Sustainable Critical Infrastructures: Progresses, Challenges and Opportunities
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 4885
Special Issue Editors
Interests: machine learning; data science; hyperspectral imaging; artificial intelligence; computer vision
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Interests: system risk, reliability, resilience assessment; interdependent network resilience analytics; multi-criteria decision analysis under risk and uncertainty; infrastructure management
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Interests: sustainability; critical infrastructure; structure health monitoring; seismic analysis; reliability; MCDM tools; resilience; uncertainty quantification; probability
Interests: analysis; modeling and optimization of the transportation system; travel behavior and transport economics; data mining and decision analytics (statistical model, machine learning/deep learning); mechanism design and game theory
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sustainability has become an integral part of transport policy and strategy in recent decades, as social interaction depends on the movement of people and goods and is a crucial human need. National security, economic prosperity, and the quality of life of today’s societies depend on critical infrastructures' continuous and reliable operation. Models to capture the performance and operation of these systems have been developed to support planning, maintenance, and retrofit decision-making from multiple viewpoints, including critical infrastructure owners or investors, private and public users, and government entities that ensure sustainability, reliability, economic vitality, and security.
The critical infrastructures sector’s environmental, economic, and social footprint is immense and expanding. At the same time, some of the infrastructures produce emissions that contribute to air pollution and climate change, which seriously impacts upon our ecosystems. Making these critical infrastructures sustainable and environmentally friendly is challenging due to heterogeneous quality, insufficient data availability, and the need to account for the spatial and temporal aspects of the complex supply–demand operation.
This Special Issue focuses on addressing the sustainability of critical infrastructure modeling through various techniques, such as agent-based simulation, input–output inoperability, system reliability theory, nonlinear dynamics, and graph theory. This Special Issue is mainly targeted at understanding the critical infrastructure behavior and response to disruptions through single and multi-modeling techniques. However, hybrid modeling techniques, multi-scale analyses, and other realizable innovative approaches are lacking. These include but are not limited to the following themes:
- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs);
- Climate change;
- Critical infrastructure planning and modeling;
- Transport demand;
- Simulation techniques;
- Sustainable and resilient critical infrastructure polices.
Dr. Niamat Ullah Ibne Hossain
Dr. Golam Kabir
Dr. Mrinal Kanti Sen
Dr. Yili Tang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainability
- resilience
- climate change
- critical infrastructure
