Pub Date : 2025-11-07DOI: 10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101164
Nguyen Khanh Hai Tran
This study examines the influence of perceived innovation (PI) and environmental awareness (EA) on consumers’ green purchase intention (GPI) for electric two-wheelers in Vietnam, while also highlighting the mediating role of green perceived value (GPV). Despite the growing global emphasis on sustainable transportation, limited research addresses the adoption of electric two-wheelers in developing economies that heavily rely on motorcycles. Addressing this gap, the study integrates the Value–Attitude–Behavior (VAB) model and Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) to propose a comprehensive analytical framework. Data from 511 urban Vietnamese consumers were analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM). Results confirm that PI and EA significantly enhance GPV and GPI, with GPV serving as a critical mediator of these effects. Theoretically, the research extends existing frameworks by identifying GPV as the pivotal link between innovation, environmental consciousness, and purchase intentions. Practically, the findings suggest that policymakers should combine infrastructure investments, financial incentives, and public education campaigns that emphasize innovation and environmental benefits to accelerate the adoption of electric two-wheelers. Businesses are recommended to strategically highlight product innovations and environmental advantages in marketing initiatives to strengthen consumer value perceptions, thus advancing Vietnam’s transition toward sustainable transportation.
{"title":"Integrating innovation and environmental awareness: A path to green purchase intention for electric Two-Wheelers","authors":"Nguyen Khanh Hai Tran","doi":"10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101164","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101164","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the influence of perceived innovation (PI) and environmental awareness (EA) on consumers’ green purchase intention (GPI) for electric two-wheelers in Vietnam, while also highlighting the mediating role of green perceived value (GPV). Despite the growing global emphasis on sustainable transportation, limited research addresses the adoption of electric two-wheelers in developing economies that heavily rely on motorcycles. Addressing this gap, the study integrates the Value–Attitude–Behavior (VAB) model and Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) to propose a comprehensive analytical framework. Data from 511 urban Vietnamese consumers were analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM). Results confirm that PI and EA significantly enhance GPV and GPI, with GPV serving as a critical mediator of these effects. Theoretically, the research extends existing frameworks by identifying GPV as the pivotal link between innovation, environmental consciousness, and purchase intentions. Practically, the findings suggest that policymakers should combine infrastructure investments, financial incentives, and public education campaigns that emphasize innovation and environmental benefits to accelerate the adoption of electric two-wheelers. Businesses are recommended to strategically highlight product innovations and environmental advantages in marketing initiatives to strengthen consumer value perceptions, thus advancing Vietnam’s transition toward sustainable transportation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51534,"journal":{"name":"Travel Behaviour and Society","volume":"43 ","pages":"Article 101164"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145469082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-07DOI: 10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101170
Cagdas Kara , Asuman S. Turkmen
Selecting the right variables is essential in travel behavior modeling for transportation planning. Traditional methods, like choosing from highly correlated predictors or relying on past studies, can reduce the effectiveness of models. Using robust methods to identify relevant variables helps minimize errors, enhances model understanding, and simplifies future predictions by focusing on key factors, making applications more reliable and efficient.
In this study, the data from the household travel survey within the Eskisehir Transportation Master Plan (conducted in 2001 and 2015) were used for the theoretical modeling. The objective of the study is to develop models for non-home-based travel purposes (e.g., banking, shopping, socializing, visiting, entertainment, recreation, sports, etc.) by incorporating socio-economic demographic parameters and the land-use data to understand the relationships between socio-demographic variables and Other-Purpose Trips (OPT) behavior.
Various theoretical methodologies, including classical Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) in travel models, Ridge Regression, advanced variable selection and machine learning techniques such as Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (Lasso), Elastic Net (ENet), Adaptive Lasso (ALasso), and Adaptive Elastic Net (AEnet) are applied in the study. Ridge Regression and machine learning techniques are implemented to address multicollinearity problem that cannot be handled with the traditional MLR models.
