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Understanding cycling distance according to the prediction of the XGBoost and the interpretation of SHAP: A non-linear and interaction effect analysis J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Shujuan Ji, Xin Wang, Tao Lyu, Xiaojie Liu, Yuanqing Wang, Eva Heinen, Zhenwei Sun
Cycling benefits both the individual and society in terms of public health promotion, traffic congestion relief and vehicle emissions reduction. To better understand cycling behaviors, we analyze non-linear relationships and interaction effects between the built environment and cycling distance. Few studies explore the interaction effects on cycling distance in which road network patterns interact
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Complementarity of dockless mircomobility and rail transit J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Justin Tyndall
Shared micromobility services have undergone rapid growth in cities throughout the world, including expansions in bike sharing and e-scooter sharing services. Shared micromobility provides a potential complement to public transit by accommodating first and last-mile trips. I analyze detailed data on shared, dockless bikes and e-scooters from Seattle, Washington. I find micromobility vehicles cluster
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Green mobility at home, green mobility at tourism destinations: A cross-country study of transport modal choices of educated young adults J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 L. Zamparini, A. Domènech, D. Miravet, A. Gutiérrez
Fostering environmentally friendly transport solutions for visitors lies at the core of the strategies aimed at implementing sustainable tourism destinations. In this sense, this study aims to identify the determinants of green mobility choices taken by young adults during their holidays. It is based on a survey proposed to Italian and Spanish University students. The study demonstrates the intrinsic
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A GIS-based, microscale walkability assessment integrating the local topography J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Ashikur Rahman
This research sets an example of how large-scale walkability indices can be transformed into microscale walkability indices through a systematic evaluation of the different local components of the built environment. A Geographic Information System (GIS)-based qualitative scoring system of 15 micro-variables is developed to assess the walkability performances of the urban streets. Furthermore, the proposed
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Making of home: Transportation mobility and well-being among Tucson refugees J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Chandler Smith, Orhon Myadar, Nicole Iroz-Elardo, Maia Ingram, Arlie Adkins
The article is based on a multidisciplinary research project that aimed to study mobility challenges that refugees in Tucson, Arizona experience after their resettlement. Using qualitative and quantitative data collected from interviews and survey data, we argue that mobility shapes the ways refugees foster social connections, attain employment and access educational opportunities. Accordingly, barriers
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Investigating the impact of policies, socio-demography and national commitments on electric-vehicle demand: Cross-country study J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Minal Chandra
This study envisages to investigate the hurdles in widespread usage of Electric-Vehicles(EVs) on a global scale by using cross-country panel data. This paper empirically studies the impact of wide range of parameters like policies & incentives, national commitments, socioeconomic factors, charger infrastructure, fuel price and renewables on cross-country EV demand by using two-way Fixed Effect Model
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Methodological shortcuts in intermodal freight transport: Critical review and proposals J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-07-30 Patrick Niérat
Freight traffic forecasts face many obstacles in assessing the effectiveness of a transport policy. Traffic data are not available, costs are unknown, and total cost is often used as a benchmark. Many assumptions are therefore needed to overcome these difficulties. We examine a specific example proposed by the University of Antwerp: combining traffic from the ports of Dunkirk and Zeebrugge to Dusseldorf
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Accessibility by public transport for older adults: A systematic review J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Léa Ravensbergen, Mathilde Van Liefferinge, Jimenez Isabella, Zhang Merrina, Ahmed El-Geneidy
Accessibility, the ease of reaching destinations through a transport network, holds great potential to help foster equitable and sustainable cities. Though equity analyses are often considered in accessibility studies, only recently have researchers begun to consider older adults' access to destinations. In the context of an aging population, this paper presents a systematic review of the literature
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‘I feel the weather and you just know’. Narrating the dynamics of commuter mobility choices J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Stewart Barr, Sal Lampkin, Laura Dawkins, Daniel Williamson
Efforts to promote travel behaviour change have frequently deployed social marketing strategies that are based on characterising populations into discrete target groups through quantitative segmentation techniques. Such techniques provide an important basis for understanding behavioural choices and motivations, frequently using psychological constructs that can be used for planning interventions. However
