Pub Date : 2024-10-15DOI: 10.1016/j.rtbm.2024.101224
Wenchao Cao , Yanyan Chen , Ke Wang
This study aims to systematically investigate the key factors influencing the acceptance and usage intentions of potential users towards Shared autonomous vehicles (SAVs). To achieve this, we employ an integrated and extended Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2) framework to comprehensively elucidate the factors influencing the intention to use SAVs. We collected 435 survey responses from people residing in China, and structural equation modeling was utilized to confirm the theoretical model. According to the results, factors such as effort expectancy, social influence, hedonic motivation, and facilitating conditions have significant positive effects on the behavioral intention of SAVs, while perceived risk exhibits a significant negative impact. Furthermore, demographic variables (such as age, education level, and occupation) exert significant moderating effects on the model. This study expands the understanding of users' intentions in the context of SAVs, providing valuable insights for a more comprehensive understanding of the public's willingness to accept SAVs.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-14DOI: 10.1016/j.rtbm.2024.101223
Alyson L.P. Rodrigues , Peter Wells , Liana Cipcigan , Sônia Regina da Cal Seixas
The high investment costs of battery electric buses (BEBs), influenced directly by battery and infrastructure costs, pose a challenge that limits their large-scale adoption. Therefore, the success of this socio-technical transition requires economic feasibility analyses to identify the optimum adoption pathway. This study presents a system dynamics model (SDM) covering adoption scenarios from 2023 to 2030. The development of the model was established through interdisciplinary workshops conducted with local researchers from Brazil for collaborative conceptualization and modeling. We provide details of the costs involved, considering purchase, operation, maintenance, and infrastructure costs. Dynamic simulations show the estimated Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for overnight and opportunity charging over the years, allowing a better understanding of the trade-off between large and small batteries for purchasing decisions and selecting charging infrastructure to reduce total costs. Our results indicate potential transport management concerning long-term cost planning associated with various battery sizes and charging strategies.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-08DOI: 10.1016/j.rtbm.2024.101222
Ying Lu, Wenhui Yu, Shuyue Yao
The implementation of large-scale, interconnected High-Speed Rail (HSR) projects is shifting westwards in China, raising significant concerns among governments and planners about their impact on the economic development of less developed inland cities. This study, which is based on data from western inland China from 2009 to 2021, constructs an HSR operation network (HSRON) to analyse the impact of city nodes' HSR network importance (HSRI) on urban economic development via a network analysis and continuous spatial difference-in-differences (SDID) model. The research findings indicate that (1) the HSRON in the western area has a multicentric structure with provincial capitals serving as mediator nodes; (2) the HSRON has considerable positive and spatial spillover effects on urban economies; (3) the mechanism testing identifies population agglomeration, technological innovation, and the industrial structure as the three primary channels through which the HSRON exerts its influence; and (4) heterogeneity analysis reveals that the economic benefits are more pronounced in large cities with populations exceeding 5 million, resource-based cities, and cities within a 200 km radius of central cities.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-07DOI: 10.1016/j.rtbm.2024.101221
Li Yiteng, Zhu Ling
In recent years, the development of Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) has gained unprecedented momentum. However, little attention has been paid to acquiring a comprehensive understanding of the shipping industry's attitude and perceptions toward accepting and commercializing them. This study aims to fill this research gap by developing a substantive theoretical framework to analyze and understand the industry's acceptance of MASS. Utilizing the classic grounded theory method, we conducted semi-structured interviews with senior or top managers in the shipping industry. Our proposed theoretical framework integrates two main categories and eight core categories, collectively encompassing 21 distinct factors influencing the adoption of MASS. By revealing the complex interactions between these factors, the framework offers significant policy implications and practical strategies for stakeholders. This study provides valuable insights into the factors that influence the industry's decision to adopt and operate MASS, enhancing the understanding of technology acceptance in the shipping industry.
