{"title":"The agglomeration patterns of different lodging segments around a transportation hub","authors":"Bingjie Niu , Zhibin Lin , Ping Yin","doi":"10.1016/j.rtbm.2024.101199","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rtbm.2024.101199","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study aims to analyze the spatial distribution and temporal evolution of the lodging industry around a major transportation hub, focusing on the agglomeration patterns of different types of lodging establishments, namely budget hotels, economy hotels, upscale hotels, and peer-to-peer accommodations. The study takes the high-speed rail (HSR) station in Beijing, China, specifically the Beijingnan Station, as the empirical setting. The findings reveal a gradual increase in the degree of agglomeration in the lodging industry since the opening of the HSR station, with the distribution center shifting closer to the station every year. The distribution pattern surrounding the station follows a six-ring structure, where budget hotels are located in the innermost ring, followed by economy hotels in the second ring, and upscale hotels in the outermost ring. Notably, peer-to-peer accommodations exhibit a dispersed and sporadic distribution pattern, which sets them apart from other types of lodging establishments.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47453,"journal":{"name":"Research in Transportation Business and Management","volume":"57 ","pages":"Article 101199"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142169470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Technological trends in mountain logistics: A patent analysis","authors":"Mehari Beyene Teshome , Matteo Podrecca , Guido Orzes","doi":"10.1016/j.rtbm.2024.101202","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rtbm.2024.101202","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Transportation and logistics in mountain regions are difficult due to the harsh weather conditions and complex terrain. It is crucial to have specialized expertise and advanced technologies to tackle such challenges. However, the field has unexplored domains, and available solutions are not holistically charted, necessitating a nuanced understanding of the innovation landscape and growth trajectories. This study aims to undertake a patent analysis on mountain transportation and logistics to unveil emerging trends, map technological advancements, and contribute to enhancing transportation systems. Relevant patent documents were extracted from the Derwent Innovation Index database through a keyword search combined with specific International Patent Classification categories. From these documents, technological fields were identified and grouped using the Latent Dirichlet Allocation technique, resulting in 12 clusters. Among them, seat and suspension control systems, intelligent vehicle control systems, electrical systems and electric vehicles, bicycle frame design, and safety devices are likely to attract notable interest in the future. The findings contribute to the academic discourse and hold practical implications for industry and policy stakeholders, offering a nuanced understanding of technological trends crucial for addressing transportation challenges in mountain terrains.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47453,"journal":{"name":"Research in Transportation Business and Management","volume":"57 ","pages":"Article 101202"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210539524001044/pdfft?md5=61200ed136a268493b5fd37084c34711&pid=1-s2.0-S2210539524001044-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142169471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hongli Wang , Qing Liu , Bowen Bai , Junfang Wang , Han Xiao , Huan Liu , Jindong Liang , Zhenhong Lin , Dongquan He , Hang Yin
{"title":"Exploring heavy-duty truck operational characteristics through On-Board Diagnostics (OBD) data","authors":"Hongli Wang , Qing Liu , Bowen Bai , Junfang Wang , Han Xiao , Huan Liu , Jindong Liang , Zhenhong Lin , Dongquan He , Hang Yin","doi":"10.1016/j.rtbm.2024.101204","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rtbm.2024.101204","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Road traffic is a significant source of carbon emissions in China, and a thorough understanding of vehicle operating characteristics is crucial for reducing these emissions. This paper presents an integrative approach to analyze the operation of heavy-duty trucks (HDTs) by fusing On-Board Diagnostic (OBD) data. The operational intricacies of HDTs, including load statuses, origin-destination (OD) trip characteristics, and the frequency of HDTs start-stop pairs, were analyzed. We used OBD data from 3792 HDTs in China over whole year of 2022 and employed novel big data mining methods for dwell detection, load identification, and OD trip information calculation. The findings reveal that for cargo trucks, dump trucks, and tractor trucks at the OD trip level, their respective empty-loaded driving rates stand at 33.01 %, 33.58 %, and 31.71 %. The average OD travel distances for these vehicle categories are 110 km, 95 km, and 195 km, while the average travel velocities are 23 km/h, 16 km/h, and 40 km/h, respectively. Additionally, the average number of start-stop pairs for these categories is 2.8, 3.9, and 4.9, and the average dwell duration is 1.2 h, 1.6 h, and 2.1 h, respectively. This study demonstrates the great potential of optimizing load management and trip planning, and provides a reference for improving the economic efficiency and reducing emissions of HDTs in China.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47453,"journal":{"name":"Research in Transportation Business and Management","volume":"57 ","pages":"Article 101204"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142169469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Paul Plazier , Ward Rauws , Robin Neef , Paul Buijs
