Transactions on Transport Sciences, 2024 (vol. 15), issue 3
Editorial
Ralf Risser
Transactions on Transport Sciences 2024, 15(3)
While transport safety, or traffic safety, still is an important issue in connection with research in the transport and mobility area, mode choice, health, and economy aspects gain more and more importance, thus covering all three pillars of sustainability: social aspects, ecology, and economy. In this issue of TOTS four papers deal with safety issues. Two of them, by Tsopa et al. and by Ahmed et al., focus on the identification of hazard factors, in connection with truck driving on the one hand, and pedestrian safety on the other hand. In both studies the goal is to find indicators for imminent risk. If successful, the findings of such studies can...
Improving the Risk Assessment Process of Road Accidents Involving Trucks
Vitalii Tsopa, Tetiana Nehrii, Serhii Cheberyachko, Yana Litvinova, Oleh Deryugin, Nataliia Horoshko
Transactions on Transport Sciences 2024, 15(3):4-11 | DOI: 10.5507/tots.2024.011
The safety of road freight transport is an important component of the safety management system. The safety basis of freight transport is risk assessment. However, existing models for their assessment operate with static dangerous factors that increase the probability of a dangerous event and the severity of its consequences. The transportation process is characterized by dynamic changes in dangerous factors, which requires appropriate improvement of existing approaches. For this, the relationship between the risk of a hazardous event (road accident) and the negative impact of dangerous factors was determined. This made it possible to develop a model...
Exploratory Analysis of Hazard Factors Influencing the Safety Rating of Pedestrian Bridge
Ashar Ahmed, Bushra Aijaz, Khawaja Huzaifa Ahmed
Transactions on Transport Sciences 2024, 15(3):12-17 | DOI: 10.5507/tots.2024.010
The proliferation of signal-free corridors in Karachi, Pakistan, has necessitated the construction of foot-over bridges to facilitate pedestrian road crossings. However, these structures have gradually deteriorated due to vandalism and social factors. Pedestrians perceive them as unsafe primarily due to their poor physical condition, including the absence of guardrails, and the presence of social hazards such as beggars, addicts, and stray dogs. This study aims to assess the safety rating of a foot-over bridge by pedestrians, considering various physical and social hazard factors. An in-person questionnaire-based survey was conducted at a foot-over...
Safe Curb Parking Distance Near School-Gate Ensuring Child Pedestrians' Safety
Sweta Barman, Jahnabi Goswami, Abu Taha Kamran, Subhadip Biswas
Transactions on Transport Sciences 2024, 15(3):18-23 | DOI: 10.5507/tots.2024.012
The presence of curb parking near school-gate is a serious threat to the safety of child pedestrians while crossing the road. Child pedestrians with limited discernibility often cannot sense an approaching vehicle obstructed by the parked vehicle(s). On the other hand, when child pedestrians are willing to cross the road between parked vehicles, it is also challenging for the driver of the approaching vehicle to spot them due to their short height. This often leads to a vehicle-child collision in front of the school-gate. This consequence of curb parking has been well identified and investigated in the literature. However, none of the past studies...
Attitudes Towards E-scooter Safety - A Survey in Five Countries
Elisabeta Drimlová, Matúą ©ucha, Karel Rečka, Narelle Haworth, Aslak Fyhri, Pontus Wallgren, Peter Silverans, Freya Slootmans
Transactions on Transport Sciences 2024, 15(3):24-36 | DOI: 10.5507/tots.2024.009
E-scooters are quite popular among young people in big cities. Their use seems to be a well-studied phenomenon. This study concentrates on the risky behaviour of e-scooter riders and on e-scooter riders' and non-riders' attitudes towards risky e-scooter riding. The goals were to describe these attitudes and to describe the most common types of risky e-scooter behaviours in five participating countries. An online questionnaire was developed and distributed in Australia, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Sweden, and Norway from June to September 2020. Respondents were recruited through sponsored Facebook ads and participant sharing (snowball sampling). The...
Consumer Preferences and Determinants of Transportation Mode Choice Behaviors in the Era of Autonomous Vehicles
Sangwan Lee, Liming Wang
Transactions on Transport Sciences 2024, 15(3):37-47 | DOI: 10.5507/tots.2024.008
The supply-side advancement in the transportation modes may bring a new mobility paradigm in the proximate future because consumers in the era of autonomous vehicles (AVs) would be able to choose from a variety of modes of transportation that would be likely to co-exist, including private AVs, conventional automobiles, and shared mobility services. Accordingly, research on the demand response is needed since it can provide insights on who would use and how the market would react to these emerging modes, which helps develop a more solid long-term transportation planning. Thus, this study conducted nationwide stated choice experiments in the U.S. and...
Urban Transportation Measures and Vaccination Impact on The Number of COVID-19 Infections: A Before and After Study
Amin Fattahi, Majid Asadi, Amirhossein Baghestani, Meeghat Habibian, Amir Reza Mamdoohida
Transactions on Transport Sciences 2024, 15(3):48-59 | DOI: 10.5507/tots.2024.013
Prior research on COVID-19 focused primarily on travel behavior changes before, during, and after the pandemic, with the aim of analyzing the significant variables. However, this research aims to study and compare the effects of traffic and transportation measures, specific events, and vaccination rates on the COVID-19 infection rate in Tehran, Iran. A correlation analysis is employed to investigate the degree of relationship between the number of infected individuals on each day and the implementation time of measures, events, and the vaccination rate. Over a 14-day period, the majority (67%) of measures and events had a significant impact on either...
Between Investment Risk and Economic Benefit: Potential Analysis for the Reactivation of the Hershey Railway in Cuba
Florian Wondratschek
Transactions on Transport Sciences 2024, 15(3):60-73 | DOI: 10.5507/tots.2024.007
The present potential analysis for the reactivation of the railway of the sugar company Hershey deals with the evaluation of economic data, population statistics and rail transport infrastructures of the Cuban provinces of La Habana del Este, Mayabeque and Matanzas. Economic and socio-structural interdependencies can reveal potential for the development of a railway system in Cuba after rail traffic came to an almost complete standstill in 2018. However, the country is insisting on increasing demand through sustainable tourism. Even with increasing urbanization, the search for reliable transportation options has become greater. Project outlines are...