{"title":"Safe and secure accessibility to trails. results of a field survey considering gender-based differences","authors":"Gaetana Rubino , Domenico Gattuso , Juliane Stark , Karolina Taczanowska","doi":"10.1016/j.retrec.2025.101614","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.retrec.2025.101614","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Long-distance walking itineraries are gaining increasing prominence due to their significant contribution to sustainable tourism mobility and the rediscovery of local territories. These trails promote physical and mental health, strengthen local communities and enhance cultural heritage. Ensuring safety and security is essential to foster broader participation and reduce constraints linked to perceived risks. Increasingly present among walkers, women face specific limitations and risks; these include the threat of violence, a factor which significantly influences their behaviour and participation.</div><div>By analysing survey data from Italy, Austria and Algeria, this study examines the accessibility of walking routes and how accessibility is affected by risk perceptions - defined by international standards as varying by impact and likelihood. The application of a risk matrix highlights critical areas of perceived risk considering gender-based differences. The results reveal how men and women assess and respond differently to potential hazards, influencing their itinerary preparation and safety measures. The study highlights gender differences in risk perception, risk experiences, preparedness, and preferred interventions. These differences underscore the need for tailored approaches in trail planning and risk management to ensure inclusive, effective safety measures, aiming to encourage greater participation, especially among women.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47810,"journal":{"name":"Research in Transportation Economics","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 101614"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144749038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Magdala Arioli, Luis Antonio Lindau, Cristina Albuquerque, Francisco Pasqual, Pollyana Rêgo
{"title":"Quantifying direct public costs and externalities for a just and sustainable urban transport","authors":"Magdala Arioli, Luis Antonio Lindau, Cristina Albuquerque, Francisco Pasqual, Pollyana Rêgo","doi":"10.1016/j.retrec.2025.101611","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.retrec.2025.101611","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The quest for a just and sustainable urban transport requires a better understanding of public resources use and transport systems impacts. In the global south we know little about city transport spending and how passenger and freight movement affects society. We developed a method to assess the investments of a Brazilian city in different transport systems (direct costs): bus public transport, freight, private motorised transport, cycling and walking. We also estimated the costs of some of the main externalities: air pollution, climate change and road fatalities. Total externalities costs (€225/capita/year) were three times higher than total direct cost (€75/capita/year). Charging externalities costs, often overlooked in public urban policies, represents significant opportunity for more equitable transport. For individual vehicles, full externality cost recoverry would add to €174/car/year. Private motorised transport, accountable for the highest external costs (54 %), received the largest share of city investments (53 %–82 %, representing up to €255/vehicle/year) while walking and cycling got the lowest (6 %–10 %). Spending on public transport during the first year of COVID19 required significant contributions from city budgets and imposed a new trend in the way bus systems are financed in Brazil, that now counts with hundreds of cities subsidising its operation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47810,"journal":{"name":"Research in Transportation Economics","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 101611"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144723706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Martijn Olivier de Vries , José Ignacio Hernández , Niek Mouter
{"title":"The value of accessibility, health, safety, inclusion and sustainability: a public willingness to pay experiment","authors":"Martijn Olivier de Vries , José Ignacio Hernández , Niek Mouter","doi":"10.1016/j.retrec.2025.101605","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.retrec.2025.101605","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Many countries use Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) as an ex-ante evaluation method to support transport decision-making. A critique on CBA is that it favours policies which produce easy to monetize impacts (e.g. travel time savings), whereas it disfavours policies which produce difficult to monetize impacts (e.g. minimum level of accessibility for people with a disability and environmental effects). Public willingness to pay (WTP) experiments have been introduced to value difficult to monetize policy impacts. This paper investigates how citizens of the Transport Authority Amsterdam value nine social impacts of transport policies through five Public WTP discrete choice experiments. In the experiments, respondents were asked to choose between transport policies, trading of social impacts against a uniform tax increase. We show that participants particularly value that people can reach key facilities within 15 min and assigned a relatively low value to preventing delays. This suggests that citizens prioritize accessibility over mobility. We also observe that participants assign a significant value to all the nine social impacts and identify Public WTP metrics for all the impacts. This suggests that the Public WTP approach has to potential to resolve the critique on CBA that not all impacts can be monetized.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47810,"journal":{"name":"Research in Transportation Economics","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 101605"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144723600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sina Asgharpour, Sajad Askari, Abolfazl (Kouros) Mohammadian
