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Travel Behavior and Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning/Management

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 7222

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. João de Abreu e Silva

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Instituto Superior Técnico, Av. Rovisco Pais 1, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
Interests: travel behavior; transport land use interactions; transportation policy and planning; urban planning; regional science

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Mobility patterns, the result of individual and household travel related decisions, have strong implications on sustainability. These range from emissions of both greenhouse gases to several other pollutants and economic implications (namely congestion among other effects) and social implications (namely segregation, wellbeing, and community cohesion).

Travel behavior decisions encompass a multitude of decisions ranging from residential and location choices, possession of mobility tools (e.g., car ownership, transit season tickets), and longer term decisions that shape a variety of decisions related with daily trip making, namely the amount of travel, mode choice, trip scheduling, trip complexity, etc. Travel behavior is also influenced by several socioeconomic and sociopsychological individual and household traits as well by policymaking.

This special issue focuses on the implications of travel behavior and its determinants on sustainability, both from environmental, economic and social perspectives. Papers focusing on identifying the role of determinants, socioeconomic, sociopsychological and policy, of travel behavior and its implications on sustainability are welcome as well as papers focusing on travel behavioral change aimed at achieving sustainable mobility.

Prof. Dr. João de Abreu e Silva
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • mobility
  • travel behaviour
  • household travel
  • sustainability
  • location choices
  • sustainable mobility
  • mode choice
  • tour complexity
  • car ownership
  • behavioral change
  • land use and travel behavior interactions
  • travel related emissions
  • travel habits
  • lifestyles and travel behavior

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Validating Italian General Ecological Behaviour Questionnaire of Travellers Using Dichotomous Rasch Model
by Pinky Kumawat and Cristina Pronello
Sustainability 2021, 13(21), 11976; https://doi.org/10.3390/su132111976 - 29 Oct 2021
Cited by 3 | Viewed by 2550
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Ecological behaviour and its impact on the environment are subjects of public concern and understanding individual behavioural measures to induce sustainable lifestyles is of extreme importance for policy makers to assess and promote sustainable mobility. To this end, a questionnaire with highly reliable [...] Read more.
Ecological behaviour and its impact on the environment are subjects of public concern and understanding individual behavioural measures to induce sustainable lifestyles is of extreme importance for policy makers to assess and promote sustainable mobility. To this end, a questionnaire with highly reliable items, evaluations of determinants and accurate measurements of ecological behaviour is a precondition for understanding the levers of behavioural change. This paper aims at an understanding of whether the dichotomous Rasch model provides a legitimate measurement of General Ecological Behaviour (GEB) using a 26-item questionnaire as a valid tool to assess the pro-environment behaviour of a large sample of users. A web questionnaire was administered using the snowball sampling plan in the Piedmont region (Italy), with a sample of 4473 respondents. The results suggest that using the dichotomous Rasch model, the proposed questionnaire is able to effectively measure the pro-environment behaviour of travellers. Unidimensionality, the perfect level of item reliability of 1, the very high item separation of 34.22, the absence of larger differential item functions, and the local independence are all good indicators of a valid model. This research shows how a good, validated, and reliable measurement of ecological behaviour would support public bodies in planning environment-focused transport policies thanks to the knowledge of which variables determine pro-environment behaviour. In addition, the proposed approach also allows us to measure the efficacy of the adopted policies. Full article
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Exploring the Effects of Carpooling on Travelers’ Behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of Metropolitan City
by Anfeng Xu, Jiming Chen and Zihui Liu
Sustainability 2021, 13(20), 11136; https://doi.org/10.3390/su132011136 - 9 Oct 2021
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Transportation accounts for more than a quarter of the greenhouse gas emissions that are causing climate change. Carpooling is a subset of the sharing economy, in which individuals share their vehicle with commuters to save travel expenses. In recent decades, carpooling has been [...] Read more.
Transportation accounts for more than a quarter of the greenhouse gas emissions that are causing climate change. Carpooling is a subset of the sharing economy, in which individuals share their vehicle with commuters to save travel expenses. In recent decades, carpooling has been promoted as a feasible alternative to car ownership with the potential to alleviate traffic congestion, parking demand, and environmental problems. Unstable economic conditions, cultural norms, and lack of infrastructure make cultural exchange activities and mobility habits different in developing nations to those in developed countries. The rapid evolution of sharing mobility has reshaped travelers’ behavior and created a dire need to determine the travel patterns of commuters living in megacities in developing countries. To obtain data, a web-based stated choice (SC) experiment was used in this study. It used mode-related variables, socioeconomic demographic variables, and a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) precautionary measure variable. Logit models, namely the mixed logit regression model (ML) and the multinomial logit regression model (MNL), were applied to analyze the available data. According to modeling and survey data, economic variables associated with modes of transport, such as trip time and trip cost, were determined to be significant. Additionally, the results revealed that commuters were more conscious of COVID-19 preventive measures, which was determined to be highly significant. The findings showed that the majority of residents in the COVID-19 pandemic continue to rely on automobiles and motorcycles. It is noteworthy that individuals with more than two members in their family and a travel distance of less than seven miles were more likely to prefer a carpooling service. This study’s findings will provide a basis for researchers to aid existing operators in the field of transportation, as well as offer guidelines for governments in developing countries to enhance the utility of transportation networks. Full article
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