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Retaining the transportation benefits of COVID-19 induced work from home: Understanding the role of worker productivity 保留 COVID-19 引发的在家工作的交通优势：了解工人生产率的作用

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International Journal of Sustainable Transportation Pub Date : 2024-05-02 DOI: 10.1080/15568318.2024.2317754

Natalia Barbour , Mohamed Abdel-Aty , Fred Mannering

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The impact of bicycle theft on ridership behavior 自行车失窃对骑车行为的影响

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International Journal of Sustainable Transportation Pub Date : 2024-05-02 DOI: 10.1080/15568318.2024.2350946

Achituv Cohen , Trisalyn Nelson , Moreno Zanotto , Dillon T. Fitch-Polse , Lizzy Schattle , Seth Herr , Meghan Winters

{"title":"The impact of bicycle theft on ridership behavior","authors":"Achituv Cohen , Trisalyn Nelson , Moreno Zanotto , Dillon T. Fitch-Polse , Lizzy Schattle , Seth Herr , Meghan Winters","doi":"10.1080/15568318.2024.2350946","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15568318.2024.2350946","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Cities worldwide are promoting bicycling as a sustainable mode of transportation. However, bicycle theft remains a significant deterrent for potential riders, and also influences the behaviors of existing cyclists. Understanding the impact of theft on bicycling behaviors provides a foundation for developing strategies to address the negative impacts of bicycle theft. Our goal is to characterize if and how bicycle theft changes individual bicycling behavior. We gathered responses from 1821 individuals in a survey focused on bicycle theft in North America. We employed bivariate analysis and binary logistic regression models to explore the relationships between demographic factors, bicycle attributes, and pre-theft behavior to explain post-theft bicycling behavior. The results show that 45% of survey respondents reduced or ceased bicycling post-theft, while 6% increased their bicycling. Additionally, 40% transitioned from bicycling to unsustainable modes of transportation for their post-theft trips. Also, 69% of people eventually replaced their stolen bicycles, of which 46% selected models of equal/higher value. Pre-theft bicycling activity emerged as the most influential factor on ridership behavior after a bicycle theft, with occasional riders experiencing the most negative impact, compared to frequent riders, who remained committed to bicycling. Recovery of the stolen bicycles, e-bicycle usage, number of bicycles owned, and income levels were also predictors of future bicycling patterns. The insights from this research can inform targeted interventions for populations most at risk to reduce the negative impact of bicycle theft, such as secure parking for new and low-income bicyclists.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47824,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sustainable Transportation","volume":"18 5","pages":"Pages 453-463"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140980682","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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Explainable artificial intelligence for decarbonization: Alternative fuel vehicle adoption in disadvantaged communities 可解释的人工智能促进去碳化：贫困社区采用替代燃料汽车

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International Journal of Sustainable Transportation Pub Date : 2024-05-02 DOI: 10.1080/15568318.2024.2311813

A. Latif Patwary , Asad J. Khattak

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Effects of regional freight structure and energy intensity on CO2 emission of transport—a case study in Yangtze River Delta 区域货运结构和能源强度对交通运输二氧化碳排放的影响--以长江三角洲地区为例

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International Journal of Sustainable Transportation Pub Date : 2024-05-02 DOI: 10.1080/15568318.2023.2299918

Chuanzhong Yin , Chenjiahui Wang , Qing Wang , Ying-en Ge

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Do low-income households walk and cycle to reduce their transport costs? Insights from the 2017 U.S. National Household Travel Survey 低收入家庭是否通过步行和骑自行车来降低交通成本？来自 2017 年美国全国家庭出行调查的启示

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International Journal of Sustainable Transportation Pub Date : 2024-05-02 DOI: 10.1080/15568318.2024.2338724

Subid Ghimire , Eleni Bardaka

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Life cycle thinking-based analysis of diesel and electric-powered buses for Canadian transit systems 基于生命周期思维的加拿大公交系统柴油和电动公交车分析

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International Journal of Sustainable Transportation Pub Date : 2024-05-02 DOI: 10.1080/15568318.2024.2343727

