Driverless cars are predicted to dramatically reduce collisions and casualties on the roads. However, there has been controversy about how…
Earth & Environment
Urban Transportation
PLOS ONE presents a curated collection of research from 2020-2022 in the field of Urban Transportation. This collection showcases the breadth of understanding and recent innovation in this area, from simulation and modeling of traffic and transport networks, the impact of transport on air quality, and methods for urban design incorporating transport systems, to the equity and accessibility of transport services, and insights from cities in the pre-industrial age.
Image Credit: Opeverse
PLOS ONE
-
PLOS ONE Personal ethical settings for driverless cars and the utility paradox: An ethical analysis of public attitudes in UK and Japan
-
PLOS ONE Service network design for freight railway transportation: The Chinese case
Service network design is a typical tactical planning problem faced in freight railway transportation. In this paper, we propose an…
-
PLOS ONE Impact of built environment on residential online car-hailing trips: Based on MGWR model
With the development of smart mobile devices and global positioning technology, people’s daily travel has become increasingly dependent on…
-
PLOS ONE An attention-based recurrent learning model for short-term travel time prediction
With the advent of Big Data technology and the Internet of Things, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) have become inevitable for…
-
PLOS ONE Research on urban path selection of construction vehicles based on bi-objective optimization
With the implementation of urban central rail transit and old city reconstruction projects, construction vehicles frequently enter and…
-
PLOS ONE Traffic flow forecasting using natural selection based hybrid Bald Eagle Search—Grey Wolf optimization algorithm
In a fast-moving world, transportation consumes most of the time and resources. Traffic prediction has become a thrust application for…
-
PLOS ONE The relationship between perceived built environment and cycling or e-biking for transport among older adults–a cross-sectional study
The built environment plays a key role in promoting active mobility for healthy aging. Encouraging active mobility among older adults,…
-
PLOS ONE Micro-hub location selection for sustainable last-mile delivery
Sustainable Last-Mile Delivery (LMD) is one of the key phases in city logistics. Micro-hubs in cities are new emerging solutions for an…
-
PLOS ONE Revealing the transmission mechanism and spatial spillover of carbon emission reduction caused by high-speed rail opening
In the context of China’s commitment to peak carbon emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, as well as its strategy to…
-
PLOS ONE Saturation flow rate analysis for special width approach lanes: An empirical study in Karlsruhe, Germany
The special width approach lane (SWAL) is a newly proposed unconventional design, whereby a wide approach lane is divided into two…
-
PLOS ONE Investigating interaction pattern between urban-rural integration and transport network: A dynamic evolution model
With the progress of urbanization and urban-rural integration (URI), the interaction between URI and urban-rural transport network is…
-
PLOS ONE ALF–Score—A novel approach to build a predictive network–based walkability scoring system
Walkability is a term that describes various aspects of the built and social environment and has been associated with physical activity…
-
PLOS ONE Typology, network features and damage response in worldwide urban road systems
We survey the network properties and response to damage sustained of road networks of cities worldwide, using OpenStreetMap (OSM) data. We…
-
PLOS ONE Economic feasibility analysis for an electric public transportation system: Two cases of study in medium sized cities in Mexico
This work presents an economic analysis that illustrates the feasibility and the possible benefits related to the replacement of internal…
-
PLOS ONE Quantifying the resilience of rapid transit systems: A composite index using a demand-weighted complex network model
Quantifying the impact of disruptions on rapid transit resilience is crucial in transport planning. We propose a composite resilience…
-
PLOS ONE Implicit GPS-based bicycle route choice model using clustering methods and a LSTM network
Biking is gaining in popularity all around the world as a healthy and environmentally friendly mode of transportation. Urban policies tend…
-
PLOS ONE The optimization of the “UAV-vehicle” joint delivery route considering mountainous cities
As a new transportation tool, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), has a broad application prospect in logistics distribution, especially for…
-
PLOS ONE The choice of Madrid as the capital of Spain by Philip II in the light of the knowledge of his time: A transport network perspective
The suitability of Madrid as the capital of Spain is analyzed from different perspectives, questioning the belief that this choice was…
-
PLOS ONE Differences in the spatial landscape of urban mobility: Gender and socioeconomic perspectives