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Does transportation network centrality determine housing price? J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-07-16 Sandip Chakrabarti, Triparnee Kushari, Taraknath Mazumder
In this paper, we investigate whether transportation network centrality determines housing price in cities. We find that it does. Using housing price data from >400 neighborhoods across the city of Kolkata, India, our research shows that a neighborhood's centrality within the intra-urban road transportation network is positively associated with the average price per sq. ft. of ownership units in multistory
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Using modality styles to understand cycling dissonance: The role of the street-scale environment in commuters' travel mode choice J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-07-16 Lihong Zhang, Yan Liu, Scott N. Lieske, Jonathan Corcoran
Commuters who live spatially proximate to their workplaces have the greatest potential to commute by cycling. Employing the concept of cycling dissonance—the mismatch of individuals who can commute by cycling given a cyclable distance between home and the workplace but travel by other modes—we examine the role of the street-scale environment in commuters' travel mode choice via a lens of modality styles
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Investigating the increasing demand and formal regulation of motorcycle taxis in Ghana J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Philip Kofi Alimo, Abdul Basit Abdul Rahim, George Lartey-Young, Daniel Ehebrecht, Ling Wang, Wanjing Ma
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Shifting to more sustainable mobility styles: A latent transition approach J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-07-11 Sonja Haustein, Maarten Kroesen
Cities around the world make efforts to reduce car use and its negative consequences but even in cycling cities, mobility behaviour is still dominated by car use. This paper examines the effect of life events, changed resources and attitude-behaviour incongruency on changes in people's mobility style. The paper is based on a longitudinal survey including people who participated 2–3 times within a 2
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Spatiotemporal patterns of maritime trade between China and Maritime Silk Road: Evidence from a quantitative study using social network analysis J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-07-01 Naixia Mou, Chunying Wang, Tengfei Yang, Haonan Ren, Lingxian Zhang, Huanqing Xu, Wenbao Liu
Automatic Identification System (AIS) sensor, as a new navigation instrument, provides the possibility for mining the real situation of marine transportation. To find more interesting conclusions from a new perspective, we use AIS sensor trajectory data to explore maritime trade of containers, bulk and tanker between China and Maritime Silk Road (MSR) countries from two perspectives of time and space
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Establishment location choice model considering intra-firm interactions J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-06-29 Usman Ahmed, Jason Hawkins, Matthew J. Roorda
This paper describes the development of a business establishment location choice model for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) in Canada. The location of establishments is the origin or destination of freight trips and passenger trips (e.g., shopping trips, employment location etc.). The conventional treatment of establishments is that they act as independent decision-making agents when determining
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The role of turns in pedestrian route choice: A clarification J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Andres Sevtsuk, Rounaq Basu
Among a number of variables shown to affect pedestrian route choice, path length and turns have stood out as the most consequential. Turns have been considered the superior variable by some architectural scholars of urban street networks, while transportation planners and geographers believe distance to be paramount. The longstanding debate between these two approaches has been reinvigorated with the
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Spatial analysis of the impact of transport accessibility on regional performance: A study for Europe J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-06-28 Susana Freiria, Nuno Sousa, Francisco Calvo-Poyo
Several works have addressed the impact of transport accessibility on regional development. Nevertheless, it is not consensual that new levels of accessibility lead to the improvement of regional development. This article proposes a methodological approach to assess whether significant relationship exist between these two variables. The methodology uses Data Envelopment Analysis to evaluate regional
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Up around the bend? How transport poverty can lead to social exclusion in a low-income community in Lagos, Nigeria J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-06-23 André Bueno Rezendede Castro, Abby Daniela Ortega Sandoval, Genevieve Odamtten
Well planned and executed urban mobility policies are essential for economic, social, and environmental development. Cities in developing countries, in particular, face serious problems involving infrastructure, traffic congestion, and services accessibility. These factors, made worse by poor planning, lead to social inequality. This paper conducts a multidimensional analysis of how travel times and
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Work flexibly, travel less? The impact of telework and flextime on mobility behavior in Switzerland J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-06-25 Fabienne Wöhner
