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  • Open Access
44 Citations
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20 Pages

16 February 2019

Transportation plays a key role in urban sustainability planning and urban greenhouse gas emission reductions. Globally, cities have established sustainability agendas and policies to guide the shift from traditional private automobile dependent tran...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,273 Views
13 Pages

Trends and Insights from Transportation Congestion Pricing Policy Research: A Bibliometric Analysis

  • Bhavna Singichetti,
  • Adam Dodd,
  • Jamie L. Conklin,
  • Kristen Hassmiller Lich,
  • Nasim S. Sabounchi and
  • Rebecca B. Naumann

Toll-based congestion pricing (CP) policies are increasingly implemented globally for alleviating road traffic congestion. Several interconnected factors affecting or induced by CP implementation include air quality/emissions, travel time, and road u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,243 Views
21 Pages

23 December 2022

This article focuses on residents’ perception of smart and sustainable transport in the city, and on local and central government policy towards sustainable and smart mobility transition, using Lodz, a city in Poland, as an example. Its purpose...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,070 Views
20 Pages

20 November 2024

Given that most environmental regulation is performed on the international and national scale and that municipal powers are often limited, what are the necessary conditions for local government to take on leadership and policy innovation in this spac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,439 Views
16 Pages

7 November 2023

With the recent emphasis on carbon neutrality following COP27, many countries prioritise shifting to electric mobility as a crucial strategy to combat carbon emissions. A significant portion of this comes from transportation. Notably, countries such...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,468 Views
19 Pages

Performance Evaluation of BRT Standard in Decision Support System for Integrated Transportation Policy

  • Farhan Haider,
  • Zia ur Rehman,
  • Ammad Hassan Khan,
  • Maryam Ilyas and
  • Inamullah Khan

11 February 2021

Increased urbanization implicated in the form of increased vehicles on roads which burdened limited resources and caused environmental deterioration. To reduce these effects, a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system was considered the right solution, requiri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,499 Views
21 Pages

Online car-hailing services (such as DiDi and Uber) are one of the typical sharing economy forms of transportation service in the digital era. Related public policies are expected to reduce the risk of online car-hailing and ensure the social sustain...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,500 Views
16 Pages

Shipment Policy for an Economic Production Quantity Model Considering Imperfection and Transportation Cost

  • Mubashir Hayat,
  • Bashir Salah,
  • Misbah Ullah,
  • Iftikhar Hussain and
  • Razaullah Khan

28 October 2020

Determining replenishment lot size and number of shipments in a traditional production setup has been of great interest among researchers during the last decades. In order to survive modern competition, the manufacturer has to make good decisions abo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,426 Views
17 Pages

12 July 2017

The demand for marine transportation and its associated CO2 emissions are growing rapidly as a result of increasing international trade and economic growth. An activity-based approach is developed for forecasting CO2 emissions from the China-oriented...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,562 Views
15 Pages

Urban activities, such as transportation, are responsible for a large portion of energy-related CO2 emissions. As the need for sustainable urban development increases, decision-makers embrace Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) as a reliable tool capable of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,967 Views
14 Pages

Although more than two years have passed since the appearance of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), few policies on public transportation have been implemented to reduce its spread. It is common knowledge that public transportation is vulnerabl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
7,996 Views
19 Pages

25 November 2016

In recent years, emissions from the road transportation industry in China have been increasing rapidly. To evaluate the reduction potential of greenhouse gas and pollutant emissions of the industry in China, its emission inventory was calculated and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,235 Views
23 Pages

22 April 2024

The government has implemented an operational subsidy program with the expectation that bus companies can provide better services to passengers. However, does the change in government subsidy policies affect the service levels of bus companies? This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,550 Views
21 Pages

11 May 2025

This study investigates the institutional innovation pathways for integrating comprehensive transportation networks into China’s territorial spatial planning system, with a focus on resolving the conflicts between ecological conservation and in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,761 Views
14 Pages

External Transport Costs and Implications for Sustainable Transport Policy

  • Rafał Koba,
  • Patryk Lipka,
  • Marcin Kalinowski,
  • Krzysztof Czaplewski,
  • Joanna Witkowska and
  • Adam Weintrit

7 November 2024

This study investigated the external costs of different transport modes and their implications for sustainable transport policy. Utilising the INCONE60 Cargo Flow Model, we quantified and compared road and maritime transport’s environmental and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,259 Views
23 Pages

10 March 2019

The sustainable development of transport is fostered by innovations. To implement innovations, the European Commission issues different regulations, programs and initiatives and the European Transport Policy has a significant impact on transport poli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,417 Views
17 Pages

Community transport comprises diverse local, not-for-profit, and primarily volunteer-run transport schemes that operate across the United Kingdom. These schemes support the travel needs of thousands of people, most of whom are older, live in rural ar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,970 Views
18 Pages

8 July 2024

In response to current environmental, social and accessibility challenges in the mobility sector, this research focuses on promoting the development of integrated sustainable regional transport policies, supported by a thorough analysis of their dist...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,888 Views
14 Pages

