Description

This theme establishes a comprehensive scientific, analytical, computational, and strategic framework for investigating transportation planning, road network optimization, infrastructure investment appraisal, multimodal accessibility, and sustainable urban mobility development. It examines the relationships among land use, transportation demand, road network configuration, traffic operations, infrastructure capacity, accessibility, safety, environmental sustainability, and socioeconomic development. Particular emphasis is placed on integrating transportation engineering principles with geographic information systems, spatial statistics, transport economics, simulation-based planning, and multicriteria decision analysis to support transparent, evidence-based transportation investment and policy decisions.