Among the 2001 production models, ENet is approximately 29% more successful than MLR in terms of Cross Validated Root Mean Square Error (CVRMSE). Similarly, ENet demonstrates a 17% higher success rate in predicting the target year (2015) based on Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE). In the 2015 production models, the most successful predictions according to CVRMSE are obtained from AEnet, with a prediction power approximately 45% higher than MLR. Among the 2015 attraction models, AEnet and ALasso, approximately 37% more successful than MLR according to CVRMSE, are found to be the most successful models.
{"title":"Elevating transportation models: A comparative study of variable selection techniques for predictive performance","authors":"Cagdas Kara , Asuman S. Turkmen","doi":"10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101170","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101170","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Selecting the right variables is essential in travel behavior modeling for transportation planning. Traditional methods, like choosing from highly correlated predictors or relying on past studies, can reduce the effectiveness of models. Using robust methods to identify relevant variables helps minimize errors, enhances model understanding, and simplifies future predictions by focusing on key factors, making applications more reliable and efficient.</div><div>In this study, the data from the household travel survey within the Eskisehir Transportation Master Plan (conducted in 2001 and 2015) were used for the theoretical modeling. The objective of the study is to develop models for non-home-based travel purposes (e.g., banking, shopping, socializing, visiting, entertainment, recreation, sports, etc.) by incorporating socio-economic demographic parameters and the land-use data to understand the relationships between socio-demographic variables and Other-Purpose Trips (OPT) behavior.</div><div>Various theoretical methodologies, including classical Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) in travel models, Ridge Regression, advanced variable selection and machine learning techniques such as Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (Lasso), Elastic Net (ENet), Adaptive Lasso (ALasso), and Adaptive Elastic Net (AEnet) are applied in the study. Ridge Regression and machine learning techniques are implemented to address multicollinearity problem that cannot be handled with the traditional MLR models.</div><div>Among the 2001 production models, ENet is approximately 29% more successful than MLR in terms of Cross Validated Root Mean Square Error (CVRMSE). Similarly, ENet demonstrates a 17% higher success rate in predicting the target year (2015) based on Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE). In the 2015 production models, the most successful predictions according to CVRMSE are obtained from AEnet, with a prediction power approximately 45% higher than MLR. Among the 2015 attraction models, AEnet and ALasso, approximately 37% more successful than MLR according to CVRMSE, are found to be the most successful models.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51534,"journal":{"name":"Travel Behaviour and Society","volume":"43 ","pages":"Article 101170"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145469083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-07DOI: 10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101167
Ioannis Kosmidis, Daniela Müller-Eie
Public transport and bicycles are two essential components of a sustainable urban transport system, with their integration increasing their potential to reduce car use in urban areas. However, their combined use has one essential weakness, which is the transfer between two travel modes. This additional step creates a feeling of inconvenience to potential travellers. Understanding the factors that cause inconvenience allows to implement policies and measures that ensure an efficient integration and consequently an effective transition to more sustainable travel options. However, the factors that cause inconvenience are currently understudied. This study fills this knowledge gap by identifying these factors and measuring their effect on transfer inconvenience. It also explores the influence of perceived transfer inconvenience on the choice to use a bike as an access or egress mode to a public transport stop. Using data (n = 1007) from an online survey questionnaire from the region of Nord-Jæren in Norway, a Structural Equation Model (SEM) has been developed. The results of the analysis show that the perception of transfer inconvenience plays a substantial role in the choice to combine bicycles and public transport since it can predict up to 10 % of the variance in the choice to use bicycles. The results also suggest that practical elements, like physical infrastructure, play a vital role in shaping transfer inconvenience.
