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Analysing the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on everyday travel behaviour in Germany and potential implications for future travel patterns

The global Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is having a great impact on all areas of the everyday life, including travel behaviour. Various measures that focus on restricting social contacts have been implement...

Authors: Viktoriya Kolarova, Christine Eisenmann, Claudia Nobis, Christian Winkler and Barbara Lenz

Explaining demand patterns during COVID-19 using opportunistic data: a case study of the city of Munich

The COVID-19 pandemic is a new phenomenon and has affected the population’s lifestyle in many ways, such as panic buying (the so-called “hamster shopping”), adoption of home-office, and decline in retail shopp...

Authors: Vishal Mahajan, Guido Cantelmo and Constantinos Antoniou

Conjoint analysis of mobility plans in the city of Dresden

The past years brought massive changes in the transport and mobility market, accompanied by the rise of concepts such as Mobility as a Service. An enormous increase in publications on this topic documents the ...

Authors: Benjamin Maas

Ranking port state control detention remarks: professional Judgement and spatial overview

The merchant marine fleet is under inspection by several parties to ensure maritime regulation compliance. International Maritime Organization mainly regulates the industry, and the most effective defender is ...

Authors: Efe Akyurek and Pelin Bolat

Governance challenges of mobility platforms: the case of Merwede, Utrecht

Merwede is an envisioned neighbourhood in Utrecht (the Netherlands) that provides an instructive case to learn about the governance challenges of digital mobility platforms. Unique about Merwede is how the dev...

Authors: Martijn van den Hurk, Peter Pelzer and Rianne Riemens

Determining the optimal number of yard trucks in smaller container terminals

In 2017, smaller container ports handled approximately 22% of total containerized cargo. Nowadays liner operators are calling on those ports with larger ships and demanding fast and efficient turnaround of the...

Authors: Maja Stojaković and Elen Twrdy

Mapping travel behavior changes during the COVID-19 lock-down: a socioeconomic analysis in Greece

COVID-19 pandemic is a challenge that the world had never encountered in the last 100 years. In order to mitigate its negative effects, governments worldwide took action by prohibiting at first certain activit...

Authors: Ioannis Politis, Georgios Georgiadis, Anastasia Nikolaidou, Aristomenis Kopsacheilis, Ioannis Fyrogenis, Alexandros Sdoukopoulos, Eleni Verani and Efthymis Papadopoulos

Post-COVID-19 travel behaviour patterns: impact on the willingness to pay of users of public transport and shared mobility services in Spain

The COVID-19 crisis has meant a significant change in the lifestyle of millions of people worldwide. With a lockdown that lasted almost three months and an impulse to new normality, transport demand has suffer...

Authors: Samir Awad-Núñez, Raky Julio, Juan Gomez, Borja Moya-Gómez and Julián Sastre González

A cross-country comparison of user experience of public autonomous transport

Autonomous solutions for transportation are emerging worldwide, and one of the sectors that will benefit the most from these solutions is the public transport by shifting toward the new paradigm of Mobility as...

Authors: Mauro Bellone, Azat Ismailogullari, Tommi Kantala, Sami Mäkinen, Ralf-Martin Soe and Milla Åman Kyyrö

Correction to: Lifespans of passenger cars in Europe: empirical modelling of fleet turnover dynamics

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

Authors: Maximilian Held, Nicolas Rosat, Gil Georges, Hermann Pengg and Konstantinos Boulouchos

When the impossible becomes possible: COVID-19’s impact on work and travel patterns in Swedish public agencies

The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly led to some of the most revolutionary changes in private and professional life around the world. While the extent and duration of these changes are not certain, they have alre...

Authors: Lena Winslott Hiselius and Peter Arnfalk

Effects of non-driving related tasks on mental workload and take-over times during conditional automated driving

Automated driving will be of high value in the future. While in partial-automated driving the driver must always monitor the traffic situation, a paradigm shift is taking place in the case of conditional autom...

