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Estimation of the aggregation degree of public transport use among elderly people based on urban built environment J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Xianchen Dou, Meiying Jian, Chen Guo, JinXin Cao
With the accelerated aging process, the increased willingness of elderly people to travel, and the concessionary bus travel policy implementation, public transport, especially buses, has become one of the important ways for China's elderly people to participate in social activities. Meanwhile, the increased use of public transport by elderly people results in serious conflicts with commuters. In order
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Slope stress criteria as a complement to traffic stress criteria, and impact on high comfort bicycle accessibility J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Peter G. Furth, Bita Sadeghinasr, Luis Miranda-Moreno
A high-comfort bike network that connects people's homes with their destinations is crucial to attracting more people to cycling. While avoiding high traffic stress is one critical dimension of comfort, another is avoiding steep climbs. In this study, we propose “Steepness Level” criteria that can complement Level of Traffic Stress criteria for evaluating bike networks, drawing from best-practice guidelines
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Income inequality and rule-systems within public transport: A study of Medellín (Colombia) and Santiago (Chile) J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Nicolás Valenzuela-Levi
The objectives of reducing income inequality and providing sustainable transport systems are part of the Sustainable Development Goals and are inter-related. On the one hand, income distribution influences transport decisions and accessibility. On the other hand, transport can be a source of redistribution by facilitating access to opportunities, and by being a target for public spending. Yet, two
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Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World, Henry Grabar, Penguin Press (May 9, 2023), p. 368, ISBN: 9781984881137. Hardcover, $30.00 USD J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Marcel E. Moran
Abstract not available
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Exploring residential dissonance from a household perspective: A gendered examination of resident characteristics in a small Chinese city J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Yang Hu, Dick Ettema
The extent individuals can choose a residential location based on their travel needs and preferences is an important topic within the realm of research on land use-transport interactions. However, little attention has been paid to the characteristics of residents who experience a dissonance between their preferred and actual residence in terms of travel preferences (i.e., residential dissonance), and
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Exploring the spatial characteristics of the human mobility network in rural settings of China's Greater Bay Area J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Zhengying Liu, Pengjun Zhao, Qiyang Liu, Yanzhe Cui, Yuan Yang, Juan Liu, Buhui Li, Jingwei Li
Human mobility is an important carrier of material flow, information flow, capital flow, and technology flow between locations. A better understanding of human mobility in rural areas could inform efforts to achieve rural revitalization. However, there have been limited evaluations of the characteristics of human mobility in rural areas. Based on human movements estimated from mobile phone data, we
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Achieving equitable outcomes through optimal design in the development of microtransit zones J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Taylor Bonner, Elise Miller-Hooks
As public transit becomes increasingly personalized with services that can dynamically adapt to demand as it is realized over the course of a day, it is important to ensure that the services are equitable and do not grow on unintended or endemic biases, or create new biases. Such biases might arise from prioritizing cost-effectiveness or system efficiency. This paper explicitly integrates equity considerations
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Do shared E-bikes reduce urban carbon emissions? J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Qiumeng Li, Franz Fuerst, Davide Luca
Under the threat of climate change, many global cities nowadays are promoting shared commuting modes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Shared electric bikes (e-bikes) are emerging modes that compete with bikes, cars, or public transit. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence for the net effect of shared e-bikes on carbon emissions, as shared e-bikes can substitute for both higher carbon emissions
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The lived experiences of women workers in Africa's transport sector: Reflections from Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-09-09 Gina Porter, Emma Murphy, Fatima Adamu, Plangsat Bitrus Dayil, Saerom Han, Claire Dungey, Bulelani Maskiti, Ariane de Lannoy, Sam Clark, Edward O'Connor, Shadi Ambrosini
This paper draws on ethnographic research conducted 2019–2022 in three quite diverse city regions - Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis - to understand women's lived experiences of work in the road transport sector. The strength of connection between male identity and motor-mobility in Africa is ubiquitous and has rarely been questioned by transport sector actors. Women are still largely absent from the story
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Investigating correlates of personal and freight road transport energy consumption: A case study of England J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Jingjing Zhao, Shahram Heydari, Michael Forrest, Alan Stevens, John Preston
In most countries worldwide, the transport sector is responsible for a large proportion of energy consumption, the emissions of which have adverse effects on the environment and human health. It is therefore important to understand the determinants of road transport energy consumption in an attempt to minimise these adverse effects. This paper examines the association which road transport energy consumption
