{"title":"Strategies for sustainable road transport: Technological innovation and organizational management through AI","authors":"Yishu Liu , Daoqing Zhou , Cheng Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.trd.2025.104651","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trd.2025.104651","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines three tactics for achieving energy conservation and emission reduction (ECER) in road transport: technological measures, organizational management, and energy system upgrades. Technological progress encompasses enhancing the effectiveness of vehicles, incorporating sustainable energy sources, and harnessing the potential of 5G technology. Organizational management is concerned with the coordination and administration of activities related to urban planning and prioritization of public transit. The potential of alternative fuels, such as hydrogen and biogas, to replace fossil fuels is highlighted by advancements in energy system. The key findings suggest that pollution regulations, fuel replacement flexibility, and integrated planning frameworks are beneficial in maximizing economic and environmental benefits. The findings indicate necessity of implementing technical advancements, strong management practices, and transitioning to renewable energy sources to attain sustainable transportation and reduce GHG emissions. The implementation of a multi-faceted strategy is essential in order to effectively decrease the environmental impact of transportation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":23277,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part D-transport and Environment","volume":"141 ","pages":"Article 104651"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143436514","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}
Tongtong Shi , Meiting Tu , Ye Li , Haobing Liu , Dominique Gruyer
{"title":"Revealing the built environment impacts on truck emissions using interpretable machine learning","authors":"Tongtong Shi , Meiting Tu , Ye Li , Haobing Liu , Dominique Gruyer","doi":"10.1016/j.trd.2025.104662","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trd.2025.104662","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Understanding the factors influencing truck emissions remains critical for sustainable urban freight transport development. However, ignoring spatiotemporal and policy heterogeneity may lead to inaccurate predictions for specific regions and misinterpretation of outcomes. This study develops a comprehensive framework to analyze the nonlinear effects of the built environment on heavy-duty diesel truck emissions, utilizing large-scale GPS data from Shanghai, China. We introduce an interpretable predictive model that integrates random effects with a light gradient boosting machine to account for spatiotemporal and policy influences. The results show that proposed model outperforms baseline by 15 %–20 %, with an improvement exceeding 17 % in the more complex tasks of localized predictions in central urban areas. Land use and road design factors contribute 72.26 % to truck emissions, with industrial land density as the primary driver. Furthermore, the relationship between these factors and pollution emissions exhibits pronounced non-linearity, with threshold effects that vary under various policy restrictions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":23277,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part D-transport and Environment","volume":"141 ","pages":"Article 104662"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143436515","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}
Nanxi Wang , Kum Fai Yuen , Xueyi Gao , Yinghui Nie
{"title":"Resilience assessment of global container shipping network via port communities","authors":"Nanxi Wang , Kum Fai Yuen , Xueyi Gao , Yinghui Nie","doi":"10.1016/j.trd.2025.104649","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trd.2025.104649","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The global container shipping network (GCSN) is vulnerable to disruptions. This study aims to enhance the GCSN resilience by proposing an enhanced disruption simulation model and introducing a novel research perspective: port communities. The simulation model integrates cascading failure and recovery mechanisms, incorporates ship behaviour during disruptions, and introduces a temporal dimension to track the network’s evolution. Port community-to- community connections provide a clearer and more holistic perspective. Using Infomap algorithm, port communities are identified based on transportation direction, capacity, and geographic proximity, resulting in a decentralized and balanced structure while preserving GCSN’s scale-free and small-world properties. Simulations of various disruption scenarios and recovery strategies yielded optimized key parameters and practical recommendations. For instance, the optimal distance threshold for detecting port communities is 300 km. Additionally, weak correlations between alternative port numbers and community size/throughput (0.17, 0.246) underscore the need for geographically balanced distribution and reduced reliance on single ports.