{"title":"Towards sustainable last-mile logistics? Investigating the role of cooperation, regulation, and innovation in scenarios for 2035","authors":"Paul Plazier , Ward Rauws , Robin Neef , Paul Buijs","doi":"10.1016/j.rtbm.2024.101198","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rtbm.2024.101198","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Last-mile logistics is of crucial importance to city life, but negative externalities require a transition to more sustainable modes of operation. Enhancing the capacity for informed decision-making is key in this multi-actor context with interdependent stakeholder views shaped by long-term contextual dynamics. This paper presents six scenarios representing potential futures of last-mile logistics based on the views of 26 logistics stakeholders with various roles in last-mile logistics using a Disaggregative Policy Delphi approach. They offer insight into the interdependencies between stakeholders and key enablers and barriers in the transition. Results suggest that actions of local authorities strongly influence the level and direction of technological innovation and cooperation. This stresses the importance for local authorities to build the capacity required to play a meaningful role in the transition, for example, by facilitating ongoing dialogue that may help actors to navigate their different preferences and negative impacts on quality of urban public space, and to identify joint courses of action towards more sustainable last-mile logistics.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47453,"journal":{"name":"Research in Transportation Business and Management","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101198"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210539524001007/pdfft?md5=122ef2f5aa35c458901a1384776d961c&pid=1-s2.0-S2210539524001007-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142151980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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 modal share scenario evaluation framework including electric vehicles","authors":"Dimitrios Rizopoulos, Domokos Esztergár-Kiss","doi":"10.1016/j.rtbm.2024.101201","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rtbm.2024.101201","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>When urban residents predominantly rely on private vehicles for their daily commutes, the urban ecosystem experiences substantial negative repercussions, including increased road congestion and significant negative environmental impact. This reality underscores the importance of evaluating and adapting modal share as a key objective in the planning of transportation systems. To provide accurate data-driven decision-making support, a modeling framework is proposed and utilized to analyze modal share change objectives, based on a real-world transportation demand dataset and the long-term mobility strategy from Budapest, Hungary. With the Modal Share Evaluation (MSE) algorithm supported by the Daily Activity Chain Optimization (DACO) framework, several variables, such as travel time, distance, and CO2 emissions, can be estimated for several future hypothetical scenarios. The data for the baseline scenario are derived from a historical dataset on travel patterns from the city, and respective estimations are made for future scenarios while considering five transport modes. The results indicate that a different prioritization of the adoption of transport modes for Budapest may result in various effects on the travelers' activity chains. The proposed MSE algorithm aims to be the first step towards a reproducible disaggregate-level framework that supports decision-makers in estimating how modal share change objectives affect travelers and the urban environment, which will help in creating future transportation policies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47453,"journal":{"name":"Research in Transportation Business and Management","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101201"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210539524001032/pdfft?md5=7a98288602a592f92e8990d8383a9b63&pid=1-s2.0-S2210539524001032-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142151978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shi-Hao Gong , Jing Teng , Chu-Yu Duan , Shao-Jie Liu
{"title":"Framework for evaluating online public opinions on urban rail transit services through social media data classification and mining","authors":"Shi-Hao Gong , Jing Teng , Chu-Yu Duan , Shao-Jie Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.rtbm.2024.101197","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rtbm.2024.101197","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Urban rail transit (URT) service quality assessments are pivotal for transport authorities to gauge passenger preferences and refine operational strategies. Online public opinion offers a vast pool of data at a reduced acquisition cost compared to traditional survey methods. However, current research lacks effective methodologies for classifying and interpreting extensive social media data (SMD) related to URT services. This study presents a comprehensive framework tailored to efficiently classify and mine public opinion on URT services from social media platforms. Leveraging data from ten Chinese cities with extensive URT networks, a domain-specific lexicon is semi-automatically constructed by integrating official documents (standards, policies, and annual reports) and high-frequency online terms. Additionally, a text classification algorithm based on this lexicon is proposed. Subsequently, sentiment, semantic, and timeline analyses are conducted on the classified texts to extract public opinion. Importantly, many manual steps employed in this study can be avoided when extended to other application scenarios. Therefore, this study contributes to the advancement of SMD processing efficiency in the URT domain and holds promise for broader applications in the fields of transportation management and policy-making.