Edward Owen D. Waygood

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• BSc, BEng, MA, PhD (Travel Behaviour)
• Professor (Full) at Polytechnique Montréal

Passenger transport is an important contributor to unsustainable urban systems. To achieve the necessary socio-ecological transition will require overcoming the entrenched system of automobility. Composed of several mutually reinforcing components, this system has conferred psychosocial dimensions to car ownership and use that leads to important in...

The travel and activity restrictions related to COVID-19 dramatically changed the lives of Canadians, with important implications for well-being. This study analyzes the impacts of housing characteristics, local accessibility, and quality of active transport infrastructure on individuals’ life satisfaction during the lockdown. Data was collected th...

Children’s safety on urban roads is a critical concern with young pedestrians and cyclists being among the most vulnerable groups to traffic-related dangers. The prioritization of motor vehicle traffic in road infrastructure poses significant risks to child pedestrians and cyclists navigating city streets. Furthermore, children’s independent mobili...

Research on children’s destinations has primarily focused on school trips, yet their lives are more than that. Different destinations contribute to children’s quality of life in different ways, but this is rarely examined. For our research, focus groups were conducted with different stakeholders to better understand non-school destinations, namely...

The availability of carsharing in cities around the world has allowed more households to take advantage of the service as an alternative or a complement to private car ownership. While most research has looked at the effect of carsharing on car ownership decisions using carsharing users’ surveys, very few have modelled the choice of car ownership a...

Understanding the factors that will influence people’s preferences for Electric Vehicles (EVs) over Internal Combustion Engine Vehicles (ICEVs) is crucial. A discrete choice experiment was designed and administered as an online survey resulting in 1077 completed questionnaires. This study examined the influence of over 83 variables on preferences f...

Low-carbon travel assumes paramount significance in energy conservation and the establishment of an eco-friendly transportation ecosystem. This paper endeavors to explore the relationship between low-carbon travel intention, latent psychological variables, and sociodemographic attributes, drawing insights from responses of 602 residents in Hangzhou...

Purpose of Review Explore the varied pathways between the built environment and children’s health. The review begins by describing how the built environment and transport infrastructure relate to conditions that lead to health outcomes. The review examines emissions, noise, and traffic dangers in relation to children’s physical, mental, and social...

全球旅游业在新冠肺炎疫情期间遭受了严重冲击,并与经济发展密切关联,因此,探求如何推进其相关产业的复兴十分重要。由于中国是疫情前最大的出境游客来源国,对中国人在后疫情时代的出境旅游意向及其影响因素进行研究,有利于促进国际旅游市场的复苏。 1. 构建LightGBM模型,参数化各类变量及组合与后疫情时期出境旅游意向之间的关系;2. 通过SHAP算法,可视化各类因素对后疫情时期出境旅游意向的影响。 1. 通过网络调查收集2450份有效问卷,并统计疫情期间受访者单日、多日出游次数以及出行方式等信息(图2);2. 通过模型构建及参数调优,以后疫情时期的出境游意向为因变量,基于所收集数据训练LightGBM模型并评估其效能(图3);3. 运用SHAP算法,对各个自变量的影响进行排序及部分依赖图分析(图4...

The electrification of public transit is one of the key actions in the transportation sector. This study proposed an innovative framework for analyzing the effectiveness and emission reduction potential of electrifying transit policies. The future energy consumption, GHG emissions, and pollutant emissions of bus fleets in representative Canadian ci...

To address the problem of climate change emissions from the transport sector, many countries are promoting electric vehicles (EVs). To support such efforts, it is essential to know what influences the choice of an EV over a traditional internal combustion engine vehicle (ICEV). To study this, a discrete choice experiment was developed, and 2,015 va...

Previous research on public transport user preferences has primarily focused on mode choice, transfer penalties, and preferences related to service qualities. Individuals are generally found to not like waiting, transfers, or overcrowding. However, from an operation perspective, it could be important to convince users to change to a different itine...

Road infrastructures are fundamental parts of peoples’ lives, allowing them to access various destinations and activities. Accordingly, infrastructure should be in an appropriate condition. A pavement maintenance plan should be optimized, and pavement condition should be predicted accurately to obtain optimal pavement maintenance solutions. Therefo...

Purpose: This exploratory study aimed to evaluate the preferences, expectations, and sense of safety of blind or visually impaired persons regarding three types of pedestrian phasing with audible pedestrian signals configurations that exist in Quebec City (Canada). These include: 1) exclusive phasing with non-directional audible pedestrian signals...

Accessibility indicators are gaining traction in research and planning as they provide a joint understanding of how transport networks and land-use patterns enable individuals to reach a variety of destinations. Local accessibility is especially beneficial for children as they do not have the same capacities to travel as adults and their independen...

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented numerous, significant challenges for elderly in their daily life. In order to reach a deeper understanding of the feelings and thoughts of the elderly related to their possibilities to travel and engage in activities during the pandemic, this study takes a qualitative approach to exploring the views of the elderl...

