BACKGROUND A pan-Canadian School Travel Planning intervention promoted active school travel (AST). A novel component was exploring emotion, well-being, and travel mode framed by the concept of "sustainable happiness." Relationships between travel mode and emotions, parent perceptions of their child's travel mode on well-being, and factors related to parent perceptions were examined. METHODS Q...

The conflict between the mainline and incoming traffic flow in merging area of an urban expressway makes it easier to form a bottleneck than basic road section. When occurs, overall efficiency is affected. This paper establishes improved Cell Transmission Model (CTM) using Genetic Algorithms (GA) Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) for parameter calibration validation. Based on joint optimiza...

The public health emergency changed the way we work, shop, access education and interact socially. It has also travel. Understanding results of those changes in travel behaviour is an evolving process that benefits from addition new information, different voices novel perspectives. In papers published this special edition Injury Prevention , researchers take steps to describe traffic safety con...

BACKGROUND The potential benefits of active school travel (AST) are widely recognized, yet there is consistent evidence of a systematic decline in the use of active modes of transportation to school since the middle part of the 20th century. This study explored parental accounts of the school travel mode choice decision-making process. METHODS Thirty-seven parents of children (17 who walked; ...

Introduction: Travel agencies may be consulted by intending travelers seeking pre-travel health advice. Travel agents should be equipped to deal with such queries and have access to a source of high quality travel health advice. This study aimed to establish the level of knowledge of travel health risks among Irish travel agencies. Methods: A web-based su...

This paper proposes a cell-based multi-class dynamic traffic assignment problem that considers the random evolution of traffic states. Travelers are assumed to select routes based on perceived effective travel time, where effective travel time is the sum of mean travel time and safety margin. The proposed problem is formulated as a fixed point problem, which includes a Monte-Carlo-based stochas...

Using data from the National Travel Survey in England, this study investigates which factors lead to experiencing travel difficulties amongst people aged 60 years old and above. The ability be mobile is one of key enabling older maintain their wellbeing independence while ageing. Given shift towards an ageing population that our society experiencing, providing age-friendly transportation enviro...

Paint stripping from large steel ships and other metallic surfaces is a major environmental safety, cost, and operational challenge in effectively and efficiently maintaining and refurbishing large structures. Environmental concerns are greatly limiting the possible options. As a result, a hybrid system composed of a waterjet with water recycling and robotic mobile manipulators with scanning br...

Based on a survey of 197 Sydneysiders undertaken during the COVID-19 Lockdown, this study shows time spent in transport was missed most by public users, followed push bike e-bike pedestrians, and finally drivers. Men more than women. It also finds that for transfers, less they miss commuting.