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47453,"journal":{"name":"Research in Transportation Business and Management","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101197"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142151979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Designing microtransit services in suburban areas: A case study in Palermo, Italy","authors":"Alessandro Emilio Capodici , Martina Citrano , Gabriele D'Orso , Marco Migliore , Matteo Ignaccolo , Pierfrancesco Leonardi , Vincenza Torrisi","doi":"10.1016/j.rtbm.2024.101191","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rtbm.2024.101191","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Poor quality of Public Transport (PT) services is one of the main causes of social exclusion for people living in the suburbs. Public transport companies usually allocate few financial resources to these areas, providing transport services with low frequency, poor accessibility, poor reliability, and high waiting times at stops. Recently, microtransit has emerged as an effective solution to improve the travel experience in suburban areas, particularly for non-commuting trips during off-peak hours. This paper presents an integrated methodological approach for designing microtransit services to meet the mobility needs of people living in low-density suburbs. By conducting a Reveled Preference (RP) and Stated Preference (SP) survey and developing a travel demand model, the demand was estimated and used as input to simulate and size the service. Combining GIS and simulation models, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) were assessed; fleet size to meet the trip requests was identified and the fare was selected using a sensitivity analysis. The method was applied to a real case study to design a new microtransit service with flexible routes and on-demand stops in a suburban area in Palermo, Italy. The results highlight how introducing a microtransit service with 30 nine-seater vans could change the mobility habits of people living in the suburban area, being attractive and financially sustainable if costing 2 €, or just a little more than the existing fixed-route bus service. It could improve the travel experience by reducing the average waiting time at stops to around 5 min and improve access to amenities and PT hubs by guaranteeing a walking time of maximum about 8 min.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47453,"journal":{"name":"Research in Transportation Business and Management","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101191"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210539524000932/pdfft?md5=921643f49b7a27ef1fa0dcc6f29c8f79&pid=1-s2.0-S2210539524000932-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142117516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sindi Haxhija , David Duran-Rodas , María Teresa Baquero Larriva , Gebhard Wulfhorst
{"title":"A Mobility Justice Framework to prioritize areas for mobility interventions","authors":"Sindi Haxhija , David Duran-Rodas , María Teresa Baquero Larriva , Gebhard Wulfhorst","doi":"10.1016/j.rtbm.2024.101192","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rtbm.2024.101192","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Understanding, visualizing, and quantifying how resources are allocated and the fairness of distributions and access is significant for supporting decision-makers in incentivizing development and ensuring that future changes are widely beneficial and fair. By pointing out the need for mobility justice research to shift from state-centric to more society-centric frameworks and metrics, this study proposed a Mobility Justice Framework that integrated two important theories of justice: distribution and recognition justice. The proposed framework highlights the distribution of amenities and burdens in providing transport infrastructure. It also aims to identify those disadvantaged socio-economic groups more exposed to mobility inequalities. To make the framework applicable within the city context and guide decision-making, several metrics (variables) were identified to make principles of distributive and recognition justice operationalizable. Variables such as 1) accessibility by walking, 2) exposure to traffic negative effects, 3) frequency of use of transport modes, and 4) availability of transport infrastructure were used to identify neighborhoods and the different types of mobility resources/burdens that disadvantaged socio-economic groups are exposed to. To showcase its usability, the framework and methodology have been applied to the city of Munich to highlight neighborhoods with a higher proportion of older people and the transport disadvantages associated with these target groups. A higher negative correlation between older people and mobility resources/burdens can be observed for the following variables: accessibility by walking to activities, availability of walking and cycling infrastructure, and availability of car-sharing services. When measured against exposure to negative transport effects, a higher positive correlation was observed. The paper ends with a discussion section on the relevance and usability of the proposed framework for transport planning and policy and its limitations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47453,"journal":{"name":"Research in Transportation Business and Management","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101192"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210539524000944/pdfft?md5=201224e09be3e484268baef0ff2fe9da&pid=1-s2.0-S2210539524000944-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142098247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michiel de Bok , Sofia Giasoumi , Lori Tavasszy , Sebastiaan Thoen , Ali Nadi , Jos Streng
