The effects of COVID-19 lockdown measures on health and healthcare services in Uganda by David Musoke, Sarah Nalinya, Grace Biyinzika Lubega, Kevin Deane, Elizabeth Ekirapa-Kiracho, David McCoy

“…Patients with chronic conditions could not access health facilities for their routine visits particularly due to suspension of public transport. Depression, stress and anxiety were common due to social isolation from relatives and friends, loss of jobs, and fear of law enforcement personnel. …”
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Transport poverty risk – A composite spatial index to support policy design and investment targeting as part of a just climate transition by J.A. Kelly, L. Kelleher, Y. Guo, C. Deegan, A. Patil

“…This is important as local authorities should be supported in targeting and prioritising their actions over time, as well as monitoring how developments in fuel prices (e.g. current volatility) and policy (e.g. public transport investments) may impact specific areas in terms of TPR.…”
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Scenario Analysis of Air Quality Improvement in Warsaw, Poland, by the End of the Current Decade by Piotr Holnicki, Andrzej Kałuszko, Zbigniew Nahorski

“…On the other hand, the ongoing modernization of the city’s car fleet (including individual and public transport), taking into account the restrictive EU emission standards, as well as the quickly growing share of electric and hybrid cars (BEVs and PHEVs), gives a good prospect of a fundamental improvement in air quality in Warsaw conurbation. …”
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The effects of COVID-19 lockdown measures on health and healthcare services in Uganda. by David Musoke, Sarah Nalinya, Grace Biyinzika Lubega, Kevin Deane, Elizabeth Ekirapa-Kiracho, David McCoy

“…Patients with chronic conditions could not access health facilities for their routine visits particularly due to suspension of public transport. Depression, stress and anxiety were common due to social isolation from relatives and friends, loss of jobs, and fear of law enforcement personnel. …”
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Towards a Multimodal Hermeneutic Model: The case of Uber-Blog-mediated advertising discourse order of ‘Saudization’ by Amir H.Y. Salama

“…The multimodal participant analysis has explained how the referents of (i) a model Saudi Uber driver, (ii) the Saudi Public Transport Authority, (iii) Saudi driver-partners, and (iv) Uber app collectively contribute to the recontextualization of ‘Saudization’ from a governmental discourse to an advertising discourse order realized in the multimodal text under analysis.…”
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ID Tech: A Virtual Reality Simulator Training for Teenagers with Intellectual Disabilities by Marine Capallera, Geneviève Piérart, Francesco Carrino, Robin Cherix, Amélie Rossier, Elena Mugellini, Omar Abou Khaled

“…In the end, four teenagers are completely autonomous in their travels: two travel on foot and two travel by public transport. Regarding the impact analysis, the results are stable over time regarding self-reported ease, satisfaction, and fatigability. …”
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Study of the maneuverability of a three-link trailer bus train by V.P., V.M., S.M., I.S.

“…The metrobus or new Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) bus system is the result of the development of the bus public transport network. Compared to the metro, this project has clear advantages: the lower cost of creating a network, the lower cost of rolling stock, mobility, etc. …”
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A two-phase decision making based on the grey analytic hierarchy process for evaluating the issue of park-and-ride facility location by Jairo Ortega, Sarbast Moslem, János Tóth, Martin Ortega

“…The finding suggests that the planning of a P&R system and the criterion for the accessibility of public transport go hand in hand, regardless of the multi-criteria method employed.…”
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AN INVESTIGATION OF SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION MODEL IN CAMPUS AREAS WITH SPACE SYNTAX METHOD by Ahmet Salih Günaydın, Murat Yücekaya

“…Nowadays, transportation systems (bike path, public transport, etc.) that support sustainability are not very common in campus areas. …”
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Multiple-Criteria-Based Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Design Problem by Mikołaj Schmidt, Paweł Zmuda-Trzebiatowski, Marcin Kiciński, Piotr Sawicki, Konrad Lasak

“…A family of eight criteria with subcriteria was proposed to assess the solutions, including the evaluation of the degree of integration of the considered EVCSs with such issues as public transport (C1); urbanized areas (C2); main road network (C3); industrial areas (C4); and the location with respect to transport areas (C5), shops of various types (C6), address points (C7) and DYI stores (C8). …”
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Estimating Destination of Bus Trips Considering Trip Type Characteristics by Soongbong Lee, Jongwoo Lee, Bumjoon Bae, Daisik Nam, Seunghoon Cheon

