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Spatial-temporal insights into gender gaps in East Asian ride-hailing: Workload, efficiency, nighttime safety, and operational patterns

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Journal of Transport Geography Pub Date : 2025-03-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104213

Chutian Zhuang , Tianqi Gu , Hyungchul Chung , Muyi Zhu , Daniel Yonto

{"title":"Spatial-temporal insights into gender gaps in East Asian ride-hailing: Workload, efficiency, nighttime safety, and operational patterns","authors":"Chutian Zhuang , Tianqi Gu , Hyungchul Chung , Muyi Zhu , Daniel Yonto","doi":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104213","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104213","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates gender differences in the operational strategies of ride-hailing drivers in Suzhou, China, using identity-confirmed trip data from October 2023. Four novel operational metrics (workload, earning capacity, operational efficiency, and willingness to work far from home) were developed to quantify gender-based operational preferences between male drivers and female drivers, who were further divided into age groups. The Geographically Weighted Random Forest (GWRF) model was applied to examine spatial correlations with socioeconomic and built environment factors in order to understand the spatial and temporal preferences of the drivers. Statistics reveal only 5 % of the drivers are female and within that fewer (5 %) are young female drivers. Spatial-temporal analysis indicated that female drivers generally work shorter distances, earn less, and prioritize trips closer to home, which may be influenced by family caregiving responsibilities, but exhibit similar operational efficiency (indicated by revenue per hour) as male drivers under comparable demand conditions. Age gaps are further observed among female drivers: senior female drivers worked significantly longer during holidays but avoided nighttime operations similarly to younger females, reflecting the former group's heavier financial burdens related to family responsibilities and shared safety concerns with the latter. The results of GWRF show little impact of street safety on daytime pick-up locations across genders which is different than Western contexts. However, nighttime spatial preferences significantly differ among younger female drivers compared to older and male drivers, reflecting higher safety concerns. These insights inform platform operators to prioritize order allocation near female drivers' residences and improve safety measures, thereby supporting gender equity and inclusivity at a government level.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48413,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport Geography","volume":"125 ","pages":"Article 104213"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143725656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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Port power 02: Chinese geoeconomic hopes and American geopolitical fears 港口力量 02：中国地缘经济的希望与美国地缘政治的担忧

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Journal of Transport Geography Pub Date : 2025-03-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104207

Hassan Noorali , Virginie Mamadouh

{"title":"Port power 02: Chinese geoeconomic hopes and American geopolitical fears","authors":"Hassan Noorali , Virginie Mamadouh","doi":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104207","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104207","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The port power concept analyzes achieving a hegemonic position over ports as a sign of geopolitical transition towards a new order. It has focused on the material structures of power transfer through the construction, development, hegemony, and ownership of ports, and the discursive analysis is limited to examining port-based geopolitical codes. Here, we develop the idea of port power by adding a discursive layer of the emotional and narrative spaces that govern ports through an empirical study of the “framing of China's hopes” to become a hegemon with peaceful images, contrasting with “US fears” in producing images of threat from China's malign rise. In the geopolitical analysis of the spatial relations of political and economic power, we examine the interaction of simultaneous material and discursive processes in the construction of ports and connections. This approach can provide a geopolitical understanding of geographical imagination and mental mappings in producing real and imaginary spaces. This article examines China's presence in global shipping geographies from three perspectives. First, it analyzes the production of China's geopolitical and geoeconomic imaginations of ports to generate a sense of hope from investment projects to attract more foreign port states. Then it examines the spatial arrangement of China's port discourse for material articulation in maritime shipping geographies and global strategic nodes. Finally, it analyzes the US and others' geopolitical fears of China's port power.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48413,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport Geography","volume":"125 ","pages":"Article 104207"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143687636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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Unraveling the network effects in station ridership growth patterns under metro network expansion

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Journal of Transport Geography Pub Date : 2025-03-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104205

Fangyi Ding , Yan Tang , Yamin Wang , Zhan Zhao

{"title":"Unraveling the network effects in station ridership growth patterns under metro network expansion","authors":"Fangyi Ding , Yan Tang , Yamin Wang , Zhan Zhao","doi":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104205","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104205","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To address the mobility challenges associated with rapid urbanization, many cities have expanded their metro networks. This requires massive investment, but it does not uniformly translate to ridership growth across stations. The factors influencing station-level ridership dynamics and the underlying network effects are complex and poorly understood. This study thoroughly investigates the station-level ridership growth dynamics under network expansion, utilizing spatiotemporal lag fixed effects models to capture both the supply-side and demand-side network effects as well as temporal dynamics. Utilizing the evolution of Shanghai Metro from 2014 to 2019, we demonstrate that the network effects has a significant and intricate influence on station ridership and its relative growth patterns. On the supply side, neighboring stations show competitive relationships leading to reduced ridership growth, while stations on the same metro line can complement each other. For the whole network, the station betweenness and closeness centralities exhibit divergent impacts on ridership growth rate. On the demand side, we confirm the existence of spatial spillover effects of station ridership, especially at the line level. Additionally, the time-lagged and heterogeneous effects of network expansion are revealed. Our findings provide valuable insights for informed and targeted decisions regarding metro network planning and infrastructure investment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48413,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport Geography","volume":"125 ","pages":"Article 104205"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143679107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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Optimizing maternal health facility locations in Ethiopia: A geospatial approach for upgrading to emergency obstetric and newborn care

