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{"title":"Exploring dual-directional collective human mobility vulnerability and the built environment in places: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Long Chen ,&nbsp;Yi Lu","doi":"10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101031","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101031","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Place-level human mobility reflects the collective movement patterns of individuals and groups within defined geographic areas for specific mobility patterns. The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the pressing concerns on mobility vulnerability during urban crisis. While socioeconomic disparities in mobility disruptions have been thoroughly documented, the impact of the built environment during the pandemic remains inadequately explored. Moreover, the vulnerability of collective human mobility in specific places, considering dual-directional patterns of both incoming and outgoing behaviors, is not well understood. This study utilizes extensive mobile phone data to investigate human mobility vulnerability across U.S. cities at the census block group (CBG) level during COVID-19, focusing on both incoming and outgoing mobility patterns. By integrating socioeconomic and built environment factors, we aim to identify the determinants that influence place-level mobility vulnerability in response to the pandemic. We assess year-over-year disparities in bidirectional mobility density, dwell time, and distance between 2019 and 2020 to evaluate their vulnerabilities in CBGs. The results reveal significant roles of built environment variables on the vulnerability and robustness of various mobility patterns. Our findings underscore the pronounced advantages and drawbacks of the built environments such as developed open space, retail density, employment diversity, job-worker balance, walkability, and transit service frequency on specific patterns of incoming and outgoing mobility vulnerability. Furthermore, interventions in the built environment aimed at promoting sustainable mobility should also consider the potential threats associated with mobility vulnerability. These insights provide practical implications for post-pandemic planning initiatives designed to enhance resilience.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51534,"journal":{"name":"Travel Behaviour and Society","volume":"40 ","pages":"Article 101031"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143705603","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":"Rethinking ‘discretionary’ travel: The impact of night and evening shift work on social exclusion and mobilities of care","authors":"Matthew Palm","doi":"10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101030","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101030","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Night and evening shift workers play critical roles in the modern economy, yet the mobility implications of working at these times is understudied. Shift workers’ schedules are mis-aligned with the schedules of their families and most of society, complicating their contribution to household-serving travel and their participation in social activities. This study models the effects of working nights and evenings on household-serving and social trips, including social trips with other householders. I apply binary logistic and Poisson regression with block bootstrapping to the 2017 U.S. National Household Travel Survey, which contains records for over 160,000 travelers recruited through stratified random sampling of U.S. addresses. Night and evening shift workers are less likely to make a trip for recreation, visiting others, or eating out, on days that they work. Shift workers are also less likely to conduct household-serving trips on days that they work, and this effect is amplified for women with regards to errands and shopping. When people work impacts what activities they can participate in, including whether they join in social activities with other household members. These results demonstrate the limitations of understanding social trips as ‘discretionary,’ in that these activities are still subject to coupling constraints that make it difficult for some groups of people to participate. These impacts hold negative implications for the mental health and wellbeing of shift workers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51534,"journal":{"name":"Travel Behaviour and Society","volume":"40 ","pages":"Article 101030"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143705688","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":"Development and validation of the Commuting Satisfaction Scale with a sample of German Foreign Service employees worldwide","authors":"Heiko Rüger ,&nbsp;Stephan Bischof","doi":"10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101028","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101028","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Commuting satisfaction is a crucial factor influencing individuals’ well-being and travel behaviour, with important implications for policy making and traffic planning. However, validated scales for measuring individuals’ satisfaction with their daily commute to work are scarce in the literature. This paper presents and validates the Commuting Satisfaction Scale (CSS), which was developed using data from a cross-sectional survey of German Federal Foreign Office employees from various missions around the world. The scale covers seven key aspects of commuting satisfaction: duration, comfort, crowding/congestion, reliability, safety, risk of accidents, and the behaviour of others. In addition, the scale is relevant to different modes of travel: car, public transport, and walking/cycling. The results of the exploratory factor analysis revealed a one-factor structure for the CSS, and the scale is highly reliable. Consistent with theoretical assumptions and previous literature, commute duration, commute length, and travel mode are statistically significantly related to the CSS. Furthermore, higher commuting satisfaction is statistically significantly associated with higher subjective well-being, better health, and lower stress levels. This indicates high construct and criterion-related validity for the CSS, suggesting that it is a valid measure of commuting satisfaction.