Increasing accessibility and balancing its distribution across space and social groups are two fundamental goals to make transport more sustainable and equitable. In the next decades, autonomous vehicles (AVs) could significantly transform the transp...
It has become standard practice for governments and transportation engineers around the world to infuse sustainability principles into their plans as higher-level goals and priorities, with indicators to reflect the same. The transformation towards s...
The topic of social equity in transport planning has been dealt with, in particular, by authors such as Martens (2012) and Martens and Golob (2012) using a social justice based-approach. However, such an approach, whilst valuable and analytically rig...
Reducing inequality and fostering economic growth is the tenth global goal of the United Nations for sustainable development. Rail transport significantly influences spatial structures, industrial distributions, and is vital for regional economic int...
Nowadays, approximately 75% of the European population lives in urban areas, and these figures are expected to grow in future. The consequent expansion of cities means that the population might locate its residence far from daily facilities, generati...
The pursuit of sustainability has been at the forefront of contemporary planning initiatives. However, most recent research has focused on the environmental and economic aspects of developing sustainable urban environment, whilst largely neglecting t...
Background: Transportation equity has emerged as a critical area of focus in recent studies. Integrating equity into transportation research is increasingly recognized as essential for developing fair, inclusive, and sustainable transportation system...
Urban commuting, a facet of transportation equity, is an important factor that shapes social equity. Little is known about how commuting practices shape individuals’ perceptions of social equity. To fill this gap, we conducted a multilevel regr...
This paper reports on a study investigating transportation professionals’ perceptions of AI’s equity impacts in the transportation sector, focusing on demographic variations in views. A survey conducted among U.S. transportation professio...
Transportation equity is vital for the fulfillment of citizens’ activities. To make better decisions for transportation planning, it is appropriate to have a method to evaluate each mode and assign an equity score to it. This paper aims to prop...
The concepts of equity and spatial justice may be relatively vague and therefore susceptible to different interpretations and metrics, leading to different evaluation perspectives. Thus, our central objective in this work is to explore the scientific...
4 July 2022
The exclusive pedestrian phase (EPP) has proven to be an effective method of eliminating pedestrian–vehicle conflicts at signalized intersections. The existing EPP setting conditions take traffic efficiency and safety as optimization goals, whi...
Rail transportation of hazardous material (Hazmat) involves low-probability, and high-consequence risks, requiring strategies that mitigate extreme accident impacts while ensuring fair risk distribution. To address this, we introduce conditional valu...
As older adults face increasing mobility challenges due to diminished driving ability, they encounter heightened risks of social exclusion, impacting their mental, social, and physical well-being. This study investigates spatial gaps in the availabil...
Existing public transport (PT) planning methods use a trip-based approach, rather than a user-based approach, leading to neglecting equity. In other words, the impacts of regular users—i.e., users with higher trip rates—are overrepresented during ana...
Promoting equitable and sustainable urban mobility requires accessibility assessment approaches that extend beyond purely geometric proximity measures toward service-sensitive and behavior-informed evaluation. This study develops an open-source GIS w...
Rapid urbanization has increased private vehicle usage, generating intense parking demand in congested cities like Shiraz, Iran. The spatial distribution of parking is thus critical to sustainable urban transport, as a misalignment with local demand...
Policy interventions are widely used to promote regional development and reshape economic structure, yet their broader transport, spatial, and environmental impacts have received limited attention. This study develops an integrated urban computable g...
Public transport service has been promoted to reduce the problems of traffic congestion and environmental impacts due to car dependency. Several public transportation modes are available in Bangkok Metropolitan Region (BMR) such as buses, heavy rails...
11 February 2022
Background: The land transport system influences health via a range of pathways. This study aimed to quantify the amount and distribution of health loss caused by the current land transport system in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) through the pathways of...
Urban transport is increasingly shifting from an efficiency-oriented approach toward accessibility-based and socio-spatial justice paradigms. This paper aims to synthesize current trends and emerging directions in transport and mobility, with a parti...
Social sustainability is a dimension of the concept of sustainability that has gained importance only in the last few decades and can be identified as the pursuit and measure of social equity. Equity can be analyzed under two approaches: horizontal a...
Understanding the wider effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on public health is needed to respond sufficiently to the impacts and facilitate recovery. We studied the secondary health impacts of COVID-19 through the changes in transportation using a ripp...
The penetration rate of battery electric buses (BEBs) continues to rise, and the design of BEB networks has become the foundation for establishing efficient and sustainable public transportation systems. Improving the equity of bus network and reduci...
Public transportation wait times are a crucial factor influencing users’ perception of the system’s efficiency, their satisfaction, and their willingness to continue using these services. This study analyzes long wait times in public tran...