Many of our routines and activities are linked to our ability to move; be it commuting to work, shopping for groceries, or meeting…
-
PLOS ONE The influence of high-speed rails on urban innovation and the underlying mechanism
Innovation is intrinsically dependent on the construction of local infrastructure. Using panel data on 285 cities in China, we empirically…
-
PLOS ONE Beyond the dichotomy: How ride-hailing competes with and complements public transport
Since ride-hailing has become an important travel alternative in many cities worldwide, a fervent debate is underway on whether it…
-
PLOS ONE Determining passenger car equivalent (PCEs) for pretimed signalized intersections with severe motorcycle composition using Bayesian linear regression
Pretimed signalized intersection is known as a common source of congestion, especially in urban heterogeneous traffic. Furthermore, the…
-
PLOS ONE Deep Q-network-based traffic signal control models
Traffic congestion has become common in urban areas worldwide. To solve this problem, the method of searching a solution using artificial…
-
PLOS ONE A novel approach of creating sustainable urban planning solutions that optimise the local air quality and environmental equity in Helsinki, Finland: The CouSCOUS study protocol
Background: Air pollution is one of the major environmental challenges cities worldwide face today. Planning healthy environments for all…
-
PLOS ONE Modelling geographical accessibility to urban centres in Kenya in 2019
Background: Access to major services, often located in urban centres, is key to the realisation of numerous Sustainable Development Goals…
-
PLOS ONE Modeling vehicle ownership with machine learning techniques in the Greater Tamale Area, Ghana
Vehicle ownership modeling and prediction is a crucial task in the transportation planning processes which, traditionally, uses…
-
PLOS ONE Research on the method of travel area clustering of urban public transport based on Sage-Husa adaptive filter and improved DBSCAN algorithm
The travel trajectory data of mobile intelligent terminal users are characterized by clutter, incompleteness, noise, fuzzy randomness. The…
-
PLOS ONE Resident travel mode prediction model in Beijing metropolitan area
With the development of economic integration, Beijing has become more closely connected with surrounding areas, which gradually formed the…
-
PLOS ONE Impact of the mixed degree of urban functions on the taxi travel demand
As an important service industry in cities, taxis provide people with an all-weather travel mode. And its demand is greatly affected by…
-
PLOS ONE The structure, centrality, and scale of urban street networks: Cases from Pre-Industrial Afro-Eurasia
Cities and towns have often developed infrastructure that enabled a variety of socio-economic interactions. Street networks within these…
-
PLOS ONE Design of reinforcement learning for perimeter control using network transmission model based macroscopic traffic simulation
Perimeter control is an emerging alternative for traffic signal control, which regulates the traffic flows on the periphery of a road…
-
PLOS ONE Comparative analysis of the CO2 emissions of expressway and arterial road traffic: A case in Beijing
Urban traffic is an important source of global CO2 emissions. Uncovering the temporal and structural characteristics can provide…
-
PLOS ONE Using simulation model as a tool for analyzing bus service reliability and implementing improvement strategies
Bus services naturally tend to be unstable and are not always capable of adhering to schedules without control strategies. Therefore, bus…
-
PLOS ONE Goal-oriented possibilistic fuzzy C-Medoid clustering of human mobility patterns—Illustrative application for the Taxicab trips-based enrichment of public transport services
The discovery of human mobility patterns of cities provides invaluable information for decision-makers who are responsible for redesign of…
-
PLOS ONE Traffic congestion prediction based on Estimated Time of Arrival
With the rapid expansion of sensor technologies and wireless network infrastructure, research and development of traffic associated…
-
PLOS ONE Public transportation and transmission of viral respiratory disease: Evidence from influenza deaths in 121 cities in the United States
One important concern around the spread of respiratory infectious diseases has been the contribution of public transportation, a space…
-
PLOS ONE Who benefits most from Lyon’s bike sharing system?
Bike sharing systems (BSS) have been growing fast all over the world, along with the number of articles analyzing such systems. However…
-
PLOS ONE A simple crowdsourced delay-based traffic signal control
Current transportation management systems rely on physical sensors that use traffic volume and queue-lengths. These physical sensors incur…
-
PLOS ONE Identification of critical links in a large-scale road network considering the traffic flow betweenness index
The traditional full-scan method is commonly used for identifying critical links in road networks. This method simulates each link to be…