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Shifting gears: Exploring private car users’ perception of public transport ridership 换挡：探讨私家车使用者对公共交通的看法

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International Journal of Sustainable Transportation Pub Date : 2026-06-03 Epub Date: 2025-12-22 DOI: 10.1080/15568318.2025.2603456

Eugene Sogbe , Susilawati Susilawati , Graham Currie , Chee Pin Tan

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Transit-oriented development and accessibility: A review and conceptual framework proposal 面向公共交通的发展和可达性：审查和概念框架建议

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International Journal of Sustainable Transportation Pub Date : 2026-06-03 Epub Date: 2025-12-22 DOI: 10.1080/15568318.2025.2608986

Nasim Rabiei , Ursula Eicker , Fuzhan Nasiri

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Impact of low-sulfur ships’ fuel oil regulation on air quality around Kaohsiung Port 低硫船舶燃油管制对高雄港周边空气品质之影响

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International Journal of Sustainable Transportation Pub Date : 2026-06-03 Epub Date: 2025-12-29 DOI: 10.1080/15568318.2025.2609923

Pei-Chun Lin , Pei-Fen Kuo , Yun-Hsuan Liang

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Belief-driven and socio-spatially effective? Transition pathways from car-oriented to car-reduced planning on the neighborhood scale 信仰驱动和社会空间有效？在社区尺度上从汽车导向到汽车减少规划的过渡路径

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International Journal of Sustainable Transportation Pub Date : 2026-06-03 Epub Date: 2025-12-02 DOI: 10.1080/15568318.2025.2598440

Annika Schröder , Sina Steele

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A global, hybrid life cycle sustainability assessment of alternative fuel buses: Supporting decision making for sustainability and eco-efficiency 替代燃料客车的全球混合动力生命周期可持续性评估：支持可持续性和生态效率的决策

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International Journal of Sustainable Transportation Pub Date : 2026-06-03 Epub Date: 2025-12-02 DOI: 10.1080/15568318.2025.2598005

Noura Elagouz , Nuri C. Onat , Murat Kucukvar , Muhammet E. Bulak , Adeeb A. Kutty , Ammar Abulibdeh , Esmat Zaidan

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Exploring the attractive factors of electric scooters across various user journey stages: A case study of Gogoro 探索电动滑板车在不同用户出行阶段的吸引力因素——以Gogoro为例

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International Journal of Sustainable Transportation Pub Date : 2026-06-03 Epub Date: 2025-12-03 DOI: 10.1080/15568318.2025.2598437

Wei-Chen Chiu , Chun-Heng Ho

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The relationship between street design and walking in the Global South a systematic literature review 对全球南方的街道设计与步行之间的关系进行了系统的文献综述

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International Journal of Sustainable Transportation Pub Date : 2026-05-04 Epub Date: 2025-11-26 DOI: 10.1080/15568318.2025.2596382

Polycap Chebe , Omer Dilian , Karel Martens

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Trade flows and carbon emissions: How far are we from the climate targets? 贸易流动和碳排放：我们离气候目标还有多远？

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International Journal of Sustainable Transportation Pub Date : 2026-05-04 Epub Date: 2026-04-26 DOI: 10.1080/15568318.2026.2649318

Bardia Moghtader , Fusun Ulengin , Eda Helin Yıldız , Emel Aktas , Y. Ilker Topcu

{"title":"Trade flows and carbon emissions: How far are we from the climate targets?","authors":"Bardia Moghtader , Fusun Ulengin , Eda Helin Yıldız , Emel Aktas , Y. Ilker Topcu","doi":"10.1080/15568318.2026.2649318","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15568318.2026.2649318","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Policymakers are increasingly calling for tangible actions to meet the United Nations targets for reducing emissions to 1990s levels. This study assesses whether climate targets are attainable by 2030 for a selected set of countries, with a particular focus on the transportation sector. PyCaret’s Python library is used to train and compare a range of time series models and derive transport emission forecasts of countries up to 2030. We employ a range of machine learning models, including ARIMA, AdaBoost, and Theta forecaster, using historical transport emissions data to forecast CO2 emissions and assess the likelihood of countries achieving the EU Green Deal’s decarbonization objectives. To further support policy design, we analyze freight modal emissions using trade flow data and group countries using the K-Means clustering based on their emission profiles. Our findings show that only two countries—Greece and Italy—are currently on track to meet the 2030 targets. The remaining nations require urgent and targeted policy reform, particularly in shifting freight transport toward lower-emission modes. We conclude by offering realistic, data-driven mitigation strategies for those unlikely to meet their commitments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47824,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sustainable Transportation","volume":"20 5","pages":"Pages 530-543"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2026-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147826821","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}

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Scenario development for hydrogen-based heavy-duty logistics: Transformation pathways for Germany’s trucking sector 氢基重型物流的情景发展：德国卡车运输业的转型路径

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International Journal of Sustainable Transportation Pub Date : 2026-05-04 Epub Date: 2025-12-07 DOI: 10.1080/15568318.2025.2597351

Lennart M. Steinbacher , Arian Zeqiri , Michael Teucke , Stephan Oelker , Eike Broda , Abderrahim Ait-Alla , Michael Freitag

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Modeling the decarbonization of transport: The relevance of disaggregating transport demand 交通运输脱碳建模：交通运输需求分解的相关性

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International Journal of Sustainable Transportation Pub Date : 2026-05-04 Epub Date: 2025-12-09 DOI: 10.1080/15568318.2025.2601085

Manuel Perez-Bravo , Pedro Linares , Antonio F. Rodriguez-Matas , José Carlos Romero

{"title":"Modeling the decarbonization of transport: The relevance of disaggregating transport demand","authors":"Manuel Perez-Bravo , Pedro Linares , Antonio F. Rodriguez-Matas , José Carlos Romero","doi":"10.1080/15568318.2025.2601085","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15568318.2025.2601085","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The transport sector accounts for almost a fourth of the emissions in Europe, which makes it one of the priority sectors to decarbonize. As such, it should be modeled appropriately in all national energy and climate planning exercises. Unfortunately, most of these deal with transport demand in an aggregated way, unable to capture the differences existing in urban or rural environments in terms of potential for modal shift or penetration of transition technologies, and also erring in the estimation of the cost of these changes. This in turn may result in the wrong strategies being pursued to decarbonize transport. To overcome these problems, this paper proposes a methodology in which urban and non-urban areas are separated into different categories to represent their different configurations. The methodology allows representing a more realistic modal shift among demands, indicating where and how different paths and policies could be applied, which also makes it possible to understand the impact of deploying Low Emission Zones (LEZ). When applied to the case of Spain, results show that the decarbonization strategies assuming disaggregated demands differ significantly from the aggregated demand version, in particular for large metropolitan or suburban areas. Overall costs are also overestimated by the aggregated demand model, showing significant differences among urban areas. The disaggregation of transport demand presented in the paper allows therefore for a significantly better planning and budgeting of decarbonization strategies at a national or regional level.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47824,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sustainable Transportation","volume":"20 5","pages":"Pages 496-512"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2026-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147826819","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}

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