Transport PolicyPub Date : 2025-07-03DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2025.06.028
Chonghao Zhang , Xuanyu Liu , Jingzheng Ren , Hao Yu , Jinyi Huang , Xiao Luo
{"title":"The IMAGE framework for human mobility science: A comprehensive bibliometric analysis of research trends and frontiers","authors":"Chonghao Zhang , Xuanyu Liu , Jingzheng Ren , Hao Yu , Jinyi Huang , Xiao Luo","doi":"10.1016/j.tranpol.2025.06.028","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tranpol.2025.06.028","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study presents the first comprehensive bibliometric analysis of human mobility research, examining 4793 articles (2008–2024) through CiteSpace. Our analysis identifies Utrecht University and U.S. institutions as field leaders while revealing four distinct research domains: Mobility Mechanism, Adaptive technology, Social Governance, and Sustainable Environment. Despite methodological limitations in capturing emerging research, our findings demonstrate a clear evolution from studying individual travel behaviors toward analyzing complex mobility patterns within diverse socioeconomic contexts. Based on these identified domains, we introduce the IMAGE Mobility Framework (Information-Driven, Mobility Mechanism, Adaptive Technology, Social Governance, Sustainable Environment) as a foundational paradigm for the field's fourth developmental phase. This framework systematically integrates advanced analytics, resilient systems design, intelligent governance mechanisms, and sustainability principles to address increasingly complex mobility challenges. Our research establishes a comprehensive roadmap for future scholarly inquiry that harnesses artificial intelligence capabilities, synthesizes heterogeneous data sources, and formulates innovative solutions to critical societal challenges including pandemic response, climate change mitigation, and social equity advancement.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48378,"journal":{"name":"Transport Policy","volume":"171 ","pages":"Pages 706-720"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144632661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparative study of the impact of Indian transportation infrastructure on firm-level performance in inland waterways","authors":"Archana Srivastava , Somesh Kumar Mathur , Manish Chauhan , Prabir De","doi":"10.1016/j.tranpol.2025.06.025","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tranpol.2025.06.025","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The present study attempts to analyze the impact of transportation infrastructure like new roads, railway routes and inland waterways on firm-level performance in India. We use World Enterprise Survey data to analyze the same using Difference-in-Difference (DID) methodology. This allows us to assess the policy intervention over time and across treatment and control groups. In transportation and network studies, firms operating near to the infrastructure are qualified as treatment group and all others operating faraway as control group. We cover in our study (i) the inland waterways connecting Allahabad with Haldia, (ii) Golden Quadrilateral infrastructure connecting 19 cities of India, (iii) the Delhi-Meerut expressway, and (iv) Eastern and Western freight railway routes connecting eastern and western part of India. Results reveal that it is only Delhi-Meerut expressway and Western freight rail routes which bring dividends to firms operating near to the infrastructure over the years. It is evident that for other rail and road routes and inland waterways, the firms which operate further away from the infrastructure bring more businesses to firms and create less obstacles to transportation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48378,"journal":{"name":"Transport Policy","volume":"171 ","pages":"Pages 764-802"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144632664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Transport PolicyPub Date : 2025-07-02DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2025.05.016
Michael W. Levin , Jaoting Nie , Jacob Grzesiak
{"title":"Does traveling to school before sunrise affect whether elementary school students walk or bike? Results from stated and revealed preference surveys in Minnesota","authors":"Michael W. Levin , Jaoting Nie , Jacob Grzesiak","doi":"10.1016/j.tranpol.2025.05.016","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tranpol.2025.05.016","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Some school districts schedule elementary schools with early start times for various reasons. Such start times sometimes necessitate travel before sunrise during winter months. Intuitively, this could potentially conflict with a desire for increased use of active transportation, e.g. from the Safe Routes To School program, to reduce motor vehicle travel and associated traffic congestion from driving students to school. Since prior literature has identified that parents are concerned about child safety around traffic, it is possible that travel before sunrise (where visibility is reduced) would also be a concern to parents and further discourage active transportation. We aim to answer the question of whether travel before sunrise affects whether elementary school students walk or bike. To answer this question, we conducted a stated preference survey of parents about their child’s travel choices, asking parents to rank the importance of various factors including travel before sunrise. Due to concerns about whether stated parental preferences would align with actual behavior, we also conducted a revealed preference survey using StreetLight data on travel to elementary schools. Survey distribution and data collection occurred in February in Minnesota, during a period of late sunrise. Overall, the results from all data analyses are aligned. Early school start times were associated with slightly higher use of active transportation in both stated and revealed travel patterns. Parents ranked travel before sunrise only as a moderate concern behind distance, infrastructure, crossing busy roads, and child’s age. We did not find data to conclude that travel before sunrise significantly limits use of active transportation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48378,"journal":{"name":"Transport Policy","volume":"171 ","pages":"Pages 476-486"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144556657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Transport PolicyPub Date : 2025-06-30DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2025.06.027
Milan L. Moleman , Bert van Wee , Lennard B. Steketee , Noor van den Hurk , Maarten Kroesen