{"title":"Who stays loyal to transit? Understanding preference-based heterogeneity in service satisfaction","authors":"Sina Asgharpour, Sajad Askari, Abolfazl (Kouros) Mohammadian","doi":"10.1016/j.retrec.2025.101608","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.retrec.2025.101608","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Public transit ridership has faced a severe decline in recent years, further intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic. To counter this, transit providers are implementing policies to retain their users. One such strategy is to improve service quality, which enhances rider satisfaction and loyalty. However, due to differences in perception among users, a one-size-fits-all policy may not address riders’ diverse needs effectively. In this study, we addressed heterogeneity in how service quality factors influence satisfaction and future use among transit users, using market segmentation approach and survey data collected from 10,547 transit riders in Chicago in 2022. First, we applied a multi-group analysis to assess the statistical significance of heterogeneity in the factors influencing transit satisfaction and loyalty. Subsequently, to translate heterogeneity into actionable policies, we conducted Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA). Findings indicate that individuals with higher incomes and higher education prioritize cleanliness and reliability. For female passengers, enhancing safety measures is crucial, while riders with disabilities would benefit significantly from improvements in service comfort. Furthermore, intersectional analysis demonstrates that accounting for overlapping socio-demographic characteristics reveals a more accurate pattern of heterogeneity than one-dimensional analysis. The findings help transit agencies to customize their services to user-specific needs and encourage transit ridership.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47810,"journal":{"name":"Research in Transportation Economics","volume":"112 ","pages":"Article 101608"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144679025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sexual harassment and its effects on transport mode choice: An analysis with a gender perspective","authors":"Berenice Valenzuela, Patricia Galilea, Sebastián Raveau","doi":"10.1016/j.retrec.2025.101609","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.retrec.2025.101609","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The perception of unsafety, along with other factors, can significantly influence mobility decisions, including the choice of public transport modes. Women feel more unsafe than men. Despite this, most infrastructure and transport services have historically ignored the differing needs of men and women. However, it is important to study gender differences for effective transport planning and to provide a safe system that is not a disadvantage for any group of people. This study aims to analyse the factors associated with the perception of unsafety and how it impacts the choice of public transport modes. It focuses on gender differences, using Santiago, Chile, as a case study. Mode choice data was collected through a revealed preferences survey, with which a hybrid discrete choice model was estimated, incorporating a latent variable termed “unease,” combining unsafety and discomfort elements. Results show that women, especially younger ones, experience a higher perception of unsafety and discomfort, which intensifies when they live in a district with high rates of assault. As a result, people with a greater perception of unease tend to prefer the subway, either exclusively or in combination with the bus, instead of using only the bus. Additionally, it was observed that occasional users are more sensitive to bus waiting times. The study highlights the need for public policies and suggests measures to address these concerns to promote safer, more sustainable, and equitable mobility.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47810,"journal":{"name":"Research in Transportation Economics","volume":"112 ","pages":"Article 101609"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144670726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Merve Seher Cebeci , Michiel de Bok , Rodrigo Tapia , Ali Nadi , Lóránt Tavasszy
{"title":"Feasibility of crowdshipping for outlier parcels in last-mile delivery","authors":"Merve Seher Cebeci , Michiel de Bok , Rodrigo Tapia , Ali Nadi , Lóránt Tavasszy","doi":"10.1016/j.retrec.2025.101607","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.retrec.2025.101607","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As the rapid growth of urban e-commerce increases the volume of last-mile deliveries, logistics service providers have difficulty in meeting the demand of on-demand consumer requests. This increase in demand challenges traditional delivery, with some parcels becoming disproportionately costly to deliver to their destinations. To address this, we introduce a cost-based outlier parcel selection mechanism that identifies parcels with a high negative impact on the marginal delivery costs. These outlier parcels are then eliminated from their tours and outsourced to a crowdshipping market, where individuals combine the delivery task with their already planned trips. We use unique data on delivery tours of six service providers for the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. The cost-based decision rule for identifying outlier parcels results in a low proportion of outsourcing to the crowdshipping market compared to earlier literature. We identify only about 1 % of the total parcel demand as outliers across all carriers combined. Of these outlier parcels, the proportion selected for crowdshipping based on their cost efficiency ranges from 42.78 % to 3 %, depending on the scenario. While crowdshipping provides a viable solution for handling a small portion of last-mile deliveries, its environmental and economic sustainability is restricted by factors such as compensation rates and the delivery mode used. This study demonstrates that outsourcing high-cost outlier parcels to crowdshipping can be cost-efficient and reduce emissions of last-mile logistics companies; however, the proportion of these parcels is very small, limiting the overall impact on sustainability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47810,"journal":{"name":"Research in Transportation Economics","volume":"112 ","pages":"Article 101607"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144653761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bhavani Shankar Balla , Suprava Mishra , Agnivesh Pani , Prasanta K. Sahu