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Journal of Transport Geography Pub Date : 2025-03-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104208

Sisay Mulugeta Alemu , Gerd Weitkamp , Abera Kenay Tura , Jelle Stekelenburg , Regien Biesma

{"title":"Optimizing maternal health facility locations in Ethiopia: A geospatial approach for upgrading to emergency obstetric and newborn care","authors":"Sisay Mulugeta Alemu , Gerd Weitkamp , Abera Kenay Tura , Jelle Stekelenburg , Regien Biesma","doi":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104208","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104208","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (EmONC) facilities are scarce in Ethiopia and concentrated in bigger cities. Using geospatial analysis, this study modeled the optimal locations for new EmONC facilities such that a maximum number of women could access them.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>We used data from the 2016 EmONC Assessment encompassing 3804 health facilities (including 370 EmONC facilities). Using OpenStreetMap data, we created a road network with different speed assumptions for different road types. We assumed women would walk to the nearest available road and use public transport afterward. We modeled the upgrade of health facilities using a location-allocation analysis based on the existing distribution of facilities and population and road conditions. Three scenarios—conservative (25 % gap closure), moderate (50 % gap closure), and ideal (100 % gap closure)—were modeled to enhance EmONC facility numbers to recommended levels.</div></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><div>The majority of Ethiopian women live over two hours, the maximum suggested travel time, away from EmONC facilities, with significant regional variations. In all three scenarios, upgrades mostly targeted facilities in Oromia, Amhara, and Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples regions, with minimal facilities selected in Addis Ababa, Dire Dawa, and Harari.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Optimizing the location of new facilities using geospatial analysis has shown considerable potential in enhancing geographic accessibility and reducing regional disparities. Nonetheless, even under the most favorable scenario, a substantial portion of the country still lacks geographic access to EmONC facilities. Therefore, strategic health facility upgrades should be complemented by expanding or enhancing road infrastructure.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48413,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport Geography","volume":"125 ","pages":"Article 104208"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143688017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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Incorporating principles of justice in transport evaluation: A case of suburban train projects in Santiago de Chile

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Journal of Transport Geography Pub Date : 2025-03-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104204

Hans Werner , Juan Antonio Carrasco , Ignacio Tiznado-Aitken , Giovanni Vecchio

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Spatial drone path planning: A systematic review of parameters and algorithms

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Journal of Transport Geography Pub Date : 2025-03-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104209

M.B. Sushma , Bardia Mashhoodi , Wendy Tan , Kang Liujiang , Qianwen Xu

{"title":"Spatial drone path planning: A systematic review of parameters and algorithms","authors":"M.B. Sushma , Bardia Mashhoodi , Wendy Tan , Kang Liujiang , Qianwen Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104209","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104209","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>After the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic and the increase in online shopping and e-commerce, the use of drones for logistics has sharply increased. Such an increase raises two questions: (1) What spatial parameters were used to optimize drone paths? (2) How do the algorithms used for drone path planning differ in their input information, type of vehicles and outputs? Seeking answers to these questions, this study systematically reviews the 72 studies on path planning of logistic drones. We identify seven types of strategic design factors – i.e. spatial parameters of drone path optimisation: (i) demand, (ii) climate, (iii) infrastructure, (iv) regulations, (v) safety, (vi) public acceptance and (vii) drone technology. We also identified three properties differentiating algorithms used for spatial allocation of drone paths, i.e. tactical design factors: (i) input information types – i.e. static vs. dynamic; (ii) vehicle type – i.e. drone-only vs. drone-vehicle models; (iii) solution types - i.e. single solution vs multiple solutions. Lastly, the implications of these findings are discussed in light of expected technological developments in AI and battery endurance, and conclusions on future spatial planning systems embracing drone-based logistics are made.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48413,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport Geography","volume":"125 ","pages":"Article 104209"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143677934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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Perceived accessibility: A literature review

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Journal of Transport Geography Pub Date : 2025-03-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104212

