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{"title":"Siting for demand and equity: Optimizing level 2 electric vehicle charger placement","authors":"Carlos Mateo Samudio Lezcano ,&nbsp;Corey D. Harper ,&nbsp;Destenie Nock","doi":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104369","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104369","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Governments and automakers are accelerating the transition to electric vehicles (EVs). However, a key barrier to widescale electrification is the lack of access to the supporting electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE). A bi-objective optimization model is developed and applied to Pittsburgh, PA and Seattle, WA as case studies, to illuminate how stakeholder preferences towards equity (i.e., improving EVSE access for disadvantaged communities) impacts the spatial distribution of EVSE. Performance metrics, including EVSE coverage, average number of nearby EVSE, and average number of households per EVSE, were evaluated across seven demographic groups: White, Asian, Black, Hispanic, low income, medium income, and high income households. In Pittsburgh, the results revealed that at lower budgets, changes to stakeholder equity preference had minimal impact on demographic access to EVSE. At higher budgets, prioritizing equity leads to higher access, coverage and less overcrowding for low income and minority households, at the expense of high income households. In Seattle, equity-focused strategies consistently improved outcomes across all demographics. High income households, being geographically dispersed, still benefited when equity was prioritized. In both regions, the most balanced outcomes were achieved when there was a neutral preference for equity. The findings suggest that while equity-focused strategies can improve access for underserved demographics (e.g., low-income and minorities), the optimal strategy varies based on budget and city-specific characteristics (e.g., existing EVSE placement, population density and spatial distribution of different demographics). The study underscores the importance of considering demographic equity in EVSE deployment to ensure widespread and fair access to EVSE.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48413,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport Geography","volume":"128 ","pages":"Article 104369"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144772200","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":"Paths to prosperity: How transport networks and income accessibility shape retail location","authors":"José B. Paiva Neto ,&nbsp;Narciso F. Santos ,&nbsp;Romulo D. Orrico Filho","doi":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104377","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104377","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Retail location patterns in large cities are shaped by multiple factors, with transport accessibility playing a crucial role in commercial concentration. Traditional approaches often rely on proximity to transport infrastructure or network centrality, overlooking actual travel times. This study refines these methods by incorporating real travel-time data for both private and public transport to assess their influence on retail clustering in Rio de Janeiro. Using estimated travel times from Google API for private travel and GTFS data for transit networks, we analyze how retail density responds to network betweenness and gravity-based accessibility to income, given that income is likely a stronger predictor of retail activity than population density, as we show. Results from the XGBoost machine learning algorithm indicate that accessibility to income via public transport exhibits a stronger correlation with retail density than private transport, highlighting transit networks as a decisive factor in shaping commercial activity. Additionally, transit network centrality emerges as a key predictor of retail concentration, reinforcing the economic advantages of well-connected public transport services. These findings emphasize the importance of integrating transport accessibility metrics into urban planning, as they offer practical tools for guiding policy interventions. Enhancing transit coverage, frequency, and integration could support retail activity in underserved areas, reducing spatial inequalities and fostering balanced urban development. Future research should explore the role of informal retail and alternative modeling techniques to refine the understanding of transport-driven commercial patterns, particularly in cities where economic disparities and accessibility constraints pose significant challenges.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48413,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport Geography","volume":"128 ","pages":"Article 104377"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144772140","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":"Inspecting urban transit-oriented development from the perspective of human activity: A case study of Xi'an, China","authors":"Jiayu Liu ,&nbsp;Xiping Yang ,&nbsp;Lin Luo ,&nbsp;Junyi Li ,&nbsp;Hongfei Chen ,&nbsp;Rui An ,&nbsp;Jiyuan Li","doi":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104381","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104381","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Evaluation of transit-oriented development (TOD) can inform the exploitation of transportation and land use around metro stations. This study evaluates TOD by focusing on human activity patterns around metro stations, addressing a gap in previous research that mainly integrated transport capacity, land use, and the built environment. Using data from Xi'an, China, three types of human flow (home-work, home-other, work-other) are analyzed to construct five-dimensional activity indicators representing diversity, intensity, and the proportion of home, work, and other activities near metro stations. Stations are classified into seven clusters based on these activity characteristics. Multinomial logistic regression and random forest models are applied to examine the relationship between the built environment and TOD clusters, revealing their impact on human activity patterns. The findings offer insights into how the built environment influences TOD categories, supporting future transportation planning and decision-making.