Pub Date : 2026-01-14DOI: 10.1016/j.trip.2026.101857
Thomas Höjemo , Judith Kupersmidt , Fredrik Johansson
The social effects of the lack of affordable transport options in two disadvantaged areas of Uppsala, Sweden, were examined by multiple interviews with each of seven participants. We focused on how the participants’ everyday mobility was affected by economic and site-specific constraints, before and after receiving free bus passes valid for three months in total. Public transport and walking emerged as central transport modes. Without a bus pass, the participants’ scope of mobility was limited, restricting which trips they were able to make. They also detailed how they felt limited or confined to their neighbourhood. They had to rely more on walking, which was made difficult by long distances to grocery stores and schools in one of the areas and criminality in the other area. Having access to a free bus pass augmented their feelings of freedom as well as their actual freedom of movement. Different participants linked freedom to feelings of tranquillity and assurance, as well as happiness and spontaneity. In several cases, having a free bus card resulted in more trips of social characters being made, with increased social contacts and societal involvement.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-13DOI: 10.1016/j.trip.2026.101844
Alice Elizabeth Atkin , Daniel Scott , Anthony Singhal
The Vitals cognitive assessment tool is a battery of tablet-based cognitive and sensorimotor tasks which are used to predict safe or unsafe driving. One of the Vitals tasks is a visuospatial working memory task, which requires people to replicate a simple shape following a short delay. Previous evidence suggests that poor performance on this task is associated with cognitive impairment and risky driving, but this poor performance could have several possible explanations, including a working memory deficit, abnormal drawing strategies, or problems with motor execution. In this study, we recruited medically at-risk older drivers and healthy commercial drivers to perform the Vitals, as well as an on-road driving evaluation. Drivers who failed the on-road evaluation drew fewer correct shapes compared to drivers who passed, but did not show any differences in drawing strategy. At-risk older drivers who failed showed an increase in motor errors while producing the drawings, while commercial drivers who failed were slower to complete the task. This pattern of results excludes suboptimal drawing strategies as an explanation for poor performance, and also exclude motor errors while producing the drawings as an explanation for increased completion time. The best explanation for poor performance on the Vitals’ visuospatial working memory task is therefore a working memory deficit.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-13DOI: 10.1016/j.trip.2025.101794
Ana Yoon Faria de Lima , Frauke Behrendt , Fabio Kon
Cycling is recognized as a key strategy for the transition to sustainable urban mobility and for improving public health, yet it remains a marginal mode of transport in many cities. In an effort to promote cycling, some places offer financial incentives to encourage people to use bicycles as a mode of transportation. However, these policies raise social justice concerns regarding who benefits from such policies and who does not.
This paper explores the operationalization of a policy designed to promote cycling through financial incentives, specifically by compensating individuals for cycled kilometers with public transport credits. The study incorporates a social justice-oriented design and emphasizes the importance of diversifying cycling demographics, integrating cycling with public transport, and leveraging data to support fair urban mobility. Grounded in transport, mobility, and data justice literature, we introduce policy design guidelines for social-justice-informed ‘pay for cycling’ financial incentives, bridging social science and data science. These guidelines are illustrated through a pilot project for São Paulo’s “Bike SP” program, which includes app development, participant selection, and data collection. The pilot project reveals demographic and socioeconomic inequalities in cycling within São Paulo. It also provides a model for similar policies in other cities. The findings highlight the need for inclusive participant selection criteria and the potential of financial incentive policies to generate valuable cycling data, foster a cycling community, and integrate with broader mobility and public health policies. We argue that such policies should be part of a comprehensive strategy for creating an inclusive mobility environment.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-13DOI: 10.1016/j.trip.2026.101849
Felix Obonguta , Jinwoo Lee , Daijiro Mizutani
This research develops a framework to simultaneously optimize road pavement intervention and overloading penalty policies to minimize total user costs. Possible road user route choices from origin to destination (OD) are modeled using a stochastic user equilibrium (SUE). Specifically, truck route choice subject to SUE in which trucks face a penalty if they exceed the acceptable weight limit on faster routes or endure longer routes at no extra charge is looked at. A pavement intervention model is built to propose multiple road pavement intervention (condition improvement) decisions and overloading policies at discrete time points over a finite time horizon. Near–optimal decisions and policies for the entire road network are determined concurrently and heuristically using simulated annealing (SA). Despite generating a near–optimal solution, SA facilitates solving the complex non–differentiable problem involving agency actions (network improvements and overloading penalties) and user reactions (comply or change route). The framework presented in this article seeks to aid multifaceted user and agency decision–making amidst multiple constraints simultaneously. Its applicability is demonstrated through an empirical study on selected OD pairs along interurban routes between the Ugandan capital, Kampala, and regional urban centers.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-13DOI: 10.1016/j.trip.2026.101847
Samar Al-Hajj , Ricardo Nehme , Firas Hatoum , Mariana Khajadourian , Housein Zeaiter , Anthony Gharib , Jana Zeineddine , Ali Chalak
Background
Road traffic injuries constitute a major threat to children’s health and well-being. Adopting child restraint systems (CRS) represents a substantial injury prevention measure to curtail the burden of child road injuries and deaths. Using a choice experiment (CE) approach, this study aims to investigate parents’ perceptions and attitudes toward child safety through the usage of CRS and examine factors influencing their decisions to purchase and install a CRS.
