Mahsa Ghaffari Targhi , Mohammad Ansari Esfeh , Adam Weiss , Lina Kattan
{"title":"Users’ perceptions toward autonomous vehicles: case study in Alberta, Canada","authors":"Mahsa Ghaffari Targhi , Mohammad Ansari Esfeh , Adam Weiss , Lina Kattan","doi":"10.1080/19427867.2024.2433337","DOIUrl":"10.1080/19427867.2024.2433337","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates perceptions and attitudes toward autonomous vehicles (AVs) using an online stated preference (SP) survey conducted in Alberta, Canada. It explores the effect of different sociodemographic, external, and psychological factors on users’ attitudes toward AVs. Additionally, factors contributing to people’s willingness to pay for AVs were evaluated. The results indicate that sociodemographic factors, external factors, and people’s perceptions significantly affect people’s willingness to pay for automation. Level 3 of automation is shown to have a positive effect on the drivers’ utility of driving for commuting and non-commuting trips, while other levels of automation were found negatively affecting the utility of driving. Men were generally more willing to pay for AVs, particularly for commuting trips, while weather conditions, especially icy roads, posed significant concerns about AV reliability. Middle-aged drivers exhibited the highest willingness to pay (WTP) for higher levels of automation, emphasizing the potential early adoption among this group.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48974,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Letters-The International Journal of Transportation Research","volume":"17 7","pages":"Pages 1280-1301"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145108939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Md Istiak Jahan , Tanmoy Bhowmik , Sachraa G. Borjigin , Jiehong Lou , Nneoma M. Ugwu , Deb A. Niemeier , Naveen Eluru
{"title":"A maximum log-likelihood based data fusion model for estimating household’s vehicle purchase decision","authors":"Md Istiak Jahan , Tanmoy Bhowmik , Sachraa G. Borjigin , Jiehong Lou , Nneoma M. Ugwu , Deb A. Niemeier , Naveen Eluru","doi":"10.1080/19427867.2024.2430109","DOIUrl":"10.1080/19427867.2024.2430109","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The growing adoption of electric vehicles offers a potential opportunity to reduce transportation sector carbon footprint. In our research, we studied vehicle purchase behavior with emphasis on alternative fuel vehicles using the vehicle purchase dataset ‘MaritzCX New Vehicle Customer Study.’ This study consisted of a two-level modeling approach. In the first level, purchasing of a new car was estimated based on consumers socio-economic characteristics. In the second level, the vehicle purchase decision was examined with a two-dimensional dependent variable – vehicle type and fuel type. We employed an innovative data fusion approach that probabilistically links records from MaritzCX with records from National Household Travel Survey with the objective of identifying new independent variables affecting the decision process while maximizing data fit. The final model included a host of independent variables from four different categories: vehicle-, economic-, demographic-, and spatial characteristics. Finally, the model results were employed to conduct an elasticity analysis.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48974,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Letters-The International Journal of Transportation Research","volume":"17 7","pages":"Pages 1263-1279"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145108937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kathleen Salazar-Serna , Sergio A. Barona , Isabel C. García , Lorena Cadavid , Carlos J. Franco
{"title":"Addressing overfitting in classification models for transport mode choice prediction: a practical application in the Aburrá Valley, Colombia","authors":"Kathleen Salazar-Serna , Sergio A. Barona , Isabel C. García , Lorena Cadavid , Carlos J. Franco","doi":"10.1080/19427867.2024.2422717","DOIUrl":"10.1080/19427867.2024.2422717","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Overfitting poses a significant limitation in mode choice prediction using classification models, often worsened by the proliferation of features from encoding categorical variables. While dimensionality reduction techniques are widely utilized, their effects on travel-mode choice models’ performance have yet to be comparatively studied. This research compares the impact of dimensionality reduction methods (PCA, CATPCA, FAMD, LDA) on the performance of multinomial models and various supervised learning classifiers (XGBoost, Random Forest, Naive Bayes, K-Nearest Neighbors, Multinomial Logit) for predicting travel mode choice. Utilizing survey data from the Aburrá Valley in Colombia, we detail the process of analyzing derived dimensions and selecting optimal models for both overall and class-specific predictions. Results indicate that dimension reduction enhances predictive power, particularly for less common transport modes, providing a strategy to address class imbalance without modifying data distribution. This methodology deepens understanding of travel behavior, offering valuable insights for modelers and policymakers in developing regions with similar characteristics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48974,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Letters-The International Journal of Transportation Research","volume":"17 7","pages":"Pages 1213-1230"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145109066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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 effective are fixed-effects models in fixing the transit supply–demand bidirectional interaction?","authors":"Jorge Diaz-Gutierrez , Andisheh Ranjbari","doi":"10.1080/19427867.2024.2422713","DOIUrl":"10.1080/19427867.2024.2422713","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Transit