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48413,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport Geography","volume":"128 ","pages":"Article 104381"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144749612","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":"Enhancing shipping network efficiency: The geopolitical effects of the maritime silk road from the port investment perspective","authors":"Weishan Lin,&nbsp;Ling Sun","doi":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104374","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104374","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the context of economic globalisation, the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, as an important global economic co-operation initiative, aims to promote economic and cultural exchanges between countries along the route. As a key node of the Maritime Silk Road, ports play a crucial role in logistics, trade and cultural exchanges, and their level of investment and development directly affects the overall efficiency and competitiveness of the Maritime Silk Road. This study proposes a port investment optimisation model based on vulnerability and resilience perspectives, aiming to enhance the efficiency and competitiveness of the Maritime Silk Road in the 21st century. By constructing a network topology model, this study quantifies key topological indicators of the port network, including degree centrality, meso-centrality and network efficiency, in order to assess the network characteristics and the strategic importance of individual ports. It was found that simplifying the complex relationships in port network data through principal component regression (PCR) was effective in capturing the main sources of variation and identifying the key factors affecting port network efficiency. In addition, the application of Pearson's correlation coefficient reveals the correlation between port investment and performance indicators, providing a scientific basis for quantifying the impact of investment on port network connectivity and centrality. The contribution of this study lies in the in-depth revelation of the structural characteristics of the port network through empirical analyses of 15 major Maritime Silk Road port cities and the provision of a scientific basis for port investment decisions. The findings are not only important for promoting regional economic integration, global competitiveness and economic growth, but also highlight the need to bring sustainable development opportunities to countries and regions along the Belt and Road through scientific investment strategies and network optimisation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48413,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport Geography","volume":"128 ","pages":"Article 104374"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144721787","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":"Can mixed-methods help us better understand congestion on Low Traffic Neighbourhood boundary roads?","authors":"Ersilia Verlinghieri ,&nbsp;Harriet Larrington-Spencer ,&nbsp;Jamie Furlong ,&nbsp;Rachel Aldred ,&nbsp;Anna Goodman","doi":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104360","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104360","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) aim to improve conditions for walking, wheeling and cycling by restricting motor vehicle movements on residential streets while maintaining access to all addresses. Despite generally positive evidence, LTNs faced backlash, often linked to concerns that motor traffic from inside LTNs is displaced onto surrounding ‘boundary roads’. In this paper, we bring together large-scale sensor data and spatially-transcribed interview data from a case-study LTN to discuss how mixed methods analysis can help to ease the LTN controversy by revealing the multiple ways in which the ‘problem’ of congestion is understood.</div><div>By integrating quantitative evidence of changes in congestion associated with LTN implementation with residents' perceptions and experiences of the same scheme, we discuss how and why these diverge, revealing the complexity of capturing what congestion is. We argue that concerns about congestion are influenced not only by changes in traffic volumes, but also by how these changes are framed in public discourse. We consider dissonances between what ‘counts’ for residents and what is counted in quantitative data, and how what is (in)visible to residents affects their perceptions of congestion. We also highlight the limitations of each method and the importance of integrating multiple forms of evidence.</div><div>The paper helps nuancing perspectives on congestion and its role in LTN debates, while also providing guidance on mixed methods approaches to evaluating transport policies. We recommend that these should combine attention to localised impacts with a broader evaluation framework that reflects the long-term public health and climate goals of LTNs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48413,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport Geography","volume":"128 ","pages":"Article 104360"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144721786","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":"Negotiating space: The daily mobility of women waste pickers in Cuenca, Ecuador","authors":"Lisseth Molina-Toledo ,&nbsp;Sebastián Egas Loaiza ,&nbsp;Javier Andrés García ,&nbsp;Galo Carrión ,&nbsp;Andrea Gómez-Ayora ,&nbsp;Daniel Orellana","doi":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104378","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104378","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In many cities across Latin America, Africa, and South Asia, informal women waste pickers play a crucial role in managing recyclable waste, reducing municipal costs and urban carbon footprints. Despite their contributions, limited attention to their mobility patterns reflects the low priority governments, academia and society assign to understanding their particular needs, hindering the development of inclusive policies and innovative methodologies.</div><div>This study introduces a mixed methods approach to study the spatial behavior of informal urban waste pickers. The methodology comprises three stages: First, a survey and mapping techniques, reveal the spatial distribution of residence, work and storage locations, mode of transport, and collection tools. Second, GPS tracking identifies mobility patterns, dominant flows and clusters of their collection routes. Third, multi-sited ethnography uncovers the reasons and perceptions behind their daily movements. The integration of these three stages highlights the factors that constrain and limit their mobility. Applied in Cuenca, Ecuador, this method establishes a baseline for understanding women waste pickers' spatial behavior. Results show that waste pickers walk up to 16 km daily, navigating spatial, economic, physical, and social challenges. By focusing on women's everyday lives, this study reveals socio-spatial inequalities and provides a robust foundation for advocating effective, inclusive public policies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48413,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport Geography","volume":"128 ","pages":"Article 104378"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144721788","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":"Network evolution of major shipping routes: Perspectives from dominant ports and shipping lines","authors":"Hoshi Tagawa ,&nbsp;Qiang Meng","doi":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104376","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104376","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The four international shipping routes that connect Asia and Europe, Asia and North America, Europe and North America, and intra-Asia have evolved to meet the growing demand for globalization. This study aims to evaluate the network evolution