Methods
Two focus group discussions were conducted among parents of children (12 years and below) to identify choices of attributes that influence parents’ use of a child’s car seat. The selected attributes were then adopted to build CE scenarios that were administered to parents online. Collected data were compiled, aggregated, and analyzed using the mixed logit (MXL) model for discrete choice analysis.
Results
A total of 120 parents participated in the study. 74.8 % were females with a mean age of 36.1 years. The CE experiment showed that parents in Lebanon are more likely to buy and use car seats that are convenient (ease of washing) and comfortable for their children (cushioning and adjustability of headrest), tending to prioritize these features over safety attributes (harnesses, ‘stroller-friendliness’).
Conclusion
Parents in Lebanon are generally interested in using a child restraint system. Concerted educational awareness initiatives are recommended to impact adults’ perceptions of CRSs, overcome barriers to CRS installation to increase the use of CRS, and ultimately reduce child road injuries and fatalities.
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In every supply chain, transportation is a significant and crucial component that has various impacts on the economy, environment, and society. One of the most widely used subfields of transportation planning, known as the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP), is studied to optimize transportation while considering all the mentioned dimensions. In recent years, many researchers have conducted various studies in this field. This research presents a systematic literature review on different routing problems from 2010 to 2025. Additionally, it provides a comprehensive classification of the various types of routing problems, primarily based on their distinct constraints, followed by a detailed description of each type. Therefore, the various studies in this field have been examined based on input parameters, approaches to dealing with uncertainty, objective functions, sustainability factors, modeling characteristics, solution methods, algorithms used, and case studies. Furthermore, the various types of VRP models, based on their modeling indicators, are investigated through a bibliometric analysis. To the best of our knowledge, the extensive classification presented, comprising 32 identified categories, has not been addressed in any previous reviews in this field. Finally, the results of all relevant studies are analyzed, and research gaps are identified to inform potential future research opportunities.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-10DOI: 10.1016/j.trip.2025.101774
Dorothee Stiller , Michael Wurm , Jeroen Staab , Thomas Stark , Georg Starz , Jürgen Rauh , Stefan Dech , Hannes Taubenböck
Traffic volumes are rising globally, creating a growing need for accurate and scalable data collection to address mobility challenges and enhance transport systems. Yet, traditional methods remain costly and time-consuming despite advances in automated monitoring. This study explores the feasibility of using open webcam data in combination with the state-of-the-art object detection model YOLOv8 out-of-the-box for road user monitoring. Publicly accessible webcam imagery presents challenges such as high variability in image quality, road user occlusion, and environmental factors like poor visibility due to weather conditions. To assess their potential for traffic monitoring, we utilize open webcam data from Germany to evaluate the performance of YOLOv8′s model variants, testing 110 parameter combinations with a manually labeled reference dataset. Among the tested out-of-the-box model variants, YOLOv8x achieved the highest performance, with an F1-score of 0.75. This optimized model was applied to about 500,000 open webcam scenes to monitor the change of road users before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis revealed a 9.5% overall reduction in road users volume, with motorized road users declining significantly while bicycles increased by 25.2%. This reflects mobility patterns observed during the COVID-19 pandemic, where restrictions led to a significant shift towards cycling as an alternative mode of transport. The results are plausible as they mirror broader trends in active mobility observed in various urban contexts. Our findings demonstrate the potential of leveraging open webcam data and pre-trained object detection models for scalable, cost-effective transport monitoring.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-10DOI: 10.1016/j.trip.2025.101819
Vasiliki-Maria Perra, Maria Boile
Artificial Intelligence (AI) can significantly enhance transportation governance, particularly by enabling more effective international cooperation in data-driven decision-making. In maritime transport, AI applications can support complex planning and policy processes, such as maritime spatial planning (MSP), which governs the use of maritime space across overlapping sectors and jurisdictions. Short sea shipping (SSS), a vital mode of regional and intra-regional transport, depends heavily on coordinated planning efforts due to its interactions with other marine uses, its socio-economic role, and the need to maintain connectivity for insular economies.
