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{"title":"Autonomous delivery robots: differences in consumer´s acceptance in the USA, Europe, and Asia","authors":"Mariana Montero-Vega ,&nbsp;Miquel Estrada ,&nbsp;Matthieu Prouvier ,&nbsp;Alexander Siebeneich","doi":"10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100110","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100110","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Recent advancements in autonomous delivery robots have the potential to transform the current paradigm of urban freight transport, lowering operational costs and improving reliability and safety. However, there is limited information on how users across the world will perceive these upcoming solutions. The study aims to pinpoint the key features influencing current users and future users of autonomous delivery robots. It employs two statistical models based on a field study of 1344 e-commerce customers across Europe, Asia, and the USA to explain these characteristics.</div><div>An ordered logit model combines data from all three continents to give insights into the factors influencing global current demand for autonomous delivery robots. Additionally, three independent structural equation models, each focusing on a specific region were employed to analyze future demand, facilitating a comparison of key variables influencing potential usage across regions.</div><div>Individuals already familiar with ADR technology tend to show greater acceptance, influenced by factors such as its design, perceived environmental benefits in urban settings, and overall trust and good perception toward the technology. Across the three surveyed regions, ease of use consistently emerges as a shared priority. However, in Europe and the USA, cost considerations and the perceived risks associated with technology competence play a more significant role, while social influences strongly impact adoption in Europe and Asia.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100852,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Mobility","volume":"7 ","pages":"Article 100110"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143734599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘Talk the Walk’: The co-design of socially sustainable mobility solutions in informal settlements","authors":"Karen Lucas ,&nbsp;Winnie Mitullah ,&nbsp;Sharmin Nasrin ,&nbsp;Farzana Rahman ,&nbsp;Romanus Opiyo ,&nbsp;Emma Tsoneva","doi":"10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100112","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100112","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Walking is globally acknowledged as a primary form of active mobility for health promotion and social wellbeing, and for climate change mitigation. This paper offers alternative perspectives on walking within informal settlements based on collaborative participatory research with the residents of two low-income urban settlements in Dhaka, Bangladesh and Nairobi, Kenya. The methodology was designed to capture participants’ everyday mobility experiences and to explore how these affect their livelihoods and daily activities. It identifies that walking facilities within settlements and connections with the formal city are unanimously described as inadequate and unsafe by residents, with unpaved roads and footpaths, and temporarily built bridges. Footpaths obstructed by waste and inadequate drainage ditches intensify these poor walking environments during rainy seasons when flooding makes walking almost impossible. As such, walking is seen as the option of least choice by these walking-dependent communities, to be replaced by motorised travel wherever it can be afforded, which is a direct challenge to sustainable urban mobility objectives.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100852,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Mobility","volume":"7 ","pages":"Article 100112"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143734600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bike lanes’ impacts on bike sharing system usage: From citywide to road-specific exploration of bike trips","authors":"Jie-Yu Li ,&nbsp;Pi-Cheng Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100113","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100113","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Bike lane construction, a promising sustainable transport strategy, has the potential to significantly increase ridership and reduce the reliance on private vehicles in cities. While many studies analyze citywide statistical trends, few explore the effects of different bike lanes and examine the nuanced impacts of lane-specific designs and configurations. This study aims to provide an applicable approach for other future studies to analyze local situations in different cities. So, this study addresses that gap by using both one citywide and three road-specific analyses to evaluate six bike lanes in Taipei City. The findings reveal that three lanes exhibited significant post-construction trip increases, while the remaining three did not. The findings also reveal that bike trips on longer and wider lanes may demonstrate substantial increases in ridership compared to shorter or shared lanes. This study also discusses the other critical role of lane characteristics, such as separation from pedestrian pathways, the alignment with metro stations, and higher station density, which could contribute more significantly to ridership growth in Taipei. These insights underscore the importance of tailored infrastructure planning in optimizing bike-sharing systems. By analyzing trip data spanning 2013–2018 with innovative spatial methodologies, this research not only highlights the effectiveness of road-specific evaluation but also informs sustainable urban planning strategies to achieve progress toward the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 11.