of these four international shipping routes and provide unique characteristics and valuable insights in their network evolution. The network structure and major shipping lines are detected for each route and period using the complex network analysis techniques. The results reveal the geographical and economic characteristics of major shipping routes and contribute three significant insights. First, the expansion of trade with globalization and the global supply chain have facilitated the expansion of intracontinental shipping routes within Asia rather than intercontinental shipping routes. Second, ports maintaining their superiority, such as the geographical advantages of Singapore in Asia–Europe and Busan in Asia–North America, have been the centers of shipping services with greater accessibility to other ports in each period. Finally, shipping lines increase the size of vessels deployed on each shipping route. Dominant shipping lines have maintained and increased their market share for each shipping route through mergers and acquisitions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48413,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport Geography","volume":"128 ","pages":"Article 104376"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144721785","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":"Effects of catchment measurement on the associations between determinants and metro-ridesourcing integration","authors":"Xinwei Ma ,&nbsp;Ruiyuan Xie ,&nbsp;Yu Meng ,&nbsp;Longxiao Guo ,&nbsp;Zibiao Li","doi":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104359","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104359","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Constructing metro-integrated ridesourcing catchment and understanding its determinants are essential for advancing multimodal urban mobility. However, existing studies rarely utilize text-inclusive ridesourcing trip data to identify metro-ridesourcing integration, and most extract explanatory variables based on a fixed-radius catchment of metro stations. This study leverages origin-destination address textual information from ridesourcing trip data in Tianjin, China, to identify metro-integrated ridesourcing trips and applies a hierarchical clustering method to generate station-specific catchments for access to and egress from metro stations during morning and evening peak periods. Machine learning models are employed to examine the relationship between integration demand and various attributes, with model performance comparison between station-specific and fixed-radius catchments. Results show that models based on station-specific catchments outperform those using fixed-radius catchments. Key findings reveal that road network density is significantly associated with metro-ridesourcing integration, exhibiting distinct threshold effects. GDP displays a nonlinear positive relationship with integration demand. Land-use mix shows a positive correlation with integration demand, particularly during the evening peak. Ridesourcing trip distance exhibits the strongest positive association within the first 5 km. Metro station ridership is positively related to ridesourcing demand, with a higher saturation threshold for inbound compared to outbound flows. This finding offers policymakers new insights into metro-ridesourcing integration, supporting efforts to improve connection efficiency and promote multimodal transport planning.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48413,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport Geography","volume":"128 ","pages":"Article 104359"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144714261","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":"Better or worse job accessibility? Understanding changes in spatial mismatch: Evidence from Medellín, Colombia","authors":"David Bernal ,&nbsp;Gustavo A. García ,&nbsp;Jorge Pérez Pérez","doi":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104341","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104341","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We propose a methodology to calculate the mismatch between places of work and places of residence that incorporates monetary and opportunity transportation costs while correcting for possible overestimation of job accessibility. This methodology enables the analysis of spatiotemporal changes in spatial mismatch without discarding data from spatial units that change over time. We apply the methodology to measure spatial mismatch in Medellín, Colombia, – a developing country city – for public and private transportation from 2012 to 2017. In line with previous work, our results indicate that including transportation and opportunity costs leads to a more realistic measure of job availability. Despite investments in public transportation and infrastructure, spatial mismatch in Medellín increased between 2012 and 2017. Our analysis shows that job accessibility through private transport decreased more than through public transport, and that the expansion of the latter in Medellín may have mitigated spatial mismatch.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48413,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport Geography","volume":"128 ","pages":"Article 104341"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144704356","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":"Can the opening of high-speed rail promote household multidimensional relative poverty alleviation?","authors":"Yaning Hu ,&nbsp;Haiyan Lu ,&nbsp;Hao Chai ,&nbsp;Xinyang Gao","doi":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104371","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104371","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Addressing poverty is paramount, aligning with the first Sustainable Development Goal focused on eradicating poverty in all its forms. While the effects of high-speed rail (HSR) on absolute poverty have been documented, its impact on relative poverty remains understudied. This paper examines the influence of HSR on household relative poverty in China through a quasi-experimental design. The main results are as follows: (1) The opening of HSR significantly reduced the household relative poverty by approximately 1.8 %. (2) This alleviation effect primarily transpires through the expansion of economic activities and employment opportunities. (3) Notably, the impact of HSR is more pronounced in lower-ranked, smaller cities and in the western regions of China. Moreover, households with migrant workers or those engaged in non-agricultural sectors derive greater benefits from HSR developments. Our results suggest that HSR opening could have contributed to China's relative poverty alleviation. Policymakers can consider the role of transportation infrastructure in mitigating household relative poverty, especially for low rank cities, small cities and periphery regions in other developing countries.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48413,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport Geography","volume":"128 ","pages":"Article 104371"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144704357","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}