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{"title":"Identifying low-to-middle-income residents’ secondary activity patterns using smart card data","authors":"Ziyan Zhao ,&nbsp;Meihan Jin ,&nbsp;Mei-Po Kawn ,&nbsp;Qingfeng Zhou ,&nbsp;Yongxi Gong ,&nbsp;Yu Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.tbs.2024.100977","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tbs.2024.100977","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The enrichment of urban lifestyles necessitates a comprehensive understanding of individuals’ secondary activity patterns. For low-to-middle-income residents, secondary activities assume a crucial role in understanding their living conditions. Accordingly, this study proposes a method to extract secondary activities from smart card data and to analyze its spatio-temporal patterns. Corroborated by travel survey data, a significant portion of smart card users have low to middle incomes, we contend that the derived patterns effectively represent the living circumstances of low-to-middle-income individuals travel by public transportation. These patterns are characterized from three aspects, e.g., quantity, spatial coverage, and preference based on home and workplace. A case study in Shenzhen, China identifies several meaningful patterns in the secondary activities of the low-to-middle-income groups who travel frequently by public transportation: groups whose activity patterns are occasional and with strong home-workplace constraints, groups with small activity coverages and strong home-workplace constraints, groups with wide activity coverages and weak home-workplace constraints, and groups with multiple activities and weak home-workplace constraints. The case study indicates that the majority of low-to-middle-income groups who frequently use public transportation either have very few secondary activities by public transportation, or are severely constrained by home and workplace. These discoveries have the potential to assist urban planners in enhancing the accessibility of urban amenities for low-to-middle-income residents, thereby enhancing both the quantitative and qualitative aspects of their secondary activities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51534,"journal":{"name":"Travel Behaviour and Society","volume":"39 ","pages":"Article 100977"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143143703","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":"Using a Simulation and Optimisation decision support tool to evaluate impacts of an intermodal travel management system combining ride-pooling and public transport","authors":"Ester Lorente,&nbsp;Esteve Codina,&nbsp;Jaume Barceló","doi":"10.1016/j.tbs.2024.100974","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tbs.2024.100974","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper explores using a decision support tool, an already developed and preliminary tested system with highly parameterised Simulation and Optimisation engines. This tool manages the assignment of user requests to an intermodal transport system in which conventional transit transportation modes, buses, subways, railways, and trams, are complemented and coordinated with a ride-pooling service. The main objective of this paper is to evaluate the suitability and sustainability of the intermodal transport system in terms of the reduction of emissions, number of conventional trips, and the policies efficiency depending on variable fleet sizes, detour penalties sensibility and fares. The computational tests have been conducted with a realistic Barcelona Metropolitan Area model. The results indicate a significant reduction in emissions with the implementation of ride-pooling services, both in multimodal and intermodal approaches, contributing to alleviating urban traffic congestion caused by private vehicles. A second contribution is the development and evaluation of a policy for the detour reduction of the services assigned to the requests, resulting in better routes with a smaller increase of the fare for already en-route passengers. Furthermore, the implementation of a variable active fleet policy involving a gradual adjustment of the operating number of vehicles during the start-up and shutdown of the system proves to be beneficial for the company in mitigating the system’s operational costs, especially in periods of lower demand, where maintaining a full-time fleet would incur in unnecessary expenses given the limited number of requests.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51534,"journal":{"name":"Travel Behaviour and Society","volume":"39 ","pages":"Article 100974"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142918005","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":"Text as data: Narrative mining of non-collision injury incidents on public buses by structural topic modeling","authors":"Pengpeng Xu ,&nbsp;Qianfang Wang ,&nbsp;Yun Ye ,&nbsp;S.C. Wong ,&nbsp;Hanchu Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.tbs.2024.100981","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tbs.2024.100981","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>Although numerous studies have investigated collisions involving public buses, there has been inadequate research on passenger injuries caused by non-collision incidents on public buses. One major obstacle is that the manual extraction of thematic information from massive document repositories is exceedingly labor intensive, cumbersome, and inaccurate. Our study thereby illustrated how to automatically characterize non-collision injury incidents on public buses by fusing advanced language processing techniques and large-scale incident reports.