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Jesper Bláfoss Ingvardson, Sebastián Raveau, y Jaime Soza-Parra  Abstract Traffic forecasting has traditionally relied solely on characteristics related to services and users. However, recent research has highlighted the importance of considering travellers’ psychological factors in explaining travel behaviour. While previous studies have incorporated the role of habits in travel choice behaviour, only a few have... read more →

Kenan Zhang, Javier Alonso-Mora, Andrés Fielbaum Abstract This study investigates the impact of walking and e-hailing on the scale economies of on-demand mobility services. An analytical framework is developed to i) explicitly characterize the physical interactions between passengers and vehicles in the matching and pickup processes, and ii) derive the closed-form degree of scale economies... read more →

Juan P Torres, Medical Doctor, PhD, Denis Saure, PhD, Miguel O´Ryan, MD, Marcel Goic, PhD, Charles Thraves, PhD, Natalia Trigo, Ing, Gonzalo Diaz, Ing, Jorge Pacheco, MD, MS, Javiera Burgos, MS, Patricio Aguilera, Ing, Leonardo Basso, Eng, PhD Abstract Background Nirsevimab for infant RSV prevention was introduced in some Northern Hemisphere countries during 2023. Chile was first to implement a... read more →

Ignacio Tiznado-Aitken, Zehui Yin y Steven Farber  Abstract A major challenge in North America’s car-centric suburbs is developing sustainable transportation strategies that align with residents’ diverse needs and preferences. Using a survey of 1,850 residents in Scarborough, an eastern suburb of Toronto, we used descriptive statistics and an exploded logit model to identify which environmental... read more →

Xiao Fu, Yi Zhang, Juan de Dios Ortúzar & Guonian Lü ABSTRACT We provide a comprehensive review of the literature on inferring activity-travel patterns (ATP) using multi-source big data; the increasing number of publications over time on this subject, demonstrates the importance of big data in this task. Our aims are... read more →

Bastián Henríquez-Jara, C. Ángelo Guevara, Marcela Munizaga y Omar D. Pérez  Abstract In psychology, choices are influenced by either goal-directed or habitual systems, which are represented by model-based (MB) and model-free (MF) reinforcement learning algorithms. This paper introduces these concepts into the transportation literature and shows that individuals with habitual tendencies often fail to consider new, potentially... read more →

first_pagesettingsOrder Article ReprintsOpen AccessArticle Time–Space Analysis of Transport Infrastructures: A Pilot Study of Shibuya-Type Crossings for Signalized Intersections in Developing Cities Sebastián Seriani, Ariel López, Nicolas Ogalde, Gerardo Dureo, Bernardo Arredondo, Vicente Aprigliano, Álvaro Peña and Taku Fujiyama Abstract Cities are growing larger, and congestion is becoming a major issue.... read more →