Showing papers in "Transport Policy in 2017"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that public transportation will only remain economically competitive where demand can be bundled to larger units, and that a substantial share of vehicles may remain in private possession and use due to their low variable costs.

TL;DR: Li et al. as mentioned in this paper employed the structural equation model and chi-square test to explore public perception barriers to widespread adoption of BEVs in Tianjin, and found that consumer interest in BEVs is relatively low and a large proportion of the respondents have a "wait and see" attitude.

TL;DR: The Paris Agreement as discussed by the authors has virtually solved the first problem and paved the way for countries to implement environmental taxes and subsidies in order to change the relative costs of clean alternatives, which would solve the second problem.

TL;DR: This article found that today's young adults do own fewer cars than previous generations did when they were young, and when controlling for whether young adults have become economically independent from their parents, they find that economically independent young adults own slightly more cars than we would expect, given their low incomes and wealth.

TL;DR: In this paper, a multiple logistic regression analysis was applied to the 2012 California Household Travel Survey dataset, which includes both PEV and conventional car buyers' information, as well as some other secondary data sources.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address the question as to whether there is a clear and robust economic theory of the transformational impact of high-speed rail and if there is any consistent evidence to support it.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess how accessibility is incorporated into metropolitan transportation plans and translated into performance indicators around the world, to ultimately derive policy recommendations, and show that in order to foster accessibility-based approaches to transportation planning, plans need to have clearly defined accessibility goals with a distinction between accessibility and mobility.

TL;DR: A methodology to quantitatively measure existing levels of TOD in terms of a TOD Index, within walkable distance of a transit node, by measuring various criteria that define TOD is proposed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the early-stage impact of free-floating carsharing on private car ownership and found that 37% of the users indicated that free-flooding car sharing has impacted their ownership of private cars.

TL;DR: The conceptual similarities and differences between fuel poverty and transport poverty remain largely unaddressed in the UK as discussed by the authors, with crucial consequences for how affordability problems among households are to be conceptualised and addressed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the financial risk associated with highway infrastructure projects by identifying parameters such as traffic flow and project cost; and further models the risk by analysing real-world PPP based highway projects in India.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new research model was proposed to examine how CSR affects customer loyalty in intercity bus services and how it interacts with service quality, corporate image and customer satisfaction in affecting customer loyalty.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on perceived user-friendliness and usefulness of accessibility instruments and explore why accessibility instruments are not widely used in planning practice, and find that not only userfriendliness problems, but also organizational barriers and lack of institutionalization of accessibility instrument, are the main causes of the implementation gap.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the experience with economic regulation of traditional taxicab markets and the effects of newly emerging dynamic rideshare services on the taxi industry and explain why ridesharing services have gained a strong foothold in many markets.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper proposed a non-radial DEA preference model based on the assumption of variable returns to scale (VRS) and the Directional Distance Function (DDF), which has been used to evaluate and analyze the efficiency of Chinese-listed port enterprises.

TL;DR: This paper found that car-free households have significantly lower household incomes, lower educational attainments, and are disproportionately non-white compared to car-no-car households, while car-less households have higher household income and higher education attainments.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated how people, behaviour and mobility are imagined in a range of visioning documents about the future up to 2050, a timeline that is critically important for emission reduction targets.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors group impacts within the framework into four types: user benefits, proximity and productivity effects, investment and land use impacts and employment effects, and within each of these groups there are a series of transport-economy mechanisms which become relevant in different contexts.

TL;DR: The authors compare current road fuel taxes and corrective taxes, estimated on the basis of negative externalities from road transport for 22 European countries, taking into account the effect of fuel taxation on fuel efficiency.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use a recent statewide travel survey from California and take advantage of a new comprehensive historical archive of regional real-time multi-modal transportation system data to explore contexts in which persons belonging to car-owning households within Los Angeles County use transit for their commute.

TL;DR: In this article, a connecting relation between regulatory frameworks and atmospheric pollution from vessels operations at port is presented, and the authors aim at filling in this gap by addressing exhaust gasses (NOx, SOx, CO, CO2) and particles (PM2.5) released from operative vessels in port with differing regulatory frameworks (Las Palmas, St Petersburg, and Hong Kong).

TL;DR: In this article, a general framework for performing transportation equity analysis using activity-based travel demand models, distributional comparisons, and incorporating equity standards is discussed, and the authors demonstrate the advantages of distributional comparison relative to average measures.

TL;DR: In this article, a structural equation model (SEM) is proposed to comprehensively consider the bi-directional relationship between multimodal transportation investment and economic development, and travel demand is added as an endogenous variable in the model system.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the lifecycle costs and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of electric vehicle (EV) ownership to that of other popular and similar cars in Hawaii, focusing on the interaction of EV costs with Hawaii's rapid solar PV uptake, using a scenario planning approach for future fuel and electricity prices.

TL;DR: In this article, the interactions between transport sector energy consumption, by source, growth and CO2 emissions were analyzed using a panel for 15 OECD countries with annual data from 1995 to 2014, and the short and long-run effects were analyzed by using a ARDL approach with DK-FE estimator.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a service quality evaluation outline to measure rail transit lines' performances via passenger satisfaction surveys and provided recommendations to enhance the operation for specific lines and guidelines for future investments.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the relationship between car ownership and financial circumstances for people living in disadvantaged urban communities and found that despite low incomes and financial problems, cars may be a necessity for some urban dwellers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the conversion of a sustainability discourse into policy actions often leads to realisations which are essentially to be labelled as non-sustainable, and illustrate the mechanisms underlying goal-displacements.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present policy and planning lessons on urban flexible micro transport services (FMTS), derived from a unique FMTS pilot, called Kutsuplus, which was operational from October 2012 to December 2015.

TL;DR: In this article, the scaling relationship between the population sizes of urban centers and traffic congestion for four subgroups with varying population sizes was examined. And the scaling relationships were superlinear for most subgroups, but for the subgroup comprising mega cities with over 3 million people, the relationship was linear.