Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is selected papers from the XXVI International Conference Living and Walking in Cities. The event will be held from 6-8 September 2023 in Brescia-Italy.

The LWC International Conference traditionally deals with the topics of urban mobility and quality of life in urban areas, with a specific focus on vulnerable road users. It meets on defining the new challenges for sustainable urban mobility. The topic will be addressed through a fourfold perspective. From the perspective of transport systems and pedestrian mobility, it will range from the observation of waiting spaces to policies, going through the paradigms of infrastructural accessibility and what mobility means in an era of emergencies. From the perspective of urban planning, the changes necessary to achieve more active and sustainable urban mobility will be observed through the social and temporal implications. From the perspective of public transport and new technologies that can influence it, the relevance of the use of data, economic and ethical issues and the change in mobility paradigms that can be translated through the concept of MaaS will be observed. From the perspective of urban safe mobility, the observation of risk will be declined from the general analysis of infrastructures to the specific case of pedestrianism, not neglecting the broader theme of accidentality and going so far as to decline the theme in the socio-psychological sphere through the analysis of user behavior.

This Special Issue will include 10 selected papers from the LWC conference and intend to provide an interactive and focused platform for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss new and emerging ideas. It will be focused on studying new challenges in infrastructure design and management, with special attention on sustainability intended in a broad sense. More precisely, the Special Issue aims to investigate different topics such as novel models, methods, systems, and tools to be applied when focusing on infrastructural assets, including but not limited to accident analysis techniques, risk assessment and management procedures, economic evaluations, and infrastructures for public transport optimizations. These topics will also benefit from the use of intelligent techniques such as Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics, possibly applied in real-world environments.

Dr. Benedetto Barabino
Prof. Dr. Giulio Maternini
Dr. Roberto Ventura
Guest Editors

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• accessibility
• accident analysis
• advanced infrastructures for public transport
• big data and analytics in infrastructures and services
• economics evaluations of infrastructure and services projects
• infrastructure risk assessment and management