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  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,242 Views
14 Pages

23 December 2018

With the cultivation of the shared economy, shared parking provides a new solution to the urban parking resource shortage problem. In this paper, the shared parking mode is taken as the research object to improve the utilization efficiency of parking...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
9,479 Views
20 Pages

26 December 2018

Appertaining parking lots of public buildings provide a large proportion of parking supply in cities. However, these parking lots mainly serve the parking demands of public buildings, leading to a low utilization ratio of parking spaces. It is theref...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,810 Views
23 Pages

21 January 2025

The pollution and congestion caused by the shortage of parking spaces are threatening the sustainable development of cities. Smart parking platforms are one of the major tools to solve the problem by providing the efficient usage of parking resources...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,605 Views
20 Pages

22 December 2024

With the continuous increase in the number of vehicles worldwide, parking challenges have become more severe, making it a shared goal for governments to alleviate parking difficulties in urban centers. Shared parking has emerged as an effective solut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,116 Views
24 Pages

26 August 2024

Urban complexes on top of subways as a function of intensive building groups, including residential, office, business, and other types nature of land use where parking time differences are obvious, can implement shared parking spaces, thereby reducin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,905 Views
22 Pages

22 February 2023

This study mainly focuses on the estimation calculation of urban parking space. Urban parking has always been a problem that plagues governments worldwide. Due to limited parking space, if the parking space is not controlled correctly, with the city&...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,723 Views
16 Pages

Assessment of the Economic and Social Impact of Shared Parking in Residential Areas

  • Xiaofei Ye,
  • Xinliu Sui,
  • Jin Xie,
  • Tao Wang,
  • Xingchen Yan and
  • Jun Chen

26 August 2020

Shared parking schemes are not commonly implemented in residential areas due to the uncertainty and conflicts associated with the benefits of such schemes for stakeholders, namely, parking suppliers, parking managers, and the public. To evaluate the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,303 Views
17 Pages

Impact of Risk and Benefit on the Suppliers’ and Managers’ Intention of Shared Parking in Residential Areas

  • Jin Xie,
  • Xiaofei Ye,
  • Zhongzhen Yang,
  • Xingchen Yan,
  • Lili Lu,
  • Zhen Yang and
  • Tao Wang

29 December 2019

Shared parking is not commonly applied in residential areas. The reason is that parking suppliers and managers believe that there are many uncertainties and conflicts in obtaining sharing benefits and taking sharing risks. To increase their acceptanc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,219 Views
19 Pages

29 December 2021

The size of cities has been continuously increasing because of urbanization. The number of public and private transportation vehicles is rapidly increasing, thus resulting in traffic congestion, traffic accidents, and environmental pollution. Althoug...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,919 Views
17 Pages

15 December 2022

Shared parking improves the utilization rate of parking spaces by taking advantage of temporal and spatial differences, which is conducive to alleviating parking problems. From the perspective of bounded rationality, this paper studies the factors th...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,302 Views
17 Pages

11 August 2023

Shared autonomous vehicles (SAVs) have great potential for achieving beneficial changes to the society. Although recent studies have explored the traffic safety, economic benefits and environmental impact, parking decisions of SAVs is rarely consider...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,125 Views
25 Pages

27 October 2022

Shared parking has been widely accepted as an effective way to deal with the mismatch between parking demand and supply. Especially for adjacent construction areas with mixed residential and commercial land, staggered shared parking has broad applica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,972 Views
17 Pages

Sustainable Renewal of Underground Parking Space in the Scenario of Shared Autonomous Vehicles

  • Bing Xia,
  • Yitao Fang,
  • Haodi Shen,
  • Jinli Shen and
  • Shengzhang Pan

22 December 2021

Shared autonomous vehicles (SAVs) are a major development direction in international scientific and technological innovation. One of the most popular features of SAVs in the urban space is that they can significantly reduce the need for parking. The...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,900 Views
14 Pages

14 February 2024

Electric scooter sharing mobility services have recently spread in major cities all around the world. However, the bad parking behavior of users has become a major source of issues, provoking accidents and compromising urban decorum of public areas....

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,974 Views
16 Pages

2 February 2022

The disorderly parking of dockless shared bicycles (DBS) has brought about great challenges to the use and management of shared bicycles. Although previous research related to the DBS industry has covered many patterns, the psychological mechanisms u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,766 Views
21 Pages

24 March 2021

Shared autonomous vehicles (SAVs) will be an important force to in reshaping urban morphology. The high operation rate and sharing degree of SAV are considered to result in a great reduction in parking area in future cities. Parking space is now a hu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,103 Views
21 Pages

30 September 2019

With the maturity of mobile payments and internet technology, a new type of travel mode, shared bicycles, was brought out by China’s urban transport under the impetus of “the last mile” travel demand. Although convenient travel has...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,755 Views
23 Pages

Shared parking is an effective means to alleviate the shortage of parking spaces in urban central areas during the morning peak hours. Meanwhile, walking time cost and parking fees are two critical factors affecting shared parking efficiency. Firstly...

