The TRANSITION Clean Air Network welcomes your submissions to its Special Issue in the open-access MDPI journal, Sustainability: ‘Optimising Air Quality and Health Benefits of Transport Decarbonisation’. Deadline for final submissions 31 July.
There is a second major transport revolution, characterised by a future shift away from the internal combustion engine, with implications for existing business models, national infrastructure, and the way we travel. This transition presents opportunities and challenges for improving indoor and outdoor air quality and health, occurring in the context of disruptive changes in transport technology and evolving mobility patterns through demographic and behavioural changes in recent decades. Authors from engineering, public health, environmental and social sciences, alongside those representing business and not-for-profit organisations who seek to identify challenges and capitalise on opportunities to improve air-quality-related population health benefits associated with transport decarbonisation, are invited to submit their papers.
Submissions of an interdisciplinary nature are strongly welcomed, as are submissions from Early Career Researchers, and some support for article processing charges may be available (please contact us to discuss). Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Characterising emerging air quality challenges—what are the current and future transport pollution sources and how will these determine health benefits and harms?
- Understanding transport choices and behaviours—how will changes in mobility choices and patterns driven by transport decarbomisation change population exposure to air pollution?
- Supporting industry-led research and innovation—obtaining key primary datasets, developing new technologies, or developing standards and/or test methods to assess compliance therewith;
- Co-creating a framework for policy solutions—which planning processes/policy guidance need to be adapted to optimise public health benefits?