Bert van Wee’s research while affiliated with Delft University of Technology and other places

... After reviewing these new technologies or tools, Palm et al. (2021) hypothesized that if implemented with equity in mind, they provide underserved populations with greater transportation options. This relationship has been validated by showing that microtransit reduced gaps for more disadvantaged travelers by allowing access to opportunities that are less concentrated along fixed transit routes (Bills et al., 2022;Liezenga et al., 2024). Further, when designing for these microtransit services, using service zones based on both horizontal and vertical equity yielded the most equitable outcomes (Bonner and Miller-Hooks, 2023). ...

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Equity Impacts of Public Transit Network Redesign with Shared Autonomous Mobility Services

... Owing to the qualitative nature of the study, only a small number of participants were needed to examine our research topic in-depth via focus groups (Daley and Rissel, 2011). Participants were recruited based on characteristics indicated in a survey that was the precursor to the focus groups acknowledging that cycling is not equally experienced (Jahanshahi et al., 2023). Focus groups were conducted across three living-lab test sites using a multi-city approach applying the same focus group/interview approach (Woods and Masthoff, 2017). ...

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Reshaping Cyclist Mobility: Understanding the Impact of Autonomous Vehicles on Urban Bicycle Users

... Observability is not significantly associated (p > 0.05) with the perceived ease of use of undergraduate entrepreneurs regarding blended learning (Hypothesis 8 was rejected). If a blended learning program isn't designed with the end user in mind, then observability becomes much less significant (Versteijlen et al., 2023). ...

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Exposing the Technological Acceptance Model in Blended Learning for Undergraduate Agricultural Entrepreneurs

... Cities worldwide have been putting into action or considering a wide range of transport policies (van Wee et al., 2023). These policies play a crucial role in addressing the various challenges and opportunities associated with urban and rural living. ...

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Navigating acceptance and controversy of transport policies

... Many industry experts now anticipate that full automation (Level 5) may not be achieved until around 2030. Significant market penetration is expected to follow and there might be full market saturation by 2055 [21]. Before fully autonomous vehicles are market-ready, understanding public acceptance of different levels of driving autonomous is, therefore, of paramount importance. ...

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Promoting Sustainable Transportation: How People Trust and Accept Autonomous Vehicles—Focusing on the Different Levels of Collaboration Between Human Drivers and Artificial Intelligence—An Empirical Study with Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling and Multi-Group Analysis

... Positive awareness, such as knowledge of quality features or positive brand attributes, can lead to positive word-of-mouth intentions. Research conducted by (Jalilvand & Samiei, 2012;van Wee & Mokhtarian, 2023;Wedari & Yasa, 2022;Vizano et al., 2021) shows the results that food quality, service quality and atmosphere are the