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{"title":"Exploring the future of Mobility as a Service (MaaS): A co-design approach to scenario planning in European cities","authors":"Valeria Caiati ,&nbsp;Soora Rasouli ,&nbsp;Helber López","doi":"10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100133","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100133","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article contributes to the discourse on Mobility as a Service (MaaS) by presenting four plausible scenarios for its development in Europe up to 2030. Unlike previous scenario studies, which often relied on desk research or focused on narrow contexts, this study employs a co-design methodology that involved interdisciplinary experts from both public and private sectors across Europe. Their perspectives are integrated throughout the process, from identifying key uncertainties to building the scenario narratives. This approach supports a comprehensive understanding of the challenges and opportunities shaping MaaS futures. The four resulting scenarios (i.e. <em>Mobility Walled Garden, Open Data Power in Standby, Everyone on Their Own</em>, and <em>Open Ecosystem</em>) reflect how different configurations of market competition and API openness shape the trajectory of MaaS. While open standards and interoperability emerge as key enablers, their impact depends on the presence of supportive governance and institutional coordination. Imbalances, such as strong data frameworks without market diversity, or open competition with fragmented and poorly coordinated services, can weaken long-term system resilience. The scenario framework offers a structured lens for anticipating these tensions and guiding strategic decisions in MaaS development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100852,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Mobility","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100133"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144297024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reshaping transit-oriented development to enhance sociocultural harmonization in the context of Qatar","authors":"Sara Nafi,&nbsp;Djamel Ouahrani","doi":"10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100132","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100132","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The widespread adoption of Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) often presents a one-size-fits-all approach that utilizes Western planning concepts, which questions its compatibility for diverse sociocultural and climatic contexts. While Peter Calthorpe formally introduced the TOD model in the early 1990s, many of its core principles have long existed in what is known as the \"Traditional City Model.\" Though, the relationship between these two approaches has not been investigated. This study examines the adaptability of TOD principles in Doha, the capital city of Qatar, a rapidly urbanized city suffering from significant challenges, such as heavy car dependence, limited pedestrian access, and lack of public transportation and land use integration. In addition to the \"last mile\" issue, it is showing difficulties for residents to reach their final destinations from transit hubs. The paper utilized both qualitative and quantitative methods including: (I) comparative analysis of traditional city and TOD model elements, (II) neighborhood perceptions and travel preferences survey, and (II) spatial analysis of TOD potential. Data were gathered from the Qatar Ministry of Transport (MOT), the Qatar Ministry of Municipality (MME), and Qatar Rail. Finaly, this paper proposed an area specific TOD policy that suits the Qatari context and consider the climatic resilience.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100852,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Mobility","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100132"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144270123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Hierarchy of Cycling Needs: Modeling the self-assessed propensity to bicycle","authors":"Rosa Félix ,&nbsp;Filipe Moura ,&nbsp;Kelly J. Clifton","doi":"10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100130","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100130","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As car dependent cities desire a transition to more sustainable and healthful transportation systems, they need guidance on how to support the adoption of cycling. In this research we measure and model the key factors that lead to a progressive behavioral change towards cycling, using Lisbon as the case study. Based on stated responses from a survey (n = 1079), sub-groups of potential cyclists were identified based on sociodemographic information, cycling experience, and their self-assessed willingness to adopt bicycling. Three binary logit models were calibrated to model the probability to shift between behavior-change stages: from “Pessimist” to “Optimist”, then to “Enthusiast”, and, finally, to “Cyclist”. Results suggest that cycling infrastructure and equipment have a greater effect during the earlier stages of change, while facilities and practical needs have more impact during the middle stages. Finally, the individual’s social network and personal concerns and attitudes are crucial for the final push towards changing behavior and taking-up cycling. Based upon these results, a Pyramid of Cycling Needs is proposed, summarizing the hierarchy of needs to cycling. This framework informs which interventions and policies can have the greatest impact at each different stage of the transition to bicycling, and thus, raise cycling levels if those needs are made redundant. This research is a contribution towards understanding of how a city may transition to a higher cycling maturity level, by adopting an approach of targeted policies to different population groups who are willing to bicycle but have different needs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100852,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Mobility","volume":"7 ","pages":"Article 100130"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144280661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Too close for cycling comfort? Social and physical contributors to subjective cycling safety in the context of overtaking: Results from a mixed-methods study combining data from OpenBikeSensors, the SimRa app, and qualitative interviews","authors":"Jennifer Bosen,&nbsp;Annika Herberg,&nbsp;Carmella Pfaffenbach,&nbsp;Carmen Leicht-Scholten","doi":"10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100123","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100123","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cycling is a central component of the mobility transition towards a sustainable mobility culture. While existing research on cycling largely focuses on transport infrastructure, the influence of subjective safety as a key factor in the decision to cycle remains understudied.