The local structure has a decisive impact on the structural resilience of the Global Crude Oil Maritime Transportation Network (GCOMTN). However, existing studies ignore the significant local characteristics of ports that arise from the unique transport patterns of crude oil tankers. In this study, we construct the GCOMTN using AIS data of crude oil tankers from 2020 and develop a framework for assessing

The Red Sea crisis and the recent attacks on commercial ships have drawn significant attention worldwide, underscoring the need to understand how such geopolitical conflicts can disrupt global supply chains and economic stability. This paper thoroughly examines the complex impacts of the crisis on India's electronics and photonics sector, recognizing the sector's crucial importance as a fundamental

COVID-19 has a great impact on the volume and frequency of air transportation. To minimise the transmission risk, civil aviation authorities imposed travel restrictions and led to changes of the global and regional air traffic network (ATN). Considering the potential for future similar propagable events that may challenge the operation of the ATN again, it is crucial to develop more efficient air route

Daily mobility in the city of Santiago de Cuba relies almost entirely on public transport (PT) and walking, making it one of the least carbon-intensive urban transport systems globally. Nevertheless, the local PT network faces numerous challenges. Material scarcity, which has persisted since the 1990s, has intensified in the last five years due to the tightening US-imposed embargos, recurring oil shortages

Cities have established public transit infrastructures to provide equitable services to every citizen at a low cost, thus minimizing traffic congestion. Public transportation facilities, including bus stops, urban railway stations, and terminals, provide physical convenience to passengers. Considering economic efficiency, the location selection of public transport facilities causes an imbalance in

Understanding how the built environment influences electric vehicle (EV) adoption is critical for EV-related investment decisions and policy-making, but the influence of built infrastructure and regional context on encouraging EV adoption and preparing infrastructure for EVs is less understood. To address this fundamental gap, we rigorously analyzed US EV sales data from 2012 to 2019, using state-of-the

The paper seeks to adapt methods of national and regional beta and sigma convergence from socio-economic sciences to a spatial framework. The process of reducing disparities in accessibility levels is commonly linked with the concept of territorial cohesion. We dynamically explore this concept by integrating economic terminology and applying it within a spatial context. This is accomplished through

This paper presents an insightful journey into understanding how travellers in the Northeast England perceive and interact with both conventional and emerging automated bus services. Employing a comprehensive methodology, our research scrutinizes data collected from 417 regional respondents via online questionnaires, integrating a blend of quantitative, qualitative, and spatial data points. This approach

Previous studies often overlook nonlinear relationships between built environment characteristics and travel satisfaction, and few examine the interaction effects of these characteristics on travel satisfaction. Using gradient boosting decision trees on a dataset of 1167 respondents collected from Harbin, China, in 2021, we estimated the nonlinear and interaction effects of built environment characteristics

Transit-oriented development encourages metropolises to alleviate jobs-housing separation (JHS) by optimizing the built environment (BE). Researchers have found that BE exerts different effects on home- and work-oriented JHS, but their statistical models ignored the nonlinear and spatially nonstationary features of the relationship. In this study, we collected location-based service data to identify

Commuting is commonly perceived as a burdensome aspect of daily life, with adverse effects on individuals' physical and mental well-being and social interactions. Existing “search theory” suggests that people make decisions about job searches and home relocations by weighing the costs of commuting against the potential benefits, such as increased income and improved living conditions. However, few

While the externalities of urban size on regional transportation infrastructure effects have been extensively discussed, the role of urban administrative power has received comparatively less scholarly attention. This study delves into the impact of high-speed rail (HSR) development on urban industrial upgrading and regional development, focusing on both economic and administrative externalities. By

The relationship between women's everyday lived travel experiences as daily commuters and their employment history and potential has not been adequately researched and documented in African contexts. This multidisciplinary study, utilising an innovative action research methodology, compares experiences of young women (18-35y) resident in low-income neighbourhoods of three diverse African cities - Abuja

TOD-ness, defined as the extent to which the existing conditions of TOD sites align with established TOD standards, has been shown in previous studies to have a significant correlation with metro station ridership. This paper utilizes the LightGBM model to investigate the relationship between TOD-ness and the “early recovery” of metro station ridership following the lifting of COVID-19 control measures

Ride-hailing services offer practical solutions for addressing “first- and last-mile” connectivity challenges at metro stations. While previous research has explored the spatiotemporal patterns of metro station-based ride-hailing ridership (MBRR) on weekdays and weekends, it has largely overlooked the unique dynamics of holiday periods. Furthermore, the influence of the built environment on first-mile