The problem of crowded urban transportation has become a major concern in modern cities, especially during Covid-19, as many people continue to be reluctant to use crowded public transportation. Our study aims to propose a novel interactive transportation recommender system to incentivize transit users to wait for the next, less-crowded bus. The ma...

Travel mode choice (TMC) prediction is crucial for transportation planning. Most previous studies have focused on TMC in adults, whereas predicting TMC in children has received less attention. On the other hand, previous children’s TMC prediction studies have generally focused on home-to-school TMC. Hence, LIGHT GRADIENT BOOSTING MACHINE (LGBM), as...

Developing an accurate pavement prediction model plays a dominant role in pavement M&R optimization. Despite employing different robust machine learning techniques to predict pavement conditions, these methods have some weaknesses in synchronising with exact optimization algorithms. The main contribution of this study is to propose a novel method f...

When modeling car ownership, the scale at which built environment (BE) and accessibility indicators are measured are often overlooked. Most existing research use “fixed neighborhood” (zonal) or “sliding neighborhoods” (buffers around households) of the same distance (e.g., 1-km or 1 mile) to estimate the impact of various neighborhood features. How...

Background COVID-19 had a devastating impact on people's work, travel, and well-being worldwide. As one of the first countries to be affected by the virus and develop relatively well-executed pandemic control, China has witnessed a significant shift in people's well-being and habits, related to both commuting and social interaction. In this context...

Background: Children's access to non-school destinations is important for their well-being, but this has been overlooked in transport planning. Research on children's access to non-school destinations is growing, and there is a need for a comprehensive overview, examining both quantitative and qualitative studies, of the existing evidence on place...

Previous studies have indicated that factors such as the built environment, attitudes and past behaviour can influence travel behaviour. However, the possible effect of travel satisfaction on travel mode choice remains underexplored, despite many studies focusing on travel satisfaction over the past years. It is likely that individuals experiencing...

Travel mode choice prediction is essential for transportation planning and travel demand prediction. One of the conventional travel survey methods is collecting data over landline telephones, which lacks efficiency because of financial and time resource needs. In this regard, smartphone-assisted travel surveys can be applied to overcome the mention...

Urban street networks are a vital part of urban areas and have a remarkable influence over quality of life and the use of sustainable modes. They make up about 80% of public space and shape urban activities and identity. Therefore, it is crucial to design, develop, and maintain streets in such a way as to make the most of this large and important s...

In order to study user behavior to support the management of Station-based Bikesharing Systems (SBS), Free-floating Bikesharing Systems (FBS), and the whole public bikesharing system, this study scrutinized factors that influence bikeshare-user patterns of one-way trips or round trips and examined the use frequency characteristics including both sy...

Obesity is a long-term health issue that is becoming increasingly prevalent. Very few studies have considered the life course effects of neighborhood characteristics on obesity. In a sample of 35,856 adult participants (representative of the population of the Province of Quebec in Canada), we measured the association between neighborhood deprivatio...

The literature on children’s active transportation has shown the influence of the built environment characteristics on walking and crashes. Various reviews have examined those two questions. One influence on walking is the perception of traffic safety. However, it is not clear how, or even if, the built environment affects such perceptions. This re...

During the peak hour, ridership is much higher, and this can lead to problems such as overcrowding for customers and vehicle bunching for the operator as dwell times increase for the lead bus. In this paper, we examined whether to avoid overcrowding people might be willing to wait for the next bus knowing there were seats and if they were offered a...

Car sharing has become a new mode of transport during the past two decades in the world. Its rapid growth in China has attracted a wide range of users and posed some problems. The main focus is on service efficiency and user satisfaction. To explore possible service enhancement and management intervention, this study aims at capturing the user char...

Many cities have adopted plans or policies to attain sustainable transportation objectives, including the redesign and rehabilitation of streets that favor active and public transportation. However, the implementation of any sustainable transportation plan is often riddled with various organizational and communicational obstacles. In order to under...

In the province of Quebec, Canada where the electricity is nearly carbon-free, the road transport sector represents 35.6% of all emissions. As such, electric vehicles (EVs) have been proposed as a means to reduce such emissions. However, it is not clear how many conventional vehicles (CVs) would need to change to electric in order to meet the green...

Study of over 4000 pedestrians crossing behavior in Montreal and Quebec City, Canada. Main takeaways: the design of the intersection is more strongly related to crossing violations and dangerous situations such as starting on green but finishing on red. People holding cellphones were less likely to start on red and only a very small percentage look...

Indications of people’s environmental concern are linked to transport decisions and can provide great support for policymaking on climate change. This study aims to better predict individual climate change stage of change (CC-SoC) based on different features of transport-related behavior, General Ecological Behavior, New Environmental Paradigm, and...

A scoping review of soft-pull measures for increasing public transport use.

Car ownership is linked to higher car use, which leads to important environmental, social and health consequences. As car ownership keeps increasing in most countries, it remains relevant to examine what factors and policies can help contain this growth. This paper uses an advanced spatial econometric modeling framework to investigate spatial depen...

Parks and green spaces are desirable destinations for diverse reasons including exercising, playing, relaxing, and socializing. In this paper, we demonstrate that simultaneously considering number of parks, surface area and type of activity provides an improved understanding of walking accessibility to parks in urban areas. Using open datasets and...

