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{"title":"High-speed rail as a sustainable commuting approach: A ‘pull’ factor in two ‘push’ city clusters in China","authors":"Adolf K.Y. NG ,&nbsp;Xize Wu ,&nbsp;Yufeng Lin ,&nbsp;Yufei Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.team.2025.05.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.team.2025.05.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>High-speed rail (HSR) has transformed intercity mobility in China, yet its impacts on ordinary residents remain underexplored. This study adopts a grounded theory approach to conduct cross-case analyses of two city clusters, revealing how HSR acts as both a push and pull factor in shaping mobility decisions and everyday life. Through in-depth interviews, we examine how improved accessibility alters social behaviors, family dynamics, and employment opportunities. Our findings highlight significant variation between short-term and long-term travelers, with HSR simultaneously enhancing freedom of movement and introducing new financial and emotional pressures. Crucially, we argue that HSR functions not only as a transport innovation but also as a form of social infrastructure with broad implications for social sustainability, particularly in reducing regional inequalities. The study contributes to transport scholarship by centering the lived experiences of marginalized travelers and calls for more inclusive, equity-oriented infrastructure planning.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101258,"journal":{"name":"Transport Economics and Management","volume":"3 ","pages":"Pages 236-244"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144240976","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":"An integrated MCDM approach to evaluating global and regional airline performance","authors":"Kasım Kiracı","doi":"10.1016/j.team.2025.05.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.team.2025.05.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Airlines are the fundamental components of air transportation, which plays a critical role in global transportation. The study evaluates airlines' performance using the multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) approach. The implementation is conducted through an MCDM model. We analyse the financial, risk, and sustainability performance of 30 airlines for the period 2018–2022. The criteria weights were determined using 23 criteria grouped under seven dimensions with the LOPCOW method, and the alternatives were ranked using the TOPSIS method. This study enables a multi-dimensional assessment of airline performance by integrating two dimensions and four criteria related to sustainability and risk into the evaluation framework. Therefore, this study is the first attempt in the literature to simultaneously consider risk factors and multiple environmental criteria. In addition, the performance rankings of the airlines were compared based on their respective regions. The findings reveal that airline performance rankings follows distinct patterns. These patterns were classified into two categories: <em>V-shaped</em> and <em>∧-shaped</em>. Furthermore, the findings highlighted significant differences in airline performance rankings at the regional level.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101258,"journal":{"name":"Transport Economics and Management","volume":"3 ","pages":"Pages 222-235"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144178003","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":"Determinants of user satisfaction in smart parking applications","authors":"Sai Sneha Channamallu ,&nbsp;Sharareh Kermanshachi ,&nbsp;Jay Michael Rosenberger ,&nbsp;Apurva Pamidimukkala ,&nbsp;Greg Hladik","doi":"10.1016/j.team.2025.05.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.team.2025.05.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Limited parking availability exacerbates congestion and driver frustration in urban settings and has prompted the development of smart parking applications to streamline the parking experience. The applications have been well accepted by many, but there is still a lack of understanding about the factors that drive user satisfaction across diverse demographic groups. This study addresses this lack of information by conducting a cluster analysis to segment users of a university’s smart parking app based on their satisfaction levels and explores how demographic factors impact app usability, reliability, and satisfaction. Survey data from 105 users were analyzed using hierarchical and K-means clustering, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) tests were conducted to identify differences in levels of satisfaction across clusters, and regression analysis was performed to examine the factors that influence satisfaction. This approach revealed three distinct user segments: dissatisfied, moderately satisfied, and highly satisfied. The Dissatisfied users struggled with usability, privacy, and reliability issues, the first two of which were impacted by their gender and level of education. They also valued ticket avoidance features, which suggests that improvement in this area could boost engagement. Moderately satisfied users appreciated time-saving features but had concerns about peak-time reliability. Their satisfaction was linked to employment and income; therefore, enhancing predictive capabilities during periods of high demand could better meet their expectations. Highly satisfied users reported consistent satisfaction with responsiveness, accuracy, and ease of use, with little demographic variation. Addressing shared issues like peak-hour reliability, usability, privacy, and ticket avoidance could enhance satisfaction across all groups and promote a more user-centered smart parking experience. This research provides valuable insights for university administrators, urban planners, and parking service providers seeking to enhance user satisfaction with smart parking solutions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101258,"journal":{"name":"Transport Economics and Management","volume":"3 ","pages":"Pages 214-221"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144067938","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":"Strategic conflicts in the aviation industry: Evolution and impact analysis using Graph Model with application to airspace conflict between European Countries and Russia","authors":"Shawei He ,&nbsp;Changmin Jiang","doi":"10.1016/j.team.2025.04.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.team.2025.04.