Authors: Andreas Lars Müller, Natacha Fernandes-Estrela, Ruben Hetfleisch, Lukas Zecha and Bettina Abendroth

A mixed-methods analysis of mobility behavior changes in the COVID-19 era in a rural case study

As a reaction to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), countries around the globe have implemented various measures to reduce the spread of the virus. The transportation sector is particularly affected by ...

Authors: Alexandra König and Annika Dreßler

The trade-off behaviours between virtual and physical activities during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic period

The first wave of COVID-19 pandemic period has drastically changed people’s lives all over the world. To cope with the disruption, digital solutions have become more popular. However, the ability to adopt digi...

Authors: Elisa Bin, Claudia Andruetto, Yusak Susilo and Anna Pernestål

Impacts of interpersonal distancing on-board trains during the COVID-19 emergency

The COVID-19 emergency and the cities lockdown have had a strong impact on transport and mobility. In particular, travel demand has registered an unprecedented overall contraction, dramatically dropping down w...

Authors: Pierluigi Coppola and Francesco De Fabiis

Quantifying the phantom jam externality: the case of an Autobahn section in Germany

If not restricted by tolls, private decisions to drive on a highway result in inefficiently high usage which leads to traffic jams. When traffic demand is high, traffic jams can occur simply because of the int...

Authors: Kathrin Goldmann and Gernot Sieg

Correction to: Sensitivity enriched multi-criterion decision making process for novel railway switches and crossings − a case study

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

Authors: Hitesh C. Boghani, Ramakrishnan Ambur, Marcelo Blumenfeld, Louis Saade, Roger M. Goodall, Christopher P. Ward, Otto Plášek, Neil Gofton, Miquel Morata, Clive Roberts and Roger Dixon

Impact of SARS-CoV-2 on the mobility behaviour in Germany

The COVID-19 pandemic and the measures taken to combat it led to severe constraints for various areas of life, including mobility. To study the effects of this disruptive situation on the mobility behaviour of...

Authors: Juliane Anke, Angela Francke, Lisa-Marie Schaefer and Tibor Petzoldt

Lifespans of passenger cars in Europe: empirical modelling of fleet turnover dynamics

Cars have a high share of global transport-related CO₂ emissions. To model the market diffusion of new energy carriers and powertrains like electric vehicles, fleet turnover models are commonly used. A decisive i...

Authors: Maximilian Held, Nicolas Rosat, Gil Georges, Hermann Pengg and Konstantinos Boulouchos

Facing the needs for clean bicycle data – a bicycle-specific approach of GPS data processing

GPS-based cycling data are increasingly available for traffic planning these days. However, the recorded data often contain more information than simply bicycle trips. GPS tracks resulting from tracking while ...

Authors: Sven Lißner and Stefan Huber

State aid, EU maritime transport policies and competitiveness of EU country fleets

This study conducts an across-the-board comparative analysis of the impact of the main measures used by the 10 leading maritime nations of the EU on the relative competitiveness of the fleets that they control...

Authors: Javier Bilbao-Ubillos, Ana Fernández-Sainz and Rosa Payán-Azkue

Sensitivity enriched multi-criterion decision making process for novel railway switches and crossings − a case study

Despite their important role in railway operations, switches and crossings (S&C) have changed little since their conception over a century ago. It stands now that the existing designs for S&C are reaching thei...

Authors: Hitesh C. Boghani, Ramakrishnan Ambur, Marcelo Blumenfeld, Louis Saade, Roger M. Goodall, Christopher P. Ward, Otto Plášek, Neil Gofton, Miquel Morata, Clive Roberts and Roger Dixon

Modeling of vehicle CO₂ emissions and signal timing analysis at a signalized intersection considering fuel vehicles and electric vehicles

An intersection is an area with more energy consumption and emissions by motor vehicles, and the energy consumption and emissionsof vehicles at intersections should be reduced in road planning and traffic cont...

Authors: Hong-Xing Zhao, Rui-Chun He and Na Yin

The potential of high-speed rail freight in Europe: how is a modal shift from road to rail possible for low-density high value cargo?

A fully electrified transport chain offers considerable potential for CO₂ savings. In this paper, we examine the conditions necessary to introduce a fully electrified, large-scale, high-speed rail freight transpo...