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Adolescents' travel behavior in Germany: Investigating transport mode choice considering destination, travel distance, and urbanization J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Isabel Marzi, Franziska Beck, Eliane Engels, Denise Renninger, Yolanda Demetriou, Anne K. Reimers
This study comprehensively describes travel behavior to various destinations among adolescents from Germany aged 11–15 years and how this varies according to residential location type and adolescents' socio-demographics. Overall, more than a half of adolescents use active transport modes to reach school and non-school destinations. Prevalence of passive transport modes was higher in girls compared
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Using the transportation problem to build a congestion/threshold constrained spatial accessibility model J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Jie Lin, Gordon Cromley
As the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, congestion is an important component in access to medical care. This study expands congestion-based accessibility research by imposing upper limits on demand levels and introducing minimum demand thresholds at individual facilities using the bounded transportation problem to develop different variants of congestion/threshold constrained accessibility metrics. The
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E-commerce and logistics sprawl: A spatial exploration of last-mile logistics platforms J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-08-27 Travis Fried, Anne Goodchild
The rise of e-commerce helped fuel consumer appetite for quick home deliveries. One consequence has been the placing of some logistics facilities in proximity to denser consumer markets. The trend departs from prevailing discussion on “logistics sprawl,” or the proliferation of warehousing into the urban periphery. This study spatially and statistically explores the facility- and region-level dimensions
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Working from home and subjective wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of pre-COVID-19 commuting distance and mode choices J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-08-27 Yinhua Tao, Ana Petrović, Maarten van Ham
Working from home (WFH) was prevalent among previous daily commuters during the COVID-19 pandemic and is expected to continue in post-COVID-19 society. By using WFH enforced by the UK government during the pandemic as a real-world experiment, our study investigates the relationship between switching from commuting to WFH, and subjective wellbeing (SWB). Particular interest lies in determining the extent
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Zooming in and out on everyday mobility practices in a rural, mountainous area of Switzerland J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-08-26 Stefanie Maeder, Michael Stauffacher, Florian Knaus
To combat climate change, carbon emissions from everyday mobility must be lowered. This can be achieved by improving vehicle efficiency, shifting to low-carbon modes of transport and avoiding travel. Most of the literature focuses on shifting mobility away from cars, mainly in the context of commuting. However, mobility is embedded deeply in everyday life and is much more complex. This research tries
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How the built environment affects E-scooter sharing link flows: A machine learning approach J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Scarlett T. Jin, Lei Wang, Daniel Sui
Understanding how the built environment influences e-scooter sharing (ESS) travel behavior is essential for informing effective built environment modifications to promote ESS usage. This study introduces a novel approach by utilizing link flow data, a different type of data compared to previous studies that focused on trip origin or destination information. By incorporating route-based built environment
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The influence of job accessibility on individual labor income: Evidence for the City of Recife, Brazil J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Leandro Batista Duarte, Raul da Mota Silveira Neto, Diego Firmino Costa da Silva
Focused on the city of Recife, the fourth most densely populated state capital in Brazil, this study uses a probit model and precise and unique information about individuals' residential and job locations to estimate the effect of job accessibility on the individual probability of being a low-wage worker. To deal with the potential endogeneity of the job accessibility measure, we consider an instrumental
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A delicacy evaluation method for park walkability considering multidimensional quality heterogeneity J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Na Wu, Qingsong Tian, Mengying Cui, Mingwei He
In the post-pandemic era, park walkability plays a vital role in promoting residents' physical and mental health in all aging societies. In current walkability calculation methods, the number of indicators reflecting park quality is limited, and the data resolution is too low to capture accurate park demand patterns. Moreover, the travel impedance based on the ArcGIS network cannot reveal the impedance
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Understanding the spatio-temporally heterogeneous effects of built environment on urban travel emissions J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Chuyun Zhao, Jinjun Tang, Yu Zeng, Zhitao Li, Fan Gao
Transportation has become one of the fastest-growing fields for greenhouse gas emissions. It is important to promote the coordinated development of cities and transportation. To deeply understand the emission distribution for urban travel, this study first applies a map matching algorithm to correct the vehicle Global Positioning System (GPS) trajectories on the road network and calculates the travel
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Towards an equity-centred model of sustainable mobility: Integrating inequality and segregation challenges in the green mobility transition J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Tiit Tammaru, Andres Sevtsuk, Frank Witlox
