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Emerging trends for urban freight transport–The potential for sustainable micromobility

AIM: Active transportation referring to non-motorized modes of transport is promoted and popularized both in practice and in the scientific literature, while their use for urban freight transport has been largely neglected. Thus the main scope of the paper is to indicate the development potential of...

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Autores principales: Rześny-Cieplińska, Jagienka, Tomaszewski, Tomasz, Piecyk-Ouellet, Maja, Kiba-Janiak, Maja
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10490950/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37682895
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0289915
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author Rześny-Cieplińska, Jagienka
Tomaszewski, Tomasz
Piecyk-Ouellet, Maja
Kiba-Janiak, Maja
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Tomaszewski, Tomasz
Piecyk-Ouellet, Maja
Kiba-Janiak, Maja
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description AIM: Active transportation referring to non-motorized modes of transport is promoted and popularized both in practice and in the scientific literature, while their use for urban freight transport has been largely neglected. Thus the main scope of the paper is to indicate the development potential of micromobility use in urban freight transport and to check its influence on urban sustainability. METHODS: The authors have hypothesized that active means of transport, with a focus on micromobility, have great development potential in freight transportation in cities. The implemented methods for analyzing the relationship between users’ characteristics, micromobility, and its impact on urban sustainable development, were logit and probit modelling. The authors’ system includes an analysis of factors connected with the topics of sustainability and micromobilty, that have met an essential scientific gap that this paper addresses. Logistic (logit) regression is used mainly for binary, ordinal, and multi-level outcomes to find the probability of success (i.e. occurrence of some event). Probit regression, however, is primarily used in binary response models and assumes the normal distribution of data. RESULTS: The main finding of the article has led the authors to the statement that active means of transport, including micromobility have great development potential in freight transportation in cities. CONCLUSIONS: Knowledge of the acceptance of micromobility solutions is essential for municipal authorities in shaping the development of urban transport systems. Thus proper strategies and actions need to be prioritized to leverage the sustainability-related co-benefits of active transport.
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spelling pubmed-104909502023-09-09 Emerging trends for urban freight transport–The potential for sustainable micromobility Rześny-Cieplińska, Jagienka Tomaszewski, Tomasz Piecyk-Ouellet, Maja Kiba-Janiak, Maja PLoS One Research Article AIM: Active transportation referring to non-motorized modes of transport is promoted and popularized both in practice and in the scientific literature, while their use for urban freight transport has been largely neglected. Thus the main scope of the paper is to indicate the development potential of micromobility use in urban freight transport and to check its influence on urban sustainability. METHODS: The authors have hypothesized that active means of transport, with a focus on micromobility, have great development potential in freight transportation in cities. The implemented methods for analyzing the relationship between users’ characteristics, micromobility, and its impact on urban sustainable development, were logit and probit modelling. The authors’ system includes an analysis of factors connected with the topics of sustainability and micromobilty, that have met an essential scientific gap that this paper addresses. Logistic (logit) regression is used mainly for binary, ordinal, and multi-level outcomes to find the probability of success (i.e. occurrence of some event). Probit regression, however, is primarily used in binary response models and assumes the normal distribution of data. RESULTS: The main finding of the article has led the authors to the statement that active means of transport, including micromobility have great development potential in freight transportation in cities. CONCLUSIONS: Knowledge of the acceptance of micromobility solutions is essential for municipal authorities in shaping the development of urban transport systems. Thus proper strategies and actions need to be prioritized to leverage the sustainability-related co-benefits of active transport. Public Library of Science 2023-09-08 /pmc/articles/PMC10490950/ /pubmed/37682895 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0289915 Text en © 2023 Rześny-Cieplińska et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Kiba-Janiak, Maja
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title_short Emerging trends for urban freight transport–The potential for sustainable micromobility
title_sort emerging trends for urban freight transport–the potential for sustainable micromobility
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10490950/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37682895
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0289915
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