{"title":"Measuring perceived transfer inconvenience for multimodal commute trips combining bicycles and public transport","authors":"Ioannis Kosmidis, Daniela Müller-Eie","doi":"10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101167","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101167","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Public transport and bicycles are two essential components of a sustainable urban transport system, with their integration increasing their potential to reduce car use in urban areas. However, their combined use has one essential weakness, which is the transfer between two travel modes. This additional step creates a feeling of inconvenience to potential travellers. Understanding the factors that cause inconvenience allows to implement policies and measures that ensure an efficient integration and consequently an effective transition to more sustainable travel options. However, the factors that cause inconvenience are currently understudied. This study fills this knowledge gap by identifying these factors and measuring their effect on transfer inconvenience. It also explores the influence of perceived transfer inconvenience on the choice to use a bike as an access or egress mode to a public transport stop. Using data (n = 1007) from an online survey questionnaire from the region of Nord-Jæren in Norway, a Structural Equation Model (SEM) has been developed. The results of the analysis show that the perception of transfer inconvenience plays a substantial role in the choice to combine bicycles and public transport since it can predict up to 10 % of the variance in the choice to use bicycles. The results also suggest that practical elements, like physical infrastructure, play a vital role in shaping transfer inconvenience.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51534,"journal":{"name":"Travel Behaviour and Society","volume":"43 ","pages":"Article 101167"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145469084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-06DOI: 10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101173
Cong Qi , Jonas De Vos , Yibang Zhang , Xiucheng Guo
Accurately assessing perceived walking accessibility is essential for analysing its impact on people’s willingness to walk and walking behaviour. However, limited research has analysed and compared different assessments of perceived walking accessibility. This paper uses survey data from Nanjing’s central area to build binary logit models and analyse the impact of perceived walking accessibility on willingness to walk. Four different assessment methods are employed: the perceived accessibility scale, perceived walkability, overall perceived walking accessibility, and perceived impedance. The results show that perceived walking time is the most effective method for assessing perceived walking accessibility to specific locations, with the highest degree of explanatory power for willingness to walk. Older people, those unfamiliar with the city centre and those who arrive there by car or bicycle are less likely to walk in the central area. Perceived walking time is the primary factor influencing both enthusiastic walkers and reluctant walkers, while actual walking time primarily influences conditional walkers. Land use type at survey point has no significant effect on willingness to walk. These findings are valuable for designing an appropriate walking environment in the city centre and for encouraging walking by improving people’s perceived walking accessibility.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-04DOI: 10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101158
Robin Lecomte , Bernard Yannou , Roland Cahen , Guillaume Thibaud , Fabrice Étienne
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are about to expand quickly within a few decades, with some fully autonomous AV shuttles already in use worldwide. However, significant uncertainties still surround their development. Beyond technical and economic concerns, the long-term impacts on people and society are often neglected by car manufacturers in favor of immediate technical and economic considerations. Anticipating these impacts comprehensively is crucial to ensure that decision-makers make informed choices that benefit society.
This paper presents the Study-Method-Impact (SMI) model, which aims to help designer simulate the long-term socio-economic and environmental impacts of AVs. The SMI model centralizes and structures data from scientific literature, making it more accessible for designers. It also provides detailed results to complex queries.
The paper compares the results of the SMI model with external synthesis reviews and concludes that it is a useful tool for providing accurate and comprehensive information to designers. The SMI model has the potential to inform decision making and policy surrounding autonomous vehicles. Further development and perspectives are also discussed to incorporate the model within industrial tools.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-04DOI: 10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101166
Qiuping Li , Yan Wei , Yang Zhou , Suhong Zhou , Ling Yin
Rainfall is one of the most frequent and impactful weather conditions linked to bike-sharing usage, yet limited research has examined its influence on spatial flow structures and inter-user behavioral differences. This study investigates how bike-sharing origin–destination (OD) flows vary during rainfall, with a particular focus on member versus casual users. Using one year of bike-sharing trip data from Chicago’s Divvy system, we construct OD flow networks and evaluate changes in volume, spatial structure, and community partitioning across four rainfall levels: no rain, light, moderate, and heavy rain. We further assess the relationships between OD flows and the surrounding built environment factors under different rainfall conditions using negative binomial regression models. Results indicate that casual users exhibit significantly greater sensitivity to rainfall, with trip volumes observed to be lower on days with moderate and heavy rain (56%–59%), compared to 35%–37% for member users. Network structure analysis reveals that rainfall is associated with reduced long-distance trips and community fragmentation, especially among casual users. Additionally, the effects of built environment factors (e.g., land use mix, bike infrastructure, and sidewalk availability) vary across rainfall intensities and user types, with some factors reversing direction under adverse conditions. This study highlights the importance of considering user heterogeneity and weather-related behavioral shifts in shared mobility research. The findings may inform the design of more resilient, equitable, and user-responsive bike-sharing systems in the context of climate variability.
