19 articles in this issue
Adriana Ortegon-Sanchez, Nick Tyler
Nearly 54% of the world's population lives in urban areas and this is set to grow over 2.5 billion people by 2050 (United Nations, 2014). In this context, the question is how to make cities contribute positively to the wellbeing of all their inhabitants a... see more
Wolfgang Gruel, Joseph M. Stanford
In recent years, self-driving cars have generated significant attention and discussion. While it is recognized that a number of technical and legal issues need to be solved, widespread adoption of self-driving vehicles is increasingly considered to be ine... see more
Derek Christie, Anne Koymans, Thierry Chanard, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes, Vincent Kaufmann
The City Automated Transport System (CATS) was a collaborative FP7 European project that lasted from 2010 to 2014. Its objective was to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of driverless electric vehicles in European cities. This contribution explai... see more
Leif Jacobs, Karolyn Laurenz, Stephan Keuchel, Christoph Thiel
This paper adds to the body of knowledge about house owners in Germany as potential early adopters of electric cars. With the help of energy efficiency standards for new constructions, interviewees were divided into two groups: owners of energy-efficient ... see more
Mirko Goletz, Irene Feige, Dirk Heinrichs
This paper discusses recent mobility trends in four cities: Paris, Santiago de Chile, Singapore and Vienna. It follows a case-study approach and relies on quantitative and qualitative analysis of selected trends, with specific focus on users. First, we se... see more
Benoît Cornut
We are interested in this paper to the longitudinal analysis of car ownership (number of cars per household) and car travel demand (the number of trips made by car per household and per day) in the Paris metropolitan area. The aim is to find the determina... see more
Han van der Loop, Rinus Haaijer, Jasper Willigers
The increase in traffic volume that arises after opening of new road infrastructure, is often attributed to ‘induced demand’. The objective of this study is to provide empirically derived insights in this phenomenon, in the amount of induced demand and in... see more
Martin Thust, Christian Kreling, Bernhard Fell
Since January 2013 the long-distance passenger market is open to bus operators. This paper is about the efforts of the German railway company in market research and model building to predict the effect of bus market liberalisation in advance. Methods, for... see more
Angel Aparicio
This paper reviews current drivers of long-distance passenger transport demand in Europe, and elaborates about their environmental impacts and the suitability of current EU policies to address them. The paper focuses on car and air travel, as they concent... see more
David Meunier, Christoph Walther, Tom Worsley, Alexander Dahl, Hélène Le Maître
The paper presents, analyses and compares the evolution of reference values used in national guidelines issued for cost-benefit analysis of transport infrastructure projects, over the last fifty years, in France, UK and Germany.
Tünde Vörös, Mattias Juhász, Krisztián Koppány
Imperative for growth is dominating the present economic conditions also influencing decision-making to a large extent. Therefore, the analysis of economic impacts plays a more and more significant role in the selection of transport projects. However, ex-... see more
Samir Awad-Núñez, Nicoletta González-Cancelas, Francisco Soler-Flores, Alberto Camarero-Orive
The decision of where to locate a dry port requires the analysis of the whole logistics supply chain, with the objective of transferring the largest volume of goods possible from road to more energy efficient means of transport, like rail or Short Sea Shi... see more
Imre Keseru, Jeroen Bulckaen, Cathy Macharis
This paper proposes the NISTO evaluation framework to appraise small-scale mobility projects. The framework consists of three evaluation tools and a set of evaluation criteria and indicators that are linked to the tools. The appraisal of the sustainabilit... see more
Stig Nyland Andersen, Øyvind Lervik Nilsen, María Díez Gutiérrez, Trude Tørset
Infrastructure projects with large increase in accessibility, often experience over- or underestimation in traffic volume prognosis. This has been the case in several fixed link projects in Norway. Fixed link projects replaces ferry services with a bridge... see more
Victor Cuevas, Miquel Estrada, Josep Maria Salanova
Urban mobility transport mostly focuses on collective transport based on largely exploited models such as metro, trains or buses. The basis of current public transport is a fix network of both infrastructure and services, presenting a high lack of flexibi... see more
Nuno Gregório, Ana Bastos Silva, Alvaro Seco
Until recently, the design of road infrastructure involved mainly concerns related to the base speed value and to high levels of service. However, it is today consensually accepted that only an integrated approach is able to take into account the interest... see more
Sebastian Fahnenschreiber, Felix Gündling, Mohammad H. Keyhani, Mathias Schnee
Ride-sharing facilitates cheap and eco-friendly mobility. In contrast to classical ride-sharing that basically works like a notice-board, dynamic ride-sharing allows a passenger to get a lift on a section of a driver's route and, if necessary, re-routes t... see more
Carl Goves, Robin North, Ryan Johnston, Graham Fletcher
To be able to predict reliably traffic conditions over the short term (15 minutes into the future) may reduce congestion on a transport system. With the emergence of large datasets comes the opportunity to test the effectiveness of pattern recognition tec... see more
Konrad Bablinski
In recent years the rail sector has experienced significant demand growth that leads to increased competition for the scarce resource of railway capacity. In Great Britain, the current policy tends to favour passenger trains to freight operators. This stu... see more