{"title":"Investigating the effects of ridesourcing on the dynamics of household car ownership","authors":"Pinar Bilgin , Giulio Mattioli , Malcolm Morgan , Zia Wadud","doi":"10.1016/j.trd.2025.104886","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trd.2025.104886","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Car ownership influences car use, but the emergence of ridesourcing has reshaped this dynamic. The emergence of ridesourcing presents a dual possibility regarding car ownership: it can reduce the need for private car ownership by providing a viable alternative, or it can encourage car ownership by providing an opportunity to earn extra income through ridesourcing. Using the United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study dataset from 2009 to 2019, this study examines how ridesourcing affects the changes in household car ownership. After controlling for various factors, our results suggest that households are less likely to acquire a car in the presence of ridesourcing while car disposal decisions are mainly driven by household composition and residential relocation factors. We also examine the heterogeneous effects that vary by different numbers of household cars and residential areas. Our results can inform transport authorities and policymakers when planning a sustainable transport system with reduced car dependency.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":23277,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part D-transport and Environment","volume":"146 ","pages":"Article 104886"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144366573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abudusaimaiti Maierdiyali , Yun Wang , Jiding Chen , Runsheng Li , Mei Luo , Xueyang Li , Yangang Yang , Shuangcheng Tao , Yaping Kong , Hao Wang , Zhi Lu
{"title":"Assessment for the wildlife crossing structures along the Qinghai-Tibet railway","authors":"Abudusaimaiti Maierdiyali , Yun Wang , Jiding Chen , Runsheng Li , Mei Luo , Xueyang Li , Yangang Yang , Shuangcheng Tao , Yaping Kong , Hao Wang , Zhi Lu","doi":"10.1016/j.trd.2025.104866","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trd.2025.104866","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Previous Qinghai-Tibet railway studies have lacked a comprehensive understanding of wildlife crossing structures (WCSs) distribution and suitability for local wildlife, focusing instead on individual underpass usage. We addressed this gap by modeling the habitat distribution of 11 nationally protected mammal species along the railway using maximum entropy modeling and distribution data, and we found that WCSs density met standards for all species except Tibetan gazelles (<em>Procapra picticaudata</em>), whose average WCSs distance was 1.65 km. After evaluating 23 underpasses with line transects and infrared cameras, we found that all underpasses were used by wildlife, with nine protected mammals recorded, while Tibetan antelopes (<em>Pantholops hodgsonii</em>) used exclusively larger underpasses during migration. Smaller underpasses located further from highways were more effectively used. This first assessment of WCSs distribution and density along the railway, comparing large and small WCSs, recommends prioritizing larger WCSs construction tailored to Tibetan antelope migration needs in future designs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":23277,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part D-transport and Environment","volume":"146 ","pages":"Article 104866"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144364772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xin Ge , Feng Zhen , Bo Wang , Runlin Yang , Shimeng Shen
{"title":"The impacts of multi-scale urban environments on commuters’ active travel","authors":"Xin Ge , Feng Zhen , Bo Wang , Runlin Yang , Shimeng Shen","doi":"10.1016/j.trd.2025.104879","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trd.2025.104879","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Promoting active travel is an effective strategy for enhancing urban sustainable development. This study examines the impacts of multi-scale urban environments on commuters’ active travel behaviors, especially walking and cycling, with a particular focus on differences between urban environments at origins and destinations. The findings indicate that active travel is influenced by urban environments at the plot, block, and city scales, with plot-scale environments and individual commuting characteristics exerting the strongest direct effects, and city-scale environments having indirect or synergistic influences. Additionally, impacts differ between origins and destinations across different spatial scales. Moreover, urban environmental factors supporting walking and cycling are partly different. Moreover, several urban environmental factors influence active travel behavior by moderation effects of commuting time. Based on the knowledge gained from this study, several policy measure are proposed to promote active travel.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":23277,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part D-transport and Environment","volume":"146 ","pages":"Article 104879"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144366584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mouhamed Bayane Bouraima , Jakub Więckowski , Su Qian
