility issues:
2- New integrated mobility concepts:
3-New mobility technologies
4-New business models
5-New use-cases for mobility platforms
6-The ethical and social impact of new mobility platforms
Proof-of-concepts, use-cases, pilots, and real deployments
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Urban Transportation Systems and Mobility welcomes submissions of the following article types: Brief Research Report, Community Case Study, Correction, Editorial, General Commentary, Hypothesis and Theory, Methods, Mini Review, Opinion, Original Research, Perspective, Policy and Practice Reviews, Policy Brief, Review, Specialty Grand Challenge and Systematic Review.
All manuscripts must be submitted directly to the section Urban Transportation Systems and Mobility, where they are peer-reviewed by the Associate and Review Editors of the specialty section.
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