The most important issues at the forefront of world public opinion, especially in the last 20 years, are undoubtedly global warming, environmental degradation, and sustainable development, and their important political, social, cultural, and demographic underpinnings.
The common concern of scientists, politicians, the business world, and relevant other stakeholders is that today's relations of consumption and production are no longer environmentally sustainable. If the current consumption-production pattern is not sustainable, it means that the social, economic, and health problems that will arise along with the decrease in the quality of life cannot be prevented.
To prevent these problems, for example, the United Nations (UN) had to take a series of important decisions. Among the important decisions taken by the UN, the contribution of the transportation sector to the current environmental problems is a central one that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) address.
This Research Topic aims at analyzing the role of the transportation sector in the realization of SGDs. Those which are related to the transportation sector can be listed mainly as Goals 3.6, 9.1, 11.2, and 12.c:
* Goal 3.6: By 2020, halve the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents.
* Goal 9.1: Develop quality, reliable, sustainable, and resilient infrastructure, including regional and transborder infrastructure, to support economic development and human well-being, with a focus on affordable and equitable access for all.
* Goal 11.2: By 2030, provide access to safe, affordable, accessible, and sustainable transport systems for all, improving road safety, notably by expanding public transport, with special attention to the needs of those in vulnerable situations, women, children, persons with disabilities, and older persons.
* Goal 12.c: Rationalize inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption by removing market distortions, by national circumstances, including by restructuring taxation and phasing out those harmful subsidies, where they exist, to reflect their environmental impacts, taking fully into account the specific needs and conditions of developing countries and minimizing the possible adverse impacts on their development in a manner that protects the poor and the affected communities.
To this end, the submitted articles should address (a) what the beneficial and adverse contributions of the transport sector and the energy sources it uses are in terms of achieving SDG goals, and (b) what policies should be followed to improve adherence to these SDGs.
The Research Topic, therefore, welcomes the submissions related to, but not limited to, the following topics:
1. Environmental economics aspects of sustainability in the transportation sector
2. SDG goals of transportation: Theoretical and practical implications
3. Transportation, energy efficiency, and SDGs: Theory and policy
4. Modeling the influence of transportation on SDGs through simulations, estimations, and forecasts
5. Government regulations to support sustainable development goals in transportation
6. Sustainable development map of transportation sector through renewable or non-renewable energy usage
7. SDGs, transportation, and R&D on energy
8. What should be efficient in the energy policy of transportation to reach SDGs?
The most important issues at the forefront of world public opinion, especially in the last 20 years, are undoubtedly global warming, environmental degradation, and sustainable development, and their important political, social, cultural, and demographic underpinnings.
The common concern of scientists, politicians, the business world, and relevant other stakeholders is that today's relations of consumption and production are no longer environmentally sustainable. If the current consumption-production pattern is not sustainable, it means that the social, economic, and health problems that will arise along with the decrease in the quality of life cannot be prevented.
To prevent these problems, for example, the United Nations (UN) had to take a series of important decisions. Among the important decisions taken by the UN, the contribution of the transportation sector to the current environmental problems is a central one that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) address.
This Research Topic aims at analyzing the role of the transportation sector in the realization of SGDs. Those which are related to the transportation sector can be listed mainly as Goals 3.6, 9.1, 11.2, and 12.c:
* Goal 3.6: By 2020, halve the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents.
* Goal 9.1: Develop quality, reliable, sustainable, and resilient infrastructure, including regional and transborder infrastructure, to support economic development and human well-being, with a focus on affordable and equitable access for all.
* Goal 11.2: By 2030, provide access to safe, affordable, accessible, and sustainable transport systems for all, improving road safety, notably by expanding public transport, with special attention to the needs of those in vulnerable situations, women, children, persons with disabilities, and older persons.
* Goal 12.c: Rationalize inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption by removing market distortions, by national circumstances, including by restructuring taxation and phasing out those harmful subsidies, where they exist, to reflect their environmental impacts, taking fully into account the specific needs and conditions of developing countries and minimizing the possible adverse impacts on their development in a manner that protects the poor and the affected communities.
To this end, the submitted articles should address (a) what the beneficial and adverse contributions of the transport sector and the energy sources it uses are in terms of achieving SDG goals, and (b) what policies should be followed to improve adherence to these SDGs.
The Research Topic, therefore, welcomes the submissions related to, but not limited to, the following topics:
1. Environmental economics aspects of sustainability in the transportation sector
2. SDG goals of transportation: Theoretical and practical implications
3. Transportation, energy efficiency, and SDGs: Theory and policy
4. Modeling the influence of transportation on SDGs through simulations, estimations, and forecasts
5. Government regulations to support sustainable development goals in transportation
6. Sustainable development map of transportation sector through renewable or non-renewable energy usage
7. SDGs, transportation, and R&D on energy
8. What should be efficient in the energy policy of transportation to reach SDGs?