{"title":"A decision support system for prioritizing electric vehicles transition policies","authors":"Mouhamed Bayane Bouraima , Jakub Więckowski , Su Qian","doi":"10.1016/j.trd.2025.104880","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trd.2025.104880","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In sub-Saharan Africa, a developing region, the shift towards electric vehicles’ transition is unfolding among unique challenges. This study aims not only to assess the main challenges affecting this transition, but also to prioritize alternative policies to overcome them through an integrated decision support system. Through a questionnaire distributed to twelve experts, we have conducted a strength weakness opportunity threat factors analysis, determined the weight of these factors, handled uncertainty in experts’ opinions, consolidated the ranking of alternatives to reach a consensus, and checked the consistency and reliability of our decision support system. The “opportunities” criteria are the main drivers of this transition, while limited grid supply and underdeveloped infrastructure sub-criteria constitute main challenges. Global collaboration is preferred policy for adoption. Our study provides important insights into the electric vehicle’s adoption and its impact on sustainable transport in the region.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":23277,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part D-transport and Environment","volume":"146 ","pages":"Article 104880"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144331055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xinwei Ma , Yuwei Wang , Mingjia He , Xiaopeng Guo , Yiming Fan , Xia Li
{"title":"Electric or gasoline vehicle? Determinants of vehicle ownership in 247 Chinese cities","authors":"Xinwei Ma , Yuwei Wang , Mingjia He , Xiaopeng Guo , Yiming Fan , Xia Li","doi":"10.1016/j.trd.2025.104885","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trd.2025.104885","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Climatic conditions, built environment and economic development across cities can influence the proportion of electric vehicle (EV) ownership. However, a comprehensive understanding of spatial differentiation of EV ownership and gasoline vehicle (GV) ownership across multiple cities remains limited. This study examines the spatial differentiation of EV ownership and GV ownership across 247 Chinese cities using geographically weighted regression (GWR) models to analyze its associations with weather, geographic, built environment, and urban development factors. Results show that minimum monthly average temperature has a stronger positive impact on EV ownership in northern and western cities, while its impact on GV ownership is more pronounced in eastern cities. The relief degree of the land surface is negatively associated with EV ownership in northwest cities. Furthermore, the level of PM2.5 pollution and education level demonstrate strong positive influences on EV ownership. These findings provide insights for promoting EV adoption to achieve sustainable development goals.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":23277,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part D-transport and Environment","volume":"146 ","pages":"Article 104885"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144335852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Haichao Huang , Hongdi He , Yizhou Wang , Zhe Zhang , Tonggen Wang
{"title":"Energy consumption prediction of electric vehicles for data-scarce scenarios using pre-trained model","authors":"Haichao Huang , Hongdi He , Yizhou Wang , Zhe Zhang , Tonggen Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.trd.2025.104830","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trd.2025.104830","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Accurate energy consumption prediction is essential for mitigating range anxiety in electric vehicles (EVs). However, data-driven approaches require substantial user-specific data, limiting their effectiveness during the early stages of vehicle ownership or for newly registered EVs with limited historical records. This study introduces the Energy Consumption Transformer (ECT), a large-scale pre-trained model designed for data-scarce scenarios. ECT leverages transferable prior knowledge learned from over 310 thousand real-world trips. This pre-trained knowledge is then integrated with proprietary knowledge from limited EV trips, enabling accurate prediction even with minimal data. The pre-training is conducted using multi-city, multi-model datasets, ensuring the generalization of the learned knowledge. Results show that ECT outperforms existing methods in few-shot scenarios and bridges the multi-month prediction service gap during data collection. Furthermore, ECT provides efficient inference, with a response time ranging from 0.14 to 0.28 ms/trip. This study facilitates immediately available prediction without requiring extensive user-specific data collection.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":23277,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part D-transport and Environment","volume":"146 ","pages":"Article 104830"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144331054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hladík Štěpán, Zasadil Petr, Barták Vojtěch, Keken Zdeněk
{"title":"Bird richness loss around motorways in fragmented agricultural landscapes: a guild approach","authors":"Hladík Štěpán, Zasadil Petr, Barták Vojtěch, Keken Zdeněk","doi":"10.1016/j.trd.2025.104881","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trd.2025.104881","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Road infrastructure is a significant factor affecting bird populations around the world. This study assesses the impact of motorways on qualitative and quantitative characteristics of bird assemblages in agricultural landscapes with scattered tree and shrub vegetation. The study brings knowledges about motorway impacts on bird species richness sorted according to their habitat preferences, nesting guild and feeding guild. The study has novelty due to the inclusion of different habitat types, in which the effects of motorways have not been examined in detail. Results show that motorway distance is a better predictor of motorway impacts on species richness compared to traffic noise. Furthermore, overall bird species richness is also influenced by the traffic volume. Farmland birds were impacted by distance to motorways more than woodland birds. Finally, ground and shrub nesters were impacted most by the presence of motorways. Based on the results, measures were suggested to mitigate the negative effects of the motorway in the landscape.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":23277,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part D-transport and Environment","volume":"146 ","pages":"Article 104881"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144321793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Suyan Li , Gang Li , Liqiang He , Hongli Wang , Liang Ji , Junfang Wang , Weicheng Chen , Yu Kang , Hang Yin