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100852,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Mobility","volume":"7 ","pages":"Article 100113"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143724743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The role of digital mobility skills in the uptake of shared modes at mobility hubs","authors":"Kelt É. Garritsen,&nbsp;Anna B. Grigolon,&nbsp;Karst T. Geurs","doi":"10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100111","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100111","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The popularity of shared mobility services (such as bike or e-scooter sharing) and mobility hubs is increasing in cities worldwide, with the potential to improve accessibility for all. With the expanding role of shared mobility travellers must rely on smartphones that are typically needed to use them, and not having the ability to use a smartphone could lead to digital inequality. However, the impact of digital mobility skills on the uptake of shared mobility has hardly been studied. This paper examines the determinants of digital mobility skills and their impacts on the uptake of different forms of shared mobility at mobility hubs. The results of a large-scale survey (N = 2515) across four different cities in Europe were analysed using statistical analyses, showing that lower digital mobility skills are related to other vulnerable-to-exclusion characteristics such as higher age, lower educational level, and unemployment. Furthermore, the uptake of shared modes at mobility hubs is much lower for people with low digital mobility skills, as they face additional barriers to using these services. These results reveal how the growth of app-driven shared mobility services can increase accessibility inequalities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100852,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Mobility","volume":"7 ","pages":"Article 100111"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143620505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Walking travel satisfaction – A comparison of three European cities","authors":"Katrin Lättman ,&nbsp;Janina Welsch ,&nbsp;Noriko Otsuka ,&nbsp;Anna-Lena van der Vlugt ,&nbsp;Jonas De Vos ,&nbsp;Edward Prichard","doi":"10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100109","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100109","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examined and compared walking satisfaction in three case study cities in Europe: Dortmund, Genoa, and Gothenburg as part of an EU project. By analyzing household survey data, we explored levels and determinants of walking satisfaction within and between the cities, using the Satisfaction with Travel Scale to measure walking satisfaction. The results show that levels of walking satisfaction differ between the cities, both overall and in terms of its sub-dimensions positive activation, deactivation and cognitive evaluation. This implies that different experiences are present when walking in different contexts. We also found that different factors influence walking satisfaction in different contexts. Accessibility and the social setting, in terms of walking in company or not, are important for walking satisfaction in all contexts. On city level, several differences in determinants were detected. These findings point at the importance of contextual settings in evaluations of walking satisfaction. In all three cities, we also found that walking satisfaction was significantly higher for trips which allow more flexibility, such as leisure or recreational walking, than for trips with a set destination. The findings expand the existing body of knowledge about determinants of walking satisfaction in different urban settings and provides vital insights for urban planning and policies determined to foster walking-friendly and satisfactory local urban environments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100852,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Mobility","volume":"7 ","pages":"Article 100109"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143611058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mapping the Detroit mobility ecosystem: A case study of a regional initiative centered on future mobility solutions","authors":"Michaela Bonnett ,&nbsp;Teri A. Garstka ,&nbsp;Angela Ladetto ,&nbsp;Meaghan B. Kennedy ,&nbsp;Jasmine Fernandez ,&nbsp;Bernard Swiecki","doi":"10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100108","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100108","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This case study was designed to describe the mobility ecosystem as a part of Detroit's Global Epicenter of Mobility initiative. The initiative's goal is to create the conditions for innovation and cross-sector collaboration in pursuit of large-scale urban mobility transformation. We present findings based on cross-sectional survey data about the types of relationships in the mobility ecosystem. We surveyed a sample of 159 multi-sector organizations using a new mobility ecosystem measurement tool. Sectors spanned Academic, Corporate and Private, Government and Union, and Nonprofits and Foundations entities that were working as a loose coalition on urban and regional mobility efforts. Network analyses found that the mobility network was highly interconnected overall (clustering coefficient =0.70; density = 0.59), but corporate and private sector organizations had some of the lowest centrality scores (e.g., influence, closeness, directly connected). Our findings about the mobility ecosystem's structure and cross-sector relationships align with key principles of innovation ecosystems, which emphasize the importance of collaboration across diverse actors to drive innovation and adaptability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100852,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Mobility","volume":"7 ","pages":"Article 100108"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143521196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Learning through experiments: The case of low-traffic neighborhoods in London","authors":"Katherine VanHoose ,&nbsp;Luca Bertolini ,&nbsp;Thomas Straatemeier","doi":"10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100107","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100107","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>City street experiments have proven to possess a capacity to trigger system change in urban mobility. The role that learning plays during this process remains unexplored. Drawing from transition studies and experiential learning theory, this paper focuses on the learning of local government actors involved in street experiments. The paper explores how these actors learn, with whom they learn and what they learn. Two cases of low-traffic neighborhood experiment programs in London reveal how local government actors gain instrumental knowledge concerning the design and implementation of street experiments and how to effectively engage citizens. Transformative knowledge amongst local government actors was observed less, revealing an important consideration for the role experiments play in transitions. Because street experiments reflect the complexity of ‘real-life’ and automatically include participants, they are prone to conflict, which can provide increased opportunities for learning.