Urban planners and transportation policy makers around the world are proposing initiatives for greener mobility, particularly by promoting higher urban development densities, active transport modes, and non-auto access to destinations. This Special Issue engages critically with the sustainable mobility and 15-Minute City concepts by outlining an Equitable Sustainable Mobility Model that integrates
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The inequality effects of public transport fare: The case of Lisbon's fare reform J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Kelli Silver, André Lopes, David Vale, Nuno Marques da Costa
Spatial segregation of social groups within cities and inadequate transport conditions are frequently pointed to as major barriers to improving urban livelihood conditions for disadvantaged groups. For that reason, accessibility measures have increasingly been used as a tool to measure inequality. However, traditional accessibility measures fail to capture both travel costs and individual characteristics
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Local modeling as a solution to the lack of stop-level ridership data J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Samuel de França Marques, Cira Souza Pitombo
Transit ridership modeling at the bus stop level is an important tool for bus network planning and transit-oriented development. However, many cities, especially in developing countries, face a lack of boarding and alighting data due to the high costs of collection. Solutions based on smartcards often rely on assumptions that negatively affect the data accuracy. Noting that previous studies suggest
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Pandemic-time bike lanes in three large Canadian urban centres- differences in use and public perception by socio-demographic groups and geographical contexts J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-08-19 Raktim Mitra, Remington Latanville, Paul M. Hess, Kevin Manaugh, Meghan Winters
The COVID-19 pandemic led to fast and ambitious implementation of bike lanes in many Canadian cities and also presented a window of opportunity to study the effects of new cycling infrastructure. While an emerging literature has focused on the use of cycling infrastructure that resulted from pandemic-time street reallocation initiatives, not much is known about the differences in the use and public
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How much is accessibility worth? Utility-based accessibility to evaluate transport policies J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Luis A. Guzman, Victor A. Cantillo-Garcia, Daniel Oviedo, Julian Arellana
There is now a long tradition of accessibility research, with an increasingly rich set of frameworks and methods from a distributional perspective. Despite such a positive outlook, many accessibility metrics deployed in research and practice do not consider (dis)utility, which may resonate more clearly with mainstream transport decision-making and planning. This paper seeks to contribute to debates
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Spatial characteristics of unpleasant cycling experiences J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Tineke de Jong, Aslak Fyhri
The relationship between cycling and spatial characteristics has focused more on push & pull factors, such as distance and time between A and B, rather than on the actual experience of cycling on the route between A and B. Several studies have examined cycling experiences, and their geospatial relations, but few have linked the two in a quantitative matter. In this paper we provide insight into urban
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Modeling joint eating-out destination choices incorporating group-level impedance: A case study of the Greater Tokyo Area J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Chenglin Han, Lichen Luo, Giancarlos Parady, Kiyoshi Takami, Makoto Chikaraishi, Noboru Harata
Individuals undertake both solo and joint activities as part of their overall activity-travel patterns. Compared to work and maintenance activities, social and leisure activities differ in that they exhibit high levels of temporal and spatial flexibility. In this study we used data from an ego-centric social networks survey in the Greater Tokyo Area and a follow-up group activity survey to estimate
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“I have mentally cancelled a lot of trips”: Trips not made by disabled people due to public transport inequity in lutruwita/Tasmania J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Lisa Stafford, Isaac Tye
Transport disadvantage continues to be experienced by disabled people of all ages. While barriers to transport have been documented, less is known about the impact and consequences of not being able to make trips because of these barriers. In this article, we share what trips are not being made and their impact on the everyday lives of 30 disabled people,1 half of which are disabled young people, from
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Measuring the dynamic accessibility to COVID-19 testing sites in the 15-min city: A focus on service congestion and mobility difference J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Yue Chen, Shunping Jia, Qi Xu, Zhongsheng Xiao, Shujing Zhang
Accessibility to essential amenities such as food and health is crucial for all individuals and is the key to realizing the goal of the 15-min city. However, so far, few studies have fully considered the service congestion of the facility and mobility difference among age groups in accessibility modeling. Here we propose the improved Three-step Floating Catchment Area (3SFCA) method that incorporates
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Accessibility and space-time differences in when and how different groups (choose to) travel J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Jean Ryan, Rafael H.M. Pereira, Magnus Andersson
A fair distribution of accessibility to key activities is a central concern for distributive justice in transport planning. This implies that disparities in accessibility and the negative effects associated with a lack of accessibility should be mitigated. However, even though accessibility is not purely spatial or static, it is conventionally treated as if it were. Several studies have significantly
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The E-Bike City as a radical shift toward zero-emission transport: Sustainable? Equitable? Desirable? J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Lukas Ballo, Lucas Meyer de Freitas, Adrian Meister, Kay W. Axhausen