“…Recently, local governments have been using transportation card data to monitor the use of public transport and improve the service. However, local governments that are applying a single-fare scheme are experiencing difficulties in using data for accurate identification of real travel patterns or policy decision support due to missing information on alighting stops of users. …”
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ROAD ACCIDENTS AND THE NATIONAL ECONOMY: LEGAL ANALYSIS by Andrii Anokhin, Kateryna Holovko, Serhii Mul

“…Other economic and administrative means of road accident prevention are equally important, i.e., financial incentives for compliance with traffic rules, development and improvement of public transport efficiency, and investments in multi-level road infrastructure to reduce traffic congestion in available highways and transport interchange.…”
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Influence of in-vehicle crowding on passenger travel time value: Insights from bus transit in Shanghai, China by Minhua Shao, Congcong Xie, Tianye Li, Lijun Sun

“…In-vehicle crowding is an external cost imposed on passengers by public transport. It is necessary to quantify the crowding discomfort to measure its influence on passengers’ travel choice. …”
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Fatigue Analysis of a 40 ft LNG ISO Tank Container by Du-Yong Lee, Jae-Sang Jo, Antony John Nyongesa, Won-Ju Lee

“…In the Republic of Korea, the use of LNG has been implemented in various sectors, including public transport buses, domestic applications, power generation, and in huge marine engines. …”
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SOCIAL PRECARIOUSNESS AND ACCESSIBILITY TO THE URBAN TRANSPORT IN THE MEGACITIES, CASE STUDY OF A PERIPHERAL COMMUNE OF CASABLANCA, MOROCCO by I. Hbiak, I. Hbiak, A. Adidi, E. El Brirchi, J. P. Nicolas

“…</p><p> Our field study confirmed the results obtained by the GIS and shows that choosing to live in a peripheral zone like Errahma can make families poorer because of, among other things, the lack of accessibility to public transport and therefore the lack of accessibility to areas of economic activity.…”
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Life Cycle Assessment of Free-Floating Bike Sharing on Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A Case Study in Nanjing, China by Ruxin Lai, Xinwei Ma, Fan Zhang, Yanjie Ji

“…The results showed that most respondents only use FFBS in the trip, with savings of 63.726 g CO₂-eq/p·km, mainly shifting from lower-emission modes (28.30% from bus, 14.86% from metro, and 33.97% from non-motorized modes), while the trip mode of connecting public transport with FFBS could better replace the motorized transport trip and generate better low-carbon benefits with savings of 300.718 g CO₂-eq/p·km. …”
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Emotional Speech Recognition Method Based on Word Transcription by Gulmira Bekmanova, Banu Yergesh, Altynbek Sharipbay, Assel Mukanova

“…The described method can be applied when there is a need to recognize positive and negative emotions in a crowd, in public transport, schools, universities, etc. The experiment carried out has shown the effectiveness of this method. …”
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Cellular Automata Based Land-Use Change Simulation Considering Spatio-Temporal Influence Heterogeneity of Light Rail Transit Construction: A Case in Nanjing, China by Jiaming Na, Jie Zhu, Jiazhu Zheng, Shaoning Di, Hu Ding, Lingfei Ma

“…Light rail transit (LRT), an essential urban public transport system in China, significantly reshaped the urban land-use (LU) pattern. …”
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Area-level associations of travel behaviour metrics with waist circumference: findings from linkage of travel and health surveys by Takemi Sugiyama, Rachel Cole, Nyssa Hadgraft, Neville Owen, Russel G. Thompson, Manoj Chandrabose

“…Areas with greater diversity of travel modes (mix of walking/cycling, car use, public transport use) also had lower prevalence of high waist circumference. …”
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Use of a Hybrid Approach to Estimate Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the Transport Sector in Palestine by Hanan A. Jafar, Isam Shahrour, Hussein Mroueh

“…These results show clearly that the GHGEs reduction policies in Palestine should focus on diesel and private vehicles by developing the public transport systems and replacing diesel and gasoline vehicles with more environmentally friendly vehicles, such as hybrid and electric cars.…”
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