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Natan Waintrub, Peter Jones &Nick Tyler ABSTRACT Unaccompanied trips are highly beneficial for children, yet their practice is difficult in unequal Latin American metropoles. This article investigates how the built and social environments influence children and young people’s trips in Santiago de Chile. It does so by reporting the findings of... read more →

Joonsoo S. Lyeo, Ignacio Tiznado-Aitken, Steven Farber, Hilary K. Brown & Nicholas Spence Abstract Aim To identify predictors of transportation-related barriers to healthcare access in a North American suburb. Subject and methods Data from the 2022 Scarborough Survey were used, comprising n = 528 adults living in Scarborough, which is a subu<rb of Toronto, Canada,... read more →

Marianela Castillo Riquelme, Goro Yamada, Mariana Lazo, Steven Melly, Ricardo Hurtubia, Olga Lucia Sarmiento, Paulina Pino, Pablo Ruiz Rudolph and Ana Diez Roux Abstract The study aims to investigate the association between i) neighborhood-level green areas and individual-level leisure-time physical activity (PA), and between ii) neighborhood-level active travel conditions and individual-level active transportation (walking or cycling to destinations); in... read more →

Amin Shaer, Andrés Fielbaum &David Levinson Abstract Objective The prevalence of Driving Under the Influence (DUI) of alcohol or drugs has become a prominent factor in the occurrence of severe road crashes worldwide. Driving often occurs after visiting, and presumably drinking, at Alcohol-Serving Establishments (ASEs), and is thus of interest as... read more →

Sebastián Henríquez, Juan Antonio Carrasco & Sebastián Astroza ABSTRACT This paper assesses the importance of incorporating care dimensions into activity-travel segmentation to understand daily life mobility strategies. The data came from six neighbourhoods in Concepción, Chile, and included detailed information on activity-travel time use and interaction and classification schemes to identify... read more →

Benjamín Alarcón, Vicente Saenger, Maricarmen Guerra, Rodrigo Faúndez, Felipe Link, Juan Antonio Carrasco & Oscar Link Abstract Accurate numerical simulations of floods provide precise hazard estimations and can improve risk management strategies. Unfortunately, flood events of extraordinary magnitude -needed for risk assessment- are rare and difficult to measure. Hence, numerical models are typically calibrated and validated using... read more →

Marianela Castillo Riquelme, Steven Melly, Goro Yamada, Paulina Pino, Ricardo Hurtubia, Olga Lucia Sarmiento, Pablo Ruiz Rudolph, Alex Quitsberg and Ana Diez Roux Abstract This study aims to conceptualize, measure and describe the urban infrastructure (UI) that favor leisure-time physical activity and active transportation (i.e. walking or cycling to destinations); with application to the 34 urban comunas (municipalities) and... read more →

Mohammad Sadrani, Razieh Mirqasemi, Alejandro Tirachini, Constantinos Antoniou  Abstract Public transportation agencies have prioritized transitioning to battery electric buses to enhance sustainable urban mobility. However, this transition faces barriers of various dimensions, including technological, economic, social, management, and environmental aspects. This paper develops a multi-criteria decision-making approach to identify and rank barriers to battery electric bus adoption.... read more →

Alisson García-Herrera, Leonardo J. Basso, Alejandro Tirachini  Abstract We develop a microeconomic model of competition between ridesourcing, public transport, and cruising taxis to analyse how alternative ridesourcing regulation policies affect not only the ridesourcing service but also other modes of transport. To maximise social welfare in a framework with congestion externalities, we analyse three alternative regulation policies (i)... read more →