{"title":"The role of intermodality and environmental consciousness in the preferences for MaaS bundles: A hybrid choice modeling approach","authors":"Willy Kriswardhana , Domokos Esztergár-Kiss","doi":"10.1016/j.tra.2024.104332","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tra.2024.104332","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The interest in Mobility as a Service (MaaS) continues to increase among researchers, where the main driver of successful implementation is the travelers’ adoption of the service, which can be achieved by providing suitable mobility solution in the form of MaaS packages. This paper examines preferences for MaaS packages where a stated choice experiment is conducted among 519 individuals via an online survey in Hungary, and a hybrid choice modeling is estimated allowing the understanding the impact of latent attitudinal variables on preferences. The results show that almost half of the participants would purchase MaaS bundles, but the potential adopters vary according to socio-demographic and travel characteristics. Participants value the inclusion of PT, bike-sharing services, and online shopping voucher discounts in the bundle, while car-sharing and e-scooter-sharing are not so popular. Additionally, transfer between modes and environmental consciousness influence the bundle uptake positively. The findings suggest that future MaaS operators should carefully design mobility bundles to alter travel behavior and obtain a commercially feasible uptake level. The potential negative impacts of MaaS remains a challenge for policymakers and a topic for future studies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49421,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part A-Policy and Practice","volume":"191 ","pages":"Article 104332"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142701729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yueshan Ma , Paul Brindley , Rui Wang , Eckart Lange
{"title":"Discrepancies between perceived accessibility and spatial accessibility modelling: A case study of urban parks in Guangzhou, China","authors":"Yueshan Ma , Paul Brindley , Rui Wang , Eckart Lange","doi":"10.1016/j.tra.2024.104292","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tra.2024.104292","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In line with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals initiatives across the globe aim to improve access to urban parks. It remains, however, a challenge to accurately measure the spatial accessibility of urban parks. Traditional measurements often fail to match residents’ perceptions of accessibility, highlighting a gap between objective measurements and subjective experiences. This study explored the Spatial Modelling Accessibility (SMA) results of parks derived from various approaches, while also examining the differences with Population Perceived Accessibility (PPA).</div><div>Our results reveal significant inconsistencies, with over 70 % of accessibility measurements differing between spatial analyses and residents’ perceptions. Exploring spatial distribution features under different SMA approaches for parks confirms the regional differences within the accessibility modelling process. By assessing a diverse array of SMA approaches, this study identifies methods that best reflect PPA. SMA approaches incorporating population preferences and socio-demographic factors offer a more refined understanding, aligning more closely with PPA. Particularly, models adjusted for age related differences in travel time preference better capture residents’ perceptions of accessibility. Integration of population preferences addresses the challenge of defining service radii, a known limitation of traditional models.</div><div>The study highlights the important choice of the SMA approach and the need to integrate age related travel time preferences to refine the assessment of urban parks accessibility. It contributes to more accurate and inclusive urban planning strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49421,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part A-Policy and Practice","volume":"191 ","pages":"Article 104292"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142701727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christoph Kogler, Alexander Beiglböck, Peter Rauch
{"title":"An empirical study of the resilience in Austrian wood transport","authors":"Christoph Kogler, Alexander Beiglböck, Peter Rauch","doi":"10.1016/j.tra.2024.104303","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tra.2024.104303","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Wood supply chains are massively threatened by climate change impacts, leading to more frequent and severe forest calamities. Improving the resilience of wood supply chains requires enhanced knowledge about the structure, critical indicators, and challenges of the transport system. Consequently, a comprehensive empirical study of wood transport was conducted in Austria. Stakeholders of the entire wood supply chain participated in an online survey, focus interviews, case studies, and data collection, enabling both qualitative and quantitative analyses. A critical decline in future trucking capacity driven by an adverse age structure of drivers, a significant lack of new job trainees, and an unbalanced share of unimodal truck transport were detected as critical issues jeopardizing resilience. Stakeholders of the supply chain assessed promising coping strategies, such as increasing the