Dear Colleagues,

Heavy vehicles, including heavy diesel trucks and diesel buses, consume much more energy and produce more emissions than small cars. In many cities, heavy trucks are prohibited from entering urban areas to prevent the negative effects of their emissions on urban ambient air quality. Urban municipal vehicles are also diesel vehicles. Like heavy diesel trucks, they consume a large amount of energy and produce heavy emissions; however, they are the subject of few relevant studies. There are many municipal service vehicles in cities, and their everyday presence in urban areas greatly impacts the air quality. The construction of transportation infrastructure requires lots of construction machinery, consumes lots of energy, and generates lots of pollutant and carbon emissions. The purpose of promoting green construction sites is to reduce energy consumption and emissions in construction. Pure electric buses are gradually replacing diesel buses, but they consume a lot of electric energy; thus, energy conservation has become one of the main issues in the operation and management of electric buses. With the increase in urban electric vehicles, driverless vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles, charging facilities have become necessary supporting facilities and a crucial component of urban infrastructure. However, at present, many cities have no documents for the planning, construction and operation of charging facilities. The integration of pollution and carbon reduction with transportation energy is currently a hot topic in China, and has gradually become an important part of "dual carbon" development. This Special Issue, based on the above considerations, hopes to highlight achievements in this field to reflect the current trend of sustainable development in transportation.

Scope:

1. Heavy-duty vehicle emission model, governance technology and management means;
2. Heavy-duty vehicle energy consumption model and energy conservation management technology;
3. Measurement and control methods for transportation infrastructure construction emissions;
4. Energy consumption measurement and energy conservation management of transportation infrastructure construction;
5. Energy consumption measurement and energy-saving driving technology in pure electric buses;
6. Driving conditions, energy consumption and emission characteristics of urban municipal service vehicles;
7. Planning, construction and operation management of vehicle charging facilities;
8. Energy consumption and emission characteristics of intelligent networking and driverless vehicles;
9. Energy consumption measurement and emission characteristics of hybrid electric vehicles;
10. Collaborative management of pollution and carbon reduction in transportation systems;
11. Transportation and energy integration technology and management.

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Urban Science.

Prof. Dr. Tiezhu Li
Prof. Dr. Xiaohua Zhao
Dr. Ran Tu
Guest Editors

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• heavy-duty vehicle
• emission
• energy consumption
• transportation infrastructure construction emission
• energy-saving driving
• modelling
• vehicle charging facilities
• intelligent networking and driverless vehicles
• hybrid electric vehicles
• carbon reduction
• collaborative management
• transportation and energy integration