Transport ReviewsPub Date : 2025-07-04Epub Date: 2025-04-03DOI: 10.1080/01441647.2025.2487075
Siri Jakobsson Støre , Margareta Friman , Lars E. Olsson
{"title":"The travel-hope framework: bridging hope, travel, and well-being","authors":"Siri Jakobsson Støre , Margareta Friman , Lars E. Olsson","doi":"10.1080/01441647.2025.2487075","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01441647.2025.2487075","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Hope is defined as the capability to pursue a desired goal by leveraging one's abilities and potential pathways to goal attainment. This study aims to (1) chart and integrate conceptualizations and operationalizations of hope in travel and well-being research, and (2) investigate the relationship between hope and travel behaviour, as well as its associations with well-being concepts relevant to travel behaviour research, as a base for developing a Travel-Hope Framework. A scoping review was conducted with the following inclusion criteria: (i) adult participants, (ii) validated hope scales, (iii) relevance to travel behaviour and well-being research, (iv) written in English, and (v) peer-reviewed. A systematic search identified 13 studies on hope´s conceptualizations and measurement. While none explicitly explored its link to travel behaviour, hope was associated with cognitive, emotional, and social well-being components relevant to travel behaviour research. Building on these insights, we introduce the Travel-Hope Framework, which posits that hope – particularly in the form of travel autonomy and perceived accessibility, and experience and anticipation – is essential for behaviour change and well-being. By illuminating the role of hope in travel decision-making, this framework provides a novel perspective for travel research and policy. Understanding the dynamic interplay between hope, travel and well-being can inform targeted interventions to improve commuting experiences, foster equitable accessibility, and promote sustainable travel choices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48197,"journal":{"name":"Transport Reviews","volume":"45 4","pages":"Pages 537-556"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144571262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Transport ReviewsPub Date : 2025-07-04Epub Date: 2025-04-03DOI: 10.1080/01441647.2025.2486002
Élyse Comeau , Amanda Chan , Ron Buliung , Iveta Lewis , Timothy Ross
{"title":"Understanding the manifestations and impacts of ableism in school transportation: a scoping review","authors":"Élyse Comeau , Amanda Chan , Ron Buliung , Iveta Lewis , Timothy Ross","doi":"10.1080/01441647.2025.2486002","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01441647.2025.2486002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>School transportation services are often essential to disabled children's education access. The organisation of school bussing affects their experiences of inclusion and exclusion in educational settings. Disability is often overlooked in active school travel and children's independent mobility research, underscoring the need to examine ableism in school transportation services. This scoping review considers manifestations of ableism in school transportation studies. Findings highlight ableist school transportation elements that families of disabled students experience, such as inadequate educational programming, limited transportation availability, poor transportation service quality and scheduling, and inaccessible schoolyard designs. These issues contribute to inequitable psychological, financial, and administrative burdens for families of disabled students. Scholars are encouraged to explicitly identify and interrogate ableism in future research by employing critical theoretical frameworks that help to recognise and challenge the normalised exclusions it causes in school transportation. Further research is needed to evaluate policies and processes that schools, school boards, and student transportation service providers use to ensure accessible transportation for disabled students.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48197,"journal":{"name":"Transport Reviews","volume":"45 4","pages":"Pages 514-536"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144571263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Transport ReviewsPub Date : 2025-07-04Epub Date: 2025-04-25DOI: 10.1080/01441647.2025.2494025
Liton Kamruzzaman , Matthew J. Diemer , Graham Currie , Allan Pimenta , Chris De Gruyter , Ian Hopkins
{"title":"Making sense of place: a new framework for place-based research in the transport realm","authors":"Liton Kamruzzaman , Matthew J. Diemer , Graham Currie , Allan Pimenta , Chris De Gruyter , Ian Hopkins","doi":"10.1080/01441647.2025.2494025","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01441647.2025.2494025","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The transitional process from “space” to the more complex “place”, through human-assigned locational significance, has garnered significant interest in various disciplines including psychology (e.g. place attachment, place identity), urban planning (e.g. new urbanism, placemaking), and transport (e.g. transit-oriented development, complete street). This interest has yielded valuable yet fragmented insights and definitional inconsistencies in place-based terminologies resulting in perceived disorganisation of the literature and hindrance to transdisciplinary scholarship. This study aims to bring these disciplinary scholarships into a unified conceptual framework to foster interdisciplinary discourse, understanding, and collaboration. Based on a scoping review of 194 journal articles and conference papers, 13 books, and 2 reports, the study found that places are studied from the perspective of “interpreters”, “shapers”, and “connecters”. The place-based vocabularies and methodologies as