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51534,"journal":{"name":"Travel Behaviour and Society","volume":"40 ","pages":"Article 101028"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143705687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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":"Troubling autonomous public transport: Comparing people with ambulatory disability and older adults’ perceived barriers, identification, and communication preferences","authors":"Wenqi Tan ,&nbsp;Shirley S. Ho","doi":"10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101029","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101029","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study responds to how people with disability and older adults are jointly figured as warrants for autonomous public transport development in Singapore. As the state seeks to incorporate autonomous technology into its public transport system, the associated discourse has uncritically paired disability and ageing identities as potential beneficiaries. Drawing upon focus group data with 20 people with ambulatory disability and 21 older adults, we found that both groups perceived distinct barriers to autonomous public transport use, differed in their identification with the logics undergirding the technology’s development, and had different preferences for related communication. Yet, despite participants’ opposing valuation of autonomous public transport, their responses gestured toward an overarching technology system that has prioritised efficiency over the inclusion of diverse body-minds. Our findings further reveal how people with ambulatory disability and older adults view themselves to be outside the boundaries of the normative APT user—people who are non-disabled, young, and receptive to technology. This study contributes to a broader understanding of how disability and ageing studies can productively converge to assess the systems of disadvantage that have defined the social positions of both identities. Simultaneously, our findings caution against inappropriately conflating the lived experiences and perspectives of people with disability and older adults, especially regarding the design and communication of new transport technology.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51534,"journal":{"name":"Travel Behaviour and Society","volume":"40 ","pages":"Article 101029"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143697045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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":"Is public transportation a good substitute for private vehicles in Chinese cities?","authors":"Jie-Sheng Tan-Soo ,&nbsp;Yanlai Chu ,&nbsp;Xiao-Bing Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101025","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101025","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>There is abundant evidence showing that increased accessibility to public transportation eases traffic congestion in cities. The most likely explanation is that some commuters, who were previously utilizing private automobiles, switch to public transport as the latter becomes more accessible. However, given the large variation in automobile models, it is possible that certain types of automobiles are better substitutes for public transport compared to others. In this study, we examine how public transportation affects sales of new automobiles in Chinese cities. We first find that improvements to public transport have an overall negative impact on sales of passenger automobiles. A second finding is that the decrease in sales is mostly incurred by smaller engine capacity and more fuel-efficient automobiles. This finding highlights a previously unintended policy consequence of investment in public transport: the fleet composition of new cars sold tends to shift toward heavier and fuel-inefficient models. This outcome may run counter to other policies, such as air quality management, CAFE standards, and climate change mitigation. As such, there is a need for governments to complement public transport policies with automobile ownership policies to encourage the continued uptake of fuel-efficient models.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51534,"journal":{"name":"Travel Behaviour and Society","volume":"40 ","pages":"Article 101025"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143705686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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":"A complex network analysis of urban human mobility in Tokyo","authors":"Ahmed Derdouri,&nbsp;Toshihiro Osaragi","doi":"10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101020","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101020","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As urban landscapes evolve and tourism rises, understanding urban human mobility has become increasingly critical for sustainable development and urban resilience. While both locals and tourists contribute to urban dynamics, their mobility patterns frequently diverge. Current research falls short in differentiating these groups’ mobility patterns and often overlooks the influence of weather conditions on such patterns. This study employs complex network analysis techniques to dissect the urban mobility patterns of locals and tourists in Tokyo. The data is derived from geotagged photos uploaded to Flickr from July 2008 to December 2019. Utilizing a novel, non-linear approach, the time series of itinerary total times and travel distances of both groups are transformed into networks using the horizontal visibility graph algorithm. The resulting networks were analyzed to identify complex system characteristics and to detect shifts in tourists’ and locals’ mobility patterns over time. The analysis revealed a positive correlation between tourists’ and locals’ mobility patterns, although traveled distances showed more sporadic behavior. Weather conditions are found to significantly impact the predictability of these patterns, with core behaviors remaining largely resilient to changes in weather. This study uncovers the potentially chaotic nature of these networks and their implications for urban infrastructure and resident lifestyles. These findings underscore the potential for data-driven insights to inform adaptive and resilient urban planning and sustainable tourism management strategies, offering invaluable insights for city planners, tourism managers, and policymakers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51534,"journal":{"name":"Travel Behaviour and Society","volume":"40 ","pages":"Article 101020"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143682638","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":"Assessing attribute performance and older adults’ satisfaction with transit services: Implications for age-friendly planning","authors":"Linchuan Yang ,&nbsp;Haosen Yang ,&nbsp;Junqing Tang ,&nbsp;Yi Lu ,&nbsp;Jianxiao Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101026","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101026","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Population aging presents significant challenges to society. In transit-dependent cities, transit services are crucial in meeting older adults’ travel needs and challenges. This study examines survey data from 928 older adults in Chengdu, China, between June and August 2023, to evaluate their satisfaction with three key transit services, including the metro, bus rapid transit (BRT), and conventional buses. It develops random forest models to determine the importance of twenty-one transit service attributes and then conducts importance-performance analysis (IPA) to specific areas needing improvement. The findings reveal that transfer time, complaint handling, and ease of transfer are the most critical factors for metro service satisfaction among older adults. For BRT services, transfer time, complaint handling, and station accessibility are paramount. For bus services, waiting spaces, waiting time, and crowding are the most influential attributes. Furthermore, the service attributes urgently needing improvement include transfer time for the metro, station accessibility for BRT, and waiting spaces for buses. This study provides insights into the preferences and experiences of older adults and offers a foundation for