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{"title":"LingoTrip: Spatiotemporal context prompt driven large language model for individual trip prediction","authors":"Zhenlin Qin ,&nbsp;Pengfei Zhang ,&nbsp;Leizhen Wang ,&nbsp;Zhenliang Ma","doi":"10.1016/j.jpubtr.2025.100117","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jpubtr.2025.100117","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Large language models (LLMs) showed superior performance in many language-related tasks. It is promising to model the individual mobility prediction problem as a language model and use pretrained LLMs to predict the individual next trip information (e.g., time and location) for personalized travel recommendations. Theoretically, it is expected to overcome the common limitations of data-driven prediction models in zero/few shot learning, generalization, and interpretability. The paper proposes a LingoTrip model for predicting individual next trip location by designing the spatiotemporal context prompts for LLMs. The designed prompting strategies enable LLMs to capture implicit land use information (trip purposes), spatiotemporal mobility patterns (choice preferences), and geographical dependencies of the stations used (choice variability). The lingoTrip is validated using Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway trip data by comparing it with the state-of-the-art data-driven mobility prediction models under different training data sizes. Sensitivity analyses are performed for model hyperparameters and their tuning methods to adapt for other datasets. The results show that LingoTrip outperforms data-driven models in terms of prediction accuracy, transferability (between individuals), zero/few shot learning (limited training sample size) and interpretability of predictions. The LingoTrip model can facilitate the effective provision of personalized information for system crowding and disruption contexts (i.e., proactively providing information to targeted individuals).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47173,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Transportation","volume":"27 ","pages":"Article 100117"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143167473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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":"Travel adaptations among women commuters in response to sexual harassment and fear of crime on public transport","authors":"Elisa Alfaro ,&nbsp;Oscar Oviedo-Trespalacios ,&nbsp;Francisco Alonso ,&nbsp;Sergio A. Useche","doi":"10.1016/j.jpubtr.2025.100130","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jpubtr.2025.100130","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Promoting public transport is widely regarded as a key strategy for advancing sustainability. However, concerns about women’s safety continue to pose a significant barrier to its regular use. A growing number of studies have highlighted the vulnerability of female commuters to harassment and crime, yet there is limited evidence on how these experiences –and the fears they generate– translate into changes in travel behavior. This knowledge gap makes it difficult to develop evidence-based interventions. Accordingly, this study examined the interrelations between sexual harassment, fear of crime, and travel-related behavioral adaptations among female public transport users in Spain. The analysis was based on a cross-sectional sample of 720 female public transport commuters. The average age of participants was 29 years. They responded to an e-survey addressing commuting patterns, perceptions of safety, and behavioral responses. Our results suggest that both direct and indirect experiences of harassment are consistently associated with higher levels of fear of crime, which in turn influence changes in travel behavior. Specifically, fear of crime was found to partially mediate the relationship between harassment and travel-related adaptations. These findings provide further insight into how psychological and contextual factors shape women’s use of public transport, and highlight the need to address not only actual incidents but also the broader perception of insecurity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47173,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Transportation","volume":"27 ","pages":"Article 100130"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144517104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluating the effects of fare characteristics on fare equity: A scoping review","authors":"Lancelot Rodrigue ,&nbsp;Madhav G. Badami ,&nbsp;Ahmed El-Geneidy","doi":"10.1016/j.jpubtr.2025.100140","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jpubtr.2025.100140","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While public-transit fares can represent barriers to some people to use public-transit systems, they remain a major source of funding for operating it. Given the ubiquitous nature of fares in public-transit systems worldwide, understanding how characteristics of fare structures affect the distribution of fare burden (i.e., fare equity) is crucial. To do so we conducted a scoping review of the current literature on public-transit fare equity. We defined fare equity in the form of vertical equity (based on the ability-to-pay principle) and market equity (based on the beneficiary-pay principle). We then screened through 511 unique studies, retaining 24 for analysis. Findings were grouped based on fare attributes (e.g., distance-, time-, service- and user-based fare modulations), fare type and fare integration before combining results in a conceptual model. Distance-, time- and service-based fares were shown to have a positive effect on market equity while only income-based fares always positively impacted vertical equity. User-based fares have shown clear negative effects on market fare equity. The effects of most fare characteristics on fare equity were either not well researched or dependent on local contexts. Lastly, a lack of assessment of the synergies between fare characteristics in their effect on fare equity was also observed. Potential opposite effects of fare characteristics on vertical and market fare equity points to the necessity for public-transit agencies to choose which form of fare equity to promote. Recommendations for practitioners and researchers based on our findings are provided to guide the field of fare equity forward.