There is an ongoing discussion about the impact of flexible forms of work on travel behavior. Though it is generally accepted that telework decreases distance commuted, there are mixed conclusions about the notion that non-work-related journeys could be offsetting any saved commute. This paper investigates the influence of two flexible working arrangements – namely telework and flextime – on commutes
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Rail transit station and neighbourhood change: A mixed-method analysis with respect to neighbourhood context J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Amir Forouhar
While increasing evidence suggests a determining role of urban rail transit in shaping and transforming cities and neighbourhoods, empirical studies on the simultaneous development of rail infrastructure and neighbourhood change are scarce. This paper attempts to evaluate the neighbourhood changes around rail transit stations as well as provide a possible explanation of how neighbourhoods can be differently
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Understanding the effect of sociodemographic, natural and built environment factors on cycling accessibility J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Juan P. Ospina, Juan C. Duque, Verónica Botero-Fernández, Mark Brussel
The concept of accessibility has gained considerable attention in the analysis of access to specific facilities for different populations. Unlike motorized systems in which there is no physical limit on the distance that can be traveled, the distance that a given cyclist can travel is variable and is determined by their personal characteristics and the environment. Such maximal travel distance is assumed
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Spatiotemporal analysis of activity-travel fragmentation based on spatial clustering and sequence analysis J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Hui Shi, Rongxiang Su, Jingyi Xiao, Konstadinos G. Goulias
In this study using data from the 2017 National Household Travel Survey in California from 26,078 survey participants, sequence analysis is used to estimate a fragmentation indicator of people's daily schedules. Then, spatial clustering is used to find groups of observations with similarly high or low fragmentation using the longitude and latitude of their residential locations. This is followed by
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What drives the allocation of motorways? Evidence from Portugal's fast-expanding network J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-06-13 Bruno T. Rocha, Nuno Afonso, Patrícia C. Melo, João de Abreu e Silva
This study investigates the factors that influenced the allocation of motorways across municipalities in mainland Portugal. Our analysis, based on Poisson Pseudo-maximum Likelihood models, suggests that population size and market potential in 1981 are important determinants of motorway density in 2020. Physical and geographical variables also help explain the spatial distribution of motorway investment
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Does the traffic volume of a port determine connectivity? Revisiting port connectivity measures with high-frequency satellite data J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-06-11 Xiwen Bai, Liangqi Cheng, Dong Yang, Ouchen Cai
Seaports play an important role in the global shipping network. Shipping participants often attach great importance to the measurement of container port connectivity, as it reflects countries' access to world markets. As a result, various port connectivity index systems have been proposed by members of the shipping industry and scholars. In recent years, technological developments especially the advancement
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Understanding the mitigation potential of sustainable urban transport measures across income and gender groups J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Harsha Vajjarapu, Ashish Verma
The global climate is going through a transformation due to increased GHG emissions. Urban transportation is one of the leading contributors to increased GHG emissions due to its dependency on fossil fuels. Mitigation measures are evaluated globally to reduce the emissions from the transport sector. These mitigation strategies have a disproportionate effect on the income-gender groups, and the emissions
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Differences in first-mile and last-mile behaviour in candidate multi-modal Boston bike-share micromobility trips J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Daniel Romm, Priyanka Verma, Elizabeth Karpinski, Tracy L Sanders, Grant McKenzie
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Mapping the travel modes and acceptable travel time to primary healthcare institutions: A case study in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-06-06 Wen-Rui Cao, Qiu-Ru Huang, Nan Zhang, Hui-Juan Liang, Ben-Song Xian, Xiao-Fang Gan, Dong Roman Xu, Ying-Si Lai
Introduction Understanding location-specific travel modes and acceptable travel time to primary healthcare institutions across large regions is important for measuring accessibility and allocation of health resources. However, few studies have either focused on such analysis or provided efficient methods. Methods We developed a framework to understand the diversity of travel modes and acceptable travel
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Understanding how accessibility influences health via active travel: Results from a structural equation model J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-06-04 Maarten Kroesen, Bert van Wee
Active travel (walking and cycling) is increasingly being recognised as a potentially effective means of increasing physical activity levels and thereby contribute to physical and mental health. Research related to active travel typically either focuses on the determinants of active travel or its health effects. As far as the authors are aware, no studies have tried to include both sets of variables