Bhuwan Paudel , Kasun Hewage , Sandun Wannniarachchi , Piyaruwan Perera , Gyan Chhipi-Shrestha , Rehan Sadiq

{"title":"Life cycle thinking-based analysis of diesel and electric-powered buses for Canadian transit systems","authors":"Bhuwan Paudel , Kasun Hewage , Sandun Wannniarachchi , Piyaruwan Perera , Gyan Chhipi-Shrestha , Rehan Sadiq","doi":"10.1080/15568318.2024.2343727","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15568318.2024.2343727","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Increasing greenhouse gas emissions from the conventional fleet of diesel buses has made Canadian transit agencies explore low-emission alternative fuels. Despite electric buses showing great potential to reduce emissions during their operational phase, the transformation from diesel buses to electric buses would require in-depth analysis pertaining to their economic and social implications. Published literature highlights the importance of developing a comprehensive framework that considers multiple decision parameters over a life cycle perspective for analyzing different fuel options to replace the existing fleet of diesel buses. This paper assesses the triple-bottom-line sustainability of diesel and electric buses in different regions of Canada. Moreover, a framework is proposed to incorporate multiple decision criteria (life cycle environmental, economic, and social impacts) over different perspectives to make the best decisions for transitioning the diesel bus fleet. The results showed that the environmental performance of electric buses highly depended on the electricity grid mix. Despite diesel buses having a low cost of production compared to electric buses, most provinces showed a low life cycle operational cost for electric buses. Electric buses’ life cycle social impacts are high during their production stage, whereas diesel buses have the highest social impacts during their operational phase. Overall, electric buses have a high sustainability performance in all provinces and territories in Canada except Nunavut. The proposed framework and findings can aid policymakers and planners in implementing electric buses for public transit systems in Canada and beyond.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47824,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sustainable Transportation","volume":"18 5","pages":"Pages 437-452"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141040431","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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Factors influencing bikeshare service and usage in a rural college town: A case study of Montgomery County, VA 影响乡村大学城自行车共享服务和使用的因素：弗吉尼亚州蒙哥马利县案例研究

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International Journal of Sustainable Transportation Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1080/15568318.2023.2295865

Cat Woodson , Huthaifa I. Ashqar , Mohammed Almannaa , Mohammed Elhenawy , Ralph Buehler

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Association between network characteristics and bicycle ridership across a large metropolitan region 大都市地区网络特征与自行车骑乘率之间的关系

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International Journal of Sustainable Transportation Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1080/15568318.2024.2308266

Ben Beck , Chris Pettit , Meghan Winters , Trisalyn Nelson , Hai L. Vu , Kerry Nice , Sachith Seneviratne , Meead Saberi

{"title":"Association between network characteristics and bicycle ridership across a large metropolitan region","authors":"Ben Beck , Chris Pettit , Meghan Winters , Trisalyn Nelson , Hai L. Vu , Kerry Nice , Sachith Seneviratne , Meead Saberi","doi":"10.1080/15568318.2024.2308266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15568318.2024.2308266","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Numerous studies have explored associations between bicycle network characteristics and bicycle ridership. However, the majority of these studies have been conducted in inner metropolitan regions and as such, there is limited knowledge on how various characteristics of bicycle networks relate to bicycle trips within and across entire metropolitan regions, and how the size and composition of study regions impact on the association between bicycle network characteristics and bicycle ridership. We conducted a retrospective analysis of household travel survey data and bicycle infrastructure in the Greater Melbourne region, Australia. Seven network metrics were calculated (length of the bicycle network, betweenness centrality, degree centrality, network density, network coverage, intersection density and average weighted slope) and Bayesian spatial models were used to explore associations between these network characteristics and bicycle ridership. We demonstrated that bicycle ridership was associated with several network characteristics, and that these characteristics varied according to the outcome (count of the number of trips made by bike or the proportion of trips made by bike) and the size and characteristics of the study region. These findings challenge the utility of approaches based on spatially modeling network characteristics and bicycle ridership when informing the monitoring and evaluation of bicycle networks. Further efforts are required to be able to quantify network characteristics that reflect the myriad of factors that influence comfort and safety for people of all ages and abilities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47824,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sustainable Transportation","volume":"18 4","pages":"Pages 344-355"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140341303","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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Exploring the impacts of built environment on bike-sharing trips on weekends: The case of Guangzhou 探索建筑环境对共享单车周末出行的影响：广州案例

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International Journal of Sustainable Transportation Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1080/15568318.2023.2299018

Guiyu Chen , Zongcai Wei

{"title":"Exploring the impacts of built environment on bike-sharing trips on weekends: The case of Guangzhou","authors":"Guiyu Chen , Zongcai Wei","doi":"10.1080/15568318.2023.2299018","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15568318.2023.2299018","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Shared mobility has brought many disruptive changes to urban transportation systems all over the world. Shared bikes have proven to be among the most successful and influential travel tools in attempting to alleviate the last-mile problem – the difficulty in getting people from transportation stations to their final destinations. This study aims to investigate the impacts of built environment factors on bike-sharing trips. Although many studies have explored these impacts, most have focused on the impacts of urban function, and have paid insufficient attention to the cycling environment. This study used multi-source data, including street view images (SVIs), points of interest (POIs), digital elevation models (DEMs), and road networks, to fully identify the influences of the built environment from five dimensions. The multiscale geographically weighted regression (MGWR) method was used to investigate the impacts of the urban built environment on bike-sharing usage. The results found that high-density roads, recreational POIs, and residential POIs all had positive impacts on the volume of bike-sharing trips in residential areas on weekends, whereas urban greenness negatively impacts bike-sharing usage in parks, because of strict regulations promulgated by local governments. Moreover, the impacts of high-density street networks and residential communities had strong spatial non-stationarity, while the influences of other built environment factors, including road gradient, eye-level greenness, and urban function mixture, were demonstrated spatial stationarity. These findings can facilitate local governments’ and enterprises’ efforts to improve the cycling environment and ensure the efficient management of shared bikes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47824,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sustainable Transportation","volume":"18 4","pages":"Pages 315-327"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139533453","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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Everyday accessibility practices and experiences in a context of transitions to sustainable mobility: Qualitative evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa 向可持续流动性过渡背景下的日常无障碍实践和经验：来自撒哈拉以南非洲的定性证据

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International Journal of Sustainable Transportation Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1080/15568318.2024.2308258

Daniel Oviedo , Clemence Cavoli , Yasmina Yusuf , Braima Koroma , Alexandria Z. W. Chong

{"title":"Everyday accessibility practices and experiences in a context of transitions to sustainable mobility: Qualitative evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa","authors":"Daniel Oviedo , Clemence Cavoli , Yasmina Yusuf , Braima Koroma , Alexandria Z. W. Chong","doi":"10.1080/15568318.2024.2308258","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15568318.2024.2308258","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Addressing the need for curbing private motorization and car dependency while reducing inequalities associated with transport requires an in-depth understanding of the individual and collective practices, attitudes, and experiences of urban accessibility and mobility of populations across diverse socio-economic backgrounds. This paper builds on qualitative research methods and a framework of transitions to sustainable mobility to examine the links between travel needs, preferences, attitudes, and structural factors such as urban form, poverty, and informality at different scales. It proposes qualitative methods and evidence for accessibility-centred analysis to enrich policy and practice in cities across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), using Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, as a case study. While the volume of literature on urban mobility, accessibility, and land-use in SSA is increasing, scholarship on cities in Western Africa remains limited. The study examines four neighborhoods with different levels of access and motorization. It interrogates participants’ perceived accessibility, how they shape differentiated everyday mobility and land-use practices at the individual and collective level, and its implications for urban accessibility and sustainable mobility in the medium to long-term future. We found that perceived accessibility influences everyday mobility and land-use practices and the attitudes of individuals in diverse communities toward sustainable mobility by driving them to trade off immediate needs with long-term risks and exposures, imaginaries of motorized futures, as well as collectively transform the functional and physical configurations of the built environment to address their most critical needs in the absence of suitable top-down transport and land-use interventions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47824,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sustainable Transportation","volume":"18 4","pages":"Pages 328-343"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139795529","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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