</div><div>This study contributes to the growing body of research on subjective safety in cycling, presenting findings from an explorative, mixed-methods, inter- and transdisciplinary examination of subjective safety in the context of overtaking of cyclists in Aachen, Germany. Ten participants (gender-balanced, non-disabled, white, German, with a mix of ages, household sizes, and care responsibilities), were equipped with OpenBikeSensors (OBS) and the SimRa (German acronym for ‘safety in bicycle traffic’) app to measure overtaking distances and track incidents such as near misses. The individual OBS and SimRa data maps were then used as prompts in problem-centred qualitative interviews, which were analysed following qualitative content analysis and contextualised with the OBS and SimRa data.</div><div>Results show that factors contributing to subjective cycling safety are highly individualised and multifaceted. Beyond physical vulnerability, subjective cycling safety includes factors of social vulnerability. The mitigation of factors contributing to subjective safety can be a route to cycling resilience and cycling agency. Planning for a cycling-friendly mobility culture requires addressing aspects related to transport equity and inclusion, particularly in relation to social vulnerability, in order to improve subjective cycling safety. Inter- and transdisciplinary collaborations, and mixed-method analyses, can generate scientific results to support and inform policy and practice, ultimately increasing the relevance of research results for sustainable transport planning.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100852,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Mobility","volume":"7 ","pages":"Article 100123"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144223532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Corrigendum to “Autonomous delivery robots: differences in consumer´s acceptance in the USA, Europe, and Asia” [Journal of Urban Mobility, Volume 7 (2025), 100110]","authors":"Mariana Montero-Vega ,&nbsp;Miquel Estrada ,&nbsp;Matthieu Prouvier ,&nbsp;Alexander Siebeneich","doi":"10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100129","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100129","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100852,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Mobility","volume":"7 ","pages":"Article 100129"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144212928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Identifying optimal locations for street experiments: A digital case study in Bologna","authors":"Corneel Casier ,&nbsp;Lennert Verhulst ,&nbsp;Giovanni Lanza ,&nbsp;Maria José Zúñiga Solórzano ,&nbsp;Ulrike Jehle ,&nbsp;Paola Pucci ,&nbsp;Benjamin Büttner ,&nbsp;Frank Witlox","doi":"10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100131","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100131","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines the integration of digital urban planning tools to identify optimal locations for street experiments, considering multiple parameters. A detailed case study in Bologna, Italy, demonstrates the effective use of three primary digital tools: (i) in-depth accessibility analysis, (ii) GIS walkability mapping, and (iii) comprehensive traffic forecasting. Together, these tools strategically identify optimal spots for transformative street experiments. The study outlines the methodology, highlighting specific parameters used to evaluate the urban landscape. This approach demonstrates how digital tools can revolutionize traditional urban planning, offering precise measurements and insightful visualizations of potential outcomes. The Bologna case study vividly illustrates the transformative power of digital technologies in creating pedestrian and cyclist-friendly environments and their crucial role in future urban development. By harnessing digital innovation, cities can achieve sustainable transformations that enhance residents' well-being and quality of life. Ultimately, this research emphasizes the pivotal role of digital innovation in driving sustainable urban development, fostering inclusivity, accessibility, liveability and overall urban vitality.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100852,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Mobility","volume":"7 ","pages":"Article 100131"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144168851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Uncovering distinct public transport user profiles and the factors influencing the users’ intentions","authors":"Willy Kriswardhana ,&nbsp;Karzan Ismael ,&nbsp;Szabolcs Duleba ,&nbsp;Domokos Esztergár-Kiss","doi":"10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100127","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100127","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Given the escalating environmental challenges, it is clear that the approach to the usage of public transport (PT) must be reconsidered. Loyal PT users help attract other travelers through positive recommendations, this drives interest in exploring the relationships between service quality, satisfaction, and loyalty. Although these relationships in the PT context have been studied, there have been limited efforts to explore the variability of their effects. Therefore, this research explores how service quality, satisfaction, involvement, and prior knowledge influence the behavioral intentions to use PT across various traveler groups. The hypotheses are tested by using multi-group analysis in the structural equation modeling framework, and three user profiles are revealed by applying the latent class cluster analysis. The results indicate that involvement strongly influences the behavioral intentions, while satisfaction impacts the intentions solely when involvement acts as a moderator. Class-specific results indicate that younger females living outside the city center put greater emphasis on service quality improvements for their satisfaction and involvement in PT services compared to males and older individuals residing in the city center. Low-income students living in the city center are more likely to use PT if they feel confident how to use the service. The results are relevant for PT operators and related stakeholders in maintaining travelers’ loyalty.