agencies use direct demand models (DDM) to allocate services. Since the service supply – a crucial predictor in DDMs – is endogenous to demand, including it in the model might yield biased estimations. A widely used methodology that is believed to handle this issue is Fixed Effects (FE). However, the underlying assumptions of FE are valid only if service adjustments take a considerable amount of time. This study investigates the performance of FE for estimating transit ridership. We collected 2013–2019 data and constructed 16 DDMs, employing four methodologies with a shared set of variables. We found that FE has significant limitations in handling endogeneity and will result in parameter estimates that significantly differ from those produced by methodologies that are specifically designed to control for endogeneity (such as FE-IV). Moreover, the use of FE leads to the omission of certain predictors and inaccurate ridership predictions, misguiding agencies as to what changes to implement and potentially impacting revenue projections.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48974,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Letters-The International Journal of Transportation Research","volume":"17 7","pages":"Pages 1199-1212"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145108936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A method for long car-following pair extraction and comprehensive data quality assessment: a case study using Zen Traffic Data","authors":"Ruijie Li , Zuduo Zheng , Daiheng Ni , Linbo Li","doi":"10.1080/19427867.2024.2425514","DOIUrl":"10.1080/19427867.2024.2425514","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper introduces a car-following (CF) extraction algorithm to address challenges in aerial-based trajectory data extraction. The algorithm, comprising four steps – vehicle grouping, elimination of false overtaking behavior, vehicle sorting, and CF pair matching – was applied to Zen Traffic Data, extracting 246 CF pairs. Three datasets were then generated: kilopost-based, geography-based, and velocity-based. A quality analysis revealed significant inconsistencies between data fields, with the geography-based dataset being least affected by high-frequency noise. The extracted CF data also demonstrated a more comprehensive driving regime than NGSIM, with complete driving regimes identified. Furthermore, the impact of data noise on CF model calibration and heterogeneity analysis was thoroughly assessed. This study enhances our understanding of trajectory data quality and highlights the richness of driving behavior information in Zen Traffic Data.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48974,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Letters-The International Journal of Transportation Research","volume":"17 7","pages":"Pages 1231-1250"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145109000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sumin Zhang , Ri Bai , Rui He , Zhiwei Meng , Yupeng Chang , Yongshuai Zhi
{"title":"Research on vehicle trajectory prediction methods in dense and heterogeneous urban traffic","authors":"Sumin Zhang , Ri Bai , Rui He , Zhiwei Meng , Yupeng Chang , Yongshuai Zhi","doi":"10.1080/19427867.2024.2403818","DOIUrl":"10.1080/19427867.2024.2403818","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In autonomous driving, accurately predicting the trajectories of surrounding vehicles is essential, particularly in dense and heterogeneous urban traffic. We propose a graph-structured model with a category layer to efficiently forecast the target vehicle’s trajectory. The model enables flexible selection of interacting objects based on environmental interactions and extracts spatial-temporal features using a graph convolutional network. A categorical layer is introduced to account for the different influences of dynamic agents, while vehicle dynamics constraints ensure the feasibility of predicted trajectories. We developed a new heterogeneous and dense urban unsignalized intersection dataset (HID), capturing complex urban interactions, and conducted extensive experiments on HID, ApolloScape, and TRAF datasets. Results demonstrate that our model outperforms benchmark methods across diverse urban scenarios, and the integration of key modules significantly enhances prediction accuracy and performance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48974,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Letters-The International Journal of Transportation Research","volume":"17 6","pages":"Pages 968-983"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144570682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integrating mobility service satisfaction into the object case of best-worst scaling method to weight attributes of MaaS bundles: findings based on samples from three cities of China","authors":"Xiaofeng Pan , Ling Jin","doi":"10.1080/19427867.2025.2488631","DOIUrl":"10.1080/19427867.2025.2488631","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To design an effective MaaS bundles, the weights of attributes of MaaS bundles should be first identified. The object case of best-worst scaling (i.e. BWS case 1) method is adopted, and a factor representing the degree of mobility service satisfaction is introduced to modify the weights of attributes of MaaS bundles. Based on such a modification, latent classes exploded logit models are established and estimated using samples from three cities of China. The estimation results confirm the advantage of considering people’s satisfaction toward mobility services in the model and show that heterogeneous weights of the attributes of MaaS bundles are found not only in the samples from different cities but also in the sample from a same city. These findings confirm the validity of the modified model of BWS case 1 and suggest the MaaS providers to offer tailored mobility services for specific socio-demographic groups.