Passively generated mobile data has increasingly become a crucial source for studying human mobility; however, research addressing potential biases within these datasets remains scarce. This study delves into the critical issue of inherent biases in mobile data, a resource that has transformed the study of human mobility. Using a well-established mobile dataset, we analyze biases in 11 diverse metropolitan

Liquefied natural gas (LNG), as a transitional fossil fuel, plays a vital role in the modern energy transition process. In the context of the Russia–Ukraine geopolitical conflict, studying the evolution pattern and mechanisms of LNG trade networks is crucial for maintaining global energy security, particularly for countries relying on LNG imports. The study is based on multisource big data from 2021

The Phenomenological approach of the research addresses the micro problems of visually impaired individuals regarding wayfinding in a familiar large-scale environment. The paper’s main objective is to understand how a large-scale urban context becomes familiar to a visually impaired individual. Also, it explores the impact of environmental cognition on enhancing visually impaired individuals’ spatial

High-speed rail (HSR) stations, as a crucial connectivity node within a city, can effectively serve the population in the city and stimulate economic growth. Therefore, there is an urgent need to enhance the accessibility of HSR stations to various areas within the city. Despite this, most research tends to focus on local and regional transportation stations, with a lack of research on the accessibility

OpenStreetMap (OSM) data is a valuable open-source resource for various transportation, traffic, and planning applications. However, OSM network data lack operating traffic speed information, which is critical for transport planning and operations. Addressing this shortcoming, this study leverages commercial vendor data (to serve as ground truth) with exogenous, open-source variables characterizing

Several social distancing measures were adopted during the pandemic (including curfews and mandatory telework) that resulted in substantial changes in travel patterns. Although several studies show that telework does not reduce travel, empirical evidence has been mixed. This work aims to study how telework adoption impacts the number of trips by mode in different metropolitan areas during the later

Bus transport, characterized by a complex network of routes and stops, frequently experiences delays that can affect the entire system's reliability, passenger satisfaction, and operational efficiency. Existing research on bus delay propagation predominantly focuses on the route level. They lack a broader network-level perspective, which is essential for fully understanding the complex interactions

The improvement of active travel would contribute to increasing the minimum rate of physical activity; thus, improving public health. Although the importance of social and physical factors in promoting active travel has been highlighted, there have been few studies on how both simultaneously affect active travel, especially in South America. Furthermore, there is a lack of studies on subjective well-being

Shipping activities emit pollutants such as NOX, SOX, and PM, which are detrimental to air quality and to the health of local residents. As one of the major shipping nations, China's population and port-related industries concentrate in coastal areas. However, an interesting phenomenon is that the average life expectancy of coastal port cities in China has not significantly decreased in the past few

Developing safe and efficient cycling networks is a vital part of creating more bike-friendly and, thus, more sustainable communities. To promote cycling effectively, continuously improving and expanding the cycling network is important. Yet, understanding and measuring the impact of newly developed cycling infrastructure is not always a straightforward task, which is often performed using limited-scope

The predominant mode of public transport in South Africa originates from the informal sector, specifically “paratransit”. Vehicles carry up to 23 passengers and are still propelled by internal combustion engines. We investigate the feasibility of using electric vehicles without negating the loss of opportunities by drivers and owners. We propose that scheduling of the electric vehicles is one important

Accessibility, the ease of interacting with potential opportunities, is an increasingly important tool among transport planners aiming to foster equitable and sustainable cities. However, in accessibility research there is a historical focus on employment destinations that is shaped by a masculinist transportation planning tradition. This paper aims to counter this gendered bias by connecting the Mobility

This article evaluates the distance-decay functions of regional centres in the Czech Republic based on mobile phone location data. Therefore, it expands on what is known about the influence of regional centres where mobile phone location data enables many new parameters to be evaluated. The temporality of people flows can be distinguished, the examined flows can be divided into daily and weekend flows

In line with scholarly and practitioner efforts to encourage and facilitate sustainable mobility by reducing dependence on private cars, this study aims to better understand voluntarily carless families. In particular, it focuses on two questions. First, what motivates voluntarily carless households? Second, what personal practices facilitate carless family mobility? Focusing on outliers, in this case

