SCI专刊征稿：实现气候中和流动性的有效政策和行为调整

专刊主题：Effective policies and behavioral adaptations toward climate-neutral mobility

专刊编辑： 

1) Assistant Professor Feixiong Liao: Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (f.liao@tue.nl)

2) Professor Yacan Wang: Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China (ycwang@bjtu.edu.cn)

3) Dr. Tim Schwanen: University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom (tim.schwanen@ouce.ox.ac.uk)

4) Associate Professor Huiyu Zhou: Beijing Jiaotong University (hyzhou@bjtu.edu.cn)

5) Associate Professor Maarten Kroesen: Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands (M.Kroesen@tudelft.nl) 

截止日期： 30 June 2025

专刊链接（或点击左下角“阅读原文”）：

https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/292352/effective-policies-and-behavioral-adaptations-toward-climate-neutral-mobility

Anthropogenic climate change has huge implications for the transportation sector at all spatial scales, from the neighborhood to the planet as a whole. Actions to make transportation systems more resilient in the face of climate breakdown and interventions to radically and quickly reduce CO2 equivalent (CO2eq) emissions from the transportation sector are urgently required. Time is running out for transportation to become net zero and climate neutral. The challenge holds for both freight and personal mobility, with the latter contributing roughly two-thirds of all of the sector’s CO2eq emissions. 

Special issue information:

Existing mobility infrastructures and land use developments have fostered habitual behaviors and lifestyles of using private cars for urban mobility and aviation for long-distance travel. New mobility technologies, services, and schemes, including electric, shared, and connected mobility, have sprung up and been promoted as effective means to reduce CO2eq emissions. However, they tend to serve niche markets (including higher-educated young adults and central areas of cities), and it is largely unknown to what extent they can be integrated into the existing multimodal systems and whether the gains in decarbonization are inclusive and sufficient from a life-cycle assessment perspective. Transit-oriented development has been advocated and accompanied by newer concepts, including the 15-minute city. In both cases, meaningful implementation in low-density settings characterized by urban sprawl remains challenging.

 Transformations in mobility systems demand parallel transformations of the preference systems for sustainable consumption patterns. Yet, behavioral adaptations toward climate-neutral mobility have not been widely demonstrated. Policy strategies and interventions, which play a pivotal role in realizing behavior change, tend to have diversified effects if not managed well. To tackle these challenges, this special issue solicits original theoretical and empirical contributions on behavioral adaptations that can support policy-making and accelerate the transition to climate-neutral mobility.

Submissions to this special issue should have a clear policy concern or be of interest for practice and must be based on solid research using high-quality data, explicitly addressing policymaking, behavioral adaptations, and the pathways to climate-neutral mobility. Topics of specific interest include, but are not limited to:

• Determinants of adaptations in mobility behavior toward climate neutrality;

• Longitudinal analysis of evolving mobility patterns in response to policies and their impact on CO2eq emission reduction;

• Emerging modes of passenger mobility and their (future) contribution to decarbonization;

• Life-cycle assessment of passenger mobility technologies, services, and schemes;

• Novel theoretical understandings of how mobility policies can contribute to climate neutrality;

• Integrated evaluations of climate-neutral mobility policies: who wins, who loses, when, where, and how?

Note: If prospective authors are not sure whether the contribution would be appropriate for the Special Issue, please contact the guest editors for an initial assessment. Submissions that exclusively delve into life cycle analyses of greenhouse gases, detailed emission calculations, or changes in fleets over time are outside the scope of the SI.

Manuscript submission information:

All submissions will go through the journal’s standard peer-review process. For guidelines to prepare your manuscript please visit Guide for Authors.
Your paper can be submitted via Editorial Manager: https://www2.cloud.editorialmanager.com/ytra/default2.aspx

When submitting your manuscript, please choose “VSI: Climate-Neutral-Mobility” for “Article Type”. This is to ensure that your submission will be considered for this special issue instead of being handled as a regular paper.

Submission deadline: 30th November 2024

Keywords:

Behavioral adaptation

Climate-neutral mobility

Decarbonization

Life-cycle assessment

Mobility services and management

Transport policies

Learn more about the benefits of publishing in a special issue: https://www.elsevier.com/authors/submit-your-paper/special-issues

Interested in becoming a guest editor? Discover the benefits of guest editing a special issue and the valuable contribution that you can make to your field: https://www.elsevier.com/editors/role-of-an-editor/guest-editors

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