This think piece discusses current barriers to the rapid decarbonization of transport and ways to overcome them. Policymakers face a set of contradictory goals, leading them to ponder only incremental measures: The need to reduce carbon emissions conflicts with accessibility improvements and the resulting induced traffic. At the same time, the prevention of urban sprawl as a means of promoting sustainable
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Bayesian spatio-temporal models for mapping urban pedestrian traffic J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-07-23 Mounia Zaouche, Nikolai W.F. Bode
Understanding the distribution of traffic in time and space over available infrastructure is a fundamental problem in transportation research. However, pedestrian activity is rarely mapped at fine resolution over large spatio-temporal scales, such as city centres, despite the fact that this information is crucial for assessing the effects of infrastructure changes, for supporting planning and policy
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What influences the location choice of establishments? An analysis considering establishment types and activities interactions J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-07-23 Ali Riahi Samani, Sabyasachee Mishra, Mihalis Golias, David J.-H. Lee
Over the years, research on firm location choice has received less attention than residential location choices. Although valuable efforts have been made to model firms' location choices, investigations on the location choice of smaller economic units (establishments) and differences between location determinants of various activities can provide better insights into the interaction between land use
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From Bełchatów to Żory: Charting Poland's geography of fare-free public transport programmes J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Daniel Štraub, Wojciech Kębłowski, Monika Maciejewska
This article explores the recent and rapid development of fare-free public transport (FFPT) in local public transport networks across Poland. The question of pricing public transport, in particular the idea of abolishing fares, is gathering increased attention among academics, policy-makers and activists. Albeit the literature on FFPT is growing, it usually examines individual cases instead of offering
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How can urban built environment (BE) influence on-road (OR) carbon emissions? A road segment scale quantification based on massive vehicle trajectory big data J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Xuezhu Cui, Caigang Zhuang, Zhenzhi Jiao, Zhangzhi Tan, Shaoying Li
Exploring the patterns of urban on-road (OR) emissions and their relationship with built environment (BE) is essential for urban planning oriented by transportation carbon emission reduction. This study quantified the road segment OR emissions with high spatial resolution by incorporating massive vehicle trajectory big data and vehicle type data in the metropolis, Shenzhen city in China. Multi-source
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Non-linear effects of built environment and socio-demographics on activity space J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Zhengyu Duan, Haoran Zhao, Zhenming Li
The activity space of residents is an important mediator for the exploration of the relationship between residents' activities and the city. In this study, one-month mobile phone data are used to study the activity space of residents from three aspects, namely the radius of the activity space, the frequency of activity, and the diversity of activities. Combined with census data and point-of-interest
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Why does demand-based transport planning persist? Insights from social practice theory J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-07-19
The need to shift to an equity-oriented transport planning has long been acknowledged, but its use in actual practice by planners and practitioners is limited. Using a dataset from the practice of transport planning in Western Visayas, Philippines, we provide more comprehensive evidence from the perspective of social practice theory for the pervasiveness of the demand-based epistemic framework on public
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Depopulation or ageing? Decomposing the aggregate effects of projected demographic changes on urban transport systems J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-07-18
Many developed and developing countries are experiencing rapid demographic changes in the form of ageing and depopulation. These processes influence many areas of the economy and are likely to affect the transport behaviours of residents and thus the development of public transport systems. In this study, we combine estimates of age-related determinants of individuals' transport behaviour with demographic
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Inequality in leisure mobility: An analysis of activity space segregation spectra in the Stockholm conurbation J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-07-18
Leisure mobility forms an important part of people's spatial activity and mobility spectrum. This study aims to analyse the inequality dimensions of spatial mobility of individuals who seek to move to recreational and leisure destinations (often ‘green’ and ‘blue’) on designated days. The study traces – through the use of spatially dependent multilevel models – the mobility patterns of people from
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E-scooter and bike-share route choice and detours: Modelling the influence of built environment and sociodemographic factors J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-07-14
Micromobility is often presented as a sustainable, affordable, and active urban transport option, in comparison to motorised modes. Understanding users routing preferences could help policymakers adapt and design facilities that attract a myriad of micromobility users. Whereas previous research largely focused solely on the built infrastructure, the ways in which sociodemographic factors affect micromobility
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The association between transit accessibility and space-time flexibility of shopping travel: On the moderating role of ICT use J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-07-14
