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{"title":"Women in transport geography: Gender differences in research topics","authors":"Elizabeth C. Delmelle ,&nbsp;Ann Zian Zhang ,&nbsp;Sofia Fasullo ,&nbsp;Irene Casas","doi":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104281","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104281","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Transport Geography has historically been one of the most male-dominated subfields in Human Geography. This article explores how research themes within the Journal of Transport Geography (JTRG) have evolved alongside the moderate increase in representation of female-led authors. We apply text analysis techniques, including word frequency analysis, BERTopic modeling, and logistic regression, to identify thematic differences between female-led and non-female-led research articles published in the journal since its inception in 1993. Our findings suggest that female-led research is more likely to engage with mobility, social justice, gender disparities, and youth travel, diverging from the subdiscipline's historically quantitative and optimization-driven roots. The study highlights the impact of gender diversity in shaping the intellectual landscape of Transport Geography and calls for continued efforts to promote inclusivity within the field as a means for expanding its intellectual bounds.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48413,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport Geography","volume":"127 ","pages":"Article 104281"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143932690","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":"Socially exclusive patterns in the availability and number of bus stop shelters","authors":"Samuel de França Marques","doi":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104267","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104267","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Bus stop shelters play a fundamental role in providing access to public transport. However, the broad impacts of adopted criteria for assigning shelters to bus stops have been underexplored in the literature. This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of how bus stop shelters have been distributed in São Paulo (Brazil), investigating the impact of 23 socioeconomic, land use and transport system factors on the presence and number of stop shelters in 20,988 bus stops through a negative binomial logit hurdle model. Results showed that bus stops on arterial roads, served by multiple lines and higher-frequency lines, surrounded by schools, higher-income and sparsely populated areas tend to have more shelters. Transport system features were consistently related to the presence and number of bus shelters, whereas socioeconomic features had a higher share of participation in the availability of a stop shelter, and land use variables in the occurrence of multiple shelters. The paper adds to the literature the characterization of socio-spatial patterns, which are statistically associated with the distribution of bus stop shelters, including the effect of land use (industrial, park and school areas) and transport network (bus corridors, cyclepaths and arterial roads) features. Criteria adopted by transit agencies have caused a socially exclusive distribution not only in the availability of a shelter, but also in the number of shelters, for sheltered stops. Results highlight the need for a more equitable approach to distributive justice and the urgency of incorporating bus stop shelters into accessibility equity analyses.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48413,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport Geography","volume":"127 ","pages":"Article 104267"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143929212","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":"Spatio-temporal heterogeneity in street illegal parking: A case study in New York","authors":"Xueliang Sui,&nbsp;Zhe Feng,&nbsp;Shen Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104262","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104262","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Illegal parking has a significant impact on urban traffic management and safety, posing a substantial hazard that contributes to disorder in public urban spaces. Therefore, a thorough analysis of the temporal and spatial characteristics of illegal parking is essential for the scientific planning of parking areas and the optimization of traffic resource allocation. However, existing studies often oversimplify factor interactions and fail to disentangle spatio-temporal heterogeneity, particularly in addressing zero-inflated data structures and nonlinear dependencies among variables such as crime rates and weather conditions. To this end, this study constructed a multi-spatiotemporal scale Bayesian hierarchical model that combines the Besag-York-Mollié (BYM) model with a zero-inflated Poisson distribution and uses the Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation (INLA) method for efficient posterior inference. In contrast to conventional approaches, this method not only improves interpretability but also precisely captures spatial-temporal dependencies, thereby enabling a more nuanced and holistic characterization of parking violation dynamics. The results show that illegal parking has obvious spatiotemporal heterogeneity; road and population density are the main drivers of illegal parking, exacerbating the imbalance between supply and demand; crime rate and traffic demand amplify illegal behaviors in the central city, while transportation infrastructure suppresses risks by promoting the use of public transportation; humidity has the greatest impact on parking behavior, exceeding the effects of temperature and visibility. SHAP analysis further reveals nonlinear interactions, indicating that crime rate dominates risk prediction when combined with variables such as traffic demand. The research findings offer valuable decision-making insights for optimizing the urban traffic management system and enhancing targeted parking policies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48413,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport Geography","volume":"127 ","pages":"Article 104262"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143923553","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":"Optimal location of free-floating bike-sharing dispatching hubs: A multi-scale perspective","authors":"Wendong Chen ,&nbsp;Yu Gu ,&nbsp;Xuewu Chen ,&nbsp;Long Cheng ,&nbsp;Jonas De Vos","doi":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104264","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104264","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Free-floating bike-sharing (FFBS for short) dispatching, the process by which operators redistribute shared bikes, is essential to satisfy FFBS demand and alleviate the “tidal phenomenon” of the FFBS system. However, the efficient formulation of dispatching strategies for FFBS systems is usually constrained by factors such as the spatial extent of the dispatching region and the length of the scheduling path. In this study, we propose an FFBS dispatching hub siting framework from a multi-scale geographic view, to provide more refined spatial units for developing FFBS dispatching strategies. More concretely, firstly, on a macro-scale, the