Tor-Olav Nævestad , Vibeke Milch , Jenny Blom , Rune Elvik , Markus Bugge , Håkon Endresen Normann , Erland Skogli , Lars Even Egner
{"title":"Factors influencing whether safety management systems are living after extensive reforms: An analysis of four Norwegian county authorities","authors":"Tor-Olav Nævestad , Vibeke Milch , Jenny Blom , Rune Elvik , Markus Bugge , Håkon Endresen Normann , Erland Skogli , Lars Even Egner","doi":"10.1016/j.trip.2024.101241","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trip.2024.101241","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Norwegian county authorities’ management of road safety has undergone major changes since 2020, when a structural reform was implemented. County authorities merged into fewer administrative units, and took over the responsibility for administering the county roads. Because of this, county authorities had to establish new systems for managing road safety. The aims of the study are to examine: 1) Whether four county authorities have implemented living systems for road safety management, three years after the 2020 regional reform, and 2) Factors influencing whether safety management systems are living, including the impact of extensive reforms. The study is based on qualitative research interviews (n = 42) and an online survey (n = 392). The extent to which the county authorities have managed to implement living safety management systems and maintain their key road safety roles differs substantially. Multivariate analyses show that the most important factors influencing whether county authorities have been able to implement living systems are the safety cultures in the county authorities, and the extent to which respondents believe that the reorganizations related to the structural reform have required a lot of time and energy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":36621,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives","volume":"28 ","pages":"Article 101241"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142664280","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}
Eleonora Sottile, Giovanni Tuveri, Francesco Piras, Italo Meloni
{"title":"Travel behavior before and after COVID-19. A hybrid choice model applied to a panel dataset","authors":"Eleonora Sottile, Giovanni Tuveri, Francesco Piras, Italo Meloni","doi":"10.1016/j.trip.2024.101265","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trip.2024.101265","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>After two decades of psychological research into travel behavior, one would anticipate a thorough understanding of the cognitive processes guiding travel choices. However, the intricate and unpredictable nature of mobility dynamics often obstructs efforts to promote sustainable travel behaviors. While hybrid choice models (HCMs) incorporating latent variables prove invaluable in analyzing travel behavior, there remains a critical need for further exploration into effectively managing these variables. Typically assessed at singular time points, these variables pose challenges in analyzing individual characteristics based on their fluctuations. Moreover, deriving actionable policy implications from HCMs is challenging due to the inherent nature of psycho-attitudinal variables, which exhibit limited responsiveness to alterations in alternatives. Only a significant disruptive event could induce notable shifts in individuals’ psycho-attitudinal characteristics. The objective of this paper is to investigate two aspects: i) to study if and how norms, intentions and perceived behavioral control change after a strong shock such as the pandemic, and ii) to analyze the differences in the HCMs results estimated by using data collected before and after the shock. The study involves a panel dataset gathered during a VTBC Program which involved three phases, two of which before and straight after the first lockdown. Our results show that norms were less impacted by COVID-19 and lost importance post-lockdown. There was a notable decline in the intention to use sustainable modes and an increase in car usage, with significant differences in perceived behavioral control between those who maintain and those who change their transport modes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":36621,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives","volume":"28 ","pages":"Article 101265"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142578399","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}
Marie Geraldine Herrmann-Lunecke , Cristhian Figueroa-Martínez , Bárbara Olivares Espinoza
{"title":"Older persons’ emotional responses to the built environment: An analysis of walking experiences in central neighbourhoods of Santiago de Chile","authors":"Marie Geraldine Herrmann-Lunecke , Cristhian Figueroa-Martínez , Bárbara Olivares Espinoza","doi":"10.1016/j.trip.2024.101279","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trip.2024.101279","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Walking reports numerous benefits for older persons, yet there is significant evidence indicating that the features of the built environment of contemporary cities are compromising its practice. This article explores how the built environment affects older persons’ walking experiences, by analysing older persons’ self-reported emotional responses to the built environment. More in detail, this article examines the findings of a set of walking interviews in which forty older persons (between 60 and 79 years old) who resided in central areas of Santiago de Chile were invited to walk in their neighbourhoods and talk about the features of the built environment that affect the journeys they complete on foot and the emotions they elicit. The analysis shows that the built environment is an emotional issue for the participants, which has a significant impact on their well-being and everyday life. The older persons declared that while walking certain features of the built environment can elicit wellness (e.g., greenery) and unwellness (e.g., narrow sidewalks), stress (e.g., crossings), and resignation (e.g., motorized traffic), among other emotions. Finally, the article reflects upon how urban planning and design can make substantial contributions in improving the built environment to enhance older adults’ walking experiences.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":36621,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives","volume":"28 ","pages":"Article 101279"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143177337","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}
Laura Meyer , Leila Louise Goedhals-Gerber , Anneke de Bod