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48974,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Letters-The International Journal of Transportation Research","volume":"17 6","pages":"Pages 1138-1154"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144572498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pricing model of ride-hailing platform considering rationally inattentive passengers","authors":"Chuan-Lin Zhao , Yangqi Sun , Haijuan Wu , Dongbao Niu","doi":"10.1080/19427867.2024.2400820","DOIUrl":"10.1080/19427867.2024.2400820","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The ride-hailing services are booming in our daily lives, but it is unclear that how the platforms should set prices to maximize their profits when facing one kind of rationally inattentive passengers in a two-sided market. To fill this gap, we establish a profit maximization model for the ride-hailing platform based on queuing theory and rational inattention theory and analyze the properties of the model. Numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the impacts of perceived high and low service levels, information cost and prior belief on the optimal price and commission rate of the ride-hailing platform. The results show that (1) for different cities, there is always an optimal pricing strategy to maximize the profit of the platform. (2) To ensure maximum profit, the platform should disclose the service information of ride-hailing as much as possible, but also maintain the unknownness of ride-hailing services appropriately.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48974,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Letters-The International Journal of Transportation Research","volume":"17 6","pages":"Pages 931-941"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144572501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yue Zhang , Bin Shuai , Jing Zhou , Dezhi Yin , Wencheng Huang
{"title":"Should the multi-layer transportation network structure be reduced?","authors":"Yue Zhang , Bin Shuai , Jing Zhou , Dezhi Yin , Wencheng Huang","doi":"10.1080/19427867.2024.2408923","DOIUrl":"10.1080/19427867.2024.2408923","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The increasing diversity of transportation modes and the rapid expansion of transportation networks present significant challenges for modeling multi-layer comprehensive transportation networks. It is crucial to determine whether aggregating certain layers is a viable option for balancing complexity reduction and information preservation. This decision defines the layered structures and informs subsequent analyses of these networks. Two-dimensional factors, namely topological structures and transportation attributes, are considered to enhance understanding of the similarities among network layers. The relative entropy and the Gini index are employed as metrics to assess information gain or loss resulting from layer aggregation or segregation, guiding decisions on network reduction. Furthermore, an integrated similarity measure, based on the quantum Jensen-Shannon divergence and the Gower distance, is utilized to identify the optimal aggregation sequences. Two real-world transportation networks serve as case studies. Results demonstrate that these transportation networks are more effectively maintained with layer-separated structures, preserving maximum information.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48974,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Letters-The International Journal of Transportation Research","volume":"17 6","pages":"Pages 1079-1090"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144572109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Changjian Zhang , Jie He , Haifeng Wang , Yuntao Ye , Xintong Yan , Chenwei Wang , Xiazhi Zhang
{"title":"A systematic review of the application and prospect of road accident blackspots identification approaches","authors":"Changjian Zhang , Jie He , Haifeng Wang , Yuntao Ye , Xintong Yan , Chenwei Wang , Xiazhi Zhang","doi":"10.1080/19427867.2024.2416304","DOIUrl":"10.1080/19427867.2024.2416304","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Blackspot identification is a global concern in road safety. The accident-based method has been widely employed over the past few decades but remains reactive, as it depends on accidents occurring and causing harm. To overcome its limitations, proactive methods based on surrogate indicators have emerged. However, apart from Traffic Conflict Technology (TCT), other surrogate indicators lack a comprehensive framework spanning from extraction to practical application, emphasizing a key priority for future research. Despite numerous proposed methods, critical evaluation of their strengths, limitations, and application contexts remains limited. Additionally, the literature often overlooks the measurement of ‘potential accident risk’ in blackspot identification. Due to the rarity and randomness of accidents, even high-risk sections may record accident counts below the threshold during observation. This paper reviews 182 studies, examining blackspot identification methods and exploring potential accident risk through surrogate indicators. It underscores the importance of integrating potential risk into identification processes and summarizes the application of these methods across countries with varying income levels. Finally, it outlines the connection between blackspot identification and accident severity analysis, offering recommendations for future research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48974,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Letters-The International Journal of Transportation Research","volume":"17 6","pages":"Pages 1114-1137"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144572502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}