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Based on the 12,823 textural narratives recorded by police during 2010–2019 in Hong Kong, the structural topic modeling was developed to uncover underlying themes, quantify topic prevalence, and portray complex interconnectedness.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Thirty-three topics were successfully labeled, with the topic <em>stand and lost balance</em> being the most prevalent. Non-collisions were more likely to result in serious consequences when incidents occurred because the bus skidded, when a passenger was boarding, and when a standing passenger lost the balance. Six unique patterns were uncovered, i.e., the failure to hold handrails accompanied by inappropriate behaviors of bus drivers when approaching bus stations, loss of balance among standing passengers due to the sharp braking of bus drivers in response to red traffic lights ahead, alighting passengers being hit by the door, passengers falling while climbing staircases, passengers being injured because of bus driver’s emergency maneuvers to avoid collisions with nearside pedestrians, and passengers being injured due to the careless lane-changing of bus drivers when weaving through roundabouts.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>By leveraging the emerging text mining techniques, unstructured narratives written by the police can provide valuable and organized information for regular injury surveillance. Tailor-made countermeasures were proposed to prevent non-collision injury incidents on public buses.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51534,"journal":{"name":"Travel Behaviour and Society","volume":"39 ","pages":"Article 100981"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142918031","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":"Active travel and socioeconomic segregation in Temuco, Chile: The association of personal factors and perceived built environment","authors":"Mohammad Paydar ,&nbsp;Asal Kamani Fard","doi":"10.1016/j.tbs.2024.100980","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tbs.2024.100980","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Improvement of active travel would contribute to enhancing the minimum rate of physical activity; thus improving public health. Although the importance of social and built environmental variables in promoting active travel has been highlighted, there have been few studies on how both domains simultaneously affect active travel. The impact of socioeconomic status (SES) on the relationships between active travel and its contributing features was also highlighted in the relevant studies. In this sense, compared to low SES neighborhoods (NLSES), the high SES neighborhoods (NHSES) have a far superior infrastructure for active transport. This study aims to examine the associations between active travel and the factors that influence it using data from two different neighborhood types, namely NLSES and NHSES in Temuco, a medium-sized southern city in Chile. The objectives were examined using a questionnaire, two types of regression analysis, and an open-ended question. The results of the qualitative approach showed that personal insecurity is the most significant barrier to walking in NLSES. In addition, the results of the quantitative approach demonstrated the associations of several socio-demographic, personal, social, and built environmental factors with active travel in both NLSES and NHSES, including monthly income, access to a bicycle, attitude toward walking, specific lifestyles, role models, social cohesion, encouragement, perceived accessibility, and perceived access to bus stations. These findings could be used by urban and transport policymakers of this city to enhance active travel based on each neighbourhood type in this city.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51534,"journal":{"name":"Travel Behaviour and Society","volume":"39 ","pages":"Article 100980"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142887437","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":"A latent class dynamic discrete choice model for travel behaviour and scheduling","authors":"Stephen McCarthy,&nbsp;Daniel Jonsson,&nbsp;Qian Wang,&nbsp;Anders Karlström","doi":"10.1016/j.tbs.2024.100978","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tbs.2024.100978","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In travel behaviour modelling, latent class models are used to represent underlying discrete groupings of behavioural preferences. The paper presents a latent class extension of a dynamic discrete choice model (DDCM) and applies the model to the problem of activity demand generation and scheduling. The DDCM is a recursive multinomial logit model where agents make sequential decisions in time, maximizing the expected future utility of their decisions in a random utility maximization framework. It generates activities and their associated travel within a full day schedule, endogenously respecting agents’ inherent time-space constraints. The latent class DDCM builds on the base model by representing heterogeneous lifestyle preferences. A specification of the model is estimated on a Stockholm travel survey and uses age, income level, gender, car ownership and presence of children in the household as classifying variables. The models result in classes which primarily represent modality styles, finding car-, transit- and bike-primary behavioural groups as well as a multimodal group, each linked with different socio-demographic characteristics. The models improve over non-latent class reference models and provide insight into the structure of heterogeneity in travel behaviour preferences in Stockholm.