Dear Colleagues,

The mobility sector is an important part of economic and social development all around the world as it is one of the main backbones of economies, being responsible for the efficient and safe transportation of passengers and goods. Despite the economic and social benefits we acquire from transportation-related activities, sustainable mobility aims to ensure that negative environmental impacts are minimized. The transportation sector alone is responsible for nearly a quarter of the global greenhouse gas emissions, an important contributor to global climate change, and a major responsible activity for air pollution in cities. Furthermore, the need for transportation-related activities is expected to grow with the increasing population in the world. This leads to a rapidly increasing need for energy sources, which are currently provided by fossil fuels. These facts have forced the global community to find more efficient alternative operations and technologies to transport passengers and goods around the world.

With the increasing concerns associated with transportation-related emissions and air pollution in cities, countries around the world have set up ambitious targets for the electrification of mobility. For instance, automobile manufacturers in Germany, France, and the United Kingdom are planning to stop producing internal combustion engines within the next several decades. Cleaner electric mobility initiatives are one of the most promising solutions for environmental impacts resulting from transportation, and thirty-one countries and some of the states in the United States of America are planning to ban gasoline engine vehicles between 2025 and 2050. In addition, mobility as a service (shared economy applications), compact personal electric mobility devices (e-scooters, smaller compact electric cars), on-demand ride services, autonomous and shared autonomous electric cars, and autonomous trucks and container ships for the delivery of goods are some of the important emerging mobility solutions. Indeed, all of these alternative mobility solutions are expected to improve the efficiency of transportation services, but the environmental, economic, and social impacts have yet to be investigated.

Any emerging technology comes with uncertainties in terms of its social, economic, and environmental impacts on the global society, and history has shown that some of the technological changes have also led to great societal transformation, thus shaping humanity’s future. Understanding these changes, and perceiving or anticipating the potential changes are essential to manage and internalize the maximum benefits out of these technological advancements for a better sustainable global community. In the case of emerging technologies, it is very possible to observe side, ripple, or rebound effects.

In this Special Issue, we would like to welcome high-quality research to understand sustainability impacts of emerging mobility technologies and obtain insights related to potential challenges concerning their implementation, management, and relationship with society, the economy, and the environment.

Appropriate topics of this issue include:

• integrated life cycle-based sustainability assessment of emerging mobility technologies from social, economic, environmental perspectives.
• integration of sustainability assessment with big data analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and blockchain for data-driven decision making.
• applications of novel scenario and uncertainty analysis, simulation, and optimization modelling techniques for prescriptive sustainability analytics.
• use of process-based, hybrid and multiregional life cycle assessment models for city, regional, national and global-level sustainability assessment.
• sustainability assessment of circular and sharing economy applications as well as necessary technology and infrastructure requirements for the future of mobility.

Dr. Nuri Cihat Onat
Dr. Murat Kucukvar
Guest Editors

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• sustainable mobility
• sustainable transportation
• sustainability asssessment
• emerging mobility technologies
• GHG emissions
• e-mobility