Pub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.trpro.2025.04.088
Carolin Hamel , David Agola , Marco Amorim
The introduction of the Deutschlandticket in May 2023 marked a significant milestone in German public transportation, following the success of the €9 ticket. This study delves into the impact of sustainability and mobility behaviour changes associated with the Deutschlandticket. A representative online survey was conducted across Germany between August 3 and 16, 2023, using an empirical research approach, focusing on the first four months of the ticket’s implementation. The results are intriguing, indicating that while the Deutschlandticket has increased public transport usage, particularly among previous €9 ticket holders, its long-term impact on sustainable mobility behaviour remains uncertain. For instance, the survey revealed a 20% increase in public transport usage among ticket holders, with a significant decrease in private car usage and a slight decrease in active modes like cycling and walking. These findings underscore the intricate and challenging interplay between afordability, modal shift, and sustainability in the context of nationwide ticket initiatives like the Deutschlandticket. The audience is invited to further research to understand this complex relationship fully.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.trpro.2025.04.064
Mohammad Abbasi , Muhammad Tabish Bilal , Alice Consilvio , Davide Giglio
Highway maintenance is key to achieve high transportation network performance. However, the presence of work zones represents a disruptive event for the traffic flow. In particular, different work zone configurations have different impacts on traffic. Hence, providing a decision support tool to optimize the maintenance planning process on the highways is necessary to mitigate the impacts of work zones on traffic flow. In this paper, a novel approach is presented which considers the maintenance efficiency, the work zone configurations and the transport demand. The proposed approach applied traffic simulation to investigate traffic impacts of different work zone configurations along the network. Then the microscopic fundamental traffic characteristics, obtained from the simulation, are used as an input for the Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) model to optimize and prioritize the maintenance operations. The proposed approach is applied to a real case study in an Italian highway network. Results indicate the effectiveness and applicability of the proposed approach.
{"title":"On planning highway maintenance considering the impact on traffic flow due to different work zone configurations","authors":"Mohammad Abbasi , Muhammad Tabish Bilal , Alice Consilvio , Davide Giglio","doi":"10.1016/j.trpro.2025.04.064","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trpro.2025.04.064","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Highway maintenance is key to achieve high transportation network performance. However, the presence of work zones represents a disruptive event for the traffic flow. In particular, different work zone configurations have different impacts on traffic. Hence, providing a decision support tool to optimize the maintenance planning process on the highways is necessary to mitigate the impacts of work zones on traffic flow. In this paper, a novel approach is presented which considers the maintenance efficiency, the work zone configurations and the transport demand. The proposed approach applied traffic simulation to investigate traffic impacts of different work zone configurations along the network. Then the microscopic fundamental traffic characteristics, obtained from the simulation, are used as an input for the Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) model to optimize and prioritize the maintenance operations. The proposed approach is applied to a real case study in an Italian highway network. Results indicate the effectiveness and applicability of the proposed approach.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101261,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Procedia","volume":"86 ","pages":"Pages 508-515"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143946587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.trpro.2025.04.068
Salvatore Antonio Biancardo, Mattia Intignano, Gianluca Dell’Acqua
In the context of managing the vast amount of data that pertains to processes in the AECO (Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Operation) industry, technologically advanced methods such as Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Big Data run alongside Building Information Modeling (BIM), a methodological approach that is also booming in the transportation infrastructure sector. This expansion is driven by the increasing necessity for BIM in the design and management of smart cities which lies in the digitization of its urban fabric, encompassing both its architectural and infrastructural elements alongside its service provisions. Central to this paradigm is the utilization of BIM as a pivotal tool, facilitating the creation of cities that are not only intelligent and interconnected but also sustainable and fundamentally livable. This study aims to delineate a systematic workflow for the generation of a digital twin of road infrastructure utilizing the BIM-centric software, Open Roads Design, developed by Bentley Systems. The originality of the research work is to propose a methodology to create the as-built of existing infrastructure, in absence of the required design project documentation and then using data from survey drones. Additionally, a bespoke interoperable asset manager is proposed which provides a decision-support tool by giving insight into project alternatives and the spatial context in which they fit, with up-to-date information that serves as a basis for managers to more efficiently and economically manage asset maintenance and operation.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.trpro.2025.04.048
Kai Martins-Turner , Paul Heinrich , Duc Do Viet , Kai Nagel
The German Bundesverkehrswegeplan (BVWP) is the national transport infrastructure assessment. It is done approximately every 15 years. One central part of it is a benefit-cost analysis (BCA) for each project. The last Bundesverkehrswegeplan (BVWP) is from 2016, and its methodology and cost factors bases on the year 2012. Since this time, there is a significant change in the cost factors for e.g., carbon dioxide (CO2)-prices, driven by the goal of climate neutrality by 2045/2050 in the European Union (EU). In this study, we recalculate the benefit-cost analysis (BCA) of the national transport infrastructure assessment using a more current CO2-price, as well as updated investments costs for the projects, and analyze the effects on the project’s assessment. Additionally, we include further cases to illustrate even more advanced (higher) pricing / cost schemes.