{"title":"Safety climate and driving behaviour: Differential effects on truck drivers’ violations and errors","authors":"Laura Meyer , Leila Louise Goedhals-Gerber , Anneke de Bod","doi":"10.1016/j.trip.2024.101272","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trip.2024.101272","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Safety climate – the shared perceptions of safety’s importance within an organisation – is a strong predictor of aberrant driving behaviours. This study employs Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) on a sample of 110 tanker drivers at a major South African trucking company to model the relationship between safety climate and two classes of aberrant driving behaviours – errors and violations. A multilevel model measuring safety climate using organisation-level safety climate (OSC) and group-level safety climate (GSC) is followed, with OSC fully mediated by GSC in its effect on driver behaviour. The findings show safety climate has a significantly larger impact on driving violations than errors, as safety climate affects the driving behaviour largely through safety motivation, which has a greater impact on categorically intentional violation behaviours, as opposed to habitual, unintentional errors. The study also demonstrates that safety climate explains a larger portion of the variation in violations than errors, suggesting that violations may be more sensitive to changes in safety climate, supervisory behavioural integrity, and safety motivation. Interventions leveraging safety climate may thus be more effective at reducing violations than errors. Future research should investigate the precursors to driving errors, as addressing these may require remedial training rather than changes in safety climate to achieve substantial improvements.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":36621,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives","volume":"28 ","pages":"Article 101272"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142664271","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":"An evaluation of pedestrian crash risk factors at urban intersections in a developing country: Comparing the classification accuracy of methods accounting for unobserved heterogeneity","authors":"Javad Esmailpour , Kayvan Aghabayk , Arsalan Esmaili","doi":"10.1016/j.trip.2024.101275","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trip.2024.101275","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Pedestrian safety has always been a concern at urban intersections, especially in low-income developing countries with higher casualty rates. As one of the cities with the highest pedestrian fatality rates in Iran, Mashhad lacks studies that pinpoint the causes of these crashes. The choice of appropriate methodology was guided by the two-fold objective of the study: first, disaggregating crashes into homogeneous clusters; and second, examining the effects of risk factors on pedestrian crashes while accounting for the inherent unobserved heterogeneity in crash data. The study compared the classification accuracy of modeling approaches using receiver operating characteristic analysis. By analyzing three years (2015–2017) of pedestrian crashes in Mashhad, this study identified risk factors associated with higher severity of vehicle–pedestrian crashes at intersections. The results show that models incorporating the heterogeneity effect, such as the cluster-aggregated model and the random parameter model, have higher classification accuracy for crashes than models that do not consider heterogeneity. Based on the risk factors associated with increasing fatal crashes, several low-budget and immediate countermeasures are suggested in the hope of improving pedestrian safety at intersections.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":36621,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives","volume":"28 ","pages":"Article 101275"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142664281","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":"Comparative Analysis of barriers to Battery electric vehicle adoption between BEV and ICE Users: A case study of Thailand","authors":"Thanapong Champahom , Dissakoon Chonsalasin , Sajjakaj Jomnonkwao , Chayapol Phupatt , Vatanavongs Ratanavaraha","doi":"10.1016/j.trip.2024.101264","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trip.2024.101264","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The adoption of Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) is pivotal for advancing sustainable transportation and reducing environmental impacts. Despite government efforts, BEV adoption in Thailand remains below expected levels. This study identifies and evaluates the barriers to BEV adoption through a comprehensive survey administered to 3,069 respondents across Thailand. Employing Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), the study categorizes and quantifies these barriers, offering insights into the factors that hinder consumer acceptance of BEVs. The results reveal that ’Vehicle attributes’, including concerns about efficiency, range, and reliability, is the most significant barrier for both BEV and ICE users. However, the order and strength of subsequent barriers differ between these groups. For BEV users, ’Public Data’ and ’Lack of Benefits’ follow as major concerns, while ICE users prioritize ’Financial Barriers’ and ’Consumer Concerns’. Notably, BEV users generally perceive these barriers more strongly across all categories. Based on these findings, this study proposes targeted policy recommendations aimed at addressing these barriers for both current and potential BEV users. Enhancing vehicle attributes characteristics, expanding charging infrastructure, implementing educational campaigns, revising fiscal incentives, and rebranding EVs through effective marketing strategies are critical measures suggested. These interventions are designed to align with both BEV and ICE user expectations and catalyze the broader acceptance and adoption of BEVs in Thailand. This research not only contributes to the academic discourse on sustainable transportation but also provides actionable insights for policymakers and industry stakeholders to accelerate the transition to electric mobility.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":36621,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives","volume":"28 ","pages":"Article 101264"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142552490","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}
Anne Durand , Marije Hamersma , Niels van Oort , Serge Hoogendoorn
{"title":"Digital engagement for travel information among car and public transport users in the Netherlands","authors":"Anne Durand , Marije Hamersma , Niels van Oort , Serge Hoogendoorn","doi":"10.1016/j.trip.2024.101285","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trip.2024.101285","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As the offer of digital services in transport expands, understanding users’ digital engagement and how it developed over time is important to make informed policy decisions. In particular, we lack an understanding of how both PT (public transport) <em>and</em> car users access and engage with digital technologies and perceive them to be necessary to travel. This article aims at bridging this gap, using a 2022 survey of representative samples from both populations in the Netherlands.</div><div>There is clear evidence of travellers getting more used to digital technologies over time. In 2022, at most 80% of car and PT users relied at least from time to time on their smartphone to look for travel information. As expected, higher digital skills correlate positively with the likelihood of using smartphone-based travel information. It is worth noting that PT users report higher digital skills than car users, while these samples do not differ significantly in terms of age and education levels. As such, low (perceived) digital skills might be a barrier to switching from the car to public transport.