近年来，海上自主水面舰艇（MASS）的发展势头空前。然而，人们很少注意全面了解航运业对接受和商业化自主水面舰艇的态度和看法。本研究旨在通过建立一个实质性的理论框架来分析和理解航运业对 MASS 的接受程度，从而填补这一研究空白。利用经典的基础理论方法，我们对航运业的高级或高层管理人员进行了半结构化访谈。我们提出的理论框架整合了两个主要类别和八个核心类别，共包含 21 个影响采用 MASS 的不同因素。通过揭示这些因素之间复杂的相互作用，该框架为利益相关者提供了重要的政策影响和实用策略。本研究对影响航运业决定采用和运营 MASS 的因素提供了有价值的见解，加深了人们对航运业技术接受程度的理解。
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Pub Date : 2024-09-26DOI: 10.1016/j.rtbm.2024.101205
Jianqiang Cui , John D. Nelson , Mark Beecroft , Dong Lin
Subway systems have long been a principal form of urban public transport. Subway systems affect urban development in many aspects such as land use, travel behaviour, and service industries including tourism. Tourism nowadays makes a significant contribution to economic success and yields social benefits for cities and countries. Transport can have a considerable impact on tourists' experiences at destinations. In many cities, tourists comprise a considerable proportion of public transport users, especially during holiday periods, and subways, as a speedy, convenient, accessible, affordable, and comfortable travel choice, are used by many tourists. With an increasing number of cities with subway development (existing and planned), growing numbers of domestic and international tourist trips, and global interests in growing the tourism industry, it is time to investigate the relationship between subways and tourism to identify their contribution to tourism at destinations. This international overview explores tourism facilities and subway stations and networks, tourism-related architecture and design of subway stations, subway-related travel behaviour and perceptions of tourists, and subways and sustainable tourism. It confirms the close spatial relationship between subways and tourism facilities, the subway station's role as a new heritage frontier, the subway as the preferred transport mode of many tourists, and the opportunities and challenges that subways present to sustainable tourism. This overview is significant in that it bridges subway systems and tourism in a comprehensive way. It provides important implications for subway-related transport policies and practices, as well as suggestions for future research.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-26DOI: 10.1016/j.rtbm.2024.101220
Nguyen Thi Binh, Trinh Thi Thu Huong
Urban consolidation centres (UCCs) have become an integral part of the city logistics system. This study aims to identify factors influencing public support for the implementation of UCC in Hanoi City, Vietnam. In essence, the authors assess whether UCC are perceived as essential elements contributing to the sustainable development of the city logistics system of Hanoi. To accomplish such objectives, the study employed a data sample from an extensive empirical survey, including142 representatives from freight transport companies and logistics services providers, traffic management authorities, and research institutions in transportation and logistics fields. The key findings indicate that anticipated positive effects on transport organization significantly enhance public support for the development of UCC in Hanoi. However, the study suggests that concerns regarding the impact of UCCs on urban road safety do not appear to significantly influence public support. Interestingly, the study also reveals that barriers to UCC implementation have minimal influence on public support for UCC development. In summary, this study represents an initial step towards establishing a decision support system for city logistics measures, with a specific focus on the UCC initiative in Vietnam.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-24DOI: 10.1016/j.rtbm.2024.101219
Alena Khaslavskaya , Jason Monios , Violeta Roso
Successful dry port operation requires a collaborative effort among the various stakeholders, including seaport authorities and seaport terminal operators, dry port operators, transport providers and shippers. Although these stakeholders operate independently and pursue their own objectives, collectively their activities can influence the overall network. The purpose of this research is to explore how such stakeholder activities affect the network, particularly through the lens of coopetition, which is an overlooked type of cooperation in the research on dry ports. Coopetition is a process whereby stakeholders collaborate horizontally with competitors in order to increase opportunities for all. The research in this paper is based on a case study methodology and identifies six coopetition activities which together address two objectives: improving resource utilization and navigating market dynamics. Resource utilization is improved by obtaining economies of scale and allowing short-term planning by rail asset sharing, as well as reducing costs by balancing flows and optimising empty container logistics. The overall market dynamics are improved by increasing awareness through joint marketing and lobbying, increasing volume in the network and system flexibility by optimising train schedules, and increasing capacity and quality of railway infrastructure via joint lobbying for infrastructure investment. Rail operators were found to be the stakeholder group most active in coopetition, while shippers faced internal management barriers to working with competitors.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-23DOI: 10.1016/j.rtbm.2024.101195
Leen De Paepe , Frank Witlox
Shared autonomous vehicles (SAVs) can facilitate socially sustainable transport. Pilot projects with SAVs are steadily increasing, but it remains unclear which individuals accept SAVs and why. This research investigates the ‘social acceptability’ of SAVs through an online survey that accompanied an automated shuttle pilot on a university campus in Hannover, Germany (September–November 2022). A total of 140 respondents completed all the 41 social acceptability statements, which were evaluated using an exploratory factor analysis to identify five factors defining social acceptability: ‘social acceptability’, ‘effort expectancy’, ‘self-efficacy’, ‘safety expectancy’, and ‘performance expectancy’. A subsequent cluster analysis based on these factors suggests four social acceptability groups: ‘avoiders’, ‘resisters’, ‘self-doubters’, and ‘innovators’, though generally there is a high social acceptability towards SAVs. Significant differences between groups based on gender are identified, but not based on age, residential area, education, work, or income. By identifying the factors contributing to social acceptability and distinguishing how different groups might react to SAVs, a better understanding of social acceptability is obtained that will help prepare authorities and providers for the arrival and implementation of SAVs.