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Passenger air traffic in Central Europe J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Vilém Pařil, Zdeněk Tomeš, Karolína Urbanovská, Marcel Horňák
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Nonlinear and threshold effects of traffic condition and built environment on dockless bike sharing at street level J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Zhuang Caigang, Li Shaoying, Tan Zhangzhi, Gao Feng, Wu Zhifeng
Dockless bike-sharing (DBS), with its advantages of flexibility, environmental friendliness, and good physical fitness, is regarded as an effective approach to relieve urban traffic issues. As such, various studies have been conducted to explore the impact of the built environment on DBS usage. However, few studies have investigated the nonlinear effects at the street level. Especially, existing studies
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An analysis of the role of residential location on the relationships between time spent online and non-mandatory activity-travel time use over time J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-06-02 Guoqiang Wu, Jinhyun Hong
Although the associations between the use of information and communications technologies (ICT) and individuals' daily travel and activity patterns have been extensively investigated for several decades, few studies have examined the amount of time spent using ICT, its implications on activity-travel behavior, and how such ICT-travel relationships may vary over time and according to residential location
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Spatiotemporal exploration of the non-linear impacts of accessibility on metro ridership J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-06-02 Qiang Du, Yuqing Zhou, Youdan Huang, Yalei Wang, Libiao Bai
Identifying the determinants of metro ridership is essential for metro planning and passenger flow management. However, few studies to date have empirically examined how accessibility affects metro ridership and even fewer have emphasized the non-linear impacts from a spatiotemporal perspective. This study demarcates station areas via the network-distance method and precisely quantifies the accessibility
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Retail sprawl and CO2 emissions: Retail centres in Irish cities J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-05-31 Conor O'Driscoll, Frank Crowley, Justin Doran, Nóirín McCarthy
The concept of sustainable retail development implies that retail centres should serve their communities economically and socially, while not degrading local environments. However, existing literature identifies that retail centres often create negative externalities, impacting the sustainable development of both the core and peripheries of city regions. International evidence also shows that retail
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Demand, mobility, and constraints: Exploring travel behaviors and mode choices of older adults using a facility-based framework J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-05-31 Yang Zhou, Quan Yuan, Fangyi Ding, Mingyang Chen, Chao Yang, Tangyi Guo
The steady trend of aging has caused great concern on how cities should better accommodate the social needs of aged population. Older people in general have more leisure time than younger adults but are found highly constrained in daily travel. To examine the imbalance between travel demand and transport supply among older adults, this paper decomposes their daily travel into two categories (visits
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Recruiting research participants for transport research: Reflections from studies on autonomous vehicles in the UK J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-05-31 Debbie Hopkins, Tim Schwanen
Much research is dependent on the willingness of participants to give up their time – whether renumerated or not – and engage with the activities we have designed such as interviews, surveys, writing diaries, and taking photos. We talk about social research being dependent on ‘self-selection’, but we say less about what happens when the people with whom we wish to engage do not agree to do so; when
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Structures of port connectivity, competition, and shipping networks in Europe J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-05-27 Qing Liu, Yang Yang, Luqi Ke, Adolf K.Y. Ng
In this study, we use service-based centrality measures to evaluate 29 major European ports' centrality levels and apply them to both the China-connection and intra-Europe networks. The largest European container ports are primarily centrally positioned in the China-connection network, but relatively weak in the intra-network unless capacities are considered. An important insight into the impacts of
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A hierarchical two-step floating catchment area analysis for high-tier hospital accessibility in an urban agglomeration region J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-05-27 Chuanyao Li, Junren Wang
The medical facility is one of the essential public service facilities. Its spatial accessibility is an important indicator to measure the convenience of access to medical services and a significant factor affecting urban development and the living standards of residents. With the constant process of urbanization, urban agglomerations are formed and developing rapidly. The high-tier healthcare facilities
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A framework for estimating commute accessibility and adoption of ridehailing services under functional improvements from vehicle automation J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-05-24 Tianqi Zou, Zack Aemmer, Don MacKenzie, Ken Laberteaux