entire study area is divided into multiple cycling communities (i.e., FFBS management sub-regions) with closer internal connections. Secondly, a hybrid spatial clustering method is developed to identify FFBS virtual stations with a certain service radius at the micro-scale. Finally, exploiting the location-allocation model, we optimize the siting of FFBS dispatching hubs within each management sub-region to maximize the coverage of virtual stations and FFBS demand within their catchment area (meso-scale). The feasibility of the proposed framework is empirically investigated using the FFBS system in Nanjing, China as a case study. The resulted dispatching hubs for each management sub-region unveil that 50 dispatching hubs selected from 147 urban rail transit stations can cumulatively cover 70.10 % of the number of virtual stations and 87.52 % of the FFBS demand within their catchment area (3000 m). Our findings could help stakeholders improve the efficiency of dispatching schemes, thereby providing more rational and targeted decisions for reducing the dispatching path length and increasing the bike turnover rate.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48413,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport Geography","volume":"127 ","pages":"Article 104264"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143923554","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":"Unpacking data representation issues in distributional accessibility impact assessments: Lessons from Bogotá's urban gondola","authors":"Manuel A. Santana Palacios","doi":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104258","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104258","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper contributes to the academic literature by comparing findings from various conceptualizations of accessibility used in planning practice alongside analyses informed by different moral principles found in transportation scholarship. The study focuses on the accessibility benefits of Bogotá's first urban gondola project, known locally as TransMiCable. It addresses two main questions: (1) How many people benefit from the access improvements enabled by TransMiCable? (2) How does TransMiCable enhance job access, and for whom? Findings from a local accessibility analysis indicate that the investment benefited approximately 80,000 residents within TransMiCable's 800-m catchment area. However, results from a regional accessibility impact analysis show that the benefits extend beyond the project's immediate area, reaching residents from various socioeconomic backgrounds, some living up to ten kilometers away —totaling more than one million beneficiaries.</div><div>Distributional accessibility impact analyses guided by Rawls's principles of distributive justice indicate that the most disadvantaged population groups received the greatest accessibility benefits from TransMiCable, rendering the project progressive, and therefore justifiable on ethical grounds. However, analyses guided by egalitarian and sufficientarian notions of justice present a less compelling case for supporting the project. The paper closes by discussing the potential implications for accessibility-oriented planning and recommendations to transportation data analysts and city planners.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48413,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport Geography","volume":"127 ","pages":"Article 104258"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143916822","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":"Mobility constraints of residents in marginal rural areas of megacities: Evidence from Beijing, China","authors":"Yu Zhao ,&nbsp;Gou Yingrui ,&nbsp;Li Moru ,&nbsp;Zhao Zhifeng ,&nbsp;Zhao Pengjun","doi":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104259","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104259","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The mobility of rural residents in urban fringe to permit them to access public services is an important issue in promoting urban–rural equity and contributing to sustainable development. However, marginal rural residents of fast-developing megacities, often trapped in neglected mobility disadvantages, remain conspicuously absent from mobility research and policies. This paper addresses this gap by exploring their mobility features and determinants using first-hand survey data from 40 marginal villages in Beijing. The results show that the rural-to-urban mobility of these residents is unexpectedly lower than their counterparts in more remote rural areas of China. Villagers' travel destinations are mostly confined to neighbouring villages and townships, especially for shopping and recreation. They do not have good access to public services in the city centre. Transport availability, service accessibility and household income are the most influential factors undermining the mobility of rural residents. Some institutional factors within megacities, such as restrictions on car purchase and electric vehicle usage, population and industrial dispersion, and village-level service facilities withdrawal, may exacerbate mobility challenges for those residing in marginal rural areas. These insights underscore the imperative for more policy attention on differentiated land use, transport and industrial policies in marginal rural areas to sustain inclusive transport development of megacity regions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48413,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport Geography","volume":"127 ","pages":"Article 104259"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143923552","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":"Container alliance strategies, market concentration and equality: A dynamic time warping clustering approach","authors":"Richard Borggreve ,&nbsp;Gordon Wilmsmeier","doi":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104249","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104249","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Global container shipping is integral to international trade, and a nuanced understanding of the role of strategic alliances and market concentration is crucial for the continuous and secure functioning of global logistics across different trades. We investigate the spatio-temporal evolution of alliance deployment and market concentration in the container shipping industry. This study introduces an innovative methodological approach - clustering trade routes using Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) based on alliance deployment and market concentration metrics rather than relying on predefined geographic boundaries. The approach uncovers previously unexplored structural relationships between alliance strategies and market dynamics, providing a more nuanced understanding of the container shipping industry's competitive landscape and potential vulnerabilities. We address important questions on how alliance deployment, market concentration, and inequality correlate or differ across global trade lanes and the implications for a potential threat of market power or collusive behavior for international trade and market accessibility. Our findings reveal that extensive alliance deployment does not inherently lead to a heightened market concentration or inequality. On major East-West trade routes, high levels of alliance deployment correspond with relatively low market concentration and inequality, indicating competitive environments where multiple carriers actively compete for market share. Conversely, niche markets exhibit higher market concentration and inequality, with increased potential for collusive behavior, especially where alliance deployment is minimal or absent. Our results underscore the need for regulatory bodies to foster fair competition, mitigate anti-competitive practices under a differentiated approach, and enhance market accessibility in the context of global trade flows. Finally, our research reveals the risk of power imbalances between regulators of small countries and leading global shipping lines.