{"title":"The role of status quo bias in shaping support for controversial transport policies: The counterfactual test","authors":"Milan L. Moleman , Bert van Wee , Lennard B. Steketee , Noor van den Hurk , Maarten Kroesen","doi":"10.1016/j.tranpol.2025.06.027","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tranpol.2025.06.027","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A biased preference for the status quo could explain the increased support for policies following their implementation. However, the influence of status quo bias on support for transport policies has been analysed to a limited extent only. The counterfactual test serves as a potential method to empirically explore this influence by framing policies as the existing or alternative situation. This paper employs the counterfactual test to ascertain whether individuals disproportionately favour the status quo. To this end, we have designed separate experiments focusing on three transport policies: road pricing, speed limits, and train ticket fare differentiation. The results indicate that status quo bias does indeed influence support for transport policies. Participants prefer each policy option when framed as the status quo. In contrast, support for the same policy option declines when presented as the alternative situation. These findings underscore the irrational tendency to adhere to the status quo, which may stem from psychological commitments or cognitive misperceptions. Therefore, politicians, policymakers, and practitioners should anticipate a bias towards the status quo when introducing controversial transport policies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48378,"journal":{"name":"Transport Policy","volume":"171 ","pages":"Pages 453-461"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144522661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Transport PolicyPub Date : 2025-06-28DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2025.06.026
Rubina Singh , Casey Quinn , Don MacKenzie
{"title":"Poor reliability of public charging stations can impede the growth of the electric vehicle market","authors":"Rubina Singh , Casey Quinn , Don MacKenzie","doi":"10.1016/j.tranpol.2025.06.026","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tranpol.2025.06.026","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>How does the reliability of public charging infrastructure affect electric vehicle (EV) adoption? Substantial public and private investments are expanding EV charging networks, but concerns are growing about the poor reliability of existing chargers and its potential impacts on EV adoption. Using data from a nationwide survey, we employ a choice model to quantify the effects of perceived charging reliability on Americans’ intentions to purchase new or used EVs. By randomly assigning participants to receive information characterizing public charging as either very reliable or very unreliable, we show a causal effect of reliability perceptions on EV purchase intentions. We find that differences in perceived reliability are equivalent to changing price by 32 % of purchasing budget or changing range by 366 miles, underscoring the importance of reliable public charging.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48378,"journal":{"name":"Transport Policy","volume":"171 ","pages":"Pages 695-705"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144606124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Transport PolicyPub Date : 2025-06-28DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2025.06.024
Zhongzhen Yang , Ying Zheng , Jiannan Cheng
{"title":"Rapid shipping for cross-border E-Commerce: A Sino-Japanese case study on express liner optimization under China's 9610 import mode","authors":"Zhongzhen Yang , Ying Zheng , Jiannan Cheng","doi":"10.1016/j.tranpol.2025.06.024","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tranpol.2025.06.024","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the context of cross-border e-commerce becoming the fastest growing mode of foreign trade and demand increasing for rapid cross-border maritime transportation, based on the opportunity cost of bilateral cross-border e-commerce commodities, and taking into account the complementary nature of the inventory cost and transportation cost in the process of door-to-door transportation, we propose the cross-border e-commerce express liner service. For China's 9610 import mode, with the objective of minimizing the total generalized transportation cost of China's cross-border e-commerce import cargoes, an optimization model is built to implement the decision-making of the ship size, voyage speed and departure frequency for the express liner shipping. Numerical analysis is implemented as an example of Sino-Japanese cross-border e-commerce, where Chinese imported cargoes are divided into four categories according to their values, the modal splits of the three transportation modes are calculated separately, and the service metrics of the express liner shipping is determined. This study not only lays the foundation for building a transportation system for Sino-Japanese cross-border e-commerce, but also provide a reference for the innovation of transportation modes for other bilateral cross-border e-commerce.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48378,"journal":{"name":"Transport Policy","volume":"171 ","pages":"Pages 462-475"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144534179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Transport PolicyPub Date : 2025-06-26DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2025.06.022
Thalis P.V. Zis, Mihalis Golias
{"title":"Insights from the industry on whether ships can reach zero-emissions port-stays","authors":"Thalis P.V. Zis, Mihalis Golias","doi":"10.1016/j.tranpol.2025.06.022","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tranpol.2025.06.022","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The concept of a zero-emissions port-stay is an ambitious goal for the maritime industry. Several promising technologies incur significant costs for the industry and the public sector. In this paper, we present the viewpoint of the industry on technologies that reduce the environmental footprint of vessel port-stay. We survey three stakeholder groups with an interest in low-emissions port-stays: port operators, shipping companies, and providers of technological solutions. A survey instrument was developed that considers the key challenges of reducing emissions during hoteling activities, when ships are at berth. The survey instrument also provided the industry with the opportunity to identify other solutions and key challenges not found in the academic literature. The main findings of this survey allow further comparisons between the challenges faced by each stakeholder. Results from this research highlight additional challenges that, to the authors’ best knowledge, have not been previously acknowledged in literature. The objective of this paper is to provide insight into the challenges of, and barriers to, the development of emissions reduction solutions at the port. We compare our findings to previous understandings of challenges and opportunities based on the academic and technical literature. We conclude with recommendations to improve the uptake of low-emissions technologies targeting vessel port-stays.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48378,"journal":{"name":"Transport Policy","volume":"171 ","pages":"Pages 579-594"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144580672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Transport PolicyPub Date : 2025-06-25DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2025.06.009