{"title":"A simulation study of the impacts of micro-hub scenarios for city logistics in Rotterdam","authors":"Michiel de Bok , Sofia Giasoumi , Lori Tavasszy , Sebastiaan Thoen , Ali Nadi , Jos Streng","doi":"10.1016/j.rtbm.2024.101186","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rtbm.2024.101186","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Micro-hubs are considered to be a potential solution to increase the consolidation of inner-city deliveries: in the City of Rotterdam it is a potential measure to increase the logistic efficiency in and around the planned zero-emission zone in the city center. When designing the configuration of micro-hubs in an urban setting multiple aspects should be considered, such as their location, the type of vehicles to operate them, and the business model to be adopted for their operation. And although the topic is much studied it remains difficult to predict how different micro-hub configurations affect the transportation system in terms of transport movements, number of travelled kilometers, etc. This paper describes the use of the Tactical Freight Simulator (TFS) to investigate the impact of micro-hubs on the transportation system in case they would be implemented at a wider scale across the city center, and make a comparison with the current state of last-mile delivery. The case study explores three different design aspects: location, type of vehicles (delivery robots, cargo bike, LEV), and the business model (individual/full collaboration). Results show that the largest reduction of vehicle kilometers can be achieved in the scenarios with full collaboration between the CEPs.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47453,"journal":{"name":"Research in Transportation Business and Management","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101186"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210539524000889/pdfft?md5=ee6593159ad4a4857276471f6ec79d1a&pid=1-s2.0-S2210539524000889-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142098245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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":"Processes and mechanisms of the evolution of container port system in the Yangtze River Delta: An analysis from spatial and network perspectives","authors":"Weichen Liu , Youhui Cao , Wei Wu , Jiaying Guo","doi":"10.1016/j.rtbm.2024.101189","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rtbm.2024.101189","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) has established a large-scale container port system with seaports and Yangtze ports as the mainstay and including other riverports and dry ports, occupying a prominent position in the pattern of national and even the global shipping development. Considering the new trend that the theoretical paradigm of port research has shifted from “spatial” to “network”, and that the focus of research goes from seaports to both seaports and inland ports, this study brings the complexity and uniqueness of the development of the port system in the YRD into the picture. By analyzing the influence of globalization, specialization, marketization, transportation, and greenization on port system development and its pattern formation, this paper elaborates on the gradient process of transportation and services allocation from the coast to the riverside and then to the inland. The evolution of port system is considered to have a temporal gradient between spatial-level transportation expansion and network-level services upgrading, and it is also believed that there is a spatial gradient in logistics supply chain terminalization between coastal and inland areas. Combined with the quantitative analysis from 200 5 to 2020, after entering the stage of port regionalization in the YRD, the container volume is distributed from coastal concentration to inland decentralization at the spatial level, while at the network level, port and shipping service enterprises (PSSEs) maintain a relatively centralized distribution along the coastal areas. At the same time, container volume growth rate fluctuates down, number of PSSEs growth rate fluctuates up, which trend is notable in the seaport. Currently, port regionalization in the YRD is still incomplete; the degree of logistics supply chain terminalization of ports in inland areas is relatively low; and the synergy between spatial and network in the entire YRD region has not yet been formed. This study tries to answer the question of the relationship between different types of ports in the complex port system, which can enrich the theoretical and empirical results of port system research and guide the practice of port and shipping in the YRD.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47453,"journal":{"name":"Research in Transportation Business and Management","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101189"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142230351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}