scholarly journals Game—The Beer Transportation Game: How to Decarbonize Logistics by Moving Freight to Sustainable Transport Modes

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-112
Author(s):  
Chuanwen Dong ◽  
Robert Boute
Author(s):  
Ainhoa Serna ◽  
Jon Kepa Gerrikagoitia

In recent years, digital technology and research methods have developed natural language processing for better understanding consumers and what they share in social media. There are hardly any studies in transportation analysis with TripAdvisor, and moreover, there is not a complete analysis from the point of view of sentiment analysis. The aim of study is to investigate and discover the presence of sustainable transport modes underlying in non-categorized TripAdvisor texts, such as walking mobility in order to impact positively in public services and businesses. The methodology follows a quantitative and qualitative approach based on knowledge discovery techniques. Thus, data gathering, normalization, classification, polarity analysis, and labelling tasks have been carried out to obtain sentiment labelled training data set in the transport domain as a valuable contribution for predictive analytics. This research has allowed the authors to discover sustainable transport modes underlying the texts, focused on walking mobility but extensible to other means of transport and social media sources.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Yeseul Kang

<p><b>The relationship between well-being and vibrant cities is the most important factor to create a liveable city. Most of New Zealand and worldwide other cities have been facing many issues in transportation planning which directly affect to people’s wellbeing and vibrant life.</b></p> <p>Nowadays, street design guidelines in many other worldwide cities are focusing on the importance of activeness and liveliness in how we experience streets while still maintaining the conventional street functions with transport accessibility and connectivity. However, there are no specific research that articulate the design strategy to identify ‘Hybrid Street’ which has both functions of street roles and accessible open spaces to encourage public transports which connecting the rich native sub-regional and regional cultures between neighbourhood, city, and region.</p> <p>Research paper explores a ‘Hybrid Street’ which has both functions of street and transportation hub’s roles with the connections of existing railway network and other public transport infrastructures in Western Bay of Plenty.</p> <p>Design framework advocates a pedestrian and transit-friendly streetscape connecting the rail lines to encourage street activities on the urban and suburban fabric, and it also supports other types of sustainable transport modes. A hybrid term of street typology articulates a vision and strategic approach with design criteria to advance key objectives.</p> <p>The research objective has been investigated from a research question of ‘How to avoid the mono-functional logics of street with its public transport connections and how to translate the street to a hybrid space that supports a variety of different types of sustainable transport modes to improve the accessibility between the neighbourhoods, cities, sub-regions and region.</p> <p>The design objective will be achieved through a systematic research methodology and the investigated hybrid street typology will be applied and tested on nine different streets in Tauranga city business district areas (CBD) where have significantly different spatial characteristics to see how it advances key objectives and achieves the research visions through the design developing stage.</p>


2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nelza Lyana Abdul Rahim ◽  
Abdul Azeez Kadar Hamsa

Trends in transport have been changing and will continue to change over the next few years. A number of issues on the national and international transport scene have driven a need for organisations such as the Universities to further develop a sustainable transport strategy to encourage use of sustainable transport modes to achieve better environmental qualities on-campus. This research highlights the factors influencing the choice of using motorcars among student population for trips on-campus. A self-administered questionnaire was designed to collect data on "trip-makers" and "trip-making" characteristics and "preference to use motorcars as their main travel mode choice". The questionnaires were distributed to the student population who use motorcars oncampus. The total sample size selected was 100 and samples were selected from each Mahallah (hostel) by using stratified sampling method. The factors influencing use of motorcars on-campus was analysed using Pearson Chi- Square, Pearson’s Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient and t-test. The preference of the respondents on the measures that should be implemented to attract students to travel by sustainable transport modes such as walking, cycling, carpooling, or using public transportation are also discussed. The factors such as “year of study”, “vehicle registration status”, “travel time by walking from Mahallah (hostel) to Kulliyyah (faculty)” and “experienced delay time to the Kulliyyah” were found to influence the use of motorcars on-campus. 86% of the respondents were willing to shift from using motorcars to sustainable transportation modes. Recommendations to realize the willingness to shift from motorcars to other travel modes include: formulation of policy by the University authority to reduce the over-dependence on motorcars on campus; provision and management of efficient and effective public transportation services on-campus; provision and improvement of infrastructure to facilitate walking and cycling on-campus and strict enforcement on the use of illegal motorcars on-campus.


2021 ◽  
Vol 900 (1) ◽  
pp. 012038
Author(s):  
J Růžička ◽  
J Kruntorád ◽  
R Rek

Abstract An effective solution of the conflict points of different transport modes is a significant issue at the urban level today. With the permanent increase of traffic in cities, it is necessary to look for suitable and sustainable transport solutions to these situations, so that the traffic flow is smooth and the transport remains safe, ecological and economical. The paper deals with the design of a simple decision-making tool for selecting the solution of pedestrian conflict with other traffic modes (classical pedestrian crossing, controlled pedestrian crossing for defined pedestrian and vehicle flows, based on experimental microsimulation. High pedestrian flows their dependence on the delay time of road users are not properly implemented in Czech legislation. The results are verified in a case study of conflict solution within the reconstruction of a public transport terminal in Prague.


