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Children’s independent mobility (CIM) has declined dramatically in recent decades despite its benefits in facilitating childhood development, promoting physical activity, and combating the obesity epidemic. This US-based study examines the impacts of...

Background: Children’s access to non-school destinations is important for their well-being, but this has been overlooked in transport planning. Research on children’s access to non-school destinations is growing, and there is a need for a...

The disparity between urban and rural development in China has resulted in the significant migration of rural laborers to urban areas, giving rise to a growing population of left-behind children in rural areas. The number of accidental injuries among...

Visual impairment or even loss seriously affects quality of life. Benefited by the rapid development of sound/laser detection, Global Positioning System (GPS)/Beidou positioning, machine vision and other technologies, the quality of life of blind peo...

Mobile devices are more present in our everyday lives and have become an important factor in travel behavior. This study amends the technology acceptance model (TAM) and employs it to discuss the relationship between overseas independent travelers us...

In this qualitative study, young adults with visual impairments aged 18–27 and family members were studied to determine the effects of state-mandated high school driver’s education on independent travel, self-efficacy, and the transition...

In this article, a Ka-band broadband analog predistortion (APD) microwave monolithic integrated circuit (MMIC) with independent tunability based on a 0.15 μm GaAs pHEMT process is proposed, which can be cascaded in front of traveling wave tube amp...

Accurate fault location in flexible DC transmission lines is essential for ensuring rapid fault clearance and system reliability. However, traditional traveling-wave methods are often affected by wave velocity variations and synchronization errors. T...

Low-carbon travel has emerged as a topic of interest in tourism and academia. Studies have offered reasons tourists may engage in low-carbon travel; however, these explanations are scattered throughout the literature and have yet to be integrated int...

This paper examines public transport use through the lens of practice to understand the perspectives of two categories of public transport users: Younger and older people. In taking this approach, we assume that the forms of mobility in a society are...

In this paper, to study the Sharma–Tasso–Olver–Burgers equation, we focus on the geometric properties and the exact traveling wave solutions. The corresponding traveling system is a cubic oscillator with damping, and it has time-dep...

Multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria have become one of the most important health problems. We aimed to assess whether international travel may facilitate their spread through the colonization of asymptomatic travelers. A cross-sectional study was cond...

This study aims to better understand foreign residents’ life satisfaction by exploring residents’ AR technology adoption behavior (a combination of transportation applications’ usefulness and ease of use) and travel involvement. Dat...

To promote the sustainable development of urban traffic and improve resident travel satisfaction, the significant factors affecting resident travel satisfaction are analyzed in this paper. An evaluation and prediction model for travel satisfaction ba...

Using the 2022 National Household Travel Survey data, this study explores the socioeconomic and demographic factors influencing vehicle miles traveled and driving decisions of Americans with travel-limiting disabilities. It employs descriptive statis...

Environmental changes significantly impact health behavior. Active travel behavior is mostly affected by increasing motorization, urban sprawl, and traffic safety. Especially for children, active and independent travel can contribute to physical acti...

Travel times for simple trips and cycles are analyzed for a storage/retrieval machine working in a one-dimensional or two-dimensional zone with taxicab geometry. A semi-random trip is defined as one-way travel from a known to a random location or vic...

In the practice of electrostatically actuated micro devices; the electrostatic force is implemented by sequentially actuated piecewise-electrodes which result in a traveling distributed electrostatic force. However; such force was modeled as a travel...

As a typical model of urban green and sustainable micro-transportation, shared electric bicycles play a crucial role in short and medium-distance travel as well as in connecting with public transportation. To respond to the national concept of low-ca...

We investigated the relationship between urban accessibility of museums in the urban spaces of Tokyo and Seoul within limited travel distances. Similarities and differences were identified in the museum accessibility between the two cities. The urban...

It is generally assumed that there is a statistically valid correlation between the length of a roadway network, in addition to other factors such as its classification and/or average travel speed, and economic indicators such as Gross Domestic Produ...

Traveling wave (TW)-based fault-location methods have been used to determine single-phase-to-ground fault distance in power-distribution networks. The previous approaches detected the arrival time of the initial traveling wave via single ended or mul...

At the beginning of 2020 there was a spinning point in the travel behavior of people around the world because of the pandemic and its consequences. This paper analyzes the specific behavior of travelers commuting to work or school during the COVID-19...

The proliferation of solo female travel as a cultural and social practice has been accompanied by a narrow representational default: the solo female traveller of tourism marketing, and of much scholarship, remains implicitly white, Western, middle-cl...

The ability to travel (independently) is very important for participation in education, work, leisure activities, and all other aspects of modern life. Blind and partially sighted people experience a number of barriers to travel, including inaccessib...

This study examines how real photographs and AI-generated photographs shape sustainable engagement and travel intention in tropical island tourism. We used a one-factor between subjects survey experiment with two independent conditions, real images a...

With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, an unprecedented global health and economic crisis started. This situation has had a devastating effect on all economic and social sectors, provoking either a decrease or cessation of business or profound c...

This study aims to examine the determinants of destination loyalty toward World Heritage Sites (WHSs) along Silk Road tourism in Uzbekistan. It could enable the profiling of inbound tourists visiting WHSs and identification of the important determina...

The ability to manipulate therapeutic agents in fluids is of interest to improve the efficiency of targeted drug delivery. Ultrasonic manipulation has great potential in the field of therapeutic applications as it can trap and manipulate micro-scale...

Understanding how consumers perceive the value of travel packages is essential for pricing and product design. Grounded in behavioral economics frameworks, such as Prospect Theory and Mental Accounting, this study analyses satisfaction across three p...

Multi-objective optimization of a vessel route is considered of key importance when creating automatic navigation systems to ensure independent navigation in ice conditions. This is explained by the need to take into account not only the time or fuel...

Background: Health accessibility is a key determinant of equitable cancer care. In many countries, specialized oncology services are concentrated in urban and socioeconomically advantaged regions, forcing many patients to travel long distances for tr...

In the realm of transportation system optimization, enhancing overall performance through the proactive coordination of traffic guidance and signal control in a divergent network can tackle the challenges posed by traffic congestion and inefficiency....

It is a positive phenomenon that more and more studies are being published on the diverse relationship between accessibility and tourism nowadays. This indicates that now at least tourism researchers are showing an interest in the examination of the...

Public transport is vital for social and economic life, but many people with disabilities still face exclusion due to both physical and psychosocial barriers. This study examined how psychosocial barriers influence public transport travel behavior am...

Informal public transportation remains the backbone of urban mobility in many developing cities. While these systems offer flexible and affordable services, they are often associated with safety issues, unreliability, congestion, and environmental im...

A deep understanding of school travel mode can help policymaking related to the optimization of the school travel structure, alleviating urban traffic congestion due to the increasingly prominent phenomenon of urban sprawl. However, existing studies...

The objective of this study was to identify the effects of land-use characteristics on the transport mode choices of people according to their purpose of travel. Land-use characteristics consisting of variables associated with density, diversity and...

Travellers have high standards and regard restaurants as important travel attributes. In the tourism and hospitality industry, the use of developed tools (e.g., smartphones and location-based tablets) has been popularised as a way for travellers to e...

Travel time reliability (TTR) is a key mobility performance measure for roadway systems. Intelligent Transportation Systems have enabled transportation agencies and researchers to use large-scale travel time data for evaluating TTR. The United States...

Background/Objective: Since 2004, seasonal influenza vaccination has been technically recommended for poultry workers as a public health measure to reduce the risk of co-infection with human and avian influenza viruses and the potential emergence of...

Dengue fever (DF) is a mosquito-borne disease prevalent in the tropics (e.g., sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Central and South America) and a common cause of febrile illness in travelers. The high incidence of imported DF in Taiwan has led to a domest...

The capacity for subjective time in humans encompasses the perception of time’s unfolding from moment to moment, as well as the ability to traverse larger temporal expanses of past- and future-oriented thought via mental time travel. Disruption in ti...

As one of the three major carbon sources in cities, urban mobility has posed severe challenges to the social environment. Promoting low-carbon travel for residents is an important measure for building a low-carbon city and mitigating climate change....

The Mecanum-wheeled robot has four special wheels. It can control four wheels independently and has seven turning axes. The robot can translate in all directions and travel in curves without changing its direction by means of the control commands for...

Due to the elderly’s limited physical ability, their mode choice behavior with particular demand for the traffic system is significantly distinguished compared to young people. The emergence of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) and Shared Autonomous Ve...

The objective of this study is to estimate the use-value of Ichan Kala, a historical city located in Khiva, Uzbekistan, that is listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. It also investigates the visitors’ willingness-to-pay (WTP) for the econom...

Supply-side assessments show what services are available nearby, but not how far residents travel from home. We examine alignment between neighborhood service breadth and realized local travel across Shenzhen, Nanjing and Xuzhou using 93.5 million ho...

Bus rapid transit (BRT) system is a sustainable mode choice alternative and traffic management method for traffic congestion problems in urban areas. As an extent of total demand management, BRT has broadly been implemented in many countries. BRT has...

Generation Z (Gen Z; born 1997–2012) is reshaping global tourism through digital fluency, ethical awareness, and a desire for authentic, sustainable travel experiences. This study surveys 413 Gen Z travelers across France, Portugal, Romania, and the...