modal share of multimodal and multi-echelon unimodal wood transport, enhancing working conditions of self-loading log truck drivers, exploiting digitalization, providing additional storage, and deepening cooperation. Presented learnings and improvement potentials in cooperation between forest owners, transport operators, and industry are highly relevant for supply chains worldwide to reduce common bottlenecks of truck transport, storage, handling, and take-over capacities. Management and policy implications improving wood transport resilience and increasing transport capacity through investment in railroad and terminal infrastructure, raising legal maximum gross vehicle weights, improving the availability of specific rail wagons, and enhancing wood storage capacities proved to be of utmost significance. Future emphasis on research regarding best practices to cope with salvage wood crises, as well as quantitative benchmarks based on the introduced resilience definition and indicators, is strongly recommended.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49421,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part A-Policy and Practice","volume":"191 ","pages":"Article 104303"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142701726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Luigi dell’Olio , Laura Eboli , Maria Pia Fotino , Gabriella Mazzulla
{"title":"Passengers’ perception of airlines’ services: Addressing systematic and random variation in tastes","authors":"Luigi dell’Olio , Laura Eboli , Maria Pia Fotino , Gabriella Mazzulla","doi":"10.1016/j.tra.2024.104329","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tra.2024.104329","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper investigates heterogeneities in passengers’ perceptions of airlines’ services considering systematic and random variations in users’ tastes. For this purpose, an efficient design of a stated preference survey is carried out, where attributes related to the in-flight travel and to the passenger’s experience before and after the flight are considered. A Random Parameter Multinomial Logit model is estimated with the obtained data, which also considers systematic variations in user tastes. The obtained results show that most of the parameters associated with the considered variables fit better to a normal or uniform distribution, and that part of their variance can be explained by interacting these variables with other variables such as gender, age, travel frequency or income level.</div><div>The proposed model allows conclusions to be drawn and marketing policies to be implemented that directly aim at certain user segments, in addition to comprehensively explaining passenger behaviour by showing their preferences.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49421,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part A-Policy and Practice","volume":"191 ","pages":"Article 104329"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142701724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Duy Quy Nguyen-Phuoc , Son Truong Pham , Thao Phuong Thi Nguyen , Diep Ngoc Su , Tuan Trong Luu , Oscar Oviedo-Trespalacios
{"title":"Exploring the switch to urban train services: The impact of perceived accessibility and its moderating effects","authors":"Duy Quy Nguyen-Phuoc , Son Truong Pham , Thao Phuong Thi Nguyen , Diep Ngoc Su , Tuan Trong Luu , Oscar Oviedo-Trespalacios","doi":"10.1016/j.tra.2024.104320","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tra.2024.104320","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Perceived accessibility refers to individuals’ subjective perception of how easy it is to reach destinations using a specific mode of transport. As such, understanding the effect of perceived accessibility on travel behavior is essential for creating transport systems and urban environments that are efficient, equitable, and sustainable. This study develops a new integrated model by combining the Norm Activation Model (NAM), the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), perceived risk, and perceived accessibility. This enhanced model offers a comprehensive understanding of the factors influencing individuals’ intentions to switch to urban train systems. Additionally, the moderating effects of perceived accessibility on the link between personal, contextual factors and switching intention are also explored. The model developed is tested using data obtained from a sample of 535 individuals in Hanoi, Vietnam. This is particularly important because more research in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is needed to address the sustainability challenges these nations face due to their dependency on motorized private transport. The findings show that subjective norms have the strongest effect on the intention, followed by personal norms, attitude, and perceived accessibility. This study also confirms the moderating role of perceived accessibility on the link between attitude and switching intention, while the other hypotheses regarding the moderating effects of perceived accessibility are not supported by the findings. These insights aim to inform policymakers and public transport authorities in developing targeted strategies to promote sustainable urban mobility in Vietnam.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49421,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part A-Policy and Practice","volume":"191 ","pages":"Article 104320"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142701725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Oriana Calderón , Julia C. Amaral , José Holguín-Veras