We found that the selected price of the CO2 emissions as well as the development of the investment costs have a significant influence on the project’s assessment. When changing only one of the two investigated effects (CO2-price OR investment costs) will cause 11% to 28% of the projects to fall under the threshold of benefit-cost ratio (BCR) equals 1. Not realizing these projects would save 6% to 34% of the overall investment costs and 8% to 33% of the additional annual CO2 emissions. When considering both effects, the changes will be even more significant, with 25% – 46% of the projects falling to BCR < 1. Discarding them safes between 20% and 51% of the investment costs and reduces the annual CO2 impact of the plan by 20% to 53%.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.trpro.2025.04.024
Preety Saini , Debapratim Pandit
In recent studies, varied approaches to represent housing search process in generating behaviorally realistic choice set are presented, with focus on commuting distance as dominant search criteria. However, we hypothesize that there may be other dominant search criteria that household consider to define their search space. The selection of these search criteria may depend on triggers and household’s characteristics, two major determinants of ‘decision to move’ stage accounting the dependency across the decision stages of residential relocation process. This study aims to explore these additional search criteria and the factors that influence them. Based on the qualitative analysis of 90 recent movers’ interview, we identified six dominant search criteria (including commuting distance) which are significantly influenced by household’s travel-related attitudes such as travel aversion, preference for walking, car, and public transport, sensitivity to workplace distance and social network distance, alongside sensitivity to dwelling and neighborhood character, triggers and household’s characteristics. The study provides evidence that the identified search criteria shape the initial search space of households, offering an alternative approach to estimating choice sets in residential location models. It also highlights the influence of travel-related attitudes on shaping the initial search space, which are typically considered in the final residential location choice but here significantly influence the early stages of the search process.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.trpro.2025.04.005
Muhammad Tabish Bilal , Davide Giglio
The complex nature of the public transport network for metropolitan cities makes them more vulnerable to unwanted disruptions. To deal with disruptions, it is important to identify the critical locations in which the disruptions pose the worst effect on the network and its users. In this research, an innovative dynamic methodology is formulated by refining the traditional centrality measures to include the dynamic passenger load followed by a mixed machine learning method to identify the critical locations. Based on the identified locations different combinations of the disruptions scenarios with the usage of micro-mobility options are coded and simulated to evaluate the vulnerability of the network. The developed methodology is applied to the public transport bus network of the city of Barcelona. The results of our analysis suggest that the provision and integration of micro-mobility options with public transport have significant positive impacts but in some cases, it also worsens the situation.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.trpro.2025.04.010
Bladimir Toaza , Domokos Esztergár-Kiss
Activity-based and agent-based models are overcoming numerous limitations inherent in the trip-based model. However, this transition is unveiling new challenges that can influence the modeling outcomes. One notable obstacle in embracing activity-based models is the requirement for detailed, high-resolution input data at a disaggregate level, which are particularly important but difficult to gather. This article concentrates on spatializing populations and disaggregating travel data using sampling and interpolation methods. The Python-based toolkit developed herein is applied to a case study involving the population generation of Dresden in Germany. The outcome of the applied method comprises more than 2000 daily activity schedules with their respective points for each activity location. These results show the toolkit capabilities regarding population spatialization for activity-based models.
{"title":"Population spatialization for route planning in activity-based models","authors":"Bladimir Toaza , Domokos Esztergár-Kiss","doi":"10.1016/j.trpro.2025.04.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trpro.2025.04.010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Activity-based and agent-based models are overcoming numerous limitations inherent in the trip-based model. However, this transition is unveiling new challenges that can influence the modeling outcomes. One notable obstacle in embracing activity-based models is the requirement for detailed, high-resolution input data at a disaggregate level, which are particularly important but difficult to gather. This article concentrates on spatializing populations and disaggregating travel data using sampling and interpolation methods. The Python-based toolkit developed herein is applied to a case study involving the population generation of Dresden in Germany. The outcome of the applied method comprises more than 2000 daily activity schedules with their respective points for each activity location. These results show the toolkit capabilities regarding population spatialization for activity-based models.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101261,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Procedia","volume":"86 ","pages":"Pages 72-79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143946974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.trpro.2025.04.095
Alisson Garcia-Herrera , Adrian Serrano-Hernandez , Javier Faulin
Collaborative economy companies in the transport field have been a disruptive force in the urban mobility landscape around the world during the last decade 2010-2020. Crowdshipping has emerged as a collaborative economy option promoting improved utilization of currently underutilized transportation capacity, thereby reducing transportation costs and emissions. This article aims to analyze and synthesize existing research on the impact of the crowdshipper (individuals responsible for collecting and delivering the product) behavior on the system and the factors that drive his or her willingness to participate, to identify best practices and opportunities to enhance business analytics, decision-making, and model efficiency in this emerging area.