{"title":"Exploring inter-user differences in bike-sharing origin-destination flows across rainfall intensities","authors":"Qiuping Li , Yan Wei , Yang Zhou , Suhong Zhou , Ling Yin","doi":"10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101166","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101166","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rainfall is one of the most frequent and impactful weather conditions linked to bike-sharing usage, yet limited research has examined its influence on spatial flow structures and inter-user behavioral differences. This study investigates how bike-sharing origin–destination (OD) flows vary during rainfall, with a particular focus on member versus casual users. Using one year of bike-sharing trip data from Chicago’s Divvy system, we construct OD flow networks and evaluate changes in volume, spatial structure, and community partitioning across four rainfall levels: no rain, light, moderate, and heavy rain. We further assess the relationships between OD flows and the surrounding built environment factors under different rainfall conditions using negative binomial regression models. Results indicate that casual users exhibit significantly greater sensitivity to rainfall, with trip volumes observed to be lower on days with moderate and heavy rain (56%–59%), compared to 35%–37% for member users. Network structure analysis reveals that rainfall is associated with reduced long-distance trips and community fragmentation, especially among casual users. Additionally, the effects of built environment factors (e.g., land use mix, bike infrastructure, and sidewalk availability) vary across rainfall intensities and user types, with some factors reversing direction under adverse conditions. This study highlights the importance of considering user heterogeneity and weather-related behavioral shifts in shared mobility research. The findings may inform the design of more resilient, equitable, and user-responsive bike-sharing systems in the context of climate variability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51534,"journal":{"name":"Travel Behaviour and Society","volume":"42 ","pages":"Article 101166"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145441893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-03DOI: 10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101169
Muhammad Zahid , Ezzeddin Bakhtavar , Salim Khoso , Syed Naveel Hussain , Rehan Sadiq , Kasun Hewage
The successful adoption of Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) technology depends on public awareness, infrastructure readiness, and policy support. This study presents a Spherical Fuzzy Set-Evidential Reasoning (SFS-ER) framework to assess public perceptions of V2G adoption, leveraging survey data from 729 respondents in Okanagan, British Columbia (BC), Canada. The study quantifies belief structures through three dimensions: True Belief (mT), False Belief (mF), and Uncertainty (mU), and computes utility scores to evaluate adoption likelihood. K-Means clustering with the Elbow Method identifies three distinct respondent groups: Supporters (high belief and adoption potential), Skeptical (moderate false beliefs), and Resistant (high skepticism and reluctance toward adoption). The findings reveal that awareness (mT = 0.78) and interest (mT = 0.75) are the strongest predictors of adoption, whereas familiarity alone has a limited impact. Higher-income and university-educated respondents demonstrate greater awareness, while apartment and townhouse residents face structural barriers due to limited charging infrastructure. Moreover, sensitivity analysis confirms that awareness-driven interventions can increase utility scores by 5.4 %. Based on the results, the key policy recommendations include expanding educational initiatives, implementing financial incentives, and integrating V2G-ready infrastructure in multi-unit dwellings.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101163
Alireza Ermagun, Ella Zhang
This study investigates the extent to which extreme weather conditions (e.g., extreme heat, extreme precipitation, extreme wind, extreme humidity) affect bikeshare and rail transit usage of disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged communities. Three findings emerge from the evaluation of average daily bikeshare and average daily rail transit ridership in Chicago. First, bikeshare usage is more sensitive to extreme weather conditions than rail transit ridership. This indicates that bikeshare users are more likely to adjust their travel plans in response to adverse weather than rail transit users and reflects the greater environmental exposure associated with cycling relative to the more sheltered nature of rail transit. Second, heavy precipitation has the most significant impact on reducing ridership for both bikeshare and rail transit. Extreme rainfall leads to a 64% decrease in bikeshare usage and a 9% decrease in rail transit ridership. This demonstrates that heavy rainfall deters bikeshare users much more than rail transit riders. Third, trips originating from disadvantaged communities are less sensitive to extreme weather than those from