</div><div>Almost 75% of car and PT users think that travelling is more difficult nowadays without a smartphone, demonstrating a radical shift in societal expectations within a decade and a half. Alternatives like public information displays exist and are still used by the majority, but traditional communication channels are not deemed sufficient anymore to travel worry-free. These perceptions can contribute to shaping reality and may put those with a lower digital access at a disadvantage.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":36621,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives","volume":"28 ","pages":"Article 101285"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143176564","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":"Three decades of consumers’ environmentally friendly vehicles behavior: A comprehensive bibliometric network analysis and future research agenda","authors":"Ahmed M. Moustafa","doi":"10.1016/j.trip.2024.101287","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trip.2024.101287","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Environmentally friendly vehicles (EFVs) research has witnessed an exponential growth in recent years. In this article, we apply bibliometric network techniques to examine consumers’ EFVs behavior research based on 662 Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus documents written by 1590 authors representing 61 countries and spanning three decades (1993–2023). Results show that the most impactful journals publishing consumers’ EFVs behavior research are <em>Energy Policy, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Journal of Cleaner Production, Transport Policy, Technological Forecasting and Social Change,</em> and <em>Energy Economics</em>. Furthermore, reference publication year spectroscopy (RPYS) was used to identify “citation classics” that lay the historical foundation for consumers’ EFVs behavior research. The thematic evolution analysis reveals that emerging trends in this domain are related to environmental concerns, total cost of ownership, and adoption intention. This study provides valuable insights for future researchers by mapping the evolution of EFVs research over the past three decades, revealing connections among influential authors, key nations, and leading institutions, and uncovering current trends within the broader field of consumers’ EFVs behavior.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":36621,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives","volume":"28 ","pages":"Article 101287"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143177342","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":"School travel behaviors: How the pandemic impacted communities","authors":"Kevin Chang, Xinyi Li, Ahmed Abdel-Rahim","doi":"10.1016/j.trip.2024.101257","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trip.2024.101257","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The global pandemic in early 2020 significantly disrupted life for many families, and the trip to and from school was not immune to these disruptions. Parents and children alike made travel adjustments depending on their preferences with regard to personal health and safety, social distancing, and aversion to risk. Each school district and individual school also made decisions with regard to in-person or remote learning during this period of uncertainty.</div><div>In this study, a research gap was filled by examining the effect of the pandemic on school transportation-related decisions for hundreds of families living in the United States. An online survey was developed and administered with the help of Qualtrics, an experience management company. Over 600 responses were gathered from across three Pacific Northwest states. In addition to collecting demographic data about the respondents, the survey asked about travel mode choices and characteristics of the trip to and from school. The collective results were then analyzed to determine which factors directly contributed to pandemic-related changes in travel behavior.</div><div>The study concluded that parent education level, household income, and age of child were all statistically significant variables that affected behavioral change. Additionally, common travel assumptions associated with rural students, when compared with urban students, were confirmed. These factors included a greater reliance on a yellow school bus and lesser availability of critical infrastructure.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":36621,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives","volume":"28 ","pages":"Article 101257"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142533265","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}
Leila Louise Goedhals-Gerber , Esbeth van Dyk , Roland Yawo Getor , Barrie Louw
{"title":"Investigating temperature fluctuations in the wine and liquor maritime supply chain from South Africa to the United Kingdom: A case study","authors":"Leila Louise Goedhals-Gerber , Esbeth van Dyk , Roland Yawo Getor , Barrie Louw","doi":"10.1016/j.trip.2024.101262","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trip.2024.101262","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study explored temperature fluctuations in dry shipping containers transporting wine and liquor along maritime supply chains. It also examined how these variations affect product quality, and evaluated the effectiveness of thermal foil container liners in mitigating temperature changes. Temperature trials were conducted from the South African loading depot and concluded at the first distribution centre in the United Kingdom. Ambient temperature sensors were placed on cartons of wine and liquor inside the thermal container liner and between the thermal liner and the door of the container. Weather data was also collected during the trials. Temperature profiles showed large fluctuations in temperature inside containers because of day and night cycles while the containers were stacked at the departure and destination ports, posing challenges for supply chain management. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse the temperature profiles, whereas logit analysis was used to determine the impact of the thermal container liner on the temperatures to which the wine and liquor were exposed. Blind tastings were used to evaluate product quality after exposure to temperature fluctuations. Results showed that thermal liners significantly reduced temperature variability, which is critical for maintaining wine and liquor quality. Despite this, blind tastings confirmed that some products were negatively affected by temperature deviations. The study recommends the use of thermal foil liners for maritime transport of wine and liquor to minimise product damage and financial losses. This finding is particularly relevant for exporters aiming to preserve the quality of their wine and liquor throughout long-distance shipping routes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":36621,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives","volume":"28 ","pages":"Article 101262"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142532406","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}