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, a general framework of analyzing strategic conflicts in aviation industry is proposed based on Graph Model for Conflict Resolution (GMCR). The ongoing conflict regarding the mutual closure of airspace between Russia and the European countries (EUC) and the nationalization of leased aircrafts by Russia are investigated using GMCR for the first time. Outcomes at five possible scenarios are analyzed by calculating the equilibria in which decision makers (DM) behave with different preferences, or with new choice of actions. The evolution analysis is further carried out at each scenario to demonstrate how the conflict could evolve from the starting state to the calculated equilibria. Amidst the ongoing military conflict, it can be suggested whether the conflicts regarding the airspace closure and the nationalization of aircraft can be solved at various scenarios and under what conditions, through convenient modeling and rigorous computation. The calculation result indicates that negotiation could help solve the conflict, while sanctions along could not force Russia to reopen its airspace. This research can provide an enhanced understanding of the conflict regarding airspace sanctions between Russia and the EUC and the guidance of actions for concerned decision makers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101258,"journal":{"name":"Transport Economics and Management","volume":"3 ","pages":"Pages 199-213"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143942402","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":"From frequent flyer programmes to air cargo loyalty schemes: An investigation into the use of loyalty programmes by international cargo airlines","authors":"Andrew Timmis ,&nbsp;Lucy Budd ,&nbsp;Stephen Ison","doi":"10.1016/j.team.2025.04.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.team.2025.04.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper contributes to understandings of loyalty programmes in B2B markets by examining the adoption of dedicated customer loyalty schemes by international cargo airlines. Although a substantial body of research explores the use of frequent flyer programmes (FFPs) and associated loyalty schemes in B2C commercial air transport markets, the emergence of B2B loyalty schemes by international cargo airlines has received comparatively little attention in the academic literature. The aim of this exploratory paper is to advance understandings of loyalty programmes in B2B markets by identifying the prevalence and then exploring the form and function of dedicated loyalty programmes that are used by international cargo airlines. An online investigation of the world’s 25 largest cargo airlines (by scheduled Freight Tonne Kilometres (FTKs)) flown in the calendar year 2019 prior to the COVID-19 pandemic revealed the prevalence, form and underlying mechanisms of these B2B loyalty schemes and indicated that the adoption of such programmes is influenced by the type of airline business model and the geographic region in which carriers are based. The paper concludes with a discussion of the role of loyalty programmes in promoting customer loyalty in international air cargo markets and proposes further areas for research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101258,"journal":{"name":"Transport Economics and Management","volume":"3 ","pages":"Pages 192-198"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143900252","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 effect of road and air transport infrastructure on FDI Inflows in MENA countries: A panel data analysis","authors":"Bensoltane BASSEM","doi":"10.1016/j.team.2025.04.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.team.2025.04.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The relationship between transport infrastructure and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has been, and remains, a critical area of research. Accordingly, this study investigates their interplay in 15 MENA countries from 1996 to 2022, using panel data and Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression analysis. The results indicate that road transport infrastructure is the most influential factor in attracting FDI, with improvements significantly boosting foreign investment. Similarly, air transport infrastructure contributes positively by enhancing access to global markets, further driving FDI inflows. In contrast, human capital shows no statistically significant effect, while trade openness emerges as a crucial determinant, with liberalized trade policies fostering greater FDI. Exchange rate demonstrates a marginally positive effect, reducing investor uncertainty, whereas market size, measured by GDP per capita, strongly attracts FDI due to larger growth potential and higher purchasing power. Additionally, political stability fosters investor confidence, further supporting FDI inflows. Finally, the interaction effects reveal that road transport infrastructure amplifies the positive impacts of both trade openness and exchange rate on FDI. Building on these findings, the study provides actionable policy recommendations to enhance FDI inflows in the MENA region and highlights promising avenues for future research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101258,"journal":{"name":"Transport Economics and Management","volume":"3 ","pages":"Pages 172-182"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143816876","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":"Exploring the relationship between air travel demand and tourism in Thailand: An ARDL approach","authors":"Colin C.H. Law","doi":"10.1016/j.team.2025.03.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.team.2025.03.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The aviation industry has undergone significant changes due to air deregulation and liberalization, which have enabled competition among airlines and provided them with greater flexibility to determine airfare, routes, and capacity. These changes have led to increased air travel, benefiting the tourism industry in numerous countries, including Thailand. This research paper examines the relationship between air travel demand and tourism in Thailand, while assessing the economic advantages of tourism for different nationalities using a panel autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) dynamic framework. The study analyses data from 53 tourist origins, categorized into seven regions—North Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Oceania, the Middle East and Africa, Europe, and the Americas—covering the period from 2012 to 2020. The findings suggest that air passenger demand significantly contributes to Thailand’s economy, leading to long-term benefits such as increased job opportunities, higher wages, and greater tourism receipts. Tourists from North Asia provide the most substantial long-term economic benefits, highlighting the need for a well-balanced strategy that targets various regions for sustainable tourism development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101258,"journal":{"name":"Transport Economics and Management","volume":"3 ","pages":"Pages 183-191"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143824115","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":"Intelligent vehicle platooning transit: System design, operations management, and field and simulation experiments","authors":"Chi Xie ,&nbsp;Ziyu Zhang ,&nbsp;Aijing Su ,&nbsp;Bing Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.team.2025.03.