The imbalance of urban public transport networks often leads to traffic congestion. Traditional planning prioritizes system optimization and single-mode travel, neglecting interactions between different modes. From an economic perspective and based o...
The international literature around the impacts of long-distance rail transport such as high-speed railways (HSR) reveals that social equity impacts have rarely been fully examined or taken into consideration in appraisal. Several methodological and...
The modifiable areal unit problem is of great importance in geographic science. The use of a specific zoning impacts the social and economic imbalances that can be generated in the deployment of services, facilities, and infrastructure. In this artic...
The transport system influences everyone’s wellbeing on a daily basis. These impacts are both positive and negative and are borne directly and indirectly at a range of spatial and temporal scales and across different groups in society. Furtherm...
A transit trip involves travel to and from transit stops or stations. The quality of what are commonly known as first and last mile connections (regardless of their length) can have an important impact on transit ridership. Transit agencies throughou...
Transportation asset management has historically overlooked equity considerations. However, recently, there has been a significant increase in concerns about this issue, leading to a range of research and practices aimed at achieving more equitable o...
Emerging mid-sized cities in the Global South face growing challenges in aligning transport infrastructure with equity and safety objectives under conditions of rapid urban expansion. While accessibility metrics are widely used in transport planning,...
Spatial equity is a critical issue that the supply allocation should align with the level of demand, enabling all community members to equally benefit from the city’s resources and opportunities, yet commonly used assessment methods have inhere...
Population aging is a pressing global issue. As it progresses, older adults’ demand for public transport will increase. Ensuring their equitable access is vital for social equity. Meanwhile, physiological changes and travel preferences in older...
Accessibility differences across individuals are a core topic in the transport equity debate. Space-Time Accessibility measures (STAs) have often been used to show such differences, given their sensitiveness to individual spatial and temporal constra...
Access to large-scale public transport journey data is essential for analysing accessibility, equity, and urban mobility. Although digital platforms such as Google Maps provide detailed routing for individual users, their licensing and access restric...
This paper discusses the concept of ‘fairness’ in transport, specifically regarding women using public transport, future autonomous vehicle taxis or bicycle sharing. Women generally have varying and complex mobility patterns compared to men and suffe...
Transport decarbonization through electric mobility depends not only on how many charging stations are deployed but where, and whether expansion balances accessibility, grid readiness, land-use protection and regional equity. Türkiye, targeting...
One of the major narratives in transport policy internationally concerns the promotion of private versus public modes. The Global North has many examples where public transport, walking and cycling networks are well developed, yet examples from the G...
This study enhances our understanding of urban park accessibility and social equity through a novel methodological framework in Chengdu, China. By improving the three-step floating catchment area (3SFCA) method with space syntax metrics and multi-mod...
25 September 2025
The study examined the relationship between food swamps and self-reported food shopping frequency and perceived food access, while considering transportation mode and travel time. This Community-Based Participatory Research study surveyed residents f...
The Human Mobility Transition model describes shifts in mobility dynamics and transport systems. The aspirational stage, ‘human urbanism’, is characterised by high active travel, universal public transport, low private vehicle use and equ...
The consequences of a hazmat accident can be catastrophic due to the characteristics of hazardous materials. Different from the models, which are constructed from the perspective of “government-carrier”, this paper considers the three objectives of t...
17 May 2025
Social determinants of health (SDoH) are considered significant determinants of mental health. This study examines the association between SDoH and mental health status in the United States. We analyzed 2023 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System...
27 February 2022
The equity of health-seeking behaviors of groups using different transportations is an important metric for health outcome disparities among them. Recently, smart card data and taxi trajectory data have been used extensively but separately to quantif...
Combining public transportation (PT) with Bike-Sharing Systems (BSSs) offers a pathway toward the sustainable development of urban mobility. These systems can reduce fuel consumption, air pollution, and street congestion, especially during peak hours...
Jobs–housing imbalance is a hot topic in urban study and has obtained many results. However, little research has overcome the limits of administrative boundaries in job accessibility measurement and considered differences in job accessibility w...
Over 35% of bridges in the United States are currently rated in fair or poor condition, highlighting ongoing challenges in maintaining safety and performance amid aging infrastructure, limited budgets, and extended repair timelines. While Accelerated...
University bus services provide fixed-route public transport for students to and from large universities. They are relatively affordable and resource-efficient, but must compete against private cars and taxis which tend to be more convenient and flex...
Road Weather Information Systems (RWISs) are essential components of modern Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs) deployed in cold regions to gather real-time data on winter weather and road surface conditions. Despite their benefits, the high co...
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