Around the world, much is expected of sustainable urbanization. The idea that comfortable life with all basic amenities and more, that also preserves the environment is simply too alluring to refuse. Concepts such as sustainable cities, eco cities, low carbon cities, intelligent cities, smart cities, resilient cities, knowledge cities and compact cities all respond to this hope, but they offer little more than fairly hazy perspectives. When it comes to urban mobility, this begs the question which modern and innovative options do smart sustainable cities offer for their integrated transport systems? How are they governed and organized, which solutions do they adopt in terms of their infrastructure and rolling stock? What promising technologies and information systems do they utilize now or are they proposing for their future and how do they deal with them? And finally, how truly sustainable, low carbon and ecologically friendly are they and will they be in the coming decades?

It is these and similar questions which a new special issue of ‘Energies’ is aiming to address. An international team of three scholars, Martin de Jong (TU-Delft), Araz Taeihagh (Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore) and Rui Mu (Dalian University of Technology) invites their peers around the world to contribute high-quality articles on these pertinent topics. They will organize the issue around the urban governance of the following themes: (1) Urban and transport concepts and systems, (2) Innovative technologies and technical solutions, and (3) Innovative and sustainable structures and processes.

Prof. Dr. Martin de Jong

Prof. Araz Taeihagh

Prof. Rui Mu

Special Issue Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Keywords

Urban governance
Governance of technology
Smart eco city, Built environment
Transit Oriented Development
Low carbon mobility
Infrastructure systems
Intelligent systems
Transport technology

Published Papers

This special issue is now open for submission.

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Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Martin de Jong

TPM, TU-Delft, Jaffalaan 5, 2628 BX Delft, Netherlands

Website | E-mail: w.m.dejong {at} tudelft {dot} nl

Interests: urban planning; transport planning; eco city development; public policy; governance; comparative institutional analysis; policy transfer; China

Prof. Araz Taeihagh

Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. 469C Bukit Timah Road, 259772, Singapore

Website | E-mail: araz{dot} taeihagh {at} new {dot} oxon {dot} org

Interests: public policy; socio-technical systems; technology policy and governance of technology; policy design, analysis, and analytics; sustainable development; energy and transport policy

Prof. Rui Mu

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dalian University of Technology, Linggong Road 2, Ganjingzi District, Dalian, China

Website | Email: ruimu {at} dlut {dot} edu {dot} cn

Interests: public policy; transport planning; local governance; collaborative governance; China