{"title":"Incorporating establishment typologies into freight production models: A latent class approach beyond industry codes","authors":"Bhavani Shankar Balla , Suprava Mishra , Agnivesh Pani , Prasanta K. Sahu","doi":"10.1016/j.retrec.2025.101606","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.retrec.2025.101606","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines how establishment typologies influence the accuracy of freight production (FP) models in two contrasting Indian regions - Kerala and Hyderabad. Two types of typologies were constructed using Latent Class Cluster Analysis: An Observable Typology, based on observable variables (commodity type, distance to city centre, proximity to freight infrastructure), and a Survey-based Typology, based on survey-derived attributes (fleet ownership, commodity value density, business age, and period of formation). FP models were developed using both typologies and benchmarked against regional and industry-class models. In Kerala, the Survey-based Typology yielded the most accurate models, with two out of five classes showing a substantial reduction in residual variance compared to regional models. These models improved R<sup>2</sup> values by up to 22 % over unsegmented baseline models. The Observable Typology also improved model performance, but to a lesser extent. In Hyderabad, typology-based models improved prediction accuracy for specific classes, particularly those with high freight-generating intensity. Across both regions, the Survey-based Typology consistently explained freight production variation better than industry classifications or spatial factors alone. The results confirm that data-driven typologies, especially those capturing firm behaviour and logistics attributes, provide significant gains in modelling freight production and enable finer-grained understanding of establishment-level freight activity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47810,"journal":{"name":"Research in Transportation Economics","volume":"112 ","pages":"Article 101606"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144631682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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 economic effects of tensions in energy transportation","authors":"Hugo Morão","doi":"10.1016/j.retrec.2025.101598","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.retrec.2025.101598","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper tackles the urgent issue of how tensions in energy transportation impact oil markets and the global economy. The study introduces an <em>energy transportation uncertainty</em> index, developed from over 50 global newspapers, to monitor fluctuations in uncertainty associated with significant events such as the Tanker War, major US sanctions, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the Nord Stream sabotage, the Colonial pipeline cyberattack, and various Gulf incidents. Using a structural vector autoregression (SVAR) model, the analysis shows that these fluctuations in transportation uncertainty cause increases in real oil prices due to supply chain challenges. While oil production dips initially due to perceived risks, it quickly rebounds, though inventories are heavily used. These shocks also heighten geopolitical tensions and reduce global industrial output.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47810,"journal":{"name":"Research in Transportation Economics","volume":"112 ","pages":"Article 101598"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144569962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evolution of bus rapid transit concepts in Sub-Saharan Africa: towards lighter design and incremental deployment","authors":"Alison Chetty, Christoffel Venter","doi":"10.1016/j.retrec.2025.101604","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.retrec.2025.101604","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) has matured into a standardised set of technologies worldwide, its slow adoption in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) cities has raised questions about its suitability in some contexts. A number of key factors affect BRT adoption in SSA, including poorly developed road networks, constrained demand and affordability limits, and the strength and importance of the legacy informal public transport (PT) ecosystem. In response, some cities have increasingly departed from the conventional infrastructure-heavy BRT design approach towards lighter, more incremental deployment concepts, in an effort to better match local realities and constraints. This paper aims to describe this shift and put it into the context of a continuum of BRT deployment approaches. A literature review presents clarifying terminology and an overview of recent BRT system design in SSA cities. We then describe a phased implementation approach evolving in South African cities that focus on improving existing services gradually towards the final BRT design. Two examples of BRT evolution in large (City of Tshwane) and medium-sized (Rustenburg) cities are described in more detail. The potential implications of design standards are explored and provide insight for cities in developing countries seeking designs best-suited to enhance PT services with limited funding.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47810,"journal":{"name":"Research in Transportation Economics","volume":"112 ","pages":"Article 101604"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144516398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mark Angelo Y. Tacderas , Erris Sanciangco , Noriel Christopher Tiglao
{"title":"A risk and ESG approach to assessing the barriers to modernization and cooperative formation in informal public Transportation: Case of philippine jeepney sector","authors":"Mark Angelo Y. Tacderas , Erris Sanciangco , Noriel Christopher Tiglao","doi":"10.1016/j.retrec.2025.101602","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.retrec.2025.101602","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47810,"journal":{"name":"Research in Transportation Economics","volume":"112 ","pages":"Article 101602"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144489835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}