Juan D. Caicedo , Carlos Guirado , Marta C. González , Joan L. Walker
{"title":"Sharing, collaborating, and benchmarking to advance travel demand research: A demonstration of short-term ridership prediction","authors":"Juan D. Caicedo , Carlos Guirado , Marta C. González , Joan L. Walker","doi":"10.1016/j.tranpol.2025.06.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tranpol.2025.06.009","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This research foregrounds general practices in travel demand research, emphasizing the need to change our ways. A critical barrier preventing travel demand literature from effectively informing policy is the volume of publications without clear, consolidated benchmarks, making it difficult for researchers and policymakers to gather insights and use models to guide decision-making. By emphasizing reproducibility and open collaboration, we aim to enhance the reliability and policy relevance of travel demand research. We demonstrate this approach in the field of short-term ridership prediction. Drawing insights from over 300 studies, we develop an open-source codebase implementing five common models and propose a standardized benchmark dataset from Bogotá’s transit system, which we use to evaluate these models across stable and disruptive conditions. Our evaluation shows that online training significantly improves the prediction accuracy under demand fluctuations, with the multi-output, online-training LSTM model performing best across stable and disrupted conditions. However, even this model required approximately 1.5 months for error stabilization during the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this open-source codebase is to lower the barrier for other researchers to replicate models and build upon findings. We encourage researchers to test their modeling approaches on this benchmarking platform using the proposed dataset or their own, challenge our analyses, and develop model specifications that can outperform those evaluated here. Further, collaborative research approaches must be expanded across travel demand modeling if we wish to impact policy and planning.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48378,"journal":{"name":"Transport Policy","volume":"171 ","pages":"Pages 531-541"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144572385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Transport PolicyPub Date : 2025-06-23DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2025.06.020
Oğuzhan Acar, Çağatan Taşkın
{"title":"Environmental concern and government incentives on perceived value and electric automobile adoption","authors":"Oğuzhan Acar, Çağatan Taşkın","doi":"10.1016/j.tranpol.2025.06.020","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tranpol.2025.06.020","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>It is important to understand consumer expectations to achieve the goals set for the transition to electric automobiles. The aim of the research is to determine the effect of perceived value and its antecedents on consumers' intention to adopt electric automobiles and to examine the role of environmental concern and government incentives in the effect of perceived value on adoption intention. In the research, data were collected from 776 people by survey method and analyzed through PLS-SEM structural equation modeling. As a result of the research, it was found that economic benefit, driving benefit, driving range, environmental benefit and social image have a positive effect on perceived value, perceived value has a positive effect on adoption intention, environmental concern doesn't have a moderating role in the effect of perceived value on adoption intention, but government incentives have a moderating role on the effect of perceived value on adoption intention.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48378,"journal":{"name":"Transport Policy","volume":"171 ","pages":"Pages 440-452"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144516971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Transport PolicyPub Date : 2025-06-23DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2025.06.021
Hyunsoo Yun , Eun Hak Lee
{"title":"Party politics in transport policy with a large language model","authors":"Hyunsoo Yun , Eun Hak Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.tranpol.2025.06.021","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tranpol.2025.06.021","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Given the significant influence of lawmakers' political ideologies on legislative decision-making, analyzing their impact on transportation-related policymaking is of critical importance. This study introduces a novel framework that integrates a large language model (LLM) with explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) to analyze transportation-related legislative proposals. Legislative bill data from South Korea's 21st National Assembly were used to identify key factors shaping transportation policymaking. These include political affiliations and sponsor characteristics. The LLM was employed to classify transportation-related bill proposals through a stepwise filtering process based on keywords, sentences, and contextual relevance. XAI techniques were then applied to examine the relationships between political party affiliation and associated attributes. The results revealed that the number and proportion of conservative and progressive sponsors, along with district size and electoral population, were critical determinants shaping legislative outcomes. These findings suggest that both parties contributed to bipartisan legislation through different forms of engagement, such as initiating or supporting proposals. This integrated approach offers a valuable tool for understanding legislative dynamics and guiding future policy development, with broader implications for infrastructure planning and governance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48378,"journal":{"name":"Transport Policy","volume":"171 ","pages":"Pages 487-496"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144570884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}