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":23277,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part D-transport and Environment","volume":"141 ","pages":"Article 104649"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143549217","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":"Assess changes in electric vehicle usage behaviour: Comparison between 2018 and 2021","authors":"Dingsong Cui , Peng Liu , Zhenpo Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.trd.2025.104661","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trd.2025.104661","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>With advancements in power battery technology, all-electric driving range (AER) of electric vehicles (EVs) and charging infrastructures have improved significantly in recent years. These improvements may change usage behaviour and reduce range anxiety. Herein, this paper collects nearly 90,000 EV real-world operation data in 2018 and 2021. EV travel and plug-in habits are analysed with descriptive analytical methods and statistical tests. Range anxiety is also assessed using the ordinary least squares algorithm. The results show a 15 % rise in daily distances for electric taxis, alongside a 26.5 % increase in AER and a 29.9 % increase in charging power. In contrast, personal EV travel distance shows little change, despite a 50.8 % increase in AER and a 13.9 % increase in charging power. The results also indicate that as charging power increases, there is a significant decline in range anxiety calculated by the state-of-charge before charging, a trend not observed with increasing AER.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":23277,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part D-transport and Environment","volume":"141 ","pages":"Article 104661"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143436511","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}
Lang Song , Huailei Cheng , Jian Wang , Shanchuan Yu , Yuchuan Du
{"title":"Geometric and operational optimization at reversible unconventional arterial intersection reducing traffic emissions","authors":"Lang Song , Huailei Cheng , Jian Wang , Shanchuan Yu , Yuchuan Du","doi":"10.1016/j.trd.2025.104656","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trd.2025.104656","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study develops a novel unconventional arterial intersection with reversible lanes (UAI-RL) to reduce traffic emission, where six forms of UAI, conventional intersections (CI), contraflow left-turn lane (CLL), tandem intersection (TI), continuous flow intersection (CFI), parallel flow intersection (PFI) and upstream signalized crossover (USC) on each leg can be flexibly switched in a mixed assignment area between pre-signal and main intersections. Traffic emission of UAI-RL is minimized by a unified optimization for both geometric design and signal control. A machine-learning-based surrogate-assisted algorithm is established to solve the problem. The result demonstrates that optimal UAI-RL is useful for intersections where traffic demand frequently fluctuates. Decreasing vehicle stops is beneficial to reducing emission and CI on four legs is recommended in the case of low demand. Enhancing capacity to prevent intersection oversaturation is more helpful and TI, CFI, PFI and USC on four legs are recommended in the case of heavy demand.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":23277,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part D-transport and Environment","volume":"141 ","pages":"Article 104656"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143436512","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}
Yi Dai , Xiaochen Liu , Hao Li , Xiaohua Liu , Tao Zhang , Zhihan Su , Sheng Zhao , Yicong Zhou
{"title":"Building-related electric vehicle charging behaviors and energy consumption patterns: An urban-scale analysis","authors":"Yi Dai , Xiaochen Liu , Hao Li , Xiaohua Liu , Tao Zhang , Zhihan Su , Sheng Zhao , Yicong Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.trd.2025.104663","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trd.2025.104663","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Understanding electric vehicle (EV) charging behavior and energy consumption patterns is fundamental to support the transportation electrification trend. We analyzed a dataset of 2,385,173 charging sessions from 2,719 chargers across 158 stations in Beijing, China. First, the charging sessions of alternating-current slow chargers (ACSCs) are mainly affected by parking behavior related to adjacent buildings; conversely, the charging sessions of direct-current fast chargers (DCFCs) cater to urgent charging demands. Second, adjacent building type and public accessibility significantly impact a station’s charging power profile. Public station profiles can be quantified by combining private and independent station profiles. Third, the impact of charger rated power on utilization rate varies by station type. The charger utilization rate increases with its rated power at independent and commercial stations, but decreases at workplace and residential stations. This study reveals the inherent behavioral and energy-use relationship between EVs and buildings, providing guidance for charging infrastructure planning.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":23277,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part D-transport and Environment","volume":"141 ","pages":"Article 104663"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143429946","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":"Exploring the built environment’s impact on E-bikes: Longitudinal evidence from the Netherlands","authors":"Yushan Zhang, Dena Kasraian, Pieter van Wesemael","doi":"10.1016/j.trd.2025.104643","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trd.2025.104643","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As long-term e-bike data emerges, it has become possible to track the rapid evolution of e-bike travel behavior and its relationship with the built environment over time. This is an essential and timely investigation for policies aimed at stimulating e-bike use. This paper utilizes longitudinal structural equation modeling (SEM) to analyze the long-term relationship between the built environment and e-bike ownership as well as e-bike travel frequency, while controlling for socio-demographic factors and attitudes. The results indicate a rise in e-bike ownership and more frequent e-bike usage from 2015 to 2021. E-bikes are being adopted more widely across diverse socio-demographic groups. Living in areas with high potential accessibility and high address density leads to higher e-bike ownership and increased travel frequency. Future urban and transport policies are recommended to leverage the growing trend of e-bikes and consider the residential preferences of e-bike users to promote sustainable mobility.