Authors: Mathias Boehm, Marlin Arnz and Joachim Winter

Direct and cross price elasticities of demand for gasoline, diesel, hybrid and battery electric cars: the case of Norway

The primary goals of this research is (i) to derive direct and cross demand market response functions for automobile powertrains and their energy carriers and (ii) to assess how CO₂ emissions from automobiles dep...

Authors: Lasse Fridstrøm and Vegard Østli

Enhanced speed advice for connected vehicles in the proximity of signalized intersections

Technological advancements in the field of transportation are gradually enabling cooperative, connected and automated mobility (CCAM). The progress in information and communication technology (ICT) has provide...

Authors: Evangelos Mintsis, Eleni I. Vlahogianni, Evangelos Mitsakis and Seckin Ozkul

Cooperative messages to enhance the performance of L3 vehicles approaching roadworks

In the near future, automated vehicles will drive on public roads together with traditional vehicles. Even though almost the whole academia agrees on that statement, the possible interferences between the two ...

Authors: Serio Angelo Maria Agriesti, Marco Ponti, Giovanna Marchionni and Paolo Gandini

An integrated grey AHP-MOORA model for ameliorating public transport service quality

Public transport systems provide essential mobility service to citizens who do not have access to private cars. Public transport also plays a significant role in minimizing road congestions, air pollution, jou...

Authors: Sarbast Moslem and Yakup Çelikbilek

Exploring the MaaS market with systematic analysis

Mobility as a Service (MaaS) is a new transport concept which integrates, manages, and distributes private and public mobility alternatives by using intelligent digital technologies. Recently, research and imp...

Authors: Domokos Esztergár-Kiss, Tamás Kerényi, Tamás Mátrai and Attila Aba

Port state control at European Union under pandemic outbreak

Port State Control (PSC) is a vital element of sustainable maritime transportation. Inspections of PSC regimes have been ensuring the continuity of the global supply chain as they enforce shipping to implement...

Authors: Efe Akyurek and Pelin Bolat

A novel methodological framework for testing automated vehicle functions

Since there are more and more highly automated vehicles in road transportation with various extremely safety-critical functions, it is crucial to intensify the development of testing methods. Following this co...

Authors: Árpád Török

Understanding user attitudes and economic aspects in a corporate multimodal mobility system: results from a field study in Germany

The present study aims to investigate user attitudes and behaviour when users interact with a corporate multimodal mobility sharing system, consisting of battery electric vehicles (BEVs), pedelecs (i.e. electr...

Authors: Madlen Günther, Benjamin Jacobsen, Marco Rehme, Uwe Götze and Josef F. Krems

Employing waterborne autonomous vehicles for museum visits: a case study in Amsterdam

Amsterdam is a culturally rich city attracting millions of tourists. Popular activities in Amsterdam consist of museum visits and boat tours. By strategically combining them, this paper presents an innovative ...

Authors: Helena Hang Rong, Wei Tu, Fábio Duarte and Carlo Ratti

Mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) digital marketplace impact on EU passengers’ rights

Integrated and seamless mobility has been a futuristic vision of mobility for a few years already. Today, Mobility as a Service (MaaS) embodies that vision through the integration of existing and new mobility ...

Authors: Erion Murati

Research on feeder network design: a case study of feeder service for the port of Kotka

By exemplifying the feeder service for the port of Kotka, this study proposed a multi-objective optimization model for feeder network design. Innovative for difference from the single-objective evaluation syst...

Authors: Yisong Lin, Xuefeng Wang, Hao Hu and Hui Zhao

A cost benefit model for high capacity transport in a comprehensive line-haul network

The objective of the paper is to analyse the potential of introducing High Capacity Transport (HCT) within a comprehensive line-haul network. Barriers and enablers have been identified, and a cost benefit mode...

Authors: David Lindqvist, Marwan Salman and Rickard Bergqvist

Economic impact of autonomous vehicles in Spain

Pollution, traffic accidents, and congestion are huge problems in most urban areas. Autonomous and electric vehicles are leading our society to a new mobility model, also known as the New Era of Transportation...