{"title":"Heavy-duty diesel vehicle NOX emissions and fuel consumption: Remote on-board monitoring analysis","authors":"Suyan Li , Gang Li , Liqiang He , Hongli Wang , Liang Ji , Junfang Wang , Weicheng Chen , Yu Kang , Hang Yin","doi":"10.1016/j.trd.2025.104875","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trd.2025.104875","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>On-board monitoring (OBM), a cost-effective technical solution for real driving emission monitoring, is being globally adopted, with remote OBM data transmission for China VI heavy-duty diesel vehicles (HDDVs) being mandated, enabling big data–driven analysis of nitrogen oxide (NO<sub>X</sub>) emissions and fuel consumption. Enhancing data preprocessing through time alignment and anomaly removal, this study analyzed 14,570 HDDVs, showing a 78.8 % NO<sub>X</sub> reduction in China VI versus China V vehicles. Fuel consumption, however, is primarily influenced by vehicle weight, power rating, and driving conditions, and not emission standards. Both NO<sub>X</sub> emissions and fuel consumption increased at low speeds. Lower ambient temperatures minimally affected NO<sub>X</sub> emissions and fuel consumption, but increased NO<sub>X</sub> outliers. Elevated altitude slightly increased fuel consumption, while its influence on NO<sub>X</sub> emissions showed no consistent trend. These findings highlight the value of remote OBM data in understanding real-world NO<sub>X</sub> emissions and fuel consumption performance, guiding targeted strategies for in-use compliance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":23277,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part D-transport and Environment","volume":"146 ","pages":"Article 104875"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144313335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xinlu Bai , Xin Fu , Zeqi Ren , Christopher Auffrey , Qi Wang
{"title":"Retrofitting green spaces based on dispersion and absorption of mobile-source carbon emissions","authors":"Xinlu Bai , Xin Fu , Zeqi Ren , Christopher Auffrey , Qi Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.trd.2025.104874","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trd.2025.104874","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Although green space is a potential solution for growing carbon emissions in transportation sector, mobile-source CO<sub>2</sub> (MS-CO<sub>2</sub>) neutrality-oriented layouts and planting configuration for urban green spaces remains a challenge. We propose to develop a MS-CO<sub>2</sub> Mitigation Framework that innovatively combines a range of computational mechanisms and techniques for CO<sub>2</sub> emission, dispersion, and absorption. We found MS-CO<sub>2</sub> dispersion and absorption were disproportionate with the increase of emission intensity related to traffic volume and speed of expressway, arterial, or minor roads in Xi’an China. The green spaces in the existing layout offered MS-CO<sub>2</sub> absorption efficiency ranged from 30.71% to 88.63%, and the retrofitting schemes, through adjusting spatial layout and introducing species with high CO<sub>2</sub> absorption rate, improved it by 1.15% to 34.72%. It is possible to achieve neutralization of traffic carbon emissions for lower emission intensity through green space retrofitting, otherwise, additional non-vegetation-based measures are needed for improvement of CO<sub>2</sub> sequestration.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":23277,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part D-transport and Environment","volume":"146 ","pages":"Article 104874"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144298653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bridging access with life satisfaction and Nussbaum’s core capabilities","authors":"Matthew Palm , Katrina Raynor , Sarah Grajdura","doi":"10.1016/j.trd.2025.104877","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trd.2025.104877","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We explore how perceived access to destinations supports broader human capabilities such as play, health, joy, and wonder. Drawing on Nussbaum’s (2011) framework, we surveyed over 1,400 residents of Melbourne, Australia, asking whether their neighbourhoods support their capabilities “to do or be” in 26 aspects of life. We then applied a structural equation model to examine the interrelationships between demographics, perceived access, observed access (walkability and transit), activity participation, and life satisfaction. The models show that being male, owning a vehicle, and having more friends nearby are associated with higher perceived access, while financial difficulties and disability predict lower perceived access. Although walkability and transit access have a small negative direct association with life satisfaction, they exert positive indirect and total effects through increased perceived access and activity participation. These results underscore that accessibility—particularly as it is perceived—plays a meaningful role in individual well-being.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":23277,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part D-transport and Environment","volume":"146 ","pages":"Article 104877"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144291602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}