non-disadvantaged communities. For bikeshare ridership, non-disadvantaged communities are, at the 90-100th weather percentile, approximately 1.29 times more sensitive to extreme heat, 1.19 times more sensitive to heavy rainfall, 1.07 times more sensitive to strong winds, and 1.29 times more sensitive to high humidity than disadvantaged communities. For rail transit ridership, at the 90-100th weather percentile, non-disadvantaged communities exhibit about 1.26 times greater responsiveness to temperature, 1.13 times greater responsiveness to precipitation, and 1.11 times greater responsiveness to humidity, while wind shows an insignificant effect. Although these ratios should be interpreted as indicative behavioral contrasts rather than precise statistical estimates, they suggest that individuals in disadvantaged communities may have fewer travel alternatives or a greater necessity to travel regardless of weather conditions.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-30DOI: 10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101161
Francisco López-del-Pino , José M. Grisolía , Juan de Dios Ortúzar
This study investigates how different components of the accessibility chain influence tourist destination choices, using a Hybrid Discrete Choice (HDC) model that integrates stated preferences and latent attitudinal constructs. Drawing on a sample of visitors to Gran Canaria, the results show that staff preparedness, accessible environments, and reliable information significantly affect destination choice, with staff training emerging as the most influential factor. The research is grounded in the Social Model of Disability, which views disability as a social construct, and the Capability Approach, which focuses on individuals’ freedom to live the lives they value. These frameworks reframe accessibility not as an isolated technical issue but as a systemic condition enabling or constraining effective participation. The study also adopts a Universal and Inclusive Design perspective within this framework, recognising human diversity as a central design parameter in tourism systems. The estimated model reveals substantial heterogeneity in preferences: individuals with direct or indirect experience of disability place greater importance on staff support and trustworthy information. At the same time, younger and non-disabled tourists prioritise price and location. By combining behavioural and attitudinal data, the study demonstrates the added value of HDC models for understanding how accessibility is cognitively evaluated and behaviourally enacted. The findings have practical implications for inclusive destination design. Rather than addressing accessibility through isolated improvements, tourism systems should adopt a chain-based approach, ensuring coherence across all stages of the travel experience. As societies age and accessibility becomes a strategic imperative, this model provides a transferable tool for evaluating service gaps and guiding inclusive policy design.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-30DOI: 10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101157
Zidong Yu, Ketong Shen, Xintao Liu
As urban environmental challenges intensify, sustainable transport modes like walking are increasingly prioritized. The 15-minute city model is introduced to support this shift by promoting access to daily essentials within a short walk. While existing research often focuses on accessibility to urban functions, the perceptual experience of the walking environment—especially in transit-oriented developments (TODs) within a 15-minute framework—remains underexplored. This study addresses this gap by developing a data-driven framework to quantitatively assess walkability in Hong Kong’s TOD areas. Our approach integrates two key dimensions: perceptual feeling and local accessibility. First, we use Vision Transformers to analyze street view images (SVIs) and quantify perceptual feelings such as safety, liveliness, and beauty. We employ a generalized additive model (GAM) to analyze how these visual elements correlate with human ratings of walkability. Second, we integrate these perceptual metrics with traditional accessibility measures. These perceptual metrics are then combined with accessibility measures—such as the total number and diversity of local destinations—to create a composite walkability index, mapping and analyzing spatial variations in walkability. This multi-faceted approach provides a more comprehensive understanding of walkability in dense urban contexts. Analysis reveals that street perceptions of safety and liveliness peak in central business districts. These lively areas are characterized by a visual composition rich in buildings and sidewalks, underscoring a positive link between dense urban form and pedestrian activity. These findings suggest that in highly accessible transit-oriented development (TOD) areas, improving pedestrian safety by expanding sidewalk width should be prioritized. By integrating visual perception with accessibility in the 15-minute city framework, practical planning insights to enhance urban walkability are discussed.
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