This study examines the spatial dynamics of warehouse location choice and the interplay between e-commerce, logistics businesses, and supply chain entities in three major urban areas in Texas: Houston, Austin, and Dallas-Fort Worth. We investigate the key factors influencing warehouse selection while accounting for spatial spillover effects (i.e., co-locational relationships), using data from 2003

Spatial and temporal coordination of air-high speed rail (HSR) intermodal networks is important to reduce emission, improve service, enhance efficiency, and reduce costs in the provision of air-HSR integration. This paper constructs a hierarchical optimisation model that first considers a spatial scope to solve the problem of route allocation and frequency choice which minimises total environmental

Recent discussions on public transport as public space are particularly relevant in transit-oriented cities, where urban design profoundly shapes connectivity and pedestrian flow. Strategies such as destination consolidation, node manipulation, and privatized infrastructure, including walkways and transit systems, significantly influence these patterns. Assimilating ideas from nudge and practice theories

Assessing the coverage of metro stations is crucial for evaluating and guiding metro construction. Existing methods mainly rely on surveys to obtain the coverage radii by fitting the first-mile distance distribution of metro passengers, which is costly and time-consuming to capture the spatiotemporal heterogeneity at the urban scale. Daily generated multi-source mobility data offers the possibility

Origin-Destination (OD) flow, as an abstract representation of the object's movement or interaction, has been used to reveal the movement patterns of human activities and the coupling process of the human-land system. As a developing spatial analysis method, OD flow clustering can be used to identify the dominant trends and spatial structures of urban mobility. However, urban flow exhibits universal

Considering child pedestrian safety is increasingly recognized as a critical social concern, this study investigates the patterns and potential risk factors associated with child pedestrian crashes in Seoul, Korea, specifically during after-school hours, which have received relatively little attention. Spatiotemporal patterns of child pedestrian crashes and their daily activity patterns were examined

Studies concerning the location choices of enterprises are predominantly focus on manufacturing enterprises, with limited attention given to service enterprises. This paper examines Beijing, whose services account for more than 80 % of GDP, to ascertain whether enhanced accessibility through the expansion of subway network facilitates new service enterprises to capitalize on agglomeration economies

This research delves into the intricate spatial interplay between the siting of urban warehouses and accessibility within Fortaleza, Brazil, employing Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression (MGWR) across varied Basic Spatial Units (BSUs). It unveils a nuanced relationship between the density of warehouses and accessibility, marked by significant variations across BSUs. The findings highlight

Our study uncovers the causal link between railway expansions in Tokyo and a significant increase in the number of university graduates and high-skilled workers, with the effects being notably more pronounced in areas initially having lower proportions of those groups. We examine the mechanisms behind this phenomenon by (1) demonstrating how railway expansions attract university graduates and high-skilled

Spatial imbalances in metro ridership significantly reduce the overall efficiency of metro system. Understanding the factors that contribute to metro ridership is essential for developing targeted strategies to improve ridership equity and overall system performance. This study introduces novel spatial dependency indices based on spatial weight matrices and land-use function complementarity to explore

This study examines the dynamic relationship between active mobility and public transport among university students, focusing on how this interaction varies based on home-campus distance. Using sequential and randomized tree-based ensemble machine learning models and interpretation techniques on survey data, we uncover nuanced patterns in behavior regarding the choice of transport modes for commuting

This study evaluates the competitiveness of Brazilian maritime container cabotage within a multimodal transportation super network, employing an adapted All Pairs Shortest Path (APSP) algorithm to solve the All Pairs Minimum Cost Path problem. The research analyzes cost structures, environmental impacts, and operational efficiencies across 637 cities, 18 container terminals, 8 barge terminals, and

In recent years, the 15-minute city has gained prominence as a vision for urban development, aiming to create attractive and vibrant neighborhoods where essential services are within a 15-minute walk. However, its implementation raises concerns about socio-spatial segregation, as the potential increase in desirability of these neighborhoods—combined with various underlying factors—can lead to increased

The concept of ‘distance decay’ curves is used in spatial interaction and accessibility analysis to represent the diminishing likelihood of visiting places with increasing travel impedance, mainly distance and travel time. The shape of the resulting impedance decay curves varies by several factors, but these influential factors are often dismissed in favor of just travel mode. In this study, we examine

Establishing a charging network is critical to support vehicle electrification. Determining the ideal locations of charging stations can be challenging due to conflicting stakeholder constraints. This study aims to identify the optimal number of on-route charging locations that can support the projected maximum charging demand of long-haul electric vehicles (LHEVs) in the Canadian province of Ontario