共享自动驾驶汽车（SAVs）可促进社会可持续交通。共享自动驾驶汽车的试点项目正在稳步增加，但目前仍不清楚哪些人接受共享自动驾驶汽车及其原因。本研究通过一项在线调查，对共享自动驾驶汽车的 "社会可接受性 "进行了研究，该调查与德国汉诺威一所大学校园内的自动驾驶班车试点项目（2022 年 9 月至 11 月）同时进行。共有 140 名受访者完成了全部 41 项社会接受度陈述，通过探索性因素分析对这些陈述进行了评估，确定了定义社会接受度的五个因素："社会接受度"、"努力预期"、"自我效能"、"安全预期 "和 "性能预期"。随后根据这些因素进行的聚类分析显示出四个社会接受度群体："回避者"、"抵制者"、"自我怀疑者 "和 "创新者"，但总体而言，社会对 SAV 的接受度较高。基于性别的群体间差异显著，但基于年龄、居住地区、教育程度、工作或收入的群体间差异不显著。通过确定导致社会接受度的因素并区分不同群体可能对 SAV 做出的反应，可以更好地了解社会接受度，这将有助于当局和供应商为 SAV 的到来和实施做好准备。
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Pub Date : 2024-09-22DOI: 10.1016/j.rtbm.2024.101217
Lanlan Zhou, Chun-Ming Hsieh
Walkability contributes to public health and urban livability. However, the development of walkability evaluation methods and tools is generally still in the exploratory stage. Therefore, this study explores a new multiscale evaluation method to evaluate the walkability of urban streets. Urban functional facilities and streetscapes were analyzed using geographic information system (GIS) and fully convolutional network (FCN) models. The street-scale walkability framework was categorized into three dimensions, accessibility, comfort, and safety, to discuss the walkability results of different urban locations. The results show that urban functional facilities make Macau spatially different in terms of regional walkability, and demographic and social indicators result in significant social inequalities. By analyzing the streetscape elements, the levels of accessibility, comfort, and safety in the historic urban area of Macau are lower than those of the typical walking circles in the cross-border port residential area and the Old Town.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-21DOI: 10.1016/j.rtbm.2024.101218
Xun Zhu , Ye Ma , Juan Li , Ning Li
Enhancing consumer satisfaction with electric vehicles, a key driver of sustainable transportation, is crucial for their widespread adoption. This study analyzes feedback from 362 early electric vehicle users, examining how the relationship between consumer expectations and actual experiences influences satisfaction through technological trust and “Mianzi” perception. We employ complex assimilation and contrast effect models to interpret the psychological mechanisms underpinning consumer satisfaction with electric vehicles. Our research identifies a significant cognitive chain in both technological trust and “Mianzi” perception, affecting consumer satisfaction. We also differentiate the roles of economic and relational compensation in satisfaction regulation. In technological trust, economic compensation can cause cognitive imbalance, while relational compensation strengthens technological trust by enhancing emotional and competence trust. Regarding “Mianzi” perception, economic compensation may trigger the Veblen effect, hindering early adoption, whereas relational compensation significantly enhances satisfaction by strengthening the emotional bond between users and vehicles. These findings enhance our understanding of the mechanisms driving consumer satisfaction with electric vehicles and offer strategic insights for manufacturers and policymakers. By refining marketing strategies and policy measures, stakeholders can more effectively promote electric vehicle adoption and advance sustainable transportation.
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