Md. Mokhlesur Rahman, Pooya Najaf, M Gregory Fields, Jean‐Claude Thill
This study empirically investigates the causes of urban traffic congestion to bring into focus the variety of beliefs that provide support for policy interventions to mitigate traffic congestion in USt cities. We use a structural equation modeling (SEM) framework and position the analysis at the mes...
Upal Barua, Richard Tay
Abstract Unlike in developed countries where buses are a relatively safe mode of transport, there is a significant safety concern in many developing countries like Bangladesh regarding transit buses. Nevertheless, few studies have examined the factors contributing to the number or severity of bus cr...
Fajle Rabbi Ashik, Sadia Alam Mim, Meher Nigar Neema
To ensure adequate access to urban facilities, it is important for urban planners to achieve equity in the geographical arrangement of such facilities. For the evaluation of vertical spatial equity in the geographical organization of urban facilities, there is a requirement to examine whether and to...
Casey Gray, Richard Larouche, Joel D. Barnes, Rachel C. Colley et al.
This article examines the time trends in patterns of school travel mode among Canadian children and youth to inform the Active Transportation (AT) indicator of the 2013 Active Healthy Kids Canada Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth. The AT grade was assigned based on a comprehens...
Md. Shahinoor Rahman, Hossain Mohiuddin, Abdulla ‐ Al Kafy, Pintu Kumar Sheel et al.
In Bangladesh, cities are conventionally classified based on population size and revenue collection. This conventional city classification system neglects the spatial characteristics inherit in cities. Providing a more comprehensive city classification system is essential for the country’s future bu...
Carmen‐Lucía Curcio, Beatriz Alvarado, Fernando Gómez, Ricardo Oliveira Guerra et al.
Background The Life-Space Assessment (LSA) instrument of the University of Alabama and Birmingham study is a useful and innovative measure of mobility in older populations. The purpose of this article was to assess the reliability, construct and convergent validity of the LSA in Latin American older...
Sudipta Sarkar, Richard Tay, John Douglas Hunt
Pedestrian fatalities on national highways in Bangladesh account for about 47% of all pedestrian fatalities; therefore, it is important to identify the risk factors involved. Binary logistic models were calibrated with crash data from 1998 to 2006 maintained by the Accident Research Institute of Ban...
Suman Mitra, Youngeun Bae, Stephen G. Ritchie
This paper presents an analysis of data from the 2017 National Household Travel Survey to examine the factors influencing the adoption and the frequency of use of on-demand ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft among older adults. Using a zero-inflated negative binomial model (ZINB), the resul...
Zuoxian Gan, Min Yang, Tao Feng, Harry Timmermans
Farzana Rahman, Tanmay Das, Md. Hadiuzzaman, Sanjana Hossain
Kwadwo Boakye, Marit L. Bovbjerg, John M. Schuna, Adam J. Branscum et al.
Urbanization may influence physical activity (PA) levels, although little evidence is available for low- and middle- income countries where urbanization is occurring fastest. We evaluated associations between urbanization and total PA, as well as work-, leisure-, home-, and transport-specific PA, fo...
Md. Ebrahim Shaik, Samsuddin Ahmed
The COVID-19 epidemic caused global roads and highway networks to be disrupted to historic proportions. While the world is focused on combating COVID-19 pandemic, people are still dying and being injured as a result of traffic collisions on the highways owing to movement restrictions. Although the i...
Syed Saad Andaleeb, Mahmudul Haq, Rubina Ahmed
The transportation system in Dhaka City, Bangladesh, requires significant improvements. The shortage of motorized vehicles and the excessive number of nonmotorized vehicles on the city’s streets have been the cause of unbearable traffic congestion, leading to negative externalities such as productiv...
Md. Abdul Fattah, Syed Riad Morshed, Abdulla ‐ Al Kafy
Traffic congestion is one of the major barriers to the economic development of developing economies, resulting in severe social and economic impacts. The severity of traffic congestion in port and industrial areas is more thought-provoking than destructive barriers. The purpose of this research is t...
Niaz Mahmud Zafri, Asif Khan, Shaila Jamal, Bhuiyan Monwar Alam
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused incredible impacts on people’s travel behavior. Recent studies suggest that while the demand for public transport has decreased due to passengers’ inability to maintain physical distance inside this mode, the demand for private automobile and active transport modes (...