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47173,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Transportation","volume":"27 ","pages":"Article 100140"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145158037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The influence of walking accessibility on station-to-station passenger flow and its interaction with metropolitan race/class segregation: A case study of MARTA’s heavy-rail network, Atlanta (USA)","authors":"Luis Enrique Ramos-Santiago ,&nbsp;Luke Derochers","doi":"10.1016/j.jpubtr.2024.100115","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jpubtr.2024.100115","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Mass transit is a key transport strategy in helping cities decarbonize, adapt to an era of rapid climate change, and guide rapid urbanization. Central to transit planning is the ability to accurately estimate demand for an effective, efficient, and equitable infrastructure and services. Instrumental to this effort is direct-demand modelling (DDM), which has evolved to become more nuanced in predicting ridership at station-level and station-<em>to</em>-station levels and in shedding light on key ridership and performance determinants. <em>Local</em> and <em>Metropolitan</em> accessibility as predictors of transit patronage has been shown significant in recent DDM studies at station-level, with an apparent synergistic relationship. This, however, has not been explored on a station-<em>to</em>-station passenger flow level. In several ways this is a more valid unit of analysis for rail ridership studies as it captures critical factors between and at both ends of the trip that are experienced by the passenger. It is also well documented that the sensitivity of passengers to key ridership determinants varies across income levels. In some jurisdictions income level strongly correlates with race/ethnicity and/or class, due in part to historical legacies of classism and/or racism. Segregation because of class and/or race prejudice, often found in US cities, might yield spatial heterogeneity in whole-network DDM model parameters and introduce bias that could potentially mislead transit analysts, policy makers, and systemwide effectiveness. We explored and tested these possibilities and considered modelling and policy implications as we leveraged Atlanta’s legacy of racial and income segregation in studying MARTA’s Origin-Destination (O-D) passenger flow patterns. First, a potential synergistic relationship between origin-stations’ and destination-stations’ walking accessibility levels was tested. Disparities, if any, in this and other ridership determinants were then explored between two distinct sets of O-D pairs whose origin Pedsheds accommodate majority-white or majority-nonwhite residents. Comparison and testing using generalized crossed-effects modelling reveals important differences in fit, magnitude, and significance of some parameters across submodels and as compared to the whole-network model. We also identified distinct moderating effects of distance between O-D pair stations and walking accessibility levels across submodels. In racially- and/or class-segregated cities planners would benefit from developing race- and/or class-based DDM submodels that would likely yield less biassed parameters; improve our understanding of rail transit patronage determinants; and help in crafting more effective and equitable transit and land-use policies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47173,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Transportation","volume":"27 ","pages":"Article 100115"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143168294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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":"The personal safety burden for women taking public transport in Australia and implications for provision of equitable public transport","authors":"Julie A. King ,&nbsp;Dominique A. Greer ,&nbsp;Rae S.M. Danvers ,&nbsp;Byron W. Keating","doi":"10.1016/j.jpubtr.2025.100118","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jpubtr.2025.100118","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Travel on public transport for women is associated with concerns about safety from harassment and violence, and women may avoid public transport or make changes to their travel as a consequence. This qualitative research aimed to explore women’s experiences on public transport, the steps they take to avoid harassment and violence, and what they thought could be done to improve their safety. Women (n = 44) in Australia’s two largest cities, Sydney and Melbourne, were recruited for focus group discussions and their responses were analysed thematically. The results showed that women experience a personal