This paper develops an analytical framework to estimate commute accessibility and adoption of various ridehailing service concepts across the US by synthesizing individual commute trips using national Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES) data. Focusing on potential improvements in cost and time that could be enabled by vehicle automation, we use
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On the relation between school and residential location choice: Evidence of heterogeneous strategies from Santiago de Chile J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-05-21 Felipe González-Espejo, Sebastian Astroza, Ricardo Hurtubia
Voucher systems have been vastly discussed on their ability to provide better quality education and more efficient school systems, but also on the role they play on segregation mechanisms through education markets. With free school choice, parents' preferences and the trade-offs they take into account become relevant, as they are free to decide between educational alternatives and are not restricted
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Examining motivations for owning autonomous vehicles: Implications for land use and transportation J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-05-21 Tao Tao, Jason Cao
Illustrating the associations between built environment characteristics and autonomous vehicle (AV) ownership helps policymakers understand where AVs emerge first and their impacts on society. However, few studies have addressed interest in AV ownership from the spatial perspective. Using regional travel survey data from the Twin Cities, we applied the gradient boosting decision tree method to test
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Accessibility to primary care physicians: Comparing floating catchments with a utility-based approach J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-05-17 Maria Demitiry, Christopher D. Higgins, Antonio Páez, Eric J. Miller
Floating Catchment Area (FCA) methods are a popular choice for modelling accessibility to healthcare services because of their ability to consider both supply and demand. However, FCA methods do not fully consider aspects of travel and choicemaking behaviour as the only behavioural component is the impedance function. FCA approaches also tend to assign population demand to clinics and levels-of-service
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The spatial determinants of innovation diffusion: Evidence from global shipping networks J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-05-17 César Ducruet, Hidekazu Itoh
Based on untapped shipping and urban data, this article compares the diffusion of steam and container shipping at the port city level and at the global scale between 1880 and 2008. A temporal and multi-layered network is constructed, including the pre-existing technologies of sailing and breakbulk. The goal is to check the differences a) between innovations and their predecessors and b) between innovations
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Visualizing the maritime connectivity of African countries J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-05-16 David Guerrero, Patrick Niérat, Jean-Claude Thill, Emmanuel Cohen
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Geospatial analysis to identify promising car parks for installing electric vehicle charge points: An Oxford case study J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-05-13 Katherine A. Collett, Sivapriya Mothilal Bhagavathy, Malcolm D. McCulloch
Historically in the UK, uptake of electric vehicles (EVs) has been dominated by those with off-street parking. In fact, a recent report by Deloitte found that nearly 90% of EV drivers currently charge privately. However, if we wish to meet the UK Government's targets of net zero by 2050 and no further sales of fully internal combustion engine vehicles after 2030, EV charging will need to be made accessible
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Spatiotemporal heterogeneous effects of socio-demographic and built environment on private car usage: An empirical study of Kunming, China J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Mingwei He, Chengfeng He, Zhuangbin Shi, Min He
The increasing car usage has caused a series of social and environmental problems. Most previous studies examined the general correlations between the determinants and the usage pattern of private car by establishing global regression models. These models ignore the variation of travel behavior across temporal and spatial dimensions, which possibly leads to wrong bias and overlooks certain momentous
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Are workers' commutes sensitive to changes in the labour market situation? J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 David Martín-Barroso, Juan A. Núñez-Serrano, Jaime Turrión, Francisco J. Velázquez
The present paper analyses the temporary stability of commuting to workplace functions in the face of changes in workers' and firms' characteristics and the local labour market conditions. To do this, we estimate commuting functions by incorporating four types of determinants: the characteristics of the workers, the jobs (or hiring firms), and the municipalities where the workers reside and work, including
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Logistics sprawl and the change in freight transport activity: A comparison of three measurement methodologies J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-04-30 Nadia M. Trent, Johan W. Joubert
Logistics sprawl has been observed in many urban areas around the world, but the assumed link between increased logistics sprawl and increased freight transport activity has little empirical evidence. Because this link could influence policy-making to either fight or facilitate logistics sprawl, this paper investigates the implications of using different methodologies to quantify the relationship.