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51534,"journal":{"name":"Travel Behaviour and Society","volume":"39 ","pages":"Article 100978"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142887369","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 type of person is at different stages of change for cycling? A case study of Montreal","authors":"Zahra Zarabi ,&nbsp;Jérôme Laviolette ,&nbsp;Owen Waygood ,&nbsp;Kevin Manaugh","doi":"10.1016/j.tbs.2024.100969","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tbs.2024.100969","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Promoting cycling for daily transport has significant health, equity, and environmental benefits. To understand what factors influence individuals’ cycling motivational stages, our study pursued two main objectives: 1) Enhancing the Stage Model of Self-Regulated Behavioral Change (SSBC) by integrating it with the psychological mechanisms of the TPB, and 2) Examining the impacts of perceived cycling motivators and barriers, cycling and general attitudes, and sociodemographics on cycling motivational stage. Using an online survey of the adult population (n = 1055) in Montreal, Canada, a multivariate analysis reveals meaningful connections between behaviour stages and perceived barriers and attitudes toward cycling. Those in the lowest stage exhibit lower internal motivation and express concerns about the lack of convenience, physical effort, and slowness associated with cycling. Furthermore, the results challenge the common understanding that people always progress through the stages with increasingly positive attitudes and more cycling. Specifically, our findings highlight the need to distinguish between people who cycle by choice and those who do so out of necessity (i.e., captive riders) when categorizing travelers into action and post-action stages. This is important due to the risk of people in the “captive action stage” going back to using cars if barriers are reduced. This suggests that intervention policies should also focus on current cyclists, not just non-cyclists of the preaction stages. This nuanced understanding can inform more effective and targeted interventions for promoting cycling. Finally, objective characteristics of cycling infrastructure retains significance in explaining who belongs to the postaction stage for cycling, even after controlling for residential self-selection.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51534,"journal":{"name":"Travel Behaviour and Society","volume":"39 ","pages":"Article 100969"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142887438","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":"Exploring the relationships among life satisfaction, neighborhood satisfaction and travel satisfaction in Beijing","authors":"Jingwen Rao ,&nbsp;Haiqing Lin ,&nbsp;Jing Ma ,&nbsp;Yanwei Chai","doi":"10.1016/j.tbs.2024.100979","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tbs.2024.100979","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Life satisfaction (LS) is considered a key objective in improving quality of life and is connected to many satisfaction domains. However, few studies have investigated the bidirectional relationships between satisfaction in various domains and LS based on the theories of top-down, bottom-up, and horizontal spillover simultaneously. This article argues for more research into how neighborhood satisfaction (NS) and travel satisfaction (TS) influence LS, and vice versa. Based on GPS trajectories and travel diaries of Meiheyuan residents in Beijing, structural equation modeling is employed in this study to analyze the pathways among NS, TS and LS, while controlling for air and noise pollution at different geographic scales. The modeling results indicate that the theories of top-down, bottom-up, and horizontal spillover co-exist in the relationships among TS, NS, and LS. However, the top-down model performs better than the bottom-up model, and TS has a stronger horizontal spillover effect on NS than the opposite direction. The results also reveal that TS mediates the relationship between NS and LS. This study develops a comprehensive conceptual framework for long-term satisfaction and momentary wellbeing.