improving urban transit systems to better meet their needs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51534,"journal":{"name":"Travel Behaviour and Society","volume":"40 ","pages":"Article 101026"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143682637","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":"Boarding space design for passenger evacuation with bus and e-hailing services under a surge in traffic demand","authors":"Hang Su ,&nbsp;Xiaolei Wang ,&nbsp;Min Xu ,&nbsp;Xiaoning Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101021","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101021","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In densely populated urban areas, the spatiotemporal dynamics of public and private transportation lead to intensified competition for limited road space, especially during mass gathering events. To address this issue, we propose an optimal design for a bi-modal transport system that integrates e-hailing and bus services, balancing efficiency, economy, and safety. By incorporating traffic dynamics through Macroscopic Fundamental Diagrams (MFDs) in a bi-modal transport system, we capture variations in traffic flow and passenger behavior. At an aggregate level, the total generalized cost is modeled to include perceived trip costs, operating costs, and safety costs, which fluctuate according to time-varying traffic flow patterns. Through dynamic simulations, we evaluate four boarding space design scenarios. The results show that incorporating e-hailing services into large-scale events increases the complexity of dynamics and the risk of pedestrian accidents in a bi-modal transport system, adding safety costs for passengers. However, by designing separate boarding spaces for each mode, safety costs are significantly reduced, lowering the total costs. This also leads to a substantial reduction in the average cost of e-hailing trips. These findings provide valuable decision support for planning urban boarding spaces, improving service quality, and managing traffic congestion.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51534,"journal":{"name":"Travel Behaviour and Society","volume":"40 ","pages":"Article 101021"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143672828","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":"Intermodal mobility: A psychometric and behavioural analysis of public transport users in Porto Metropolitan Area","authors":"João Filipe Teixeira,&nbsp;Hudyeron Rocha,&nbsp;António Couto","doi":"10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101027","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101027","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As a consequence of the several negative externalities associated with car usage, there is a growing pressure to promote more sustainable mobility habits through supporting transport alternatives. An increasingly attractive solution is the concept of intermodal mobility, i.e., the combination of different modes of transport in a single trip, leveraging the strengths of each mode to provide a more sustainable and efficient transport option.</div><div>Despite its potential, research on intermodal mobility remains limited, with studies focusing on the travel behaviour of intermodal users being especially rare. However, to gain a comprehensive understanding of intermodality and its potential role in promoting sustainable mobility, it is crucial to explore the intermodal travel behaviour from the user’s point of view, including their patterns and motivations.</div><div>Accordingly, the goal of this study was to analyse the travel behaviour of intermodal users, focusing particularly on those that combine public transport (PT). Using a representative mobility survey conducted by the Portuguese National Statistics Institute to the Porto Metropolitan Area (with 40 393 respondents, 1868 of whom intermodal PT users), we have identified and characterized distinct profiles of intermodal PT users through marketing segmentation.</div><div>The market segmentation analyses have revealed two profiles of intermodal PT users based on their motivations and perceptions of using PT (i.e., psychometric segmentation) and four profiles based on their main modes of intermodal travel (i.e., behavioural segmentation). Notably, a connection between the psychometric and behavioural segments has been found: choice riders are significantly more likely to use rail options such as metro and train, while captive riders are much more dependent on buses. These findings hold significant policy implications for the promotion of intermodal PT systems, including by highlighting the competitiveness of rail against the private car and the reliance of the most socially disadvantaged groups on the bus.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51534,"journal":{"name":"Travel Behaviour and Society","volume":"40 ","pages":"Article 101027"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143672830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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":"What drives the adoption of electric four-wheelers in India? An investigation of the reasons for and against","authors":"Furqan A. Bhat,&nbsp;Ashish Verma","doi":"10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101016","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101016","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In spite of many countries pushing for electrification of their mobilities by incentivising buyers and manufacturers, penetration rates of electric vehicles are still very less and hence, the electric vehicles represent only a minor proportion of aggregate motorised vehicles. Thus, for fruitful penetration of electric vehicles in developing economies such as India, this study analyses the factors affecting the adoption behaviour of electric vehicles using novel first and second order structural equation models developed based on a modified framework from the behavioural reasoning theory and the valence framework. Unlike the previous studies where the focus has been on certain target groups, this study uses data collected from 1243 “potential electric car buyers” of Bengaluru, India to study the influence of socio-demographic variables and certain latent factors viz. environmental enthusiasm, social values, technological enthusiasm, monetary benefits, environmental benefits, lack of infrastructural readiness, perceived fee, and perceived risks on consumers’ intention to adopt electric four-wheelers. The results reveal environmental enthusiasm, social image, technological enthusiasm, monetary benefits, and environmental benefits to have significant positive impact on electric vehicle adoption intention while perceived fee, perceived risks, and the lack of infrastructural readiness are found to hinder the adoption of electric vehicles. Moreover, socio-demographic variables are also found to be significant determinants of electric vehicle adoption behaviour. This study provides some very important implications for policy and decision makers that can help in widespread adoption of electric vehicles.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51534,"journal":{"name":"Travel Behaviour and Society","volume":"40 ","pages":"Article 101016"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143642730","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}