safety burden, due to the need to anticipate possible exposure to harassment and violence, plan ways of avoiding or mitigating the risk, and use defensive tactics to cope with uncomfortable situations. This personal safety burden has five dimensions: cognitive, temporal, emotional, financial and social. The responses showed that women tended to take the public transport system as a given, and to believe they needed to take responsibility for their own safety, so that they did not nominate particular solutions for public transport providers to implement. However, it was evident that the features of public transport travel that participants felt were safer, such as the presence of trained staff, are diminishing with the move to greater use of technology and automation. It is considered that public transport providers have an obligation to ensure that women are not disadvantaged by the personal safety burden observed in this research. It is recommended that public transport providers note the existing features that women find safer (e.g., well-lit environment, presence of trained staff) and seek to extend their provision; and investigate innovative means of maintaining and enhancing safety for women while pursing technological change.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47173,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Transportation","volume":"27 ","pages":"Article 100118"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143168293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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":"A framework to organize public transport-based crowdshipping","authors":"Meijing Zhang ,&nbsp;Lynette Cheah","doi":"10.1016/j.jpubtr.2025.100133","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jpubtr.2025.100133","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Crowdshipping is an urban freight solution that involves members of the public to fulfill parcel deliveries, ideally along their precommitted journeys. This paper proposes a comprehensive framework to organize public transport-based crowdshipping by integrating the use of parcel lockers. This approach allows transit passengers to serve as crowdshippers, ensuring that parcel delivery demand aligns with crowdshipper availability, while considering locker capacity constraints. The framework involves formulating and solving parcel assignment and vehicle routing problems, incorporating matching for parcels and lockers, and using an iterative heuristic algorithm for optimal locker selection. The feasibility of the framework is demonstrated using real-world data, revealing significant benefits. With crowdshipping, a carrier can reduce delivery vehicle kilometers traveled (VKT) and associated air emissions by up to 30%. This reduction only requires redirecting less than 9% of parcels to crowdshippers. Crowdshipping utilizing public transport has good potential to fulfill urban deliveries in a sustainable manner.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47173,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Transportation","volume":"27 ","pages":"Article 100133"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144829629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A planning history of high-speed rail in Italy","authors":"Marco Chitti ,&nbsp;Paolo Beria","doi":"10.1016/j.jpubtr.2025.100126","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jpubtr.2025.100126","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The paper examines the planning history of the Italian high-speed rail (HSR) network through three main perspectives: the distinction between service-driven and infrastructure-driven planning paradigms, the characteristics of infrastructure megaprojects, and the debates surrounding core and periphery regions. It divides this planning history into four key phases spanning nearly four decades, each marked by shifts in governance and planning philosophy. The paper evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of each phase, focusing not only on outcomes but also on the coherence of planning efforts. The Italian case serves as a basis for a broader discussion on the challenges of infrastructure-centered planning in rail transport.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47173,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Transportation","volume":"27 ","pages":"Article 100126"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144335719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bit by bit: A method for using bus data to develop plan bus priority interventions in Portland, Oregon, USA","authors":"Paul Redelmeier ,&nbsp;Rodrigo Victoriano-Habit ,&nbsp;Miles Crumley ,&nbsp;Ahmed El-Geneidy","doi":"10.1016/j.jpubtr.2025.100135","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jpubtr.2025.100135","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Bus Priority Interventions are small-scale changes that improve bus speed and reliability. These include changes to street geometry, bus stops, and traffic signals. Automated Vehicle Location-Automated Passenger Counting (AVL-APC) data can help transit agencies by providing insight into bus location, speed, and passenger volumes. This work proposes an end-to-end methodology for using AVL-APC data to create a concept design for bus priority interventions on a bus corridor. The proposed method is illustrated by analyzing a bus route in Portland, Oregon. This mixed-methods approach paired quantitative data analysis with site visits to identify what was causing delay on the route and suggest targeted interventions. Scenario analysis of historical trip data was employed to predict the impact of different interventions. Historical trips that fell into two different scenarios were compared: a delay scenario (where a specific delay-inducing event occurred, like a red light) and a non-delay scenario (where that event did not occur). This end-to-end methodology could be used by transit agencies and transportation planners to quickly assess different corridors and interventions, diagnose problems, and determine which projects would create the greatest customer and financial benefits. Employing this approach could help planners prioritize time and resources to ensure that the highest impact projects are pursued.