Special IssueIncreasing the Economic Pie Through Green Transportation - Technology and Challenges
Mechanics & Industry ISSN: 2257-777 | eISSN: 2257-7750 2019 IF: 0.874 (JCR Q4, Clarivate Analytics) 2019 SJR: 0.280 (Scimagojr Q2, Scopus) |
Summary
In recent years, national and international efforts to foster green growth as a new source of development have accelerated in the face of pressing economic and environmental challenges. Building on this momentum will help to drive progress towards sustainable development and poverty reduction by, for example, more efficient use of natural resources, energy conservation and the value of ecosystem services. Green growth is a topic for both economic and sustainable development policy. This tackles two main challenges together: sustained sustainable economic development required by developed countries to reduce poverty and enhance well-being, and better environmental protection needed to tackle resource scarcity and climate change.
Transport is simply a means of carrying passengers or goods from one location to another. However, conventional modes of transport rely on fossil fuels, which, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), contribute 27 per cent. So now the trend is to make green transportation by focusing on environmentally friendly means of transport.
Green transport vehicles, for example, can be fuelled by alternative fuels and advanced vehicle technology and include hybrid electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, battery electric vehicles, compressed-air vehicles, hydrogen and fuel cell vehicles, renewable ethanol vehicles, natural gas vehicles, and some sources also include vehicles using blends of biodiesel and ethanol fuel. In addition, green vehicles include conventional motor vehicles with a high fuel economy, because they consider increasing fuel economy to be the most cost-effective way to improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions in the transport sector in the short term.
The aim of this Special Issue is therefore to inform industry and academia colleagues about the recent green transportation technology and the challenges faced by engineers in selecting materials, methods, designing and reducing energy consumption to increase economic pie.
Prospective authors, in particular those who will present their contribution to the 7th Mechanical Engineering Research Day, are welcome to submit their comprehensive research or review papers for consideration to be published in this special issue. The submission of all papers will first be subject to a critical review by the peer review team. However, only high-quality original research papers will be considered for publication in this special issue. Such inputs would be good representations and indications of the current state of knowledge for the future.
Important Notice
Please note that all manuscripts submitted after 20 October 2020, if accepted after peer-review, will be published in Open Access in 2021. Authors will have to pay an Article Processing Charge (amount in 2021: 1100 €), only if (and after) their manuscript has been accepted.
Manuscript Preparation
https://www.mechanics-industry.org/author-information/instructions-for-authors
Submission (deadline: 15 December 2020)
https://articlestatus.edpsciences.org/is/mi/home.php
In the online submission form, please select "Suggested Editor: Bin Abdollah Mohd Fadzli" and "Special Issue: Increasing the Economic Pie Through Green Transportation – Technology and Challenges"
Guest Editor
In recent years, national and international efforts to foster green growth as a new source of development have accelerated in the face of pressing economic and environmental challenges. Building on this momentum will help to drive progress towards sustainable development and poverty reduction by, for example, more efficient use of natural resources, energy conservation and the value of ecosystem services. Green growth is a topic for both economic and sustainable development policy. This tackles two main challenges together: sustained sustainable economic development required by developed countries to reduce poverty and enhance well-being, and better environmental protection needed to tackle resource scarcity and climate change.
Transport is simply a means of carrying passengers or goods from one location to another. However, conventional modes of transport rely on fossil fuels, which, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), contribute 27 per cent. So now the trend is to make green transportation by focusing on environmentally friendly means of transport.
Green transport vehicles, for example, can be fuelled by alternative fuels and advanced vehicle technology and include hybrid electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, battery electric vehicles, compressed-air vehicles, hydrogen and fuel cell vehicles, renewable ethanol vehicles, natural gas vehicles, and some sources also include vehicles using blends of biodiesel and ethanol fuel. In addition, green vehicles include conventional motor vehicles with a high fuel economy, because they consider increasing fuel economy to be the most cost-effective way to improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions in the transport sector in the short term.
The aim of this Special Issue is therefore to inform industry and academia colleagues about the recent green transportation technology and the challenges faced by engineers in selecting materials, methods, designing and reducing energy consumption to increase economic pie.
Prospective authors, in particular those who will present their contribution to the 7th Mechanical Engineering Research Day, are welcome to submit their comprehensive research or review papers for consideration to be published in this special issue. The submission of all papers will first be subject to a critical review by the peer review team. However, only high-quality original research papers will be considered for publication in this special issue. Such inputs would be good representations and indications of the current state of knowledge for the future.
Important Notice
Please note that all manuscripts submitted after 20 October 2020, if accepted after peer-review, will be published in Open Access in 2021. Authors will have to pay an Article Processing Charge (amount in 2021: 1100 €), only if (and after) their manuscript has been accepted.
Manuscript Preparation
https://www.mechanics-industry.org/author-information/instructions-for-authors
Submission (deadline: 15 December 2020)
https://articlestatus.edpsciences.org/is/mi/home.php
In the online submission form, please select "Suggested Editor: Bin Abdollah Mohd Fadzli" and "Special Issue: Increasing the Economic Pie Through Green Transportation – Technology and Challenges"
Guest Editor
Mohd Fadzli Bin Abdollah, Dr.Eng. [website]
Associate Professor Fakulti Kejuruteraan Mekanikal, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka |
Chief Editor