Transit ridership has long been studied, and the findings are elucidated by Taylor and Fink (2003) when they say, “to sum, transit ridership is largely, though not completely, a product of factors outside the control of transit managers.” Other than transit fare price, few studies have looked with much scrutiny at the factors that are within the purview of transit agencies. Transit service provision

The generation of daily activity patterns (DAPs) has gained considerable attention due to its capacity to capture the interdependencies among activities and underlying behavioural dynamics. Existing clustering methods often face limitations related to the aggregation of heterogeneous DAPs, leading to reduction in prediction accuracy. This study presents a novel hybrid approach that integrates “direct

Urban supply chain efficiency relies heavily on the location of logistics facilities in metropolitan areas and their proximity to the receivers of goods. This research uses centro-graphic metrics and spatial statistics to research the behavior of warehouses in the Greater Golden Horseshoe Area in Canada in the last decade. The research reported in this paper has four main results. First, it identifies

The impact of traffic on air quality has prompted many cities to implement policies such as driving and parking restrictions, congestion fees, or investing in public transport infrastructure. This paper focuses on the effects on pollution levels of a new cable car system in Mexico City, a very polluted megalopoly. This cable car system provides transportation to historically marginalized communities

Providing diverse modes of travel facilitates people's access to jobs, healthcare, critical activities, and other services. To assess the equity of access to transportation services, it is essential to consider different travel modes. In this study, we propose a concept called “multi-modal deserts” and develop an approach to identify them. Multi-modal deserts refer to areas with limited mobility options

Using data from Southern California, we examine the idea that rising housing prices in transit-rich neighborhoods contributed to pre-COVID declines in transit use. We merge ridership data from the Los Angeles region’s two largest transit providers with tract-level Census data on housing costs and other socioeconomic attributes. We show descriptively that a small share of Census tracts account for a

Newly constructed transport infrastructure may have varying socioeconomic effects across cities and regions. This study employs a spatial equilibrium model to examine how the development of expressways and high-speed rails (HSRs) may induce changes in employed residents, housing rents, and consumer surplus within China's Yangtze River Delta region. Empirical findings indicate limited effects of transport

Before 2018, Saudi Arabia was the only country that enshrined a legal prohibition on women driving. However, little has been done to empirically investigate the associations between female commute cost and labor supply before the driving ban was lifted. This is largely due to the data scarcity on disaggregated-level female mobility patterns and travel behaviors. To fill the gap, this study deployed

This study investigates the geographic and annual variations in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and fuel consumption generated by private vehicles across Australia's regions over an 18-year period (2002 to 2020). We examine the influence of vehicle numbers, geography, and time on emissions and fuel consumption using spatial analysis alongside panel regression. Emissions remain relatively high in North

Transportation economics studies show that the activity density, in particular, employment density, is influenced by availability and quality of transportation infrastructure and services, including public transit. These studies also show that businesses and economic activities may have unique requirements, preferences, and characteristics, which may lead to varying effect of transportation on different

In this paper we use complex network analysis to describe fossil fuel spatial flows among 132 places covering the entire United States in 2017 and in 2022. These spatial flows are for crude petroleum, gasoline, and oil fuels. The analysis shows that all three fuels have different network topology. For all six networks we find major hubs of crude petroleum and its products, gasoline and fuel oils, concentrated

Empirical studies of logistics location choice have largely focused on logistics as a single sector. This research attempts to address this research gap by analysing the heterogeneity in locational preferences of logistics across facility types and sizes. We estimate a multinomial logistic regression model to study the relative impact of various spatial drivers on logistics development in the Netherlands

Over the past two decades, the Canadian Arctic has experienced a marked reduction in sea ice extent, coinciding with a significant rise in ship traffic. This study explores the relationship between ship traffic, shipping accidents, accident rates, and diminishing sea ice from 1990 to 2022 during the shipping season. The findings reveal that ship traffic has increased substantially along major Arctic

Often promoted by planning and transportation authorities as one of the principal ways to reduce the impact of mobility on transportation gas emissions, carpooling practices have increased over recent decades for daily commuting as well as long-distance travel. However, mainly due to the lack of data, little is known about the geography of these trips. On the one hand, the intensity of supply and demand

The street environment correlates with perceived activity opportunities for older adults. While numerous studies have examined the transportation and social attributes of street environments, the natural attributes have been less explored. Furthermore, the nonlinear relationship between the street environment and perceived activity opportunities across different spatial scales remains under-researched