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47173,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Transportation","volume":"27 ","pages":"Article 100135"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144841898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Re-evaluating the satisfaction effects of rail transit accessibility: A comparison of local and network perspectives","authors":"Yanwen Yun ,&nbsp;Jingtong Zhai","doi":"10.1016/j.jpubtr.2025.100131","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jpubtr.2025.100131","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Previous studies have linked public transport accessibility to travel satisfaction, but most focus on local accessibility effects, with limited research comparing these to network accessibility effects. Using data from the Beijing Rail Transit System (BRTS) and a large-scale household satisfaction survey, this study applies a Bayesian multilevel approach to examine and compare the impacts of local and network rail transit accessibility on travel satisfaction. We also explore the nonlinear nature of this relationship and the influence of rail transit configurations. The results show that: 1) Both local and network accessibility have significant effects on travel satisfaction, including for commuting and non-commuting trips. Local accessibility has a stronger impact than network accessibility. 2) The effect is nonlinear, peaking at the fourth quintile, and from the second quintile onward, local accessibility has a clearly stronger positive effect than network accessibility. 3) Residents near ring lines or non-transfer stations tend to benefit more from accessibility improvements. These findings suggest that urban planners and policymakers should evaluate transit investments based on network accessibility beyond just station areas, while accounting for threshold effects and rail network design to promote transport equity and overall welfare.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47173,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Transportation","volume":"27 ","pages":"Article 100131"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144517820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Monitoring public transport crowding exposure: Stockholm before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Joanne Yuh-Jye Lin ,&nbsp;Erik Jenelius ,&nbsp;Matej Cebecauer","doi":"10.1016/j.jpubtr.2025.100137","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jpubtr.2025.100137","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Crowding exposure in public transport vehicles has a serious negative impact on passengers’ travel experience. Especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, exposure to crowded conditions may also increase the risk of virus transmission among passengers. To mitigate the negative impact of crowding on public transport systems, there is an increasing need to understand how crowding exposure is distributed across the service area and passenger groups, and how it changes over time. This paper provides a methodology for monitoring the equity of crowding exposure over time using longitudinal smart card data. An objective measure is proposed to quantify crowding exposure: relative crowded travel time (rCTT). We apply Lorenz curves, Gini and Suits coefficients to assess horizontal equity (across the population) and vertical equity (considering income). In our case study of the Stockholm Region, we demonstrate our method by assessing the equity of crowding exposure during different stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: pre-COVID, COVID, and post-COVID. Our findings show that the pandemic negatively impacted both horizontal and vertical equity. During the pandemic, crowding exposure became increasingly uneven across the service area. While overall ridership and crowding exposure declined during the pandemic, reductions were not uniform across social groups. Lower-income riders showed smaller decreases in travel compared to higher-income riders, resulting in greater crowding exposure among disadvantaged groups and a shift from a progressive to a regressive distribution. These findings reinforce the importance of continued monitoring of crowding exposure, especially as travel behavior and policy contexts continue to evolve. The proposed framework can help identify and target the most critical equity gaps, enabling more focused and effective interventions.with lower-income travelers experiencing more crowding than their higher-income counterparts. However, by the post-COVID stage, the equity of crowding exposure has nearly returned to pre-COVID levels.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47173,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Transportation","volume":"27 ","pages":"Article 100137"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145060417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}