Authors: Efrén Alonso, Cristina Arpón, María González, Ramón Ángel Fernández and Mariano Nieto

Costs related to serious road injuries: a European perspective

Costs related to road crashes represent an important societal burden. Additionally they constitute an essential input variable to assess the cost efficiency of road safety measures. While most attention is usu...

Authors: Annelies Schoeters, Wim Wijnen, Laurent Carnis, Wendy Weijermars, Rune Elvik, Stijn Daniels and Heiko Johannsen

Performance assessment of alternative SSS networks by combining KPIs and factor-cluster analysis

Performance assessment is a fundamental tool to successfully monitor and manage logistics and transport systems. In the field of Short Sea Shipping (SSS), the performance of the various maritime initiatives sh...

Authors: Patrizia Serra and Gianfranco Fancello

Assessing transport policies for tourist mobility based on accessibility indicators

Tourism is a key sector in the national economies, representing a real asset for increasing the competitiveness and the world-wide visibility of a Country. In Italy, the widespread diffusion of the tourist her...

Authors: Pierluigi Coppola, Armando Carbone, Carmine Aveta and Piera Stangherlin

State-of-art review of traffic signal control methods: challenges and opportunities

Due to the menacing increase in the number of vehicles on a daily basis, abating road congestion is becoming a key challenge these years. To cope-up with the prevailing traffic scenarios and to meet the ever-i...

Authors: Syed Shah Sultan Mohiuddin Qadri, Mahmut Ali Gökçe and Erdinç Öner

Optimization of resource demand for passenger services at airports during system failures such as blackouts

In recent years, power outages at airports caused total collapses of terminal operations at the affected airports. These incidents have shown that existing emergency power systems were not sufficient to mainta...

Authors: Lisa-Marie Brause, Andrei Popa, Tobias Koch, Andreas Deutschmann and Martin Hellmann

Correction to: Impact assessment of rural PPP MaaS pilots

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

Authors: Jenni Eckhardt, Arttu Lauhkonen and Aki Aapaoja

Why drivers are frustrated: results from a diary study and focus groups

Designing emotion-aware systems has become a manageable aim through recent developments in computer vision and machine learning. In the context of driver behaviour, especially negative emotions like frustratio...

Authors: Esther Bosch, Klas Ihme, Uwe Drewitz, Meike Jipp and Michael Oehl

Distributional effects of carbon taxation in passenger transport with lump-sum offset: low income households, retirees and families would benefit in Germany

The introduction of a carbon tax on passenger transport is currently being discussed in Germany. Various stakeholders favour a consumption-based, revenue-neutral carbon tax with a uniform lump-sum offset for p...

Authors: Christine Eisenmann, Felix Steck, Lars Hedemann, Barbara Lenz and Florian Koller

The traffic signal control problem for intersections: a review

The intersection traffic signal control problem (ITSCP) has become even more important as traffic congestion has been more intractable. The ITSCP seeks an efficient schedule for traffic signal settings at inte...

Authors: Myungeun Eom and Byung-In Kim

Impact assessment of rural PPP MaaS pilots

The purpose of this paper is to present the impact assessment results of Mobility as a Service pilots based on public-private collaboration. In the pilots, companies and local and regional stakeholders joined ...

Authors: Jenni Eckhardt, Arttu Lauhkonen and Aki Aapaoja

Towards behaviour based testing to understand the black box of autonomous cars

Autonomous cars could make traffic safer, more convenient, efficient and sustainable. They promise the convenience of a personal taxi, without the need for a human driver. Artificial intelligence would operate...

Authors: Fabian Utesch, Alexander Brandies, Paulin Pekezou Fouopi and Caroline Schießl

Optimization of a physical internet based supply chain using reinforcement learning

Physical Internet based supply chains create open, global logistics systems that enable new types of collaboration among participants. The open system allows the logistical examination of vehicle technology in...

Authors: Eszter Puskás, Ádám Budai and Gábor Bohács

Human factors of digitalized mobility forms and services

Authors: Alexandra Millonig and Sonja Haustein