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  • Open Access
1,424 Views
50 Pages

11 November 2025

Rapid urbanization and limited land resources have intensified parking shortages in China’s core and old urban districts, highlighting the tension between parking supply and public space. This study investigates the staged impacts of shared aut...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,940 Views
16 Pages

26 May 2023

A sophisticated three-way decision model utilizing a multi-granularity probabilistic hesitant fuzzy rough set is introduced to mitigate the issue of information loss arising from hesitant fuzzy sets when characterizing decision information. Initially...

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  • Open Access
154 Views
22 Pages

14 January 2026

Urban shared parking systems represent a complex socio-technical challenge. Despite vast potential, utilization remains persistently low (<15%), revealing a critical policy failure. To address this, this study develops a dynamic system framework b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,153 Views
27 Pages

15 June 2020

In recent years, with the rapid development of China’s automobile industry, the number of vehicles in China has been increasing steadily. Vehicles represent a convenient mode of travel, but the growth rate of the number of urban motor vehicles...

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  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,749 Views
17 Pages

14 June 2019

Free-floating bicycle-sharing systems are an important component of sustainable transport. China’s bicycle-sharing schemes have experienced ups and downs in the past three years, and there are a lot of related studies, but there are relatively...

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  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,842 Views
15 Pages

A System of Shared Autonomous Vehicles Combined with Park-And-Ride in Residential Areas

  • Yefang Zhou,
  • Yanyan Li,
  • Mingyang Hao and
  • Toshiyuki Yamamoto

2 June 2019

As suburbanization and unprecedented population aging are converging, enhanced personal mobility for suburban residents is required. In this study, a collaborative scheme involving park-and-ride services associated with public transport and a shared...

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  • Open Access
301 Views
22 Pages

28 November 2025

In order to study how the production network, energy network, and carbon trading network interact with each other in the process of distributed energy sharing in industrial parks under the carbon emissions trading mechanism, this paper constructs a s...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,483 Views
19 Pages

17 August 2023

Dockless bike-sharing has experienced explosive growth, establishing itself as an integral component of urban public transport systems. Challenges such as parking violations have spurred operators and users to pursue standardized management. While el...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,594 Views
24 Pages

1 September 2024

National parks play a crucial role in protecting ecosystems and biodiversity while facing challenges in balancing nature conservation and economic development. However, because of the difficulty in the unified simulation of natural protection functio...

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  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,225 Views
18 Pages

Moped-style scooters are one of the most popular systems of micro-mobility. They are undoubtedly good for the city, as they promote forms of environmentally-friendly mobility, in which flexibility helps prevent traffic build-up in the urban centers w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,953 Views
20 Pages

30 September 2019

In recent years, the free-floating bike-sharing (FFBS) system has become a significant mode of travel to satisfy urban residents’ travel demands. However, with the rapid development of FFBS, many problems have arisen, among which the parking pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
678 Views
26 Pages

23 June 2025

The growing integration of renewable energy and electric vehicle loads in parks has intensified the intermittency of photovoltaic (PV) output and demand-side uncertainty, complicating energy storage system design and operation. Meanwhile, under carbo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,056 Views
19 Pages

15 April 2020

Dispersed settlement areas (e.g., Slovenia) result in lower development of fixed public transport lines and thereby car-dependent lifestyles. To avoid congestion inside the cities and on highways in these areas, shared mobility modes e.g., carpooling...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,936 Views
25 Pages

26 August 2024

In response to climate change, the proportion of renewable energy penetration is increasing daily. However, there is a lack of flexible energy transfer mechanisms. The optimization effect of low-carbon economic dispatch in a single park is limited. I...

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  • Open Access
142 Views
31 Pages

20 January 2026

Urban parks are central to public health and equity, yet less is known about how park travel distance, park “attractor” types, and time-of-day visitation rhythms co-evolved through and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Using anonymized smartph...

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  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,292 Views
17 Pages

28 November 2018

The emerging market model of collaborative consumption, where underused resources can be collaboratively shared between consumers, is proving to be an increasingly profitable commercial business concept encouraging traditional non-sharing firms to se...

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  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,896 Views
22 Pages

10 March 2021

The use of autonomous vehicles (AVs) has the potential to transform users’ behaviour and urban space management. Quantitative and qualitative analyses of impacts require a scenario building method. We considered the fleet size, modal share, car owner...