2013 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nelza Lyana Abdul Rahim ◽  
Abdul Azeez Kadar Hamsa

Trends in transport have been changing and will continue to change over the next few years. A number of issues on the national and international transport scene have driven a need for organisations such as the Universities to further develop a sustainable transport strategy to encourage use of sustainable transport modes to achieve better environmental qualities on-campus. This research highlights the factors influencing the choice of using motorcars among student population for trips on-campus. A self-administered questionnaire was designed to collect data on "trip-makers" and "trip-making" characteristics and "preference to use motorcars as their main travel mode choice". The questionnaires were distributed to the student population who use motorcars oncampus. The total sample size selected was 100 and samples were selected from each Mahallah (hostel) by using stratified sampling method. The factors influencing use of motorcars on-campus was analysed using Pearson Chi- Square, Pearson’s Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient and t-test. The preference of the respondents on the measures that should be implemented to attract students to travel by sustainable transport modes such as walking, cycling, carpooling, or using public transportation are also discussed. The factors such as “year of study”, “vehicle registration status”, “travel time by walking from Mahallah (hostel) to Kulliyyah (faculty)” and “experienced delay time to the Kulliyyah” were found to influence the use of motorcars on-campus. 86% of the respondents were willing to shift from using motorcars to sustainable transportation modes. Recommendations to realize the willingness to shift from motorcars to other travel modes include: formulation of policy by the University authority to reduce the over-dependence on motorcars on campus; provision and management of efficient and effective public transportation services on-campus; provision and improvement of infrastructure to facilitate walking and cycling on-campus and strict enforcement on the use of illegal motorcars on-campus.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Yeseul Kang

<p><b>The relationship between well-being and vibrant cities is the most important factor to create a liveable city. Most of New Zealand and worldwide other cities have been facing many issues in transportation planning which directly affect to people’s wellbeing and vibrant life.</b></p> <p>Nowadays, street design guidelines in many other worldwide cities are focusing on the importance of activeness and liveliness in how we experience streets while still maintaining the conventional street functions with transport accessibility and connectivity. However, there are no specific research that articulate the design strategy to identify ‘Hybrid Street’ which has both functions of street roles and accessible open spaces to encourage public transports which connecting the rich native sub-regional and regional cultures between neighbourhood, city, and region.</p> <p>Research paper explores a ‘Hybrid Street’ which has both functions of street and transportation hub’s roles with the connections of existing railway network and other public transport infrastructures in Western Bay of Plenty.</p> <p>Design framework advocates a pedestrian and transit-friendly streetscape connecting the rail lines to encourage street activities on the urban and suburban fabric, and it also supports other types of sustainable transport modes. A hybrid term of street typology articulates a vision and strategic approach with design criteria to advance key objectives.</p> <p>The research objective has been investigated from a research question of ‘How to avoid the mono-functional logics of street with its public transport connections and how to translate the street to a hybrid space that supports a variety of different types of sustainable transport modes to improve the accessibility between the neighbourhoods, cities, sub-regions and region.</p> <p>The design objective will be achieved through a systematic research methodology and the investigated hybrid street typology will be applied and tested on nine different streets in Tauranga city business district areas (CBD) where have significantly different spatial characteristics to see how it advances key objectives and achieves the research visions through the design developing stage.</p>


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Hugo de Alba-Martínez ◽  
Alejandro L. Grindlay ◽  
Gabriela Ochoa-Covarrubias

The equitable accessibility to higher education favours social fairness in economic opportunities. This paper provides an empirical approach to the assessment of the (in)equity of accessibility from universities to sustainable transport modes: Light Rail Transit, Bus Rapid Transit, buses, and bicycle infrastructure in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area (Mexico). In particular, the study designed and calculated an Access to Sustainable Transport from University Index by combining governmental and crowdsourced Open Access Data. It used spatial analysis techniques within a Geographic Information Systems environment, and multivariate statistical methods such as Principal Component Analysis and Cluster Analysis. The findings highlight the weakness in the accessibility to sustainable transport modes from the universities in the Metropolitan Area. Furthermore, this study revealed an unfavourable bias in the location of sustainable transport stations/stops in the vicinity of public universities. The results provide a methodology and empirical evidence for transport policy makers to reduce inequalities and therefore transport-related social exclusion in this under-represented, but socially relevant, student community.


2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 373-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Velazquez ◽  
Nora E Munguia ◽  
Markus Will ◽  
Andrea G Zavala ◽  
Sara Patricia Verdugo ◽  
...  

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify research priorities to guide transportation stakeholders in their practice, education, and research. Design/methodology/approach – A literature review of published, conference proceedings, agency reports, books, and web site documents was conducted, aiming at the identification of the diverging strategies and practices undertaken by transportation stakeholders in order to be able to generate initial meaningful insights about a sustainable transportation system. Findings – Sustainable transportation systems are in certain way a new paradigm where a business-as-usual approach is not possible. Vehicle makers produce more energy efficient vehicles. Nevertheless, fossil fuel is still the predominant source of energy. Regarding the level of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, non-motorized transport modes are preferable over motorized transport modes, and public transportation modes preferable to private transportation modes. It is also import to include environmental consideration along the design, construction, maintenance, and operation of the transportation infrastructure. While vehicles powered by alternate fuel such as biofuel, electricity, and/or fuel cell are becoming more popular, shifting to more sustainable transport modes would also require changes on commuter behaviors and individual preferences. Practical implications – The paper discusses the efforts that are underway for decoupling transport and CO2 emissions, being useful for transportation stakeholders to implement or improve the effectiveness of their potential or current sustainability transport initiatives through the identification of strategies, opportunities, and barriers. Originality/value – Although there is plenty of good information about sustainability and transportation modes in literature, most of the articles analyzed focus on specific factors of the whole transportation system. The originality/value of this paper is found in the holistic perspective, here presented, of the state of the art issues that a sustainable transport system would encompass.


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