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Comparative evaluation of highways and railroads using life-cycle benefit-cost analysis 利用生命周期效益成本分析对公路和铁路进行比较评估

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International Journal of Sustainable Transportation Pub Date : 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/15568318.2024.2411588

Sarita Rattanakunuprakarn , Mingzhou Jin , Michael Sussman , Powell Felix

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Can the digital economy empower the transportation sector to improve green total factor productivity? 数字经济能否增强交通部门提高绿色全要素生产率的能力？

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International Journal of Sustainable Transportation Pub Date : 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/15568318.2024.2419368

Fuyuan Jia , Saixing Zeng , Xin Gao

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Life cycle assessment: Driving strategies for promoting electric vehicles in China 生命周期评估：中国电动汽车推广战略

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International Journal of Sustainable Transportation Pub Date : 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/15568318.2024.2410362

Huitian Liu , Dawei Hu , Luke Kelleher , Liming Wang

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Perceived seriousness of environmental issues and the influence of willingness to pay for hybrid vehicles: An anthropological extension of the theory of planned behavior 环境问题的严重性认知与混合动力汽车支付意愿的影响：计划行为理论的人类学延伸

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International Journal of Sustainable Transportation Pub Date : 2024-09-01 DOI: 10.1080/15568318.2024.2399166

Wei Zong , Ashraf Ud Din , Imran Ur Rahman , Heesup Han , Jiayang Wang , Zheng Ma , Rakan Radi Alhrahsheh

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Last mile delivery with drones: A carbon emissions comparison 使用无人机进行最后一英里配送：碳排放比较

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International Journal of Sustainable Transportation Pub Date : 2024-09-01 DOI: 10.1080/15568318.2024.2407150

Jay R. Brown , Maxim A. Bushuev

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Cargo bikes for personal transport: A user segmentation based on motivations for use 用于个人运输的货运自行车：基于使用动机的用户细分

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International Journal of Sustainable Transportation Pub Date : 2024-09-01 DOI: 10.1080/15568318.2024.2402753

Dimitri Marincek , Patrick Rérat , Virginie Lurkin

{"title":"Cargo bikes for personal transport: A user segmentation based on motivations for use","authors":"Dimitri Marincek , Patrick Rérat , Virginie Lurkin","doi":"10.1080/15568318.2024.2402753","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15568318.2024.2402753","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Building on the success of e-bikes, sales of e-cargo bikes are rapidly increasing in several countries. Cargo bikes fill an important gap in the urban transport market by combining the advantages of cycling with the greater transport capacity of a family car. Whereas most research on cargo bikes has focused on logistics, this paper addresses their use for personal transport. It is based on a large-scale survey in Switzerland among both proprietary cargo bike owners (CBO) and users of cargo bike sharing (CBS) (<em>N</em> = 955). A principal component analysis finds 3 families of motivations for using cargo bikes: transporting children, staying active, and reducing car use. Based on these 3 components, we use hierarchical clustering to identify 4 user segments: cargo transporters, enthusiasts, multimodals, and sustainable parents. Our results suggest that owned and shared cargo bikes are complementary and have the potential to attract new audiences to cycling and reduce car use. They could become a central component in a low-carbon/post-car urban mobility strategy. However, user experiences indicate that lacking safety, road infrastructure and parking provisions remain barriers to wider cargo bike use. We conclude by proposing a future research agenda for cargo bike research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47824,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sustainable Transportation","volume":"18 9","pages":"Pages 751-764"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142530283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Driving the future: How value retention rate shapes electric vehicle adoption 驱动未来：价值保持率如何影响电动汽车的采用

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International Journal of Sustainable Transportation Pub Date : 2024-09-01 DOI: 10.1080/15568318.2024.2402754

Longyu Li , Jizi Li , Justin Z. Zhang , Yaoyao Ku , Shichang Liang

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Am I really willing to use my electric vehicle sustainably? A study on the charging preferences of electric vehicle users 我真的愿意可持续地使用电动汽车吗？关于电动汽车用户充电偏好的研究

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International Journal of Sustainable Transportation Pub Date : 2024-09-01 DOI: 10.1080/15568318.2024.2399783

Francisco J. Bahamonde-Birke , Dennis M. Ernst

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Digital platforms for sharing and booking electrical vehicle charging infrastructure 共享和预订电动汽车充电基础设施的数字平台

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International Journal of Sustainable Transportation Pub Date : 2024-09-01 DOI: 10.1080/15568318.2024.2407139

Lisa Govik

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Redefining the skies: How sustainable aviation fuel alters airline cost structure and market dynamics 重新定义天空：可持续航空燃料如何改变航空公司的成本结构和市场动态

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International Journal of Sustainable Transportation Pub Date : 2024-08-02 DOI: 10.1080/15568318.2024.2397642

Fecri Karanki

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