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100852,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Mobility","volume":"7 ","pages":"Article 100107"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143446100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Road Transport and Urban Mobility Greenhouse Gas Emissions Factor for Air Pollution Modeling in Burkina Faso","authors":"Issaka Abdou Razakou Kiribou ,&nbsp;Tiga Neya ,&nbsp;Bernard Nana ,&nbsp;Kehinde Ogunjobi ,&nbsp;Tizane Daho ,&nbsp;Y․ Woro Gounkaou ,&nbsp;Faith Mawia Muema ,&nbsp;Dejene W. Sintayehu","doi":"10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100106","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100106","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The road transportation sector is one of the largest contributors to fossil fuel consumption, while the energy sector being the greatest consumer overall. Urban growth increases transport and mobility demands to meet human needs. Few studies exist on greenhouse gas emission factors in developing countries. This study assessed and modeled greenhouse gas emissions factors with fossil fuel implications in road transport including urban mobility in Burkina Faso. The methodology entails the development of a bottom-up model to estimate fuel demand and emission factors under the IPCC 2006 guideline. It assesses greenhouse gases by establishing the specific emission factors using Ouagadougou City as a site of emission data processing. The analysis has included satellite NO₂ emission data. The city suffers from significant gas emissions and air pollutants resulting from the high vehicle fleet growth and fuel consumption. Indeed, the transport sector consumes 89 % of fossil fuels sold in Burkina Faso. There is an average carbon dioxide (CO2) emission factor of 3.7623 kg/l and 3.270 kg/l for diesel and gasoline vehicles, respectively. Thus, in 2019, gasoline and diesel accounted for 71 % and 21 % of total fuel consumption respectively, and produced a total amount of 1034 513.84 tons of CO2 (1034.5 GgCO2). In the business-as-usual condition, an average annual CO₂ production of 213.71 thousand tons is simulated from 2019 to 2040. A total emission of 4 486 559.34 tons (4486.64 GgCO2) by 2040 is expected with a share of 62 % for gasoline and 38 % for diesel. With an average emission of 1.89 mol/m2, the satellite tropospheric nitrogen dioxide concentration is mostly affecting the Central Business Division (CBD) of Ouagadougou City. It corresponds to 56 µg.m-3 which is beyond the WHO standard of annual average exposure. Thus, these findings alert the need for urgent environmental regulations and climate change mitigation actions for sustainable mobility.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100852,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Mobility","volume":"7 ","pages":"Article 100106"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143094141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A framework for ranking potential cities for implementing emerging urban mobility technologies: A case study for eVTOL aircraft","authors":"Felix Spühler ,&nbsp;Kristian Siebenrock ,&nbsp;Ivan Terekhov ,&nbsp;Dirk C. Mattfeld","doi":"10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100102","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100102","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban mobility is an important component of a well-functioning city. Moreover, it is an important sector that must be considered in the steady transition of cities. During this transition, new opportunities for mobility technologies are constantly emerging, as, for example, electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft. However, due to various factors, not every new mobility technology is suitable for every city. Finding suitable cities for implementing such a technology is therefore a crucial task. In our research, we address the problem of evaluating and ranking potential cities in terms of their suitability for the deployment of a particular emerging mobility technology. For this, we introduce an index and a framework for evaluating and ranking these cities. In this framework, we apply the novel Urban Mobility Innovation Adaption (UMIA) index and the well-known Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) to evaluate and rank each city regarding a chosen mobility technology. In our case study, we evaluate and rank cities on deploying eVTOL aircraft. Our results indicate the effectiveness and validity of our framework and the index. Based on this, a comprehensive analyze can be conducted for the top-ranked cities instead of all potential cities. Thus, the framework can support in the decision-making process for implementing new mobility technologies, but also support city officials to assess the current state of their city.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100852,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Mobility","volume":"7 ","pages":"Article 100102"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143093865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Public transport, social environment, and Bike Sharing System use to high school: A case study in València (Spain)","authors":"Israel Villarasa-Sapiña,&nbsp;Miquel Pans,&nbsp;Laura Antón-González","doi":"10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100101","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100101","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban cycling provides significant benefits for both health and environment. Additionally, due to the demands of contemporary society, it serves as an effective way to promote healthy habits among adolescents. Since high schools (HS) are a primary destination for this age group, the social and environmental characteristics of these institutions can play a critical role in influencing the use of Bike Sharing Systems (BSS). Our study aimed to determine how various sociodemographic characteristics of HS influence BSS use for active commuting to school (ACS) in the city of València, Spain. A Self-Organizing Maps analysis were applied to generate HS profiles, followed by non-parametric analysis to compare these profiles based on HS typology. Four HS profiles were identified. Results indicated a higher use of BSS for ACS in public HS compared to private HS. Lower BSS use was observed in HS lacking public transport and BSS facilities, while private schools generally had better access to public transport resources. Regardless of the socio-economic status of the HS, equal access to public transport resources and BSS stations should be provided to both public and private institutions to foster an active lifestyle for all students. HS located in neighborhoods with low-to-moderate economic status and a moderate risk of vulnerability can still promote the use of BSS for ACS. However, disparities in the availability of resources for ACS are significant, often disadvantaging public HS and schools in the poorest and most vulnerable neighborhoods.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100852,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Mobility","volume":"7 ","pages":"Article 100101"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143094218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}