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Transport poverty meets car dependency: A GPS tracking study of socially disadvantaged groups in European rural peripheries J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-04-30 Christoph van Dülmen, Martin Šimon, Andreas Klärner
This article explores the spatial mobility of disadvantaged populations in order to enhance our understanding of transport poverty. It is based on participatory GPS tracking data collected in peripheral rural regions in Czechia and Germany. The data provide information on the two-week mobility of 61 socially disadvantaged study participants belonging to the following groups: (a) the lone elderly, (b)
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Living on a fare: Modeling and quantifying the effects of fare budgets on transit access and equity J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Diego Da Silva, Willem Klumpenhouwer, Alex Karner, Mitchell Robinson, Rick Liu, Amer Shalaby
While premium transit modes such as commuter rail can improve access to opportunities, the higher fares that accompany these services create barriers to their use. Fare-sensitive access measures require accurate estimation of fare costs between origins and destinations. They are not often included in public transit access analyses because of data limitations and modeling complexity. In this paper,
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The bias in estimating accessibility inequalities using gravity-based metrics J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Mariana Giannotti, Diego B. Tomasiello, Taina A. Bittencourt
Accessibility measures have been extensively used to explore the outcomes of the spatial distribution of transport, jobs, and population groups in cities. Despite its wide use, identifying the population groups that most benefit from accessibility is not straightforward and different metrics might result in different conclusions. The present work aims to analyze the potential bias of using gravity-based
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Does the built environment matter for active travel among older adults: Insights from Chiba City, Japan J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Yongjiang Yang, Kuniaki Sasaki, Long Cheng, Sui Tao
Demographic ageing in most countries around the world is significant. Japan, the most ageing country in the world, is expected to reach an ageing rate of over 40% by 2055. A better understanding of the daily mobility patterns of older people is fundamental for an ageing society to meet the needs of their daily life. Active travel (cycling and walking) is recognised to deliver a positive effect on physical
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Long-term commuting times and air quality relationship to COVID-19 in São Paulo J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-04-15 P.J. Pérez-Martínez, J.A. Dunck, J.V. de Assunção, P. Connerton, A.D. Slovic, H. Ribeiro, R.M. Miranda
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic is an unprecedented global health crisis and the effects may be related to environmental and socio-economic factors. In São Paulo, Brazil, the first death occurred in March 2020 and since then the numbers have grown to 175 new deaths per day in April 2021, positioning the city as the epicenter of the number of cases and deaths in Brazil. São Paulo is
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Subjectively safe cycling infrastructure: New insights for urban designs J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-04-14 Stefan Gössling, Sophia McRae
Transportation infrastructure that accommodates the needs of active mode users is an essential element of sustainable and just urban mobility transitions. Safety is a major factor influencing bicyclist behavior, and understanding how safety is perceived by traffic participants can support urban designs that will attract greater shares of active travelers. This paper evaluates the stated preferences
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Is regional accessibility undermining local accessibility? J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Cecília Silva, Marcelo Altieri
The need to improve the sustainability of daily mobility in urban areas has been high on the political agenda worldwide. One major concern has been that of the growing car dependency. The growing distance between the activities human carry out has naturally been at the root of such phenomena. Efficient transport systems and high travel speeds have enabled access to ever distant opportunities. On the
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Understanding the allocation and use of street space in areas of high people activity J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-04-11 Chris De Gruyter, Seyed Mojib Zahraee, William Young
The allocation of street space is strongly contested in many cities, particularly in areas where there is a high level of people activity. In these areas, movement and place objectives are often in conflict with one another. The allocation of street space involves a range of governance, political and ethical considerations, yet efforts to reallocate street space should also be informed by empirical
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Choice of transport in urban and periurban zones in metropolitan area J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-04-04 Saúl A. Obregón-Biosca
The choice of transport is a user decision defined by transport attributes and user characteristics. In a sprawl area in an emerging economy, the determining factors can be analyzed by considering a metropolitan area, the user residence area, the conurbation, or a periurban area. To determine the main user characteristics affecting transport choice in urban and periurban zones, the transport choice
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Free-floating e-scooter usage in urban areas: A spatiotemporal analysis J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Nicolas Foissaud, Christos Gioldasis, Shun Tamura, Zoi Christoforou, Nadir Farhi
The emergence and growing popularity of e-scooters has created the need for researchers, policy-makers and urban planners to better understand user behaviors and travel patterns. In this paper, we examine the spatiotemporal patterns of e-scooter trips in 4 European cities: Paris, Malaga, Bordeaux, and Hamburg. We use a GPS dataset which includes position coordinates crossed with the country of registration
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The unequal commuting efficiency: A visual analytics approach J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Yue Jing,Yujie Hu
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Assessing the role of geographic context in transportation mode detection from GPS data J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Avipsa Roy, Daniel Fuller, Trisalyn Nelson, Peter Kedron
The increasing availability of health monitoring devices and smartphones has created an opportunity for researchers to access high-resolution (spatial and temporal) mobility data for understanding travel behavior in cities. Although information from GPS data has been used in several studies to detect transportation modes, there is a research gap in understanding the role of geographic context in transportation
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Spatiotemporal impact of railway network in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau on accessibility and economic linkages during 1984–2030 J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Deng Gao, Shicheng Li
The socioeconomic effects of the railway network on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) received wide attention, but most studies are qualitative studies with a short period and small spatial scope. We explored the impact of the plateau railway network on the internal and external accessibility and economic linkage of the QTP during 1984–2030. The average shortest travel time (ASTT) and the weighted average