This study uses a national level case study of Greek SSS to identify structural, data-related, and governance limitations that impede evidence-based policy design. Key performance indicators (KPIs) and composite indices (CIs) are developed to assess connectivity, accessibility, and operational efficiency across the island and between the islands and the mainland. These empirical findings reveal fragmented data, heterogenous service patterns, and gaps in current governance frameworks, highlighting challenges that extend to regional and international coordination.
Building on these insights, the paper proposes a conceptual AI framework to address the identified limitations. Machine learning can forecast SSS performance trands, while natural language processing can harmonize policy documents across jurisdictions. By linking empirical limitations with this forward-looking conceptual approach, the study demonstrates how AI can transform fragmented maritime data into interoperable, collaborative governance mechanisms that enhance MSP implementation and cross-border cooperation.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-08DOI: 10.1016/j.trip.2026.101843
Josselin Murillo, Juan Pablo Díaz-Sánchez
This research article analyzes the impact of various factors, such as driver characteristics, environmental factors, vehicle characteristics, and accident attributes, on the severity of physical injuries in traffic accidents occurring in Ecuador, a country where young people aged 18–29, who are of working age, have traffic accidents as the second leading cause of death. This study utilizes data from the National Traffic Accident Reports of the National Transit Agency (ANT) for the period 2021–2022. By employing a generalized ordered logit model, which more accurately captures ordinal response data, the results indicate that variables such as gender, age, day of the week, and vehicle type significantly affect the severity of injuries sustained by drivers involved in traffic accidents. From a public policy perspective, our findings provide insights into which aspects and characteristics should be targeted to reduce the severity of traffic accidents.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-08DOI: 10.1016/j.trip.2025.101809
Felix Hallikainen , Nora Fagerholm , Samira Ramezani , Tiina Rinne , Marketta Kyttä
Car-centric urban development and car-dependent mobility practices are causing increasing harm to society and the environment. Achieving transformative changes in urban mobility requires a deeper understanding of citizens’ mobility lifestyles. This study investigates mobility lifestyles in three Finnish cities using public participation geographic information system (PPGIS) survey data from 3,260 participants. Cluster analysis identified six distinct lifestyle profiles based on travel attitudes and neighbourhood preferences. These profiles differ in travel behaviour, sociodemographic characteristics, residential locations, and perceived health and well-being.
We identified three car-oriented and three sustainable mobility lifestyle profiles, indicating the coexistence of contrasting orientations within urban populations. Sustainable mobility lifestyles were more commonly associated with car-free attitudes, multimodal travel behaviour, younger age groups, lower income, and women. Attitudes towards active mobility, car use, and car ownership varied and were predictors of travel behaviour across profiles. However, mismatches between travel attitudes and behaviour were also observed, indicating that mobility choices may be caused by contextual factors. Neighbourhood preferences aligned partially with both sustainable and car-oriented profiles, suggesting nuanced associations with mobility behaviour.
The findings advance understanding of the diverse motivations and conditions shaping everyday mobility practices. By revealing group-specific barriers and opportunities for behavioural change, the study provides actionable insights to support targeted interventions and sustainability transitions in urban mobility.
{"title":"Characterizing mobility lifestyles in Finnish cities","authors":"Felix Hallikainen , Nora Fagerholm , Samira Ramezani , Tiina Rinne , Marketta Kyttä","doi":"10.1016/j.trip.2025.101809","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trip.2025.101809","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Car-centric urban development and car-dependent mobility practices are causing increasing harm to society and the environment. Achieving transformative changes in urban mobility requires a deeper understanding of citizens’ mobility lifestyles. This study investigates mobility lifestyles in three Finnish cities using public participation geographic information system (PPGIS) survey data from 3,260 participants. Cluster analysis identified six distinct lifestyle profiles based on travel attitudes and neighbourhood preferences. These profiles differ in travel behaviour, sociodemographic characteristics, residential locations, and perceived health and well-being.</div><div>We identified three car-oriented and three sustainable mobility lifestyle profiles, indicating the coexistence of contrasting orientations within urban populations. Sustainable mobility lifestyles were more commonly associated with car-free attitudes, multimodal travel behaviour, younger age groups, lower income, and women. Attitudes towards active mobility, car use, and car ownership varied and were predictors of travel behaviour across profiles. However, mismatches between travel attitudes and behaviour were also observed, indicating that mobility choices may be caused by contextual factors. Neighbourhood preferences aligned partially with both sustainable and car-oriented profiles, suggesting nuanced associations with mobility behaviour.</div><div>The findings advance understanding of the diverse motivations and conditions shaping everyday mobility practices. By revealing group-specific barriers and opportunities for behavioural change, the study provides actionable insights to support targeted interventions and sustainability transitions in urban mobility.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":36621,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives","volume":"36 ","pages":"Article 101809"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145929219","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}