{"title":"Willingness to limit “panic buying” during the COVID-19 crisis","authors":"Oriana Calderón , Julia C. Amaral , José Holguín-Veras","doi":"10.1016/j.tra.2024.104317","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tra.2024.104317","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The research in this paper seeks to quantify the potential of a novel initiative to mitigate “panic buying” through appeals from “trusted change agents” (TCAs) that ask individuals to limit their purchases of critical supplies. TCAs are agents involved in disaster response efforts, such as local leaders and representatives of relief groups, that are deemed to be trustworthy by various segments of the population. To assess the effectiveness of these appeals, the authors conducted a survey of residents in the United States (U.S.) to characterize the respondents’ purchases of critical supplies made before, during, and after the pandemic. In addition, stated preference data were gathered about whether, and the extent to which, the respondents would react to a request from TCAs to limit their purchases of critical supplies. The results of the survey were used to: (i) assess the level of trust the respondents have in the various agents considered; (ii) estimate the expected impacts of TCAs’ requests in terms of changes in respondents’ purchasing behaviors; and (iii) estimate a Structural Equation Model-Multiple Indicators Multiple Causes (SEM-MIMIC) model that expresses the respondents’ willingness to limit purchases as a function of the socioeconomic attributes of the respondents. The research demonstrated that TCAs have substantial influence, with 58 % of respondents willing to limit purchases based on TCAs’ appeals. Firefighters, Emergency Responders, and Health Officials are the most trusted agents, with Firefighters having the highest expected impact (22.2 %). Joint appeals amplify impact, e.g., Firefighters combined with Local Government and Emergency Responders have an impact of 33.3 %. The SEM-MIMIC model also showed that socioeconomic variables affect trust in TCAs. The results of the research provide a pathway to mitigate “panic buying” and reduce the associated shortages. Based on the results obtained, the authors discuss the corresponding policy implications.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49421,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part A-Policy and Practice","volume":"191 ","pages":"Article 104317"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142701728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can an identified environmental correlate of car ownership serve as a practical planning tool?","authors":"Jason Cao , Tao Tao","doi":"10.1016/j.tra.2024.104304","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tra.2024.104304","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Previous studies suggest that improving built environment attributes (such as dense development and transit access) has the potential to reduce car ownership. However, most of them overlook the possible plateau association, in which car ownership shows little change as a built environment variable increases within a certain range . Applying gradient boosting decision trees to data from the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area, this study reveals the complex nonlinear relationships between built environment attributes and car ownership. The results show that although population density and intersection density are strongly and negatively related to car ownership, car ownership exhibits little variation within the middle ranges of these two variables. These plateau associations suggest that reducing car ownership through population and intersection densification is challenging in planning practice. In contrast, directing population growth towards central cities and inner-inning suburbs and densifying transit stops are more promising interventions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49421,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part A-Policy and Practice","volume":"191 ","pages":"Article 104304"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142657461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does perceived accessibility affect travel behavior or vice versa? Alternative theories testing bidirectional effects and (in)consistency over time","authors":"Milad Mehdizadeh , Maarten Kroesen","doi":"10.1016/j.tra.2024.104318","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tra.2024.104318","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In theory, the unidirectional relationship between perception and behavior has been well established. In this line, the relationship between perceived accessibility and travel behavior has also gained traction in the transport domain. There is, however, less knowledge regarding the dynamic of bidirectional effects between these two variables and (in)consistency over time. Employing the Netherlands Mobility Panel data, we investigate the direction of the (causal) effect between perceived accessibility and travel behavior/travel preference. Using a two-wave cross-lagged panel model, we test how this theory works among urban travelers (n = 4,946). The findings show that the relationship between perceived accessibility and travel-related decisions varies depending on the transport mode and whether it is about travel behavior or preference. The effects might show