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48413,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport Geography","volume":"126 ","pages":"Article 104249"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143906923","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":"Understanding the impact of socio-demographic differences on acceptance of last-mile delivery technologies: A comparative analysis","authors":"Mariana Montero-Vega ,&nbsp;Miquel Estrada ,&nbsp;Divya Teja Thigulla","doi":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104244","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104244","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In recent years, we have witnessed the global growth of e-commerce, which has significant implications for last-mile distribution. This study examines the impact of factors such as gender, age, urbanity level, and household size on delivery preferences, including night and weekend deliveries, parcel locker usage, and the acceptance of autonomous delivery robots (ADRs). This study presents findings from a global survey conducted across Europe, Asia, and North America of a total of 1344 responses. The survey focused on the socio-demographic characteristics of users and their preferences for last-mile logistics, including e-commerce platform usage and delivery options. The ordered logit models helped identify significant influences on consumers' delivery choices, offering insights into evolving trends in last-mile logistics and the adoption of new urban logistic initiatives. Key findings include that older individuals are less likely to prefer night deliveries, while employed respondents preferred it. Gender, while not consistently a significant factor in all delivery methods, did influence parcel locker usage and willingness to give personal data. Younger people and those in urban settings show a greater openness to ADRs. Education levels positively influence the use of parcel lockers and the use of faster delivery options. Graphical analysis shows gender-based differences in online shopping habits. The use of commercialization platforms (local shops, international marketplaces, local marketplaces) was largely similar across genders; however, it exhibited more pronounced geographical differences. The overall trend shows an average home availability of between four and five hours per day for home deliveries. The most frequent purchase are food-related products and small deliveries, like books and electronics. These findings reflect potential implications for delivery preferences.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48413,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport Geography","volume":"126 ","pages":"Article 104244"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143898870","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":"Generational differences in the preferences for MaaS bundles","authors":"Willy Kriswardhana ,&nbsp;Domokos Esztergár-Kiss","doi":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104256","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104256","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Mobility as a Service (MaaS) helps facilitate the shift toward sustainable travel behavior by integrating different modes into one service. Current study reveals the disparities in the adoption of MaaS bundles and the preferred services in the bundles across generations. Latent variables related to intermodality and pro-environmental behavior are introduced to the choice modeling. A stated choice experiment is conducted, and the data are analyzed by using the mixed logit model with integrated choice and latent variables. All generations share similar attitudes toward intermodality, but more noticeable differences in their views on environmental concerns, with Baby boomers tending to be more concerned about environmental impacts. Differences are found among generations, such as Gen Z shows more positive attitudes toward MaaS bundles than other age groups. Furthermore, older generations are not interested in bundles containing shared mobility services. Travelers who indicate high environmental awareness and positive intermodal behavior are more likely to purchase MaaS bundles. This study highlights the importance of designing MaaS bundles that consider travelers' heterogeneity based on generations thus supporting a wider uptake at group level.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48413,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport Geography","volume":"126 ","pages":"Article 104256"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143894931","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":"The competitiveness of electric trucks in multimodal networks: A case study of integration with inland waterways","authors":"Frank E. Alarcón ,&nbsp;Enzo Sauma ,&nbsp;Cyril Alias","doi":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104252","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104252","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Crucial steps towards sustainable transportation include reducing road transport and transitioning to electric vehicles. Inland waterway transport (IWT) can reduce road transport but has not yet integrated battery-electric trucks (BETs) into its network. This study aims to address this gap by evaluating the competitiveness of heavy-duty BETs within a multimodal concept in the West German canal network. The total cost of ownership (TCO) methodology results indicate that BETs can be competitive with diesel trucks depending on the distance traveled and the ownership period. The baseline scenario suggests that BETs become a more economical option than diesel trucks for daily distances exceeding 234 km, assuming a 9-year ownership period. The economic impacts of various scenarios are evaluated, including subsidies, maintenance contracts, resale values, tolls, recharge times, and CO₂ emissions. The purchase cost of the truck is the most significant cost for the electric option, while the fuel cost is the main cost for the diesel option. Furthermore, the results indicate that BETs emit 56 % less greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions than their diesel counterparts, and the decentralized IWT concept can decrease GHG emissions by 51 % through reduced road transport. The findings can provide decision-makers with a tool for efficiently allocating the type of truck to use according to their transport tasks.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48413,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport Geography","volume":"126 ","pages":"Article 104252"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143887248","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}