used within each of these perspectives are synthesised, defined, and framed to enable cross-disciplinary discourse. The framework outlines the strength of interlinkages among the three perspectives, with shapers serving as an intermediary between interpreters and connecters, borrowing concepts and methods from both ends of the spectrum (e.g. subjective vs. objective analysis of places). Significant gaps in research among the linkages are presented, paving the way for future collaboration and understanding of places in the context of transport research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48197,"journal":{"name":"Transport Reviews","volume":"45 4","pages":"Pages 573-604"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144571281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Transport ReviewsPub Date : 2025-07-04Epub Date: 2025-03-21DOI: 10.1080/01441647.2025.2480292
Lauren Pearson , Matthew J. Page , Robyn Gerhard , Nyssa Clarke , Meghan Winters , Adrian Bauman , Laolu Arogundade , Ben Beck
{"title":"Effectiveness of interventions for modal shift to walking and bike riding: a systematic review with meta-analysis","authors":"Lauren Pearson , Matthew J. Page , Robyn Gerhard , Nyssa Clarke , Meghan Winters , Adrian Bauman , Laolu Arogundade , Ben Beck","doi":"10.1080/01441647.2025.2480292","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01441647.2025.2480292","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Identification of priority interventions to support modal shift to walking and bike riding is challenged by the myriad of interventions available, and a lack of synthesised evidence for what types of interventions are most effective. With increasing investments in active travel, there is substantial demand for synthesised evidence of efficacy between intervention types. This systematic review aimed to measure the effectiveness of interventions to increase active travel with a primary outcome of modal shift.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>The electronic databases MEDLINE, PsycINFO and Web of Science were searched. Eligible study designs included randomised and non-randomised studies of interventions with specific study design features that enabled the estimation of causality with minimal risk of bias. Studies were categorised by intervention types described within the Behaviour Change Wheel.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>106 studies that assessed the impact of an intervention on walking, cycling or active transport overall were included. Findings demonstrate that physical environmental restructure interventions, such as protected bike lanes and traffic calming infrastructure, were most effective in increasing cycling duration (OR = 1.70, 95% CI 1.20–2.22). Other intervention types, including individually tailored behavioural programmes, and provision of e-bikes, were also effective (OR = 1.33, 95% CI 1.23–1.43, OR = 1.13, 95% CI 1.02–1.22). An intensive education programme intervention demonstrated the greatest impact on walking (OR = 1.96, 95% CI 1.68–2.21). This body of research would benefit from more rigors in study design to limit lower quality evidence with the potential for bias.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>This review provides evidence for investment in high-quality active transport infrastructure, such as protected bike lanes, to improve cycling and active transport participation overall. It also provides evidence for investment in other non-infrastructure interventions. Active transport research needs to move towards trials with consistent outcome measures to inform which combinations of interventions (including disincentives) are most effective.</div></div><div><h3>Study registration</h3><div>PROSPERO CRD42023445982</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48197,"journal":{"name":"Transport Reviews","volume":"45 4","pages":"Pages 482-513"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144571266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Transport ReviewsPub Date : 2025-07-04Epub Date: 2025-04-22DOI: 10.1080/01441647.2025.2494021
Ludovic Seifert , Pierre Vauclin , Gisele Gotardi , Matt Miller-Dicks , John van der Kamp , Jon Wheat
{"title":"Perceptual-motor skills in cycling: towards an affordance-based control approach","authors":"Ludovic Seifert , Pierre Vauclin , Gisele Gotardi , Matt Miller-Dicks , John van der Kamp , Jon Wheat","doi":"10.1080/01441647.2025.2494021","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01441647.2025.2494021","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Research in experimental psychology has contributed to the understanding of safe and effective transport. Analysing the perceptual-motor skills that support safely riding a vehicle and navigating the traffic environment has practical implications for improving educational programs, transport policies, and infrastructure and vehicle design. First, our critical review presents the state of art on experimental studies examining perceptual-motor skills in cycling. Experimental studies have often used cycling simulators or virtual reality lab settings leading to circumstances where perception and cognition are measured independent of action. Other experimental studies have examined perceptual-motor skills for controlling a vehicle but rarely used <em>in-situ</em> settings that sample real traffic contexts. Last, experimental studies have often investigated how individuals perform and behave to achieve the task-goal without considering the individual constraints, notably dynamic perception of body size and the action capabilities of the participants. Instead, we argue that current research would benefit from viewing cycling as a person-plus-object system, emphasising the mutual and reciprocal couplings between the individual, the vehicle and the environment. Anchored in ecological psychology, our review explores how an affordance-based control approach brings a novel perspective to study cycling by addressing how individuals attune to relevant information for action, grounded in and scaled to their action capabilities, and perceiving the opportunities for action offered by the environment (defined as “affordances”) to navigate dynamic traffic safely and effectively.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48197,"journal":{"name":"Transport Reviews","volume":"45 4","pages":"Pages 557-572"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144571267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Transport ReviewsPub Date : 2025-07-04Epub Date: 2025-03-11DOI: 10.1080/01441647.2025.2476012