The Intersection of Fuel and Transport Policy in Scotland: A Review of Policy, Definitions and Metrics

  • Keran Sarah Boyd,
  • Christian Calvillo,
  • Tanja Mueller,
  • Xiaoyi Mu and
  • Tong Zhu

27 June 2023

This paper is a literature review of fuel and transport poverty in the U.K. with a focus on contextualising this challenge in Scotland. Building on the discussion in the literature, we see that the objective of policy interventions should be to provi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,238 Views
22 Pages

Transport Choice Modeling for the Evaluation of New Transport Policies

  • Ander Pijoan,
  • Oihane Kamara-Esteban,
  • Ainhoa Alonso-Vicario and
  • Cruz E. Borges

17 April 2018

Quantifying the impact of the application of sustainable transport policies is essential in order to mitigate effects of greenhouse gas emissions produced by the transport sector. One of the most common approaches used for this purpose is that of tra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,929 Views
14 Pages

1 June 2024

Research on evaluating sustainable transport policies is predominantly focused on their urban effects, often overlooking similar challenges in suburban and rural mobility. Therefore, the development of regionally integrated sustainable transport stra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,874 Views
22 Pages

2 May 2018

Transport demand management (TDM) measures are widely regarded as essential tools to deal with traffic issues. Their effectiveness has been under scrutiny. Packaging of TDM measures has recently received much attention from researchers and government...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
39 Citations
8,917 Views
20 Pages

Fairness in Transport Policy: A New Approach to Applying Distributive Justice Theories

  • Edward Randal,
  • Caroline Shaw,
  • Alistair Woodward,
  • Philippa Howden-Chapman,
  • Alex Macmillan,
  • Jamie Hosking,
  • Ralph Chapman,
  • Andrew M. Waa and
  • Michael Keall

3 December 2020

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,475 Views
13 Pages

25 April 2021

In this study, an algorithm for reliability evaluation is proposed in order to assess the discount policy based on its effect on an air transport network. An air transport network is a typical stochastic air transport network (SATN) because its capac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,205 Views
16 Pages

Past studies on low-carbon public transport implementation challenges primarily focused on a specific transport mode to find its viability within broader sustainable urban mobility frameworks. A notable gap still exists in analyzing implementation ch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,987 Views
19 Pages

3 January 2024

Significant emission reductions are needed in the transport sector to reach climate change mitigation objectives. Backcasting, a type of scenario-analysis approach, is a useful tool for the analysis of possible alternative transport futures and strat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,800 Views
14 Pages

11 May 2020

Intermodal transport is widely believed to be an efficient way of organizing transportation activities because of its significant role in reducing logistics costs and emissions of air pollutants, which copes with the ever-increasing economic and envi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,346 Views
18 Pages

10 October 2025

Transportation networks are critical lifelines in national infrastructure but are increasingly exposed to risks arising from climate variability, cyber threats, aging assets, and limited resources. This paper presents a scoping review of 58 peer-revi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,108 Views
26 Pages

Unpacking the Effects of Heterogeneous Incentive Policies on Sea–Rail Intermodal Transport: Evidence from China

  • Weiguang Ma,
  • Lei Huang,
  • Rongjia Song,
  • Xiong Zhang,
  • Ying Wang and
  • Qianyao Zhang

1 September 2025

Sea–rail intermodal transport offers high efficiency and environmental benefits, yet its development in China remains limited. Existing studies have mainly assessed the macro-level benefits of sea–rail intermodal transport policies, but r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,471 Views
21 Pages

13 December 2022

As a market-based instrument for transportation demand management, a transport fee-charging policy can not only effectively reduce traffic congestion, but also improve air quality. Considering the urgent need to improve urban transport fee-charging p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
6,613 Views
18 Pages

15 April 2020

Transport contributes significantly to economic growth and higher quality of life, but its associated externalities have an environmental, economic and social impact and are the main impetus to support innovation towards sustainable transport. The Eu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,331 Views
11 Pages

15 March 2017

Air pollution has become a serious challenge in China. Emissions from motor vehicles have been found to be one main sources of air pollution. Although the Chinese government has undertaken numerous green policies to mitigate harmful emissions from ro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,777 Views
14 Pages

Using the Sustainable Development Goals to Evaluate Possible Transport Policies for the City of Curitiba

  • Constança Martins Leite de Almeida,
  • Semida Silveira,
  • Erik Jeneulis and
  • Francesco Fuso-Nerini

5 November 2021

Cities across the world are becoming more engaged in tackling climate change and contributing to the achievement of international agreements. The city of Curitiba in Brazil is no exception. In December 2020, the city published PlanClima (Plano Munici...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,709 Views
15 Pages

22 April 2021

Several transport policies reduce pollution levels caused by private vehicles by introducing autonomous or electric vehicles and encouraging mode shift from private to public transport through park and ride (P&R) facilities. However, combining th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
15,424 Views
17 Pages

Low-Carbon Transport Policy in Four ASEAN Countries: Developments in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam

  • Stefan Bakker,
  • Kathleen Dematera Contreras,
  • Monica Kappiantari,
  • Nguyen Anh Tuan,
  • Marie Danielle Guillen,
  • Gessarin Gunthawong,
  • Mark Zuidgeest,
  • Duncan Liefferink and
  • Martin Van Maarseveen

13 July 2017

Emerging countries in Southeast Asia are facing considerable challenges in addressing rising motorisation and its negative impact on air quality, traffic, energy security, liveability, and greenhouse gas emissions. This paper presents a comparative a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
45 Citations
13,299 Views
41 Pages

14 September 2024

Carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) are the primary causes behind the current rise in global temperatures and climate change. CO2, which is present in the atmosphere in significant quantities, is contributing more to the warming ef...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,461 Views
10 Pages

It is an objective of transport policy in many countries and cities to promote walking, cycling and the use of public transport. This policy seeks to improve public health and reduce emissions contributing to global warming. It is, however, very like...

  • Article
  • Open Access
71 Citations
17,357 Views
30 Pages

1 February 2019

This article asks how cycling, a sustainable form of urban mobility, is discussed in the context of smart cities and the Internet of Things in European Commission (EC) policy documents, and how this compares to discussions around cars. Sustainable fo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,082 Views
27 Pages

7 October 2024

The achievement of net-zero emissions is a major governmental challenge to ameliorate the adverse impacts of climate change, and to reduce the health risks associated with poor air quality. In Australia, the transport sector is a major contributor to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,679 Views
24 Pages

Construction of the Primorsky No. 1 and No. 2 International Transport Corridors: Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Policies

  • Yang Yang,
  • Suocheng Dong,
  • Tamir Boldanov,
  • Fujia Li,
  • Hao Cheng,
  • Qian Liu,
  • Yu Li and
  • Zehong Li

16 February 2021

The construction of the Primorsky No. 1 and No. 2 international transport corridors is of great strategic significance to China and Russia. These corridors will solve the problem of the absence of an estuary in Northeast China by sailing from Russian...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,812 Views
17 Pages

7 September 2024

Carbon dioxide emissions from the transport sector make a significant contribution to global greenhouse gases, and understanding the factors that influence these emissions is beneficial for devising effective emission reduction policies. Oil prices a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
140 Citations
21,571 Views
30 Pages

29 June 2018

International shipping has finally set a target to reduce its CO2 emission by at least 50% by 2050. Despite this positive progress, this target is still not sufficient to reach Paris Agreement goals since CO2 emissions from international shipping cou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,784 Views
24 Pages

14 July 2023

To reduce urban transport carbon emissions, the Chinese government issued the NEVs Pilot Policy in 2009 to promote NEVs in both the public and private transport sectors. Using panel data from 53 prefecture-level cities in China spanning from 2006 to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,342 Views
28 Pages

24 February 2025

This paper delves into sustainability and energy policies influencing the governance and dynamics of global maritime trade. Resilience and sustainability are also discussed, along with the obstacles encountered and strategies to overcome them. The an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,216 Views
22 Pages

Climate Change Mitigation Policies in the Transportation Sector in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  • Tatiana Bruce da Silva,
  • Patrícia Baptista,
  • Carlos A. Santos Silva and
  • Luan Santos

This study analyzes climate change mitigation policies focused on light-duty electric vehicles (LDEVs) in the transportation sector in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, in the 2016–2050 period. We use the Open Source Energy Modeling System (OSeMOSY...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
9,390 Views
28 Pages

Urban areas play a key role in the development of European territories, and it is essential for them to be sustainable and efficient. However, the European cities are facing some challenges related to certain trends that are threatening their sustain...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
9,222 Views
19 Pages

Estimating the Long-Term Effects of National and International Sustainable Transport Policies on Energy Consumption and Emissions of Road Transport Sector of Pakistan

  • Muhammad Asim,
  • Muhammad Usman,
  • Muhammad Salman Abbasi,
  • Saad Ahmad,
  • M. A. Mujtaba,
  • Manzoore Elahi M. Soudagar and
  • Abdullah Mohamed

Energy/fuel consumption and associated emissions are major concerns of transport sector. During the fiscal year (FY) of 2018, Pakistan’s transport sector consumed 22 million tons of oil equivalent (TOE) energy from burning of fossil fuels and e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,350 Views
19 Pages

24 January 2022

To develop low-carbon transport and promote sustainable economic development, this paper took the uncertainty in highway transport speed and transshipment time into account in the actual transport process and established multi-objective path-decision...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,810 Views
9 Pages

31 August 2023

The cost of transport decarbonisation matters, yet little information is available. Policies need to reflect the costs to society. The European Union relies on the PRIMES model, a private model with limited transparency. Our research revealed its met...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,843 Views
22 Pages

6 June 2025

The transition to sustainable transport poses significant challenges for urban mobility, requiring shifts in fuel consumption, emissions reductions, and economic adjustments. This study conducts a scenario-based analysis of Budapest’s transport...

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