Lower accessibility to transit services may lead to more constraints, making travel less flexible in space and time. By using information and communication technologies (ICT), travelers can obtain additional travel information on transit stations and transfer routes, possibly attenuating the negative effects of low transit accessibility on the space-time flexibility (SPF) of travel. Based on data from
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Impact of high-speed rail on income inequalities in Italy J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-07-11
This paper investigates the effects of high-speed rail (HSR) on household income inequalities in Italy at the province level. Gini index, both including and excluding rent expenses, is used as dependent variable to evaluate the effects of the policy in the timeframe 2003–2019. Two-way fixed-effects model is employed to measure the relationship, while augmented synthetic control with staggered treatment
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Expected transport accessibility improvement and house prices: Evidence from the construction of an undersea road tunnel system J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-07-09 Štěpán Mikula, Peter Molnár
This paper studies the impact of expected transport accessibility improvement on house prices. We identify the effect exploiting a quasi-natural experiment created by the approval and construction of the Ryfast tunnel system in Rogaland, Norway, which shortened the traveling time to the affected municipality from 62 to 24 min. Estimates of a repeated sales model in a difference-in-differences framework
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Accessibility of social housing by sustainable transport modes: A study in Poznań, Poland J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Adam Radzimski
Sustainable urban planning should include affordable housing and access to essential opportunities among its priorities. Residents of social housing projects are at particular risk of suffering from below-average accessibility levels. This paper proposes the concept of socially sustainable accessibility and applies it to evaluate low-income and medium-income housing projects in the city of Poznań,
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Factors influencing modal shift to bike sharing: Evidence from a travel survey conducted during COVID-19 J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-07-07 João Filipe Teixeira, Cecília Silva, Frederico Moura e Sá
With public transport (PT) systems currently heavily affected by the coronavirus pandemic, bike sharing systems (BSS) have gained a new importance as a substitute to car use in urban areas. A possible path to increase the BSS capability of replacing car trips is to understand why some car drivers are currently shifting to bike sharing. Consequently, this study analysed possible differences on the main
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Global microscale walkability ratings and rankings: A novel composite indicator for 59 European city centres J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Alexandros Bartzokas-Tsiompras, Efthimios Bakogiannis, Alexandros Nikitas
Several walkability studies have focused primarily on macro-level environmental factors. Nevertheless, previous research has shown that street-level design can also support walking. In this paper, we present a novel Microscale Walkability Index, ‘MWI’, that measures, ranks, and analyses the pedestrian-friendliness levels of 59 heterogeneous city centres in 26 European countries. We selected 26 case
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A comparative analysis of pedestrian network connectivity and accessibility using network approximation J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Emily Rose Hennessy, Chengbo Ai
Since the introduction of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), transportation stakeholders have endeavored to include compliant and accessible pedestrian facilities as a part of their roadway improvement and maintenance projects. These projects, often completed in sections, have resulted in piecemeal pedestrian networks with limited holistic ADA compliance in many areas, the full extents of which
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Inefficient allocation of paratransit service terminals and routes in Ghana: The role of driver unions and paratransit operators J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Gift Dumedah, Kabila Abass, Razak M. Gyasi, John Boulard Forkuor, Jacob Novignon
Access to public transport is widely recognized as a welfare and livelihood issue. In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), public transport is predominately paratransit which holds the largest modal share. Paratransit services are often accessed through their terminals and service routes, critical elements which directly distribute the service to populations. However, the allocation of paratransit terminals and
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Effects of ports on urban economic geography: A study based on the natural experiment of decentralization reform in China J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Jiewei Li, Xiaobing Li, Ruihua Zhu
Ports are usually regarded as hubs for resource allocation, and the identification of port impacts is still worthy of further study. Using 1998–2007 panel data on all 146 ports and 282 cities in China and a quasi-experimental empirical design involving port decentralization reform in China from 2001 to 2004, this work studies the impacts of the decentralization reform on ports and port cities with
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Going nowhere fast: Might changing activity patterns help explain falling travel? J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Eric A. Morris, Samuel Speroni, Brian D. Taylor
The inexorable rise in personal travel in the 20th century has given way to stagnation in the 21st, a phenomenon some call “peak travel.” We use 2003–2019 data from the American Time Use Survey to explore whether and why personal travel per capita has stopped growing. We show that time spent on personal travel has been dropping consistently over these years, and suggest that one important cause is