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.team.2025.03.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper serves as a technical review on an emerging demand-responsive, vehicle platoon-based, exclusive lane-delimited mass transit system, which is officially named <em>Intelligent Vehicle Platooning Transit</em> (IVPT). Different from previous studies on vehicle platooning systems for passenger and freight transportation, the focus of this paper is on systematically analyzing IVPT’s system components and technologies, operations design and management issues, and field and simulation experiment results. We also present a techno-economic comparison between IVPT and other existing urban public transportation systems. The analysis and comparison highlight several key advantages of this new transit system: 1) The cruise speed of its moving vehicles is guaranteed to be at its design value and seldom disturbed due to the use of vehicle platoons, exclusive lanes, and signal priority; 2) its direct station-to-station passenger-carrying service eliminates passengers’ transfer time and inconvenience and enhance their arrival punctuality to a maximum extent; 3) online trip booking, passenger-vehicle matching and passenger-seat assignment allow passengers to specify their boarding and alighting stations, departure times, vehicle types, and seating preference and hence greatly reduce their waiting time at stations and enhancing overall travel satisfaction; and 4) it involves much lower construction and maintenance costs than a conventional mass transportation system with the potential of faster implementation. In our conclusion, IVPT offers a sustainable, flexible, scalable, and cost-effective mass transit solution and has potential of becoming a backbone transit system for future urban areas.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101258,"journal":{"name":"Transport Economics and Management","volume":"3 ","pages":"Pages 153-171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143725532","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":"Advanced Air Mobility for commuting? An exploration of economic, energy, and environmental feasibility","authors":"Daniel Perez ,&nbsp;Heeseung Shon ,&nbsp;Bo Zou ,&nbsp;Kenneth Kuhn","doi":"10.1016/j.team.2025.03.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.team.2025.03.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) presents an emerging alternative to traditional car driving for commuting in metropolitan areas. However, its feasibility has not been thoroughly studied nor well understood at the operational level. Given that AAM has not been in place, this study explores the economic, energy, and environmental feasibility of AAM for commuting at an early stage of AAM deployment. We propose a time-expanded network model to characterize the dynamics of eVTOL operations between a vertiport pair in different states: in-service flying, relocation flying, charging, and parking, while respecting various operational and commuter time window constraints. By jointly considering eVTOL flying with vertiport access and egress and using real-world data, we demonstrate an application of the model in the Chicago metropolitan area in the US. Different vertiport pairs and eVTOL aircraft models are investigated. We find substantial travel time saving if commuting by AAM. While vehicle operating cost will be higher using eVTOLs than using auto, the generalized travel cost will be less for commuters. On the other hand, with current eVTOL power requirement, the energy consumption and CO<span><math><msub><mrow></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msub></math></span> emissions of AAM will be greater than those of auto driving, with an important contributor being the significance presence of empty flights relocation. These findings, along with sensitivity analysis, shed light on future eVTOL development to enhance the competitiveness of AAM as a viable option for commuting.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101258,"journal":{"name":"Transport Economics and Management","volume":"3 ","pages":"Pages 135-152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143706315","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":"Competitive dynamics in the international airline market: Exploring antecedents of competitive actions","authors":"Mehmet Yasar ,&nbsp;Ender Gerede","doi":"10.1016/j.team.2025.02.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.team.2025.02.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>When airlines engage in competitive actions against each other, they are expected to do so for a variety of reasons. Although the ultimate goal of these competitive actions is to increase market share against competitors and to achieve above-average profits, some antecedents in the market provide different clues for airlines in the context of implementing competitive actions. The purpose of this study is to identify the antecedents that are believed to be effective on competitive actions and whether they vary according to the types of actions taken in the context of the Turkish international airline market. In the study, the dependent variables are the number of competitive actions and the independent variables are 12 variables related to the operational structure, resources, cooperation and market relations of the airlines. The models and hypotheses developed in the research were tested by panel regression analysis. As a result, models were obtained consisting of different antecedents according to the types of competitive actions and different effects of the same antecedent according to the type of action.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101258,"journal":{"name":"Transport Economics and Management","volume":"3 ","pages":"Pages 117-134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143548580","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}