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100852,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Mobility","volume":"7 ","pages":"Article 100127"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144146717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Predicting active travel durations in Tehran: A multilayer perceptron approach","authors":"Meysam Rezaei ,&nbsp;Ali Soltani ,&nbsp;Hamed Najafi Kashkooli","doi":"10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100126","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100126","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the impact of built environment factors (BEFs) on active travel (walking and cycling) habits in Tehran, Iran, aiming to reduce car dependency and promote sustainable urban transportation. Utilizing data from the Transport, Health, and Environment Survey (THES), the study employs Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) models to analyze how walkability, cyclability, destination accessibility, and land use density influence the duration and frequency of walking and cycling trips across different purposes: shopping, recreational, cultural, and work-related travel. Key findings reveal that walkability and destination accessibility significantly influence walking trip durations, while cyclability and land use density strongly impact cycling trip durations, particularly for retail and leisure activities. Sensitivity analysis demonstrates that even minor improvements (5–20 %) in perceived BEFs can lead to substantial increases in active travel durations. These findings underscore the critical role of urban planning in promoting sustainable transportation, emphasizing the need for policies that enhance walkability, cycling infrastructure, and accessible land use planning to encourage active travel and reduce car dependency in urban areas.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100852,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Mobility","volume":"7 ","pages":"Article 100126"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144146735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Integrated consideration of the social and ecological dimension of the mobility transition: barriers to using sustainable transport systems by people at risk of poverty","authors":"Franziska Henkel,&nbsp;Alena Fischer,&nbsp;Carsten Sommer","doi":"10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100124","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100124","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The aim of the mobility transition is to significantly transform the transport system from both an ecological and a social point of view and thus to make it ecologically and socially just. Everyone and especially vulnerable groups, such as people on low incomes, should benefit from the mobility transition. Despite very limited financial resources, people often finance a private car and save money in other relevant areas of their life, such as food. Switching to cost-effective sustainable transport systems would therefore have a high individual benefit for people at risk of poverty in addition to the social benefit. Two quantitative surveys with achieved sample sizes of 1031 participants and 420 participants were conducted in the Hanover Region in order to analyse the barriers to using sustainable transport systems by people at risk of poverty. The key results show that these barriers differ greatly between different groups of people and different types of households. The barriers to using public transport are significantly higher in households with children at risk of poverty than in other households at risk of poverty. The attitude of people at risk of poverty towards public transport is worse than towards driving, cycling and walking. This is why public transport is not their preferred means of transport. Regarding the use of bicycles, the main barriers for people at risk of poverty are skills and resources rather than their attitude towards cycling.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100852,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Mobility","volume":"7 ","pages":"Article 100124"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143948081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Data-driven vertiport siting: A comparative analysis of clustering methods for Urban Air Mobility","authors":"Tao Guo,&nbsp;Hao Wu,&nbsp;Shahriar Iqbal Zame,&nbsp;Constantinos Antoniou","doi":"10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100117","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100117","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban Air Mobility (UAM) has emerged as a promising solution to enhance metropolitan urban mobility. A critical determinant of UAM’s success is vertiport siting, which directly influences accessibility and travel time benefits. However, existing research lacks a evaluation of different data-driven clustering approaches for vertiport placement. This study systematically compares six clustering-based vertiport allocation strategies against an expert-defined benchmark (OBUAM) in the Munich Metropolitan Region (Ploetner et al., 2020). More specifically, the travel time efficiency improvements, accessibility enhancements, and transport equity impacts are assessed across different allocation scenarios. Results indicate that clustering-based siting significantly outperforms expert-defined siting in all the three perspectives. Notably, the K-means++ approach achieves the highest travel time saving (10.05%), accessibility gains (7.16%) and the lowest Gini coefficient (0.512), demonstrating its advantages in planing vertiport locations. The inferiority of DBSCAN, OBUAM and MS scenarios reveals that neither concentrating vertiports excessively in urban centers nor distributing them too evenly across the region optimizes transport efficiency. All clustering-based methods offer a practical, data-driven alternative that does not rely on domain expertise or excessive computational resources, making them easily adaptable for real-world UAM planning. Sensitivity analyses further explore the influence of key parameters on the indicators. Findings highlight that reducing pre-flight time has a more significant impact on travel time saving, accessibility and equity than increasing UAM cruise speed, while higher fares significantly disproportionately reduce accessibility benefits and equality.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100852,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Mobility","volume":"7 ","pages":"Article 100117"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143937179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}