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Spatio-temporal analysis of Australia Post parcel locker use during the initial system growth phase in Queensland (2013–2017) J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Abraham Leung, Ugo Lachapelle, Matthew Burke
There has been limited understanding of parcel locker customers' usage behaviour due a lack of operational data. Using Australia Post's dataset of 51 Queensland parcel lockers, we were able to evaluate the growth in locker locations and customers' parcel collection patterns over their formative five years (2013–2017). This allows for the in-depth spatio-temporal analysis of parcel collections, parcel
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Spatial heterogeneity of urban illegal parking behavior: A geographically weighted Poisson regression approach J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Xizhen Zhou, Xueqi Ding, Jie Yan, Yanjie Ji
Understanding the spatial changes in urban illegal parking behavior is of great significance to sustainable urban parking management. At present, the imbalance between the supply and demand of urban parking in China has resulted in more and more illegal parking. Meanwhile, few studies have been conducted on the influencing factors of such behavior. Taking the city of Nanjing as an example, a geographically
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The equity of public transport crowding exposure J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-06-24 Joanne Yuh-Jye Lin, Erik Jenelius, Matej Cebecauer, Isak Rubensson, Cynthia Chen
Public transport crowding exposure is known to cause discomfort, stress and dissatisfaction. However, the distribution and equity of crowding exposure across socioeconomic groups has been largely unexplored. This paper opens a new research topic connecting crowding exposure in public transport to travelers’ socioeconomic characteristics. We present a framework for assessing the equity of in-vehicle
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Travel before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic: Exploring factors in essential travel using empirical data J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Chao Yang, Zhiyang Wan, Quan Yuan, Yang Zhou, Maopeng Sun
The COVID-19 pandemic has a significant impact on daily life, leading to quarantines and essential travel restrictions worldwide in an effort to curb the virus's spread. Despite the potential importance of essential travel, research on changes in travel patterns during the pandemic has been limited, and the concept of essential travel has not been fully explored. This paper aims to address this gap
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Moving the 15-minute city beyond the urban core: The role of accessibility and public transport in the Netherlands J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Ate Poorthuis, Matthew Zook
The 15-minute city – providing every resident's daily needs within a 15-minute walk, cycle or public transportation ride – has recently gained popularity among policy makers as a means for a more sustainable and just future. While the goal of a more equitable and sustainable city is laudable, we note that half of the world's population (still) lives in non-urban areas and thus seek to explore how the
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Are low-income residents disproportionately moving away from transit? J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Jeff Allen, Christopher D. Higgins, Daniel Silver, Steven Farber
Low-income residents are often reliant on public transit for daily travel. In North American cities, they have also historically concentrated in centrally located neighbourhoods with relatively higher levels of transit accessibility. However, during the late 20th and early 21st century, regions have witnessed trends of inner-city neighbourhood change and gentrification and the suburbanization of poverty
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Multi-scale moderation impacts of jobs and housing balancing on sustainable commuting behavior in Seoul J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Hyungun Sung
Balancing jobs and housing (JH) can induce sustainable travel behavior, reducing dependence on private cars for commuting. Many studies have explored the possibility of either the multi-scale of place or the multi-level of people for examining the impact of JH balancing on sustainable commuting behavior. However, limited studies have focused on both the impact of the combined probability of mode choice
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Understanding driverless car adoption: Random parameters ordered probit model for Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-06-16 Asif Faisal, Tan Yigitcanlar, Alexander Paz
With advanced policy and technology support, driverless cars are expected to be a reality on Australian roads in next 5–10 years. The pace at which driverless cars emerge as a mainstream travel mode greatly depends on public adoption and acceptance; this is likely to be based on multiple factors. The impact these factors may have on various adoption time horizons, however, is rarely discussed in contemporary
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Built environment interventions for emission mitigation: A machine learning analysis of travel-related CO2 in a developing city J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-06-18 Qifan Shao, Wenjia Zhang, Xinyu (Jason) Cao, Jiawen Yang
The transport sector accounts for more than one-fifth of global CO2 emissions. Reducing fossil fuel consumption and travel-related CO2 emissions (TCE) is a major approach to mitigating global climate change. Urban planners worldwide propose to promote low-carbon travel by changing the built environment. Therefore, understanding the relationships between built environment variables and TCE is key to
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“I just don't go nowhere:” How transportation disadvantage reinforces social exclusion J. Transp. Geogr. (IF 5.899) Pub Date : 2023-06-18 Chandra Ward, Darrell Walsh
Building on Blumenberg and Agrawal's (2014) study of the transportation survival strategies employed by low-income people, this study finds that not only do transit disadvantaged individuals employ adaptive strategies for living without reliable personal transportation, but that these strategies may work to reinforce their social exclusion and marginalization, locking them out of opportunities that