Special Issue: Environmentally and socially sustainable mobility

As the sixth International Panel on Climate Change report highlights, near-term climate actions are increasingly urgent, and must prioritize equity, social justice, and inclusivity in order to achieve more sustainable outcomes. Enabling carbon-neutral mobility is one of the immediate actions for which policy-makers around the world can plan and implement locally, with significant environmental and health benefits to inhabitants. Decarbonising transport brings about several challenges as social equity and environmental sustainability are often in tension with one another. For instance, without guaranteeing viable and affordable sustainable transportation alternatives, some policy interventions that seek to reduce transport emission can disproportionately harm the accessibility and mobility of low-income communities and increase social exclusion.This special issue aims to continue the discussions and push the boundaries on how advances in geospatial data science can be leveraged to promote development that balances social and environmental sustainability in transport and mobility to build more equitable neighborhoods and sustainable communities. We invite papers that develop new methods and technologies as well those applying existing geospatial analysis techniques to examine research questions at the intersection of social equity and sustainable mobility.