bidirectionality, unidirectionality, or neither. Findings highlight that the perception-behavior theory is primarily consistent with revealed travel behavior as opposed to stated preferences. We find a bidirectional perception-(travel) behavior relationship. Unlike conventional wisdom and commonly used theoretical links, we find that travel mode use has a larger impact on perceived mode-specific accessibility than the reverse effect (the more expected link). Travel behavior also shows consistently lower levels of perception-behavior dissonance than preferences do. The study finds that perception consistently influences public transport use and preferences, unlike for cars and bicycles. Policy-wise, this implies that efforts aimed at correcting misperceptions about the accessibility of public transport could still have a positive impact on individuals’ decisions to choose public transport.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49421,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part A-Policy and Practice","volume":"191 ","pages":"Article 104318"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142657467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding changes in traffic demand during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games","authors":"Takao Dantsuji , Masaki Nakagawa","doi":"10.1016/j.tra.2024.104308","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tra.2024.104308","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper evaluated the effects of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games on traffic demand on the Metropolitan expressway. We constructed panel data for both passenger and freight vehicles’ demand using longitudinal disaggregated trip records from the Metropolitan expressway. Subsequently, we established a demand function and used a difference-in-differences method to individually estimate the impacts of toll surcharges and other Olympics-related factors by leveraging the fact that the toll surcharges were not applied to freight vehicles.</div><div>The results indicate that toll surcharges resulted in a decrease of 25.0% for weekdays and 36.8% for weekends/holidays in passenger vehicle demand on the Metropolitan expressway. The estimated toll elasticities are 0.345 for weekdays and 0.615 for weekends/holidays, respectively. Notably, analysis of the Olympics-related factor demonstrated that travel demand management (TDM) strategies effectively curbed demand on weekends/holidays with a reduction of 2.9% in traffic demand. However, on weekdays, induced demand surpassed the reduction of demand by other TDM strategies than tolling, resulting in a 4.6% increase in traffic demand.</div><div>Additionally, We developed a zone-based demand function and investigate the spatial heterogeneity in toll elasticity. Our findings revealed small heterogeneity for weekdays (0.283 to 0.509) and large heterogeneity for weekends/holidays (0.484 to 0.935).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49421,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part A-Policy and Practice","volume":"191 ","pages":"Article 104308"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142657527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developing a 15-minute city policy? Understanding differences between policies and physical barriers","authors":"Michael Lu, Ehab Diab","doi":"10.1016/j.tra.2024.104307","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tra.2024.104307","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The concept of a x-minute (or 15-minute) city has recently gained prominence as an influential urban planning approach. Recent research showed how American, Canadian, and Australian cities operationalized the concept differently using diverse temporal cut-off values and types of destinations. Despite this, there has been little effort to understand how different 15-minute city policies are comparable, and to what extent physical elements in cities can affect realizing the concept. To address this gap, this study aims to understand parallels and differences between these policies while understanding the impacts of the city’s structuring elements on the probability of achieving them. Using a wide array of spatial and transportation data for the City of Saskatoon, the paper develops five different 15-minute city policies based on four different city plans at the parcel level. Using summary statistics and multilevel logistic regressions previous policies were analyzed. The study shows considerable differences between policies in terms of the conclusions they convey. For example, different policies led to diverse results regarding their relationship with people’s socioeconomic issues, and thereby equity assessment. Additionally, the study shows that some physical elements such as highways, large parks, and rail lines have a consistent negative impact on the probability of realizing 15-minute city goals, regardless of the used policy. Other elements had a mixed effect according to the used policy. This study offers cities a better understanding of the performance of different 15-minute city policies and the relative challenges in realizing them, helping cities achieve their broader sustainability and equity goals.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49421,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part A-Policy and Practice","volume":"191 ","pages":"Article 104307"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142657466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}