Influencing Mechanism Analysis of Holiday Activity–Travel Patterns on Transportation Energy Consumption and Emissions in China by Bobin Wang, Chunfu Shao, Xun Ji

“…The reduced portion is mainly attracted by slow traffic and public transport. However, the effects of a single policy strategy are very limited, thus portfolio policies need to be considered by policy makers.…”
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A Novel Trajectory Based Prediction Method for Urban Subway Design by Zhi Cai, Jiawei Wang, Tong Li, Bowen Yang, Xing Su, Limin Guo, Zhiming Ding

“…In recent years, with the development of various types of public transportation, they are also more and more closely connected. …”
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Quantifying the Effects of Different Containment Policies on Urban NO₂ Decline: Evidence from Remote Sensing and Ground-Station Data by Jing Kang, Bailing Zhang, Junyi Zhang, Anrong Dang

“…Workplace closures (54.8%), restricted public transport usage (52.3%), and school closures (46.4%) were the top three restrictions that had the most significant impacts on NO₂ anomalies. …”
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Understanding How and Why Spatial Segregation Endures: A Systematic Review of Recent Research on Intergroup Relations at a Micro-Ecological Scale by Leonor Bettencourt, John Dixon, Paula Castro

“…Educational settings have been the main context studied, followed by leisure and recreational places, public urban places and public transport. The paper also identifies three areas of potential future research, highlighting the need to: (1) capitalise on methodological innovations; (2) explore systematically how, when and why the intersectionality of social categories may shape micro-ecological practices of contact and separation; and (3) understand more fully why micro-ecological patterns of segregation are apparently so persistent, as well as how they might be reduced.…”
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Setting Up and Operating Electric City Buses in Harsh Winter Conditions by Maarit Vehviläinen, Rita Lavikka, Seppo Rantala, Marko Paakkinen, Janne Laurila, Terttu Vainio

“…The city of Tampere in Finland aims to be carbon-neutral in 2030 and wanted to find out how the electrification of public transport would help achieve the climate goal. Research has covered topics related to electric buses, ranging from battery technologies to lifecycle assessment and cost analysis. …”
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Can Copper Products and Surfaces Reduce the Spread of Infectious Microorganisms and Hospital-Acquired Infections? by Joji Abraham, Kim Dowling, Singarayer Florentine

“…It is thus suggested that replacing common touch surfaces in healthcare facilities, food industries, and public places (including public transport) with copper or alloys of copper may substantially contribute to limiting transmission. …”
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Proposal for Using IT Solutions in Public Passenger Transport in Slovak Republic to Reduce the Spread of COVID-19 by Mašek Jaroslav, Pálková Adriana, Blaho Peter, Halajová Štefánia, Jursová Simona, Šipuš Denis

“…The analysis identified important criteria that passengers considered very important during the COVID-19 pandemic in relation to public transport. If these criteria are not met, passengers will not be willing to use public passenger transport and the use of individual transport will continue to grow. …”
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Rischi di segregazione temporale nella città poliritmica: il caso della mobilità notturna delle donne tra nuove esigenze di spostamento e percezione della sicurezza by Chiara Vitrano, Monica Ferrario, Matteo Colleoni

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Advances in tobacco control in the Region of the Americas, 2020 by Rosa Carolina Sandoval, Adriana Bacelar Gomes, Maxime Roche, Natalia Parra, Francisco Armada

“…By 2020, most countries had regulations on 100% smoke-free environments in indoor public places, workplaces, and public transport, and large graphic health warnings on tobacco packaging. …”
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The Sense of Travel Deprivation and Its Impact on Travel Decision: A Case Study of China’s Rapidly Urbanizing Region by Yongming Pu, Xiaofeng Ji, Chenxi Lian

“…The results demonstrated that in regions of rapid urbanization, the sense of private travel deprivation was stronger than that of public transport, and private travel deprivation had a negative impact on travel frequency. …”
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Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) and sustainable urban mobility in the development of the European museum business: a case study of Spain by Tsypko Victoria, Shcherbakova Nadiia, Riaboshtan Liudmyla

“…An important contribution to sustainable urban mobility is public transport, shared bike, shared e-moped, and shared car. …”
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Factors associated with prehospital delay in patients with acute stroke in South India by S Revathi, M S Kavitha, V Shankar

“…The following are the factors significantly (P < 0.05) attributed for the delay in presenting to the hospital: contextual factors like using public transport (bus), taxi, time of onset of symptoms, 7 pm–3 am; family history of stroke, perceived cognitive and behavioral factors like, wishing or praying for the symptoms to subside on its own, hesitation to travel due to long distance, delay in arranging transport, and arranging money for admission and wasting time by shopping for general practitioners, nursing homes, and hospitals. …”
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Exploring the “15-minute city” and near working in Milan using mobile phone data by Ilaria Mariotti, Viviana Giavarini, Federica Rossi, Mina Akhavan

“…Indeed, remote working and the fear of public transport led to rethinking commuting and re-value working close to home. …”
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Assessment of level of service for access and dispersal facilities in a railway terminal by Rahul Vardhan Bhatnagar, Sewa Ram

“…Indian Railways has one of the most extensive rail systems in the world which covers 68,000 km of rail track, 7318 stations with over 23 million passengers daily. This public transport system is one of the cheapest modes of travel for millions of Indians daily. …”
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The mental health of rural older adults: the role of the built environment in Jintang County by Ping Liang, Yan Wang, Tong Wang

“…Rural older adults who prefer to walk, cycle, and use public transport have better mental health, and accessibility to the periodic market, health station, bus station, village committee, supermarket, and the main road is positively correlated with the mental health of rural older adults, while the distance from home to the town center and coach terminal has a significant negative impact on the mental health of rural older adults. …”
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Mobility-as-a-Service users: insights from a trial in Sydney by Göran Smith, David A. Hensher, Chinh Ho, Camila Balbontin

“…Firstly, most of the people that participated in the trial were frequent users of both public transport and private cars. This supports the notion that multi-modal travellers are likely early adopters of MaaS and contradicts the fear that MaaS does not appeal to private car users. …”
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Creating an Interactive Urban Traffic System for the Simulation of Different Traffic Scenarios by Marco Weißmann, Dennis Edler, Julian Keil, Frank Dickmann

“…The case study is based on the characteristic model of a Central European city (not a representation of a real city), which brings together the specific considerations of urban traffic, such as mirroring the complex interplay of pedestrians as well as individual and public transport. This contribution has an applied methodological focus and considers possibilities as well as difficulties in the design of a reliably running (open-end) traffic system. …”
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IMPACT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ON SMART CITIES by Ioana Marinela (Gavriluță) Turtă, Maria-Simona Cuciureanu, Grigore Nepotu

“…In the same development as Smart City determines a sustainable development, because projects are implemented in the field of public transport, by introducing new means of transport (trams, buses) whose main purpose is to reduce pollution. …”
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Ecosystem Service Use and the Motivations for Use in Central Parks in Three European Cities by Jörg Priess, Luis Valença Pinto, Ieva Misiune, Julia Palliwoda

“…Results also indicate that aligning sustainability objectives and usability, good accessibility of urban parks plays a central role and encourages the use of non-motorized or public transport for park visits. Concrete information about UGS user motivation and behaviour generated in this and similar studies contributes to convert the UN Agenda 2030 strategies at the municipal level into sustainability and user-oriented design and management of UGS.…”
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Pre-Normative Charging Technology Roadmap for Heavy-Duty Electric Vehicles in Europe by Mehrnaz Farzam Far, Mikko Pihlatie, Marko Paakkinen, Marko Antila, Aida Abdulah

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