Numerous multicriteria decision aiding (MCDA) methods have been developed over the last decades and are now applied in various domains, sometimes using facilitated group workshops to create models. These models are all designed to improve decision processes. However, the lack of follow-up and post-project evaluations limit the understanding of how...

The objective of this study is to determine the effects of framing of greenhouse gas emissions information on people’s willingness-to-pay for transportation emissions reductions. Six different framing techniques were developed following goal framing theory and applied to the current Natural Resources Canada vehicle labels for gasoline, plug-in hybr...

The social dimension of children's lives is an essential part of growing up. A generation ago, researchers examined how transport influenced children's social lives in their communities. Those findings suggested that increased traffic diminished children's opportunities for social interactions. Since that time though, little research has considered...

Various measures have been proposed and validated to assess environmental motivation and explain peoples’ consumer behavior. However, most of the measures are rather complex, sometimes comprising dozens of items. In order to overcome the associated response burden, the goal of our research is to validate a much simpler measure of environmental moti...

The current COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted daily behaviours of children and youth. Yet, little is known about how they are mentally coping with the pandemic-time changes to their lives. This study explores children and youths’ self-reported subjective well-being (SWB) during the pandemic, and provides novel insights into the correlates of potentia...

Lack of access to safe drinking water on premises remains widespread in low- and middle-income countries. Interventions to improve access to safe water at the point of collection are essential, but water safety at the point of consumption is also an important consideration. This research aimed to 1) improve understanding of household practices in c...

Exposure to neighborhood deprivation has been associated with a number of health, behavioral and sociological outcomes. However, many negative outcomes associated with deprivation have a long latency and may be influenced by varying exposure to neighborhoods throughout time. Capturing the longitudinal exposure to neighborhood deprivation is methodo...

Children's independent mobility (CIM) is an important consideration in planning as it has been found to positively relate to their physical, social, psychological, cognitive, and economic well-being. However, children are often a marginalized group when it comes to transport planning, with their needs not being directly considered and many outcomes...

The social and economic growth as result of promoting the rapid development of tourism in China has brought tremendous pressure on the urban transportation systems. Research of travel behavior concerning the characteristics of tourists has provided effective information for transportation planning. Due to different city plans, public transportation...

Billions of people globally gained access to improved drinking water sources and sanitation in the last decades, following effort towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Global progress remains a general indicator as it is unclear if access is equitable across groups of the population. Agenda 2030 calling for `leaving no one behind', th...

Social interaction with friends is an important contributor to children’s well-being, but how transport affects this is rarely studied. For two or more children (not of the same household) to have social interaction where they are physically present (i.e. face-to-face), requires at least one of them to make a trip. Qualitative work has found that c...

Monitoring access to drinking water is complex, especially in settings where on-premises water supply is not available. Although self-reported data are generally used to estimate coverage of access, the relationship between self-reported time travelled and true time travelled is not well known in the context of water fetching. Further, water fetchi...

This study will investigate how information on greenhouse gas emissions (GHG-E) is presented can significantly influence the response strength when choosing a new vehicle. Five different labels, based on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) vehicle labels, are designed and tested in a discrete choice experiment considering the combining effe...

Relentless Automobility: An analysis from three perspectives The phenomenon of “peak-car”, the growth in the use of active and collective modes and a renewed interest in more dense, mixed and human scale urban developments, all raise the question of the decline of car mobilities. A three-perspective analysis framework is proposed to assess, on the...

Billions of people globally gained access to improved drinking water sources and sanitation in the last decades, following effort towards the Millennium Development Goals. Global progress remains a general indicator as it is unclear if access is equitable across groups of the population. Agenda 2030 calling for ″leaving no one behind″, there is a n...

The paper takes station-based bikesharing system (SBS) with docks and dockless free-floating bikesharing system (FBS) as two targets to dig out the relationship between users and use frequency of the services for each scheme, and how the relationship varies from scheme to scheme. To achieve this, studies are carried out focusing on three questions:...

The desire to use public transport, or use it more frequently, can be an important indicator of people's intention to travel by public transport. However, the desired and relative desired travel amount (wanting to travel less or more) in the context of public transport use has not yet been analyzed. In this paper, we examine the relationship betwee...

Introduction An increasing number of studies in transportation research have recently focused on well-being and travel satisfaction. These studies argue that satisfaction with travel is an indicator of the trip's contribution to subjective wellbeing of the traveler. Although the attention on satisfaction with travel is increasing, relatively few st...

Context and objectives Neighbourhood effect research on obesity took off in the early 2000s and was composed of mostly cross-sectional observational studies interested in various characteristics of the built environment and the socioeconomic environment. To limit biases related to self-selection and life course exposures, many researchers apply lon...

Japan has had considerable success in maintaining high levels of walking to school for children in comparison to other wealthy nations. To begin, the chapter will use national travel data to paint a general picture of children’s (aged 5 to 17) travel in Japan. Evidence related to the high levels of independent travel are then summarized. Results fr...