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51534,"journal":{"name":"Travel Behaviour and Society","volume":"39 ","pages":"Article 100979"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143143696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How do static and dynamic commute characteristics shape commuting satisfaction?","authors":"Richa Maheshwari ,&nbsp;Dick Ettema","doi":"10.1016/j.tbs.2024.100973","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tbs.2024.100973","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite the significant role that life events such as a change of residence or workplace have on travel behaviour in general and commute trips in particular, little attention has been paid to the effects of changes in commute characteristics on commuting satisfaction (CS). This study focuses on changes in commute characteristics due to changes in workplace location, distinguishing between voluntary and involuntary change. Using data from a large scale online retrospective survey, the findings reveal that dynamic variables such as changes in commuting mode, changes in commute time and changes in workplace location may be more important than static variables such as current commuting mode, current commute time, and current travel attitudes, as they explain a larger proportion of the variation in CS than static variables, at least shortly after the change of workplace location. Most importantly, individuals seem to be more satisfied with their commute after a voluntary workplace relocation than those who changed workplaces involuntarily. However, the question of how lasting this effect of a workplace relocation on CS is and whether CS changes over time as people become accustomed to the changed environment (treadmill effect) is open for future research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51534,"journal":{"name":"Travel Behaviour and Society","volume":"39 ","pages":"Article 100973"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142869908","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":"What Drives the Use of Pooled Autonomous Vehicles? Some Insights in California Users’ Perspective","authors":"Md. Mokhlesur Rahman ,&nbsp;Jean-Claude Thill","doi":"10.1016/j.tbs.2024.100975","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tbs.2024.100975","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The study investigates people’s perceptions of Pooled Autonomous Vehicles (PAVs) and the key determinants of household intentions to use them using a structural equation modeling framework. The analysis serves to test the validity of a comprehensive conceptual model. Data were sourced from the 2019 California Vehicle survey to estimate the complex association between dependent and independent variables via mediators. Results indicate that higher educational attainment, income, labor force participation, Asian population origin, and urban living are negatively associated with PAVs, and conversely for young and working-age adults. People who prefer public transportation, car-sharing, ride-hailing, and ride-sharing services would be more likely to use PAVs. The perceived usefulness, enjoyment, safety associated with Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) and prior knowledge of AVs significantly influence people to use PAVs, while the enjoyment of driving and the fear of losing control of vehicles are dissuasive factors. The study concludes that people’s travel behaviors, positive attitude to shared mobility, and psychological features of AVs are the key determinants of PAVs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51534,"journal":{"name":"Travel Behaviour and Society","volume":"39 ","pages":"Article 100975"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142869870","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":"Impact of traffic campaigns on the average speed of vehicles on urban roads","authors":"Alan Ricardo da Silva,&nbsp;Tiago Moreira dos Santos","doi":"10.1016/j.tbs.2024.100976","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tbs.2024.100976","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Many traffic deaths and injuries are related to speeding. Thus, establishing speed limits and enforcing them are fundamental measures for promoting safe traffic. It is known that automatic speed enforcement, in particular, the average speed enforcement, effectively counters excessive speeds. In Brazil, only on site inspection of speed is regulated. Thus, testing the effectiveness of other countermeasures in reducing the average vehicle speed is indispensable. This study aimed to analyze the effects of a traffic education campaign (exposure of drivers to damaged vehicles on public roads) on the average speed behavior of drivers on urban roads who usually travel above the allowed speed. The average speeds of the (paired) vehicles before and after the introduction of the educational campaign in three segments were compared. The obatined results showed that the traffic campaign was effective in reducing the average vehicle speed by drivers who usually traveled above the allowed speed in the analyzed segments. The magnitude of the campaign effect (average speed reduction) was observed to be greater during its execution and lost strength when interrupted, especially on the sixth and seventh days after completion, corroborating that the traffic campaign measures (although low cost and easy to execute) had limited effects on the time and place of their realization. The results of this study can be used in the future as an indicator that people actually do worry about the consequences of speeding, as is the case with the vision of damaged cars.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51534,"journal":{"name":"Travel Behaviour and Society","volume":"39 ","pages":"Article 100976"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142816559","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}