Highlights of Sustainability Sections Sustainable Cities, Infrastructure, and Mobility
Sustainable Cities, Infrastructure, and Mobility
About this Section
This section publishes research on the development of sustainable cities, infrastructure, and mobility systems. It explores topics such as sustainable urban planning, green infrastructure, and transportation systems that promote environmental sustainability, social inclusion, and economic vitality in urban settings. The section welcomes studies addressing challenges such as urban sprawl, pollution, and access to sustainable services.
Section Board Members
Yoram Shiftan
Head of the Israeli Smart Transportation Research Center, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 3200003, Israel
Research Keywords: travel behavior; transport policy; transport project evaluation
Marinella Giunta
Department of Civil, Energy, Environmental and Material Engineering, University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, 89100 Reggio Calabria, Italy
Research Keywords: roads; railways; sustainability; road and railway materials; life cycle assessment; life cycle cost
Andrew Kirby
School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Arizona State University - West, Phoenix, AZ 85069-7100, USA
Research Keywords: sustainability and urban development; climate change adaptation in urban areas; sustainable cities and communities
Diego P. Ruiz
Research Group: Technologies for a Circular Economy. Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Granada, Campus Fuentenueva s/n, 18071 Granada, Spain
Research Keywords: climate change; environmental pollution and its modeling; energy efficiency in buildings; circular economy; green technologies; renewable energy
John Fien
School of Architecture and Urban Design, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
Research Keywords: teaching about the SDGs; education, training and capacity building for sustainability, resilience and climate; disaster and climate resilience
Francesco Nocera
Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Catania, 95125 Catania, Italy
Research Keywords: confined environments; recording and processing of environmental data; buildings energy analysis; environmental thermo-fluid dynamics; natural and artificial lighting; environmental and building acoustics; problems in environmental comfort and conservation of cultural assets; active and passive strategies for environmental monitoring and air-conditioning systems; indoor and outdoor comfort (UHI,UHII etc); solar energy; heat transfer; energy saving; renewable energy
Elena Lucchi
Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering (DABC), Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy
Research Keywords: energy efficiency of historic buildings; non destructive technologies; energy audit; energy simulation; preventive conservation of cultural heritage; energy policy; renewable energy sources; BIPV integration in heritage sites; environmental monitoring; sustainability assessment
Juan de Oña
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Granada, Campus de Fuentenueva, s/n, 18071 Granada, Spain
Research Keywords: transportation engineering; road safety; traffic safety; travel behavior; quality of service
Erel Avineri
AFEKA, Tel-Aviv Academic College of Engineering, Afeka Center for Infrastructure, Transportation and Logistics (ACITRAL), Tel-Aviv 699812, Israel
Research Keywords: transport; travel behaviour; sustainable transport; road safety; behaviour change; cities
Georgina Santos
School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF10 3WA, UK
Research Keywords: environmental and transport economics and policy; sustainable cities; development economics and gender studies; gender and academic progression
Eckard Helmers
Environmental Planning and Technology Faculty, Trier University of Applied Sciences, Environment Campus, 55761 Birkenfeld, Germany
Research Keywords: environmental impact assessment; electric vehicles; sustainable mobility; life cycle assessment; carbon footprinting; university sustainability
Mark Deakin
School of Engineering and Built Environment, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, EH10 5DT, UK
Research Keywords: sustainable urban development; sustainable communities; smart cities
Laura Eboli
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Calabria, Rende 87036, Italy
Research Keywords: transport; transit service quality; sustainable mobility; road safety; analysis of travel behavior
Steffen Lehmann
School of Architecture, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154, USA
Research Keywords: sustainable architectural and urban design; urban development and future cities; climate change, urban resilience and environmental sustainability; high-performance architecture, entrepreneurship and leadership
Esther Obonyo
Engineering Design and Architectural Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Research Keywords: building construction; engineering design; LPE academic working group; LPE research working group
Luís Loures
VALORIZA - Research Centre for Endogenous Resource Valorization, Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre, 7300-555 Protalegre, Portugal
Research Keywords: urban planning; landscape reclamation; urban redevelopment; sustainable development
Mike Jenks
School of Architecture, Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment, Oxford Brookes University, Headington Campus, Oxford, OX3 0BP, UK
Research Keywords: urban sustainability; environmental, social and economic sustainability; compact city; sustainable urban form; intensification of development in urban areas
Ayman S. Mosallam
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-2175, USA
Research Keywords: materials, environmental, and structural engineering; innovative sustainable building systems and affordable housing including three-Dimensional sandwich panels, solar systems, water recycling, efficient cooling system rehabilitation
Monto Mani
SuDesi Lab, Centre for Sustainable Technologies, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru 560012, India
Research Keywords: sustainable architecture and design; climate-responsive architecture/green buildings (BiPV); design/technology sustainability evaluation and forecasting
Grzegorz Sierpiński
Department of Transport Systems, Traffic Engineering and Logistics (RT4), Silesian University of Technology, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland
Research Keywords: sustainable transport; environmentally friendly means of transport; modal split of traffic; electromobility; intelligent transport systems
Alessandro Lo Faro
Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy
Research Keywords: retrofit of building stock; building pathology; green envelope; traditional building technologies
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