Timo Välilä
{"title":"The economic impact of transport infrastructure: a review of project-level vs. aggregate-level evidence","authors":"Timo Välilä","doi":"10.1080/01441647.2025.2476012","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01441647.2025.2476012","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article aims to assess how well the economic impact of transport infrastructure is understood. Analyses of large samples of individual investment projects based on data in the so-called Flyvbjerg database have documented systematic construction cost overruns and first-year traffic demand shortfalls. They have interpreted these findings as being indicative of negative social welfare consequences of typical transport infrastructure investment projects, but that interpretation has been challenged on methodological grounds. The evidence base of ex post social cost–benefit analyses is growing and it, too, has challenged the suggestion that transport infrastructure projects destroy social welfare. Overall, it seems fair to conclude that our understanding of the project-level social welfare consequences of transport infrastructure is improving but remains far from conclusive. In contrast, aggregate-level quantitative meta-analyses provide robust results of a significant and positive relationship between transport infrastructure and economic activity at the level of regions or countries, especially in the long run and at higher levels of geographical aggregation. These aggregate-level results imply that project-level analyses should indeed consider the entire life cycle of projects, not just construction and the first year of operation, and that they should also acknowledge the presence of network effects as well as wider economic impacts – as difficult to measure and controversial as they are.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48197,"journal":{"name":"Transport Reviews","volume":"45 4","pages":"Pages 459-481"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144571352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Transport ReviewsPub Date : 2025-07-04Epub Date: 2025-05-07DOI: 10.1080/01441647.2025.2487892
Kirsten J. Tilleman , Subeh Chowdhury , Theunis F.P. Henning
{"title":"LGBTQI+ personal safety and security in public transport: a systematic literature review and practice-ready takeaways","authors":"Kirsten J. Tilleman , Subeh Chowdhury , Theunis F.P. Henning","doi":"10.1080/01441647.2025.2487892","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01441647.2025.2487892","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Increasing uptake of public transport as part of a sustainable transportation future requires improving people’s experience and perception of personal safety and security. People with marginalised identities like LGBTQI+ are more likely to be targets of harassment and other forms of violence, including when using public transport. This paper provides a systematic literature review on the security experiences of LGBTQI+ public transport users and practice-ready recommendations for addressing LGBTQI-directed violence on public transport. Search criteria included security/safety, LGBTQI+, and public transport. The resulting 51 publications provide key findings across five themes, starting with a foundational understanding of LGBTQI-directed violence in public transport settings. Public transport characteristics provide additional context for LGBTQI+ people’s risk of violence. LGBTQI+ people’s perceptions of personal security and fear of violence inform the discussion of consequences to LGBTQI+ wellbeing and effects on mobility. Current practices and knowledge gaps help frame how public transport researchers and practitioners can create a more inclusive planning and design process for public transport operations that are safer and more secure for all users. In doing so, public transport becomes a key vehicle for challenging – rather than perpetuating – societal normalisation of violence.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48197,"journal":{"name":"Transport Reviews","volume":"45 4","pages":"Pages 605-641"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144571264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Transport ReviewsPub Date : 2025-05-04Epub Date: 2025-03-12DOI: 10.1080/01441647.2025.2472756
Maryam Bostanara , Hao Wu , Lee Roberts , Christopher Pettit , Jinwoo (Brian) Lee