{"title":"Exploring Crowdshippers’ Behavior and Preferences: Intertwining Urban Distribution and People Mobility","authors":"Alisson Garcia-Herrera , Adrian Serrano-Hernandez , Javier Faulin","doi":"10.1016/j.trpro.2025.04.095","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trpro.2025.04.095","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Collaborative economy companies in the transport field have been a disruptive force in the urban mobility landscape around the world during the last decade 2010-2020. Crowdshipping has emerged as a collaborative economy option promoting improved utilization of currently underutilized transportation capacity, thereby reducing transportation costs and emissions. This article aims to analyze and synthesize existing research on the impact of the crowdshipper (individuals responsible for collecting and delivering the product) behavior on the system and the factors that drive his or her willingness to participate, to identify best practices and opportunities to enhance business analytics, decision-making, and model efficiency in this emerging area.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101261,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Procedia","volume":"86 ","pages":"Pages 762-769"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143947203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Transport systems are an essential component in the path towards sustainable urbanisation and the transition to more sustainable living. In recent decades, European cities have undergone significant changes, and suburbanisation poses new challenges. Suburban areas are often more affordable in terms of housing, but they tend to be car-oriented neighbourhoods. This leads to higher commuter costs, immobility, transport and time poverty, pollution, accident rates, and a lack of social interaction. To offer sustainable mobility options to citizens, it is essential to have a comprehensive understanding of their specific mobility practices, together with their personal characteristics, and the built environment information. This study is centred on the Barcelona Metropolitan Region, which has a public transport network that covers the entire area. The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between travel behaviour, modal use, individual characteristics, and place of residence, by making use of detailed information sources. Herein, we make use of the annual travel survey conducted in the Barcelona region from 2018 to 2022 together with land-use and other socio-economic information. Our research suggests that transport policies have encouraged sustainable mobility practices, particularly in the centre of Barcelona. Despite the positive results, there are significant disparities between the inner city and outer city, where sustainable mobility practices notably decrease. Our findings indicate that promoting sustainable mobility policies requires further changes in transport, city, land-use and city planning that consider equity, the socioeconomic profile of citizens, and a mixed urban planning that considers the needs of residents and promotes essential services in the proximity.
{"title":"Sequence analysis in spatially defined clusters based on 2018 to 2022 travel surveys in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona","authors":"Lídia Montero , Lucía Mejía-Dorantes , Jaume Barceló","doi":"10.1016/j.trpro.2025.04.096","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trpro.2025.04.096","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Transport systems are an essential component in the path towards sustainable urbanisation and the transition to more sustainable living. In recent decades, European cities have undergone significant changes, and suburbanisation poses new challenges. Suburban areas are often more affordable in terms of housing, but they tend to be car-oriented neighbourhoods. This leads to higher commuter costs, immobility, transport and time poverty, pollution, accident rates, and a lack of social interaction. To offer sustainable mobility options to citizens, it is essential to have a comprehensive understanding of their specific mobility practices, together with their personal characteristics, and the built environment information. This study is centred on the Barcelona Metropolitan Region, which has a public transport network that covers the entire area. The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between travel behaviour, modal use, individual characteristics, and place of residence, by making use of detailed information sources. Herein, we make use of the annual travel survey conducted in the Barcelona region from 2018 to 2022 together with land-use and other socio-economic information. Our research suggests that transport policies have encouraged sustainable mobility practices, particularly in the centre of Barcelona. Despite the positive results, there are significant disparities between the inner city and outer city, where sustainable mobility practices notably decrease. Our findings indicate that promoting sustainable mobility policies requires further changes in transport, city, land-use and city planning that consider equity, the socioeconomic profile of citizens, and a mixed urban planning that considers the needs of residents and promotes essential services in the proximity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101261,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Procedia","volume":"86 ","pages":"Pages 770-777"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143947204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Current logistics and transportation activities are unsustainable in the long run, prompting several authors to focus their efforts on developing solutions. However, the majority of the proposed solutions are aimed toward a more urban setting, disregarding rural or sparsely populated areas since they present numerous and difficult challenges.
In this context, the EU adopted a strategy based on the Physical Internet paradigm to achieve a sustainable logistics and transportation system by 2050. One solution focuses on the reuse of railway lines that are currently underutilized or unaffected by the introduction of autonomous shuttles that transport passengers and small packages. However, no analysis of the capacities provided by the Physical Internet for the application of these shuttles has been conducted to date. As a result, the purpose of this article is to conduct an analysis of the challenges and opportunities of the rural context, as well as the potential solutions offered by the Physical Internet to address them.
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