Vivien Katharina Albers , Luca Nitschke , André Bruns
{"title":"Designing effective policy packages for sustainable commuting: Insights from social practice theory","authors":"Vivien Katharina Albers , Luca Nitschke , André Bruns","doi":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104282","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104282","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Overcoming the challenges related to current unsustainable mobility systems requires both technological innovation as well as changes on the demand side of mobility. In order to induce these changes on the demand side, so-called policy packages – coherent bundles of different measures – are argued to be particularly suitable interventions. The design of successful policy packages for sustainable mobility often includes the combination of push and pull measures. Our study adds to these findings by informing policy packaging with insights from social practice theory. Based on a practice-theoretical analysis of commuting practices in a living lab setting in a metropolitan region in Germany, we have conducted two transdisciplinary workshops in order to derive specific measures for more sustainable commuting. Relating our findings to measures discussed in policy package and transport planning discourse led us to propose a framework for the design of successful policy packages based on our two main findings: Firstly, effective bundles of measures should address all elements of practice as well as the wider network of practices. Secondly, we propose the concept of enabling measures that should be added to mixes of push and pull measures. The introduction of enabling measures to transport policy and planning allows us to propose actionable insights such as the integration of mobility experiments into processes of mobility management. The suggested framework can be applied by practitioners in order to identify appropriate policy packages for their particular spatial context.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48413,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport Geography","volume":"127 ","pages":"Article 104282"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143941403","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":"Spatial analysis and predictive modeling framework of truck parking and idling impacts on environmental justice communities","authors":"Runhua Ivan Xiao , Miguel Jaller","doi":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104263","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104263","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study introduces a comprehensive modeling framework to analyze truck idling and parking activities, illustrated through a case study in environmental justice communities in Kern County, California. It includes 1) exploratory spatial and cluster analysis to identify hotspots of those truck activities and their influencing factors, and 2) advanced predictive models, particularly the Cross-Validated Random Forests model, to predict and investigate critical factors influencing truck idling time, parking search time, and inferred truck parking demand. The results reveal that the percentage of heavy-duty trucks and the specific land use influence truck idling time. For parking search time, key predictors include distance to major roads and employment in certain industries. The inferred truck parking demand model underscores the impact of commercial land use areas, proximity to major roads, and socioeconomic factors. These findings enable the identification of hotspots for truck idling and parking searches, facilitating targeted interventions such as optimizing land use planning, improving infrastructure around major roads, and enhancing parking facilities in commercial zones. Integrating spatial, socioeconomic, and GPS aggregate data, the methodology provides a scalable framework applicable to other regions facing similar challenges through data-driven planning and policy initiatives.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48413,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport Geography","volume":"127 ","pages":"Article 104263"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143941402","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":"Do they hear us? A practical framework for designing gender inclusive transport policies in south and southeast Asian countries","authors":"Ankita Sil, Subeh Chowdhury","doi":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104272","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104272","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Providing safe and reliable public transport systems to women remains a significant challenge globally. In south and southeast Asian countries, national transport policies often lack a gender focus and thereby overlook women's travel needs. Without transport policies at a national level, practitioners are unable to design and implement transportation services which address women's travel needs. The main contribution of the study is through the development of a gender-inclusive policy framework to systematically evaluate levels of gender inclusion in national transport policies. The framework offers cross-comparison of countries and acts as a practical tool for policymakers, enabling them to assess strengths and weaknesses across various policy stages—From objective-setting to evaluation and monitoring plans. Further, the framework is applied to national transport policies from 12 countries in the south and southeast Asian region. The analysis reveals a concerning lack of gender inclusivity, with a very low average regional score of 31 %. Critical attributes such as gender-disaggregated travel data, evaluation plans and indicators for women's travel needs are greatly absent from almost all policies. Additionally, analysis was undertaken based on the countries' income level and women's transport demands. Findings show that 9 of the 12 countries need to greatly prioritise gender inclusion in their transport policies, given high transport demands. Overall, the findings show, through the application of the framework, areas of need and countries which are excelling, despite limited resources</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48413,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport Geography","volume":"127 ","pages":"Article 104272"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143935367","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":"Pedaling paths over time: Exploring cycling adaptation among (forced) migrant women in Germany","authors":"Shahrzad Enderle","doi":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104265","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104265","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This qualitative study provides first-hand insights into the cycling adaptation of 22 predominantly forcibly displaced women from 11 non-Western countries living in Germany, exploring their experiences within a cycling-dominated culture. It examines whether these women, who learned to cycle within the past seven years in Freiburg and Stuttgart, continue to cycle and investigates the opportunities and challenges they encounter across rural, urban, and suburban contexts. Using an intersectional feminist lens and drawing on mobility justice principles alongside the motility framework, the study highlights how (mobility-related) key life events shape women's cycling trajectories. The findings classify the women into three groups: regular cyclists, temporary cyclists, and non-regular cyclists. Results indicate that cycling adaptation is most common among women without children or those with one or two older children who can cycle alongside them. In contrast, caregivers of young children—who bear primary responsibility for household labor, childcare, escort trips, and trip chaining—face the greatest barriers to continued cycling. This study contributes to research and policy by advocating for a more nuanced understanding of (forced) migrant women's diverse cycling experiences and calls for the development of inclusive cycling policies and infrastructure.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48413,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport Geography","volume":"127 ","pages":"Article 104265"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143932689","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}
Alaa Torkey, Mohamed H. Zaki, Ashraf A. El Damatty
{"title":"A spatiotemporal GIS-approach for evaluating the safety of EV trips during wildfires","authors":"Alaa Torkey, Mohamed H. Zaki, Ashraf A. El Damatty","doi":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104268","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104268","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Electric Vehicles (EVs) are evolving as a green transportation means to address climate change impacts. However, disruptive events could impede EVs' mobility even with sufficient driving range. This study thus fills a gap in transportation research by including the spatiotemporal impact of potential wildfires, represented by the daily maps of the Canadian Fire Weather Index (FWI), while calculating EVs' safest routes. A case study is conducted in Halifax, Nova Scotia, using three FWI scenarios representing high, medium, and low risk scenarios. EV trips are evaluated by 1) comparing the safest and shortest routes' FWI value and trip distance, 2) investigating the adequacy of existing EV charging infrastructure (EVCI) on those safest routes under different State of Charge (SOC) levels for EVs, and 3) comparing the safest routes in the different risk scenarios. The findings of this research have significant implications in supporting the resilience of transportation electrification by being one step towards proactive emergency planning during disruptive events.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48413,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport Geography","volume":"127 ","pages":"Article 104268"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143935368","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}
Elizabeth C. Delmelle , Ann Zian Zhang , Sofia Fasullo , Irene Casas
{"title":"Women in transport geography: Gender differences in research topics","authors":"Elizabeth C. Delmelle , Ann Zian Zhang , Sofia Fasullo , 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, Zhe Feng, 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}
Wendong Chen , Yu Gu , Xuewu Chen , Long Cheng , Jonas De Vos
{"title":"Optimal location of free-floating bike-sharing dispatching hubs: A multi-scale perspective","authors":"Wendong Chen , Yu Gu , Xuewu Chen , Long Cheng , 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}