Saudi Women and Vision 2030: Bridging the Gap? by Wafaa Saleh, Areej Malibari

“…Further research into potential impacts of the current situation on car ownership and use, impacts on public transport system, environmental impacts and sustainability is needed.…”
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Effectiveness of Principal-Component-Based Mixed-Frequency Error Correction Model in Predicting Gross Domestic Product by Yunxu Wang, Chi-Wei Su, Yuchen Zhang, Oana-Ramona Lobonţ, Qin Meng

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Understanding Travel Behavior of Electric Car-Sharing Users under Impact of COVID-19 by Qiuyue Sai, Jun Bi, Xiaomei Zhao, Wei Guan, Chaoru Lu

“…The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has raised concerns about the use of public transport, with a surge in people considering personal car usage. …”
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Visually activated sprinklers applied in atria to mitigate the interaction of water spray with the smoke layer by Chih Kuo Chiu, Yew Khoy Chuah, Yang-Cheng Shih

“…This research investigates the fire suppression effectiveness of sprinklers in a large atrium of a public transport hub in Taipei, Taiwan, during a fire using FDS. …”
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Validation of the Driver's Angry Thoughts Questionnaire (DATQ) in a sample of professional drivers in Iran by Seyed Iman Mohammadpour, Habibollah Nassiri, Mark J.M. Sullman

“…To this end, 613 public transport bus drivers completed the DATQ and DAX and were also asked to report the level of traffic congestion they normally faced in their daily driving, using six pictures. …”
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Safety of female ride-hailing passengers: Perception and prevention by Shixingyue Hu, Yazao Yang

“…Abstract Ride-hailing, as part of wider transitions to smart city, has emerged as a beneficial complement to urban public transport. However, the frequent occurrence of ride-hailing safety accidents in multiple countries has raised concerns about passenger safety on an international scale. …”
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Nonlinear Influence Model of Built Environment of Residential Area on Electric Vehicle Miles Traveled by Xinghua Hu, Yanshi Cao, Tao Peng, Runze Gao, Gao Dai

“…Seven variables, including distance to the nearest business district, road density, public transport service level, and land use mix were extracted from different dimensions to describe the built environment, explore the influence of the travel behavior mode and built environment on EV use. …”
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Urban Gothic and the Sphinx Factor: Saul Bellow’s Mr. Sammler’s Planet by Zhang Tian

“…He seeks to criticize the American city from different perspectives of city culture, including the corruption of the bureaucracy, vices in public transport, changes in the urban landscape, competition between the pursuit of art and the pursuit of money.…”
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Ensemble machine learning based driving range estimation for real‐world electric city buses by considering battery degradation levels by Yongxing Wang, Chaoru Lu, Jun Bi, Qiuyue Sai, Yongzhi Zhang

“…However, since the limited driving range of BEBs brings challenges for their promotion, the accurate estimation of the driving range with limited available information has become a critical issue for public transport operators. The real‐world data collected from 50 BEBs operated in two different cities is used to develop the driving range estimation method by considering the battery degradation effects. …”
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Star-shaped cities alleviate trade-off between climate change mitigation and adaptation by Carl Pierer, Felix Creutzig

“…It makes use of the observation that low-carbon efficient transport can be realized via linear public transport axes, and that GHG emissions and UHI effects scale differently with varying geometric properties, thus enabling design that reflects both the economics and the climate of cities. …”
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The Development of Economic Infrastructure in Western and Eastern Indonesia to Support People’s Welfare Improvement by Wahyu Hidayati, Yudistira Hendra Permana

“…In light of these findings, support from the government is needed to improve domestic connectivity, develop public transport in urban areas, and accelerate digital transformation while training available human resources. …”
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Framing the mobility transition: public communication of industry, science, media, and politics in Germany by C. E. Drexler, B. Verse, A. Hauslbauer, J. Lopez, S. Haider

“…Their arguments encompass environmental and climate-related issues as well as infrastructural problems for bikes and public transport caused by the hegemony of automobility. …”
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Recognition and investigation the status of people with special needs tendency and access to voluntary activity opportunities in Mashhad-Iran Case Study: Educational complex rehab... by Hossein Ghodrati, Shafieh Ghodrati, Narges Niyazi

“…In this research, after extracting the categories from the field of study, we looked at a statistic of personality and demographic characteristics, access status in urban space and public transport system, the performance of government officials and institution and media, economic conditions, access to course content suitable and educational facilities and the negative attitudes of the community. …”
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An investigation into drivers' yielding behaviour at marked uncontrolled pedestrian crossings in Ghana by Eugene Sogbe

“…Private car drivers had the lowest yielding rate of 18.2%, followed closely by public transport drivers. This research contributes to the discourse on drivers' yielding behaviour at pedestrian crossings with perspectives from a developing country. …”
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Impact of degrading air quality on mode choice and emissions – Study of ten global cities by Deepty Jain, Smriti Bhatnagar, Kamna Sachdeva

“…The study shows that the non-motorized transport and public transport (PT) share is likely to decrease and personal vehicle share is likely to increase in the selected cities of high-income countries (HIC). …”
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Comparative Analysis of 20-Minute Neighbourhood Policies and Practices in Melbourne and Scotland by Hing-Wah Chau, Ian Gilzean, Elmira Jamei, Lesley Palmer, Terri Preece, Martin Quirke

“…Twenty-minute neighbourhoods highlight the importance of well-connected and mixed-used neighbourhoods and communities with proximate access to employment, essential services, public transport, and open spaces. Shorter distances together with re-prioritised public spaces encourage more active transport choices, resulting in public health benefits and reduced environmental pollution. …”
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Impact of Vehicle Fleet Modernization on the Traffic-Originated Air Pollution in an Urban Area—A Case Study by Piotr Holnicki, Zbigniew Nahorski, Andrzej Kałuszko

“…Computer simulations show a reduction in NOx concentrations attributed to emission mitigation of passenger cars, trucks and vans, and public transport buses, respectively. On the other hand, improving air quality in terms of CO concentrations depends almost exclusively on gasoline vehicle modernization. …”
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Transport Accessibility: A Tool for Identification of Activity- Based Destination Choice Model for Port-Said City, Egypt by Marwa El-Bany, Mohamed Shahin, Ibrahim Hashim, Mohamed Serag

“…The accessibility benefits are examined associating withdecreasing travel time (public transport-oriented development), improving income level for poor, and restricting car use.Finally, the model approved to be sensitive to different measures and hence it can be used as an effective informativetool to the decision makers.…”
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Attention mechanism‐based model for short‐term bus traffic passenger volume prediction by Zhenyu Mei, Wanting Yu, Wei Tang, Jiahao Yu, Zhengyi Cai

“…First of all, the paper conducts a statistical analysis of the actual public transportation card data of Suzhou, China, and obtains the characteristics of real‐time relevance of different bus stops. …”
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How has the Covid-19 pandemic affected wheelchair users? Time-series analysis of the number of railway passengers in Tokyo by Yuko Arai, Yukari Niwa, Takahiko Kusakabe, Kentaro Honma

“…Abstract The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has posed ‘new barriers’ to people with disabilities (PwDs) who have already experienced many barriers to using public transportation. However, there is limited quantitative knowledge of how PwDs have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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