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{"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}

{"title":"The governance of emerging mobility technologies in Finland: A Q-methodology study","authors":"Janne J. Olin,&nbsp;Miloš N. Mladenović","doi":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104257","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104257","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The recent emergence of numerous smart mobility technologies has raised difficult questions concerning the integration of transport and technology governance. To avoid undesirable sociotechnical trajectories and fill the institutional void that emerging technologies typically face, it is crucial to understand relevant actors' views – to explore the reasons for conflict and find common ground for structuring comprehensive and inclusive deliberation. We applied the Q-methodology to identify and analyse different viewpoints concerning the governance of emerging mobility technologies in Finland. A comprehensive sample of 84 people involved in the development and governance of Mobility-as-a-Service, transport automation and shared e-scooter services in Finland participated in the study. The analysis revealed three viewpoints of major interest. “The Cautious Innovators” prioritise risk aversion over the quick implementation of technologies. “The Enablers” view the development of mobility technologies as an international race and wish to maintain Finland's forerunner position. “The Disappointed Optimists” share the desire for the rapid implementation of new mobility technologies but express severe disappointment about how these technologies are currently governed in Finland. Based on the findings, we highlight challenges with the current governance approach and suggest improvements concerning participatory practices and actor roles. Finally, we lay out directions for future research, which should pay attention to the nuances of actor-level interactions and power relations across dynamic governance networks by utilising a broader base of social science concepts and methods.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48413,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport Geography","volume":"126 ","pages":"Article 104257"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143887246","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":"How does the effect of walkability on walking behavior vary with the time of day? A study of Shenzhen, China","authors":"Xuan He,&nbsp;Sylvia Y. He","doi":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104210","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104210","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Understanding the relationship between walkability and walking behavior is essential for designing pedestrian-friendly cities. This study examines the spatiotemporal patterns of walkability's effects on walking behavior in Shenzhen, China. To assess temporal aspects, we divided the time of day into five periods: before the AM peak, during the AM peak, between the AM and PM peaks, during the PM peak, and after the PM peak. Walkability was quantified based on four pedestrian needs—safety, convenience, continuity, and attractiveness—and incorporated facility opening hours and pedestrian visual factors derived from street view imagery. Over 1.75 billion walking trips were collected from six months of mobile phone data in 2021. We examined the temporal dynamics of walkability's relative importance and spatial effects on walking trips through machine learning and geospatial models. The results show that convenience was ranked the highest among the four pedestrian needs. Living services were the most important element during the AM peak and between the AM and PM peaks. For the other three periods, leisure services were the highest-ranked factor in relative importance. Based on these results, we propose timing-specific intervention strategies for the building of walkable and inclusive cities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48413,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport Geography","volume":"126 ","pages":"Article 104210"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143887247","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":"BikeshareGAN: Predicting dockless bike-sharing demand based on satellite image","authors":"Yalei Zhu ,&nbsp;Yuankai Wang ,&nbsp;Junxuan Li ,&nbsp;Qiwei Song ,&nbsp;Da Chen ,&nbsp;Waishan Qiu","doi":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104245","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104245","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Understanding the drop-off demand of Dockless Bikeshare Systems (DBS) is crucial for efficient urban management but has long been challenging. Conventional prediction models are mostly regression-based, requiring multisource and fine-grained GIS data (e.g., socio-demographics, land use, POI), whose collection could be laborious and costly. Some data do not even exist for fast-growing cities in the developing world, largely hindering the application of the conventional models. Noting that high dimensional satellite images contain rich data about complex urban systems (e.g., density, land use, transportation network), we hypothesize that Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) can embed inherent urban features as the latent space, to predict DBS demand directly from satellite images effectively. To test the hypothesis, we took Shenzhen - a city with diverse urban forms as a case study. Pairwise satellite image and DBS drop-off heatmap during AM/PM and non-peak hours on a random workday became the input and output images for Pix2Pix, a proven GAN framework, to train the image-to-image translation at the 200 m level. Fake heatmaps were generated and validated by ground truth using loss functions including L1, L2, and Structure Similarity Index Measure (SSIM). R² was also calculated to compare our pixelated results to conventional regression models. First, simply taking a satellite image as the input achieved ∼0.49 R² (82 % SSIM), outperforming many regression-based models that require a bunch of numeric/vector inputs. Moreover, pixelating vector maps (e.g., metro station, road network, office building) onto satellite images significantly improved the accuracy (∼0.56 R²/90 % SSIM), outperforming some machine learning or hybrid deep learning models in this regard (R² 0.18–0.76). Therefore, GAN is plausible to predict DBS demand from solely satellite images, while feeding more urban layers significantly improves the predictive power. Our raster-oriented framework can effectively aid the decision-making process for DBS implementation and operation in developing countries where up-to-date GIS data is less accessible.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48413,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport Geography","volume":"126 ","pages":"Article 104245"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143878678","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":"COVID-era built environment and travel: Insights from location-based services data","authors":"Kevin Kane ,&nbsp;Huixin Zheng","doi":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104218","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104218","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study revisits the linkage between land use interventions and travel behavior in the COVID era using increasingly available cell phone-based individual mobility data. Reducing the carbon emissions associated with personal vehicle travel is crucial to achieving climate targets; policies such as California's Senate Bill 375 require that land use planning achieve climate targets at the regional level. The implementation relies heavily on local placemaking efforts such as higher density infill development and walkable streets which have long been considered potential reducers of automobile travel. However, the rise of telework, decline of transit, and increase in pedestrian deaths following the pandemic have cast doubts on the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of strategies seeking to foster low-Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) location patterns. This study uses StreetLight Insight data on vehicle trip origination at the census tract-level before and after the emergence of COVID-19 (2019 and 2021) to assess the contribution of several built environment measures to VMT and to the share of short trips in the 6-county Southern California region. Despite concerns over COVID-induced changes, we find that several built environment measures remain solidly associated with travel efficiency in multivariate models investigating VMT levels, VMT rebound, and the share of trips that are shorter than two miles. While the prevalence of neighborhood-scale destinations is an activity generator, it also fosters shorter trips, and a region-level measure of job accessibility provides some evidence that more populated areas nearer the region's core did indeed struggle to return to pre-COVID activity levels. After the first year of the pandemic, VMT rebound was most pronounced in tracts with a high share of residents under the age of 18, suggesting that while many adults did not return to prior activity patters (e.g. due to telecommuting), children mostly did. Findings suggest that local policies and placemaking efforts, including 15-minute communities, may still be promising trip reducers, while near real-time data provides a mechanism for far faster performance evaluation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48413,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport Geography","volume":"126 ","pages":"Article 104218"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143881524","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}