This edited book, Innovative Research in Transportation Infrastructure, is an
outcome of the First International Conference on Innovation in Infrastructure. The
chapters aim to present a full picture of the state of the art in modern technology,
innovations, and need of the transportation systems, construction, and maintenance
methodology and many more, to fulfil the infrastructural gap. Nowadays, inefficient
utilization of transportation infrastructure has turned out to be one of the significant
issues of road safety for fast-growing urban and rural regions. Numerous initiatives
are taken by the government bodies and engineers while keeping in mind the end
goal of evolving sustainable transportation by providing smart transportation
infrastructure. In order to understand the various issues and probable solutions, the
chapters provide in-depth study related to rural and urban infrastructures through
various case studies on the deficiency of transportation systems and fundamental
problems related to infrastructure.
Some case studies also provide a solution adopting multimodal transportation
framework to improve the system in a productive and efficient way. In addition,
mobility is a key challenge in sustainable transportation worldwide with a rapid
growth of urbanization. As a result, cities experience several traffic-related problems and are major contributors towards greenhouse gas emissions. The chapters in this edited book also contribute to resolving the problem by developing a performance measurement framework using a fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making
(MCDM) approach to assess the progress of city performance through service-level benchmarks.