Selected Aspects of Sustainability of Infrastructure Towards Transport Decarbonization—Review

The article provides a wide-range review of issues concerning the evolving of infrastructure for the purpose of transport system decarbonization, which is one of the crucial directions on the path to achieving carbon neutrality. Transport systems contribute, according to various statistics, between 20 and 25% of global carbon dioxide emissions, making the development of sustainable infrastructure one of the crucial issues for achieving net-zero goals. By synthesizing 135 studies published between (2022) and (2026), the paper investigates research on following key fields: (1) low-emission conveyances, infrastructure for their refueling, and its availability; (2) policy and strategies for transport decarbonization and plans concerning technologies for low-carbon means of transport, (3) management systems for organization of transportation, including Intelligent Transport Systems and smart mobility; (4) crisis management in green transport systems—investigations and solutions connected to ensuring the systems’ continuity in critical situations; and (5) research on the costs of transportation decarbonization, economic analysis and optimization of costs associated with the development of low-emission transport. The analyzed literature shows the extraordinary importance of the transport decarbonization problem and presents a wide range of conducted studies and applications being implemented. The findings indicate fields, for which the complexity and completeness of works seem to be satisfactory, but also show sectors within which certain research gaps do still exist. The outcomes of the work indicate policy and technological pathways that can lead to improving the sustainability of infrastructure for decarbonized transport systems, together with some proposals of the scope of research directions that should be carried out.