Hisham Negm , Jonas De Vos , Felix Pot , Ahmed El-Geneidy

{"title":"Perceived accessibility: A literature review","authors":"Hisham Negm , Jonas De Vos , Felix Pot , Ahmed El-Geneidy","doi":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104212","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104212","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The integration of accessibility measures into transport planning has become prominent in many regions. However, accessibility evaluation is hampered by not having a comprehensive view on how accessibility is perceived by various population groups and how it impacts their choices given certain transport and land use configurations. Recently, studies have emerged attempting to measure perceived accessibility and understand its determinants and how it relates to various aspects such as travel behaviour and social inclusion using a variety of definitions and methods. In this paper, we review the empirical research on perceived accessibility, aiming to provide structure to future research on this topic. Based on 45 studies discussing perceived accessibility, we find that the concept is often ambiguously defined, and that measures lack robust validation regarding capturing the core aspects of accessibility and perception at the individual level. Moreover, results regarding the links between socioeconomic characteristics and perceived accessibility lack consistency and validity. The relationship between perceived accessibility and travel-related outcomes remains underexplored and requires further investigation, including indirect and bidirectional effects. Based on this literature review and earlier conceptualizations, we construct an empirical research framework that paves the way for future research by proposing relationships between perceived accessibility, calculated accessibility, travel behaviour, residential choice, as well as individual sociodemographic characteristics and attitudes. Understanding how various population groups perceive accessibility is essential for developing more accurate land use and transport measures that impact their behaviour and well-being.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48413,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport Geography","volume":"125 ","pages":"Article 104212"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143677936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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Gender-specific impacts of road accessibility on rural development

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Journal of Transport Geography Pub Date : 2025-03-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104206

Thomas Stringer , Esteban Ricardo García Clavel , Manuel Burelo

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Differences in bike-sharing usage and its associations with station-surrounding characteristics: A multi-group analysis using machine learning techniques

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Journal of Transport Geography Pub Date : 2025-03-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104201

Xiao Cai , Xinyue Gu , Siiri Silm , Amnir Hadachi , Tanhua Jin , Frank Witlox

{"title":"Differences in bike-sharing usage and its associations with station-surrounding characteristics: A multi-group analysis using machine learning techniques","authors":"Xiao Cai , Xinyue Gu , Siiri Silm , Amnir Hadachi , Tanhua Jin , Frank Witlox","doi":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104201","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104201","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The bike-sharing system offers a wide range of benefits to promote human mobility for all. However, many bike-sharing systems are most used by specific demographic groups (e.g., younger people and males), suggesting that the resulting benefits are not equally distributed among the public. We aim to empirically examine the differences in bike-sharing usage among varying demographic groups and its association with station-surrounding characteristics (i.e., land use, transportation infrastructure, and population distribution) in Tartu (Estonia) using a machine learning approach (i.e., gradient boosting decision trees). The results revealed that the floor area ratio played an extremely important role in promoting bike-sharing usage, but such a strong positive impact was not observed within senior groups. Instead, bike-sharing usage by seniors was strongly positively associated with the commercial land and bike lanes. It also detected that male teenagers and young adults were less likely to be influenced by the public land than their female counterparts when using shared bikes. Shared bikes located in areas with dense male senior residents gained high usage by them; however, such phenomenon was not observed from their female counterparts. These findings can provide significant insights for interventions targeting demographic-specific bike-sharing usage to promote inclusivity and equity in urban transportation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48413,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport Geography","volume":"125 ","pages":"Article 104201"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143643265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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Revealing spatiotemporal connections in container hub ports under adverse events through link prediction

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Journal of Transport Geography Pub Date : 2025-03-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104198

Xu Bo-wei , Tian Yu-tao , Li Jun-jun

{"title":"Revealing spatiotemporal connections in container hub ports under adverse events through link prediction","authors":"Xu Bo-wei , Tian Yu-tao , Li Jun-jun","doi":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104198","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104198","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Frequent adverse events have significantly impacted international trade. They disrupt the safety and stability of the global container shipping networks. To uncover potential connections among container hub ports, the K-shell and degree of node (KSDN) denoising algorithm denoises the liner hub-and-spoke shipping network. Based on both local and global information, the number of neighbors and the proportion of information transmitted and closeness (NNPITC) link prediction algorithm aims to achieve higher accuracy and faster computation speed. The NNPITC link prediction algorithm is compared with the other five directed weighted link prediction algorithms using Precision, Recall, F-measure, and Area Under the receiver-operating characteristic Curve (AUC) as evaluation metrics. The experimental results show that the NNPITC link prediction algorithm achieves the highest AUC value of 0.98624 among all the algorithms, demonstrating superior performance. The high-performance NNPITC link prediction algorithm is used to mine the potential connection relations among container hub ports from 2021 to 2023. Evolutionary trends in liner hub-and-spoke shipping network are explored. It provides valuable references for port shipping stakeholders to enhance the transshipment efficiency and risk resilience of liner hub-and-spoke shipping network.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48413,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport Geography","volume":"125 ","pages":"Article 104198"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143643266","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}

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