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Picture fuzzy WASPAS method for selecting last-mile delivery mode: a case study of Belgrade

Last-mile delivery (LMD) is becoming more and more demanding due to an increasing number of users and traffic problems in cities. Besides, medical crises (like the COVID-19 outbreak) and air pollution represen...

Authors: Vladimir Simić, Dragan Lazarević and Momčilo Dobrodolac

Optimization of multi- period empty container repositioning and renting in CHINA RAILWAY Express based on container sharing strategy

With the steady growth of trade between China and Europe, the number of trains in CHINA RAILWAY Express has steadily increased under the Belt and Road Initiative. By the end of 2019, more than 21,000 trains ha...

Authors: Yinying Tang, Si Chen, Yuan Feng and Xinglong Zhu

Assessing cyclists’ routing preferences by analyzing extensive user setting data from a bike-routing engine

Many municipalities aim to support the uptake of cycling as an environmentally friendly and healthy mode of transport. It is therefore crucial to meet the demand of cyclists when adapting road infrastructure. ...

Authors: Michael Hardinghaus and Simon Nieland

Do spatial differences in the personal car market reflect a centre-periphery structure? The case of Poland

A centre-periphery structure reflects spatial inequalities in the level of economic development of countries and regions. Most often, it provides a simplified picture of spatial distribution of income or spati...

Authors: Bartłomiej Kołsut and Tadeusz Stryjakiewicz

Reducing private car demand, fact or fiction? A study mapping changes in accessibility to grocery stores in Norway

Travel surveys show that the amount of private car driving in Norway has increased significantly since the mid-1980s. Private car driving has for a long time been the main mode of transport for retail and serv...

Authors: Lillian Sve Rokseth, Eva Heinen, Espen Aukrust Hauglin, Tobias Nordström and Bendik Manum

Near accidents and collisions between pedestrians and cyclists

Cities throughout the world have increasingly promoted walking and cycling as healthy and sustainable modes of travel. However, collisions between pedestrians and cyclists have remained largely unstudied, and ...

Authors: Johannes Mesimäki and Juha Luoma

Developing mobility as a service – user, operator and governance perspectives

Authors: Heikki Liimatainen and Miloš N. Mladenović

Identifying port maritime communities: application to the Spanish case

The aim of this paper is to detect port maritime communities sharing similar international trade patterns, by a modelisation of maritime traffic using a bipartite weighted network, providing decision-makers th...

Authors: Nicanor García, Belarmino Adenso-Díaz and Laura Calzada-Infante

Insights into shopping travel behavior: latent classes in relation to attitudes towards shopping

The car has so far played an important role for transporting goods. However, new services emerging from e-commerce may increasingly reduce its relevance as the transporting of goods might no longer be a reason...

Authors: Lisa Bönisch, Sascha von Behren, Bastian Chlond and Peter Vortisch

Determining service provider and transport system related effects of ridesourcing services by simulation within the travel demand model mobiTopp

Ridesourcing services have become popular recently and play a crucial role in Mobility as a Service (MaaS) offers. With their increasing importance, the need arises to integrate them into travel demand models ...

Authors: Gabriel Wilkes, Lars Briem, Michael Heilig, Tim Hilgert, Martin Kagerbauer and Peter Vortisch

Assesment of the potential of cargo bikes and electrification for last-mile parcel delivery by means of simulation of urban freight flows

The paper presents a simulation model for freight. In the paper, this model is applied to understand the impacts of electric vans and cargo bikes for the last-mile delivery of parcels. Cargo bikes are electric...

Authors: Carlos Llorca and Rolf Moeckel

The opportunity of shared autonomous vehicles to improve spatial equity in accessibility and socio-economic developments in European urban areas

This paper provides insight into the opportunity offered by shared autonomous vehicles (SAVs) to improve urban populations’ spatial equity in accessibility. It provides a concrete implementation model for SAVs...

Authors: Norman Eppenberger and Maximilian Alexander Richter

Who continued travelling by public transport during COVID-19? Socioeconomic factors explaining travel behaviour in Stockholm 2020 based on smart card data

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed travel behaviour and reduced the use of public transport throughout the world, but the reduction has not been uniform. In this study we analyse the propensity to stop travelli...

Authors: Erik Almlöf, Isak Rubensson, Matej Cebecauer and Erik Jenelius

The variability of urban safety performance functions for different road elements: an Italian case study

Urban safety performance functions are used to predict crash frequencies, mostly based on Negative Binomial (NB) count models. They could be differentiated for considering homogeneous subsets of segments/inter...

Authors: Paolo Intini, Nicola Berloco, Gabriele Cavalluzzi, Dominique Lord, Vittorio Ranieri and Pasquale Colonna

Estimating commuting modal split by using the Best-Worst Method

This paper endeavors to introduce a new approach to modal split estimation. In the frame of the research, a customized model of the recently created Best-Worst Method (BWM) is applied to evaluate mode choice a...

Authors: Szabolcs Duleba, Sarbast Moslem and Domokos Esztergár-Kiss

A semi-systematic literature review, identifying research opportunities for more sustainable, receiver-led inbound urban logistics flows to large higher education institutions

This paper reports a semi-systematic literature review, identifying research opportunities for more sustainable, receiver-led, inbound logistics flows to large Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).

Authors: Thomas H. Zunder

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