Eduardo Graells-Garrido , Matías Toro , Gabriel Mansilla , Matías Nicolai , Santiago Mansilla , Jocelyn Dunstan
{"title":"Reducing urban speed limits decreases work-related traffic injury severity: Evidence from Santiago, Chile","authors":"Eduardo Graells-Garrido , Matías Toro , Gabriel Mansilla , Matías Nicolai , Santiago Mansilla , Jocelyn Dunstan","doi":"10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101034","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101034","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Work-related transportation incidents significantly impact urban mobility and productivity. These incidents include traffic crashes, collisions between vehicles, and falls that occurred during commuting or work-related transportation (e.g., falling while getting off a bus during the morning commute or while riding a bicycle for work). This study analyzes a decade of work-related transportation incident data (2012–2021) in Santiago, Chile, using records from a major worker’s insurance company. Using negative binomial regression, we assess the impact of a 2018 urban speed limit reduction law on incident injury severity. We also explore broader temporal, spatial, and demographic patterns in these incidents in urban and rural areas.</div><div>The urban speed limit reduction is associated with a decrease of 4.26 days in prescribed medical leave for incidents in urban areas, suggesting that lower speed limits contribute to reduced injury severity. Our broader analysis reveals distinct incident patterns across different groups. Workers traveling by motorcycle and bicycle experience more severe injuries when involved in traffic incidents, with marginal effects of 26.94 and 13.06 additional days of medical leave, respectively, compared to motorized vehicles. Female workers tend to have less severe injuries, with an average of 7.57 fewer days of medical leave. Age is also a significant factor, with older workers experiencing more severe injuries — each additional year of age is associated with 0.57 more days of medical leave. Our results provide insights for urban planning, transportation policy, and workplace safety initiatives.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51534,"journal":{"name":"Travel Behaviour and Society","volume":"40 ","pages":"Article 101034"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143829060","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}
Federico Cavallaro, Francesco Bruzzone, Silvio Nocera
{"title":"Accessibility to cultural economy opportunities by high-speed rail","authors":"Federico Cavallaro, Francesco Bruzzone, Silvio Nocera","doi":"10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101037","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101037","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cultural economy includes the exploitation of cultural venues and facilities, as well as aspects related to human capital and education. Given the increasing centrality of the cultural sector, accessibility to its opportunities is considered crucial for the success of any European city. According to the Trans-European Transport Network policy, High-Speed Rail (HSR) will be the backbone of several multimodal corridors. Once operational, HSR are expected to become a competitive and reliable solution to connect metropolitan areas and main cities within the European continent. Although the scientific literature has extensively discussed the reduction in travel time and cost, as well as the territorial impacts of HSR, its implications on cultural economy opportunities have not been yet investigated. To address this issue, this study proposes a method for evaluating accessibility to the cultural economy through HSR, comparing results with conventional rail service and the car. First, indicators from the European Union’s Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor are selected to define operatively the cultural economy. Then, the relative and absolute accessibility of HSR is assessed through the travel-cost approach. Testing the method to cities in northeastern Italy, results indicate a general increase in accessibility. The primary beneficiaries are medium-sized cities located close to the main nodes, thus suggesting that the envisioned widespread HSR network distributes the benefits equitably and contradicting the “tunnel effect”. These results are valuable for policymakers, as they provide a clearer understanding of the potential impact of HSR on modal shift and travel behaviour for a specific segment of trips.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51534,"journal":{"name":"Travel Behaviour and Society","volume":"40 ","pages":"Article 101037"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143823256","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 role of shared e-scooters in Seoul: The perspective of regional transportation system and commuting population","authors":"Minju Kim , Hangjung Zo , Ananth Chiravuri","doi":"10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101038","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101038","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Electric scooter (e-scooter) sharing services are being increasingly looked at as an eco-friendly and efficient micromobility option within cities, which aid in traveling short distances. However, research in this area is scant, especially in terms of its usage in large urban cities. This study explores the practical applications including usage of shared e-scooters in Seoul, the largest city in South Korea. Specifically, we examine the role of transportation infrastructure and the commuting population in using e-scooters. The results show that e-scooter usage varies according to the presence of subways and buses. In addition, shared e-scooters are more active in small areas with fewer parking lots and broader roads nearby. This study also finds that the commuting population has a greater impact on using shared e-scooters. Furthermore, the influence of workplaces becomes greater during peak rental times in the morning and evening, revealing that commuting is the primary purpose of e-scooter rentals. Within a metropolitan city, these findings indicate the role of e-scooters as shaped by each administrative district’s sociodemographic and transportation factors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51534,"journal":{"name":"Travel Behaviour and Society","volume":"40 ","pages":"Article 101038"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143815848","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}
Mengmeng Zhang, Qianliang Jiang, Sui Tao, Teqi Dai, Shijie Ma
{"title":"The spatial structural patterns of commuting trips by bus and metro in Beijing, China: Complementary or competing?","authors":"Mengmeng Zhang, Qianliang Jiang, Sui Tao, Teqi Dai, Shijie Ma","doi":"10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101032","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101032","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Public transport in many cities has become increasingly multimodal. How to better integrate various transit services and routes in accommodating daily travel needs requires particular attention. However, few studies have investigated the spatial structures of transit trips and how such structures may differ or coincide between transit modes. Drawing on Beijing, China, as a case study, this research performs a suite of geo-spatial analyses to investigate the spatial clustering patterns of commuting trips via bus and metro. A refined spatial similarity index is also employed to examine the spatial relationships between commuting trips via the two transit modes. Through community detection, the results indicate that the spatial clusters are more identifiable for short and medium durations (0–20 and 20–40 min) than for longer trips (40–60 min and above). In addition, potential competing and complementary relationships between bus and metro services are identified, especially in and around some established locales with a more balanced provision of employment and housing. For prolonged commutes (40–60 min), greater spatial similarity between bus trips and metro trips is found for some inner-city areas, suggesting a potential mismatch between residences and working places. Implications are derived to inform the coordination of bus and metro services to better accommodate commuting demands of varying lengths.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51534,"journal":{"name":"Travel Behaviour and Society","volume":"40 ","pages":"Article 101032"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143767801","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":"Exploring dual-directional collective human mobility vulnerability and the built environment in places: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Long Chen , 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 , 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 , 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 , Yanlai Chu , 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, 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}