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":23277,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part D-transport and Environment","volume":"141 ","pages":"Article 104643"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143429947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Household transportation lifecycle greenhouse gas emission prediction","authors":"Hamed Naseri , E.O.D Waygood , Zachary Patterson","doi":"10.1016/j.trd.2025.104660","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trd.2025.104660","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This investigation develops a model to predict household transportation life-cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and identifies the strongest determinants of these emissions. The impact of many variables on household transportation GHG emissions is examined. Ten machine learning methods are used for modeling and prediction. Shapley additive explanation is then applied to detect the relative influence of variables on household GHG emissions. Partial dependency plots are also employed to capture the direction of influence of top variables on household GHG emissions. Further analyses suggest that considering tail-pipe emissions rather than life-cycle emissions leads to underestimating the GHG emissions by roughly 20%. Replacing all gasoline vehicles with electric vehicles would reduce GHG emissions in Montreal by 57%. Then, the modal shifts required to meet the Government of Canada’s goals for transportation GHGs are determined. Finally, a scenario analysis is applied, and a number of GHG emission scenarios are presented.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":23277,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part D-transport and Environment","volume":"141 ","pages":"Article 104660"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143428691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lanxin Shi , Shiqi (Shawn) Ou , Yanzi Zhou , Yonglin Wu , Xiaolu Tan , Xin He , Daniel J. De Castro Gomez , Zhenhong Lin
{"title":"Assessing Chinese user satisfaction with electric vehicle battery performance from online reviews","authors":"Lanxin Shi , Shiqi (Shawn) Ou , Yanzi Zhou , Yonglin Wu , Xiaolu Tan , Xin He , Daniel J. De Castro Gomez , Zhenhong Lin","doi":"10.1016/j.trd.2025.104644","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trd.2025.104644","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study employs data-scraping and analysis of 11,525 Plug-in Electric Vehicle (PEV) user reviews from 2018 to 2024, focusing on users’ battery performance satisfaction with electric range, battery degradation, and charging experience. Using SnowNLP, Multinomial Naive Bayes, and Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT), along with an explainable machine learning algorithm, the findings identify location and vehicle price as critical factors influencing PEV perceptions. Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) receive consistently more positive feedback than Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) across the Chinese Mainland, though satisfaction for both declines with vehicle age. PEVs with an all-electric range of under 100 km get predominantly negative reviews after over four years of use. To boost PEV adoption and satisfaction, targeted incentives for PHEVs with 150–200 km and BEVs with 550–600 km range in lower-tier cities are recommended. These findings offer valuable insights for manufacturers and policymakers promoting PEV market growth in China.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":23277,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part D-transport and Environment","volume":"141 ","pages":"Article 104644"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143428690","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":"Transportation sector’s carbon emission pressure in Chinese provinces during carbon peak","authors":"Zihong Liu , Haitao Xiong , Guo-liang Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.trd.2025.104606","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trd.2025.104606","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper introduces a new method for ex-ante assessment of carbon emission pressure (CEP), incorporating carbon quotas allocation and emission demand forecasting while considering efficiency, fairness, technological progress, regional production technology heterogeneity, and expected production scale. The method is applied to empirically investigate the low-carbon production efficiency, spatial distribution, and dynamic trends of CEPs in 30 Chinese provinces’ transportation sectors during the carbon peak period. Results show that: (1) western provinces and populous provinces are the main sources of inefficiency in China’s low-carbon transportation efforts; (2) inland hub provinces like Hebei and Hubei will see low and steadily decreasing CEPs; (3) eastern coastal provinces with large transportation scale, resource-exporting central provinces, and western provinces will face high and rising CEPs for various reasons. The method’s validity and accuracy are verified through comparison, and policy implications are provided to support a differentiated low-carbon transition in China’s transportation sector.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":23277,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part D-transport and Environment","volume":"141 ","pages":"Article 104606"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143427595","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}