{"title":"Planning for cycling: are current transport models fit for purpose?","authors":"Maryam Bostanara , Hao Wu , Lee Roberts , Christopher Pettit , Jinwoo (Brian) Lee","doi":"10.1080/01441647.2025.2472756","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01441647.2025.2472756","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cycling provides a sustainable alternative to motorised transport by reducing emissions and traffic fatalities, which underscores the need for strategic interventions that include both infrastructure investments and non-infrastructure measures such as polices and regulations to effectively promote cycling. To support this, it is essential to have accurate models incorporating key factors driving both transport and non-transport cycling decisions. This paper presents a summary of factors influencing cycling and evaluates their integration into current cycling models. The review spans both cycling-specific models and large-scale transport planning models, examining how well they account for transport and non-transport cycling. The paper underscores the importance of including non-transport trips in models, yet the review highlights the limited number of studies that do so and the frequent lack of distinction between transport and non-transport cycling, despite the significant share of non-transport cycling in many regions. There is a gap between factors influencing cycling and those used in current models, particularly in incorporating individual attitudes, preferences, and motivations – which are especially influential in cycling. The study highlights the challenge of multicollinearity, where correlations between factors like infrastructure and land use make it difficult to isolate the individual effects of each variable on cycling behaviour. This paper calls for a shift towards collecting longitudinal cycling data and conducting before-and-after studies to better isolate the factors influencing cycling behaviour, which could significantly enhance the accuracy and applicability of cycling models in infrastructure planning.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48197,"journal":{"name":"Transport Reviews","volume":"45 3","pages":"Pages 413-432"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143843742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Transport ReviewsPub Date : 2025-05-04Epub Date: 2025-02-15DOI: 10.1080/01441647.2025.2462037
Maaike A. Buser , Samira Ramezani , Dominic Stead , Jos Arts
{"title":"Policy packaging for land-use and transport planning: the state-of-the-art","authors":"Maaike A. Buser , Samira Ramezani , Dominic Stead , Jos Arts","doi":"10.1080/01441647.2025.2462037","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01441647.2025.2462037","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The concept of “policy packaging” has been proposed to provide potential for a greater integration of land-use and transport policies. This study reviews the literature on policy packaging to offer insights into its potential as a tool and a process for integrating land-use and transport policy and considers how policy packages could enhance the collaboration between land-use and transport policy actors. The review indicates that policy packages are used in land-use and transport planning, but there are often differences in the level of integration of land-use and transport policy measures. At lower levels of governance, there is more focus on transport policy measures than land-use measures. The process of packaging policies follows a similar sequence of steps as the general policy cycle, and the choice of approach – participatory, technological, or a mix – represents a critical factor in packaging land-use and transport policies. This article identifies five key conditions which may lead to more integrated land-use and transport policy packages.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48197,"journal":{"name":"Transport Reviews","volume":"45 3","pages":"Pages 333-365"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143843741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Transport ReviewsPub Date : 2025-05-04Epub Date: 2025-02-22DOI: 10.1080/01441647.2025.2457091
Sarah Toy , Lorraine Whitmarsh , Yixian Sun
{"title":"Zero-car households – constraint or lifestyle choice? A systematic literature review of the factors affecting non-car ownership","authors":"Sarah Toy , Lorraine Whitmarsh , Yixian Sun","doi":"10.1080/01441647.2025.2457091","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01441647.2025.2457091","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>At a time when global efforts to reduce CO<sub>2</sub> and other emissions from transport are gaining momentum, this paper provides a novel, interdisciplinary systematic review of 106 peer-reviewed studies researching zero-car households. The review consolidates international knowledge on the individual and systemic factors influencing zero-car households at the micro (individuals or households), meso (groups or communities), and macro (governmental) scale. In addition to insights into effective policy interventions to reduce dependence on private car ownership, we offer two novel contributions to transport research. Firstly, we find that 75% of studies are uninformed by any social science theories which limits the actionable and generalisable insights that can be made on car reduction. Secondly, this is the first systematic review to draw a distinction between households which are zero-car by constraint (car-less) versus choice (car-free). This differentiation offers important insights into the contrasting needs and priorities of the two groups. A consistent finding across contexts is that low-income, child-free adults are closely associated with zero-car households. There is no evidence that zero-car householders have pro-environmental values but, in some countries, affluent and well-educated city-dwellers are choosing to live car-free. However, there remain practical and emotional barriers to becoming a zero-car household by choice. Effective policy interventions to encourage zero-car households are found to include residential parking controls and car clubs. The review deepens current understanding of car ownership trajectories and public acceptability of car use and ownership policies. It informs both academics and policymakers in addressing knowledge gaps critical for advancing sustainable urban mobility.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48197,"journal":{"name":"Transport Reviews","volume":"45 3","pages":"Pages 390-412"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143843707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}