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Latest Articles
Medium- and Long-Term Impacts of Transit on Congestion: Jakarta’s Experience
Alyas Widita
Medium- to long-term assessment of transit's congestion relief , show that after a year, average delays in treated corridors decreased by nearly 40%.
Assessing the Impact of Transportation on Seal Behaviour: A Case Study from Ísafjörður, Iceland.
David Pierre Milesi-Gaches, Alexandre Lhériau-Nice
This study explores seals' behavioural responses to transportation disturbances in Ísafjörður, Iceland, revealing significant impacts from watercraft and aerial vehicles, and underscores the need for targeted conservation strategies.
Post-pandemic Recovery of Transit Ridership and Revenue in Canada
Murtaza Haider
Four years post-COVID, Canadian transit ridership and fare revenues remain below pre-pandemic levels despite eased restrictions and employment growth. Return to pre-pandemic ridership will likely take an additional two years.
Can Thanksgiving Destinations Predict Climate Migration Patterns?
Chaeyeon Han, Uijeong Hwang, Subhrajit Guhathakurta
This links between Thanksgiving travel and post-hurricane relocations highlight social ties' influence on climate-induced migration decisions in the US, urging their consideration in emergency and disaster recovery planning.
Revisiting COVID-19’s Impact on Cycling: An Examination of Bicycle Count Data in Montréal
Mischa Young, Gavin MacGregor, Georges Tanguay
This study revisits the COVID-19’s impact on cycling. By imputing missing values and excluding biased sensors, we find Montréal finally saw more riders in 2023 than 2019.
The Impact of COVID-19 Policies on Nightlife in Kyoto
Koki Nozawa, Wenzhe Sun, Jan Dirk Schmoecker, Satoshi Nakao
We quantify the strong impact of emergency measures and weak impact of travel campaigns on nightlife in Kyoto. We show how much bars and other facilities are hit.
Travel Behavior during the 2021 British Columbia Floods Using De-identified Network Mobility Data
Enqi Liao, Syeda N. Zehra, Stephen D. Wong
De-identified network mobility data confirm clear travel patterns and resilience challenges during the 2021 British Columbia Floods.
Single-Image Building Height Estimation Using EfficientNet: A Simplified, Scalable Approach
Alexander W Olson, Shoshanna Saxe
This study introduces an effective method using EfficientNet for single-image building height estimation, demonstrating high accuracy and simplicity compared to traditional multi-source techniques.
How do Car Owners Familiarize and Adapt to Unfamiliar Vehicle Technologies?
Vibeke M Uhlving, Alena Høye, Kjell Vegard Weyde
Many drivers lack relevant knowledge about Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, and use trial and error to familiarize themselves with new vehicle technology.
A Survey of Errors in GTFS Static Feeds from the United States
Saipraneeth Devunuri, Lewis Lehe
This study runs MobilityData's Canonical GTFS Schedule Validator application on 632 US transit feeds to characterize common GTFS errors. About 21% of GTFS feeds have at least one error.
Evaluating Road Crash Severity Prediction with Balanced Ensemble Models
Alexei Roudnitski
The study evaluates an ensemble of five ML models on New South Wales crash data, achieving a ROC-AUC of 0.68, and highlights vehicle and collision types as key fatality predictors.
The Roles of Housing and Household Characteristics in U.S. Residential Heat Risk
C. J. Gabbe, Gregory Pierce
Renters and residents of lower-cost housing types are more likely to experience unhealthy temperatures and require heat-related medical attention. We find additional disparities by age, income, race, and ethnicity.
Integration of Resilient and Complete Streets in Geometric and Roadway Design Guides
Matthew Blain, Stephen D. Wong
Resilience topics are generally missing from existing geometric and roadway design guides, leading to possible tensions and missed opportunities with Complete Streets design.
A Scale for Describing People’s Mobility Status
Karel Martens, Matan E. Singer
We demonstrate the validity of a simple scale to describe the ease or difficulty with which people can reach needed or desired destinations.
Classifying Location Points as Daily Activities using Simultaneously Optimized DBSCAN-TE Parameters.
Gregory S. Macfarlane, Gillian Riches, Emily K. Youngs, Jared A. Nielsen
We identify the values of parameters for a spatial and time clustering algorithm that groups raw location timestamps into coherent activities.
Sex Differences in Child Care Travel
Zhiyuan Yao, Evelyn Blumenberg, Madeline Wander
Gender influences child care responsibilities, travel mode and distance from home and workplaces to child care centers for working parents. Women engage in child-care travel more than men.
Open to Open-Loop: Payments Challenges for Public Transit
Susie Pike, Katherine Turner, Staly Chin, Andrea Nguyen
Transit agencies are interested in open-loop payments, but they may face unique challenges when adopting them. We examine agency views on how assistance programs may address some of these challenges.
How much is US Office Building Space Reduced per Teleworker?
Kun Liu, Subhrajit Guhathakurta, Chaeyeon Han, Eric Hittinger, Sinoun Phoung, Eric Williams
This work empirically establishes how teleworking affects office building space in the US over the period 2003-2019, resulting in an average 44% reduction in office building space per teleworker.
Bogdan Kapatsila, Emily Grisé
This study identified behavioral nudges, like acknowledgement of the donation, and incentives that can facilitate altruism for a transport-related cause of the members of a university community.
Popular Reads
The Most Popular Articles in the past 90 Days
Cumulative versus Gravity-based Accessibility Measures: Which One to Use?
Comparison of Embodied Carbon of 3D-printed vs. Conventionally Built Houses
r5r: Rapid Realistic Routing on Multimodal Transport Networks with R5 in R
Local Business Perception vs. Mobility Behavior of Shoppers: A Survey from Berlin
Widely Cited
The Top 12 all-time most cited articles in Findings as per Google Scholar as of July 1, 2024.
r5r: Rapid Realistic Routing on Multimodal Transport Networks with R5 in R
Mobility changes, teleworking, and remote communication during the COVID-19 pandemic in Chile
Trip patterns and revenue of shared e-scooters in Louisville, Kentucky
Patterns of e-scooter use in combination with public transport
Cycling Behaviour Changes as a Result of COVID-19: A Survey of Users in Sydney, Australia.
Methods to prioritise pop-up active transport infrastructure
Shedding NHTS Light on the use of “Little Vehicles” in Urban Areas