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  • Open Access
22 Citations
8,670 Views
22 Pages

Memorable Tourist Experiences in National Parks: Impacts on Future Intentions and Environmentally Responsible Behavior

  • Sanja Obradović,
  • Vladimir Stojanović,
  • Aleksandra Tešin,
  • Ivan Šećerov,
  • Milana Pantelić and
  • Dragan Dolinaj

28 December 2022

This study aims to investigate how national parks, identified as remarkable and, therefore, worthy of the trip, are visited and experienced. The main objective of this study was to explore the influence of memorable tourism experiences on environment...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,490 Views
25 Pages

14 October 2021

Regulating the curbside usage of delivery vehicles and ride-hailing services as well as micromobility has been a challenge in the last years, a challenge which might worsen with the increase of autonomous vehicles. The contribution of the research ou...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,920 Views
27 Pages

To maximize the utilization of renewable energy (RE) as much as possible in cold areas while reducing traditional energy use and carbon dioxide emissions, a three-layer configuration optimization and scheduling model considering a multi-park integrat...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,719 Views
20 Pages

When Is a Park More Than a Park? Rethinking the Role of Parks as “Shared Space” in Post-Conflict Belfast

  • Ian Mell,
  • John Sturzaker,
  • Alice Correia,
  • Mary Gearey,
  • Neale Blair,
  • Luciana Lang and
  • Fearghus O’Sullivan

20 September 2022

With the signing of the Belfast Agreement, Belfast (Northern Ireland, UK) entered a new phase of urban development. Moving away from notions of division, Belfast City Council envisaged an inclusive and accessible city. Over a 20-year period, there ha...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,233 Views
23 Pages

9 April 2025

Global biodiversity rates remain in decline despite the fact that worldwide 16% of the land is protected. Some argue that to stop the biodiversity decline, a shift from “land-sparing” (agricultural production and nature conservation on di...

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  • Open Access
2,998 Views
19 Pages

27 July 2024

In this study, a tripartite decision-making parking pricing model was developed based on Game Theory to comprehensively reflect the impact of parking pricing on private car travelers, parking lot operators, and traffic managers. Utility theory is int...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,938 Views
14 Pages

Managing Urban Mobility during Big Events through Living Lab Approach

  • Cristina Isabel Covelli Garrido,
  • Alessandro Giovannini,
  • Annalisa Mangone and
  • Fulvio Silvestri

8 October 2023

Urban transportation systems encounter distinctive challenges during planned major city events characterized by large gatherings that disrupt traffic patterns. The surge in private car usage for attending such events leads to a sudden increase in tra...

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  • Open Access
466 Views
20 Pages

20 November 2025

With the increasing share of renewable energy, green power parks face challenges such as high electricity purchasing costs and fluctuations in power quality. To address these issues, this paper proposes an integrated optimization method based on powe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,834 Views
25 Pages

In light of the traffic congestion and traffic environment problems around schools that are caused by students commuting by car, this paper explores an efficient and feasible student commuting travel plan. Based on the ideas of “public–pr...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,306 Views
28 Pages

21 December 2020

Electric vehicles are a mobility innovation that can help significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate climate change. However, increasing numbers of electric vehicles require the construction of a dense charging infrastructure with a s...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,884 Views
14 Pages

School Parks as a Community Health Resource: Use of Joint-Use Parks by Children before and during COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Kevin Lanza,
  • Casey P. Durand,
  • Melody Alcazar,
  • Sierra Ehlers,
  • Kai Zhang and
  • Harold W. Kohl

Parks are settings for physical activity that can support the physical and mental health of children during the COVID-19 pandemic. We determined the impact of the pandemic on the use of joint-use parks outside of school hours by children in Austin, T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,297 Views
25 Pages

19 December 2024

Energy storage is crucial for enhancing the economic efficiency of integrated energy systems. This paper addresses the need for flexible resources due to high renewable energy integration and the complexity of managing multiple resources. We propose...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,744 Views
28 Pages

13 January 2022

Electric vehicles represent an innovation in mobility that can help significantly reduce greenhouse emissions and mitigate climate change. However, replacing internal combustion with electric vehicles is not enough. This replacement needs to be compl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,117 Views
25 Pages

Long-Term Determinants of Tuberculosis in the Ungulate Host Community of Doñana National Park

  • Patricia Barroso,
  • José A. Barasona,
  • Pelayo Acevedo,
  • Pablo Palencia,
  • Francisco Carro,
  • Juan José Negro,
  • María José Torres,
  • Christian Gortázar,
  • Ramón C. Soriguer and
  • Joaquín Vicente

Animal tuberculosis (TB) is endemic in wild boar (Sus scrofa), red deer (Cervus elaphus), fallow deer (Dama dama) and cattle in south and central Spain. In order to clarify the processes that operate in the medium and long-term, we studied TB at the...

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  • Open Access
5,891 Views
24 Pages

19 December 2023

This paper investigates the latent classes of parking preference for drivers and the economic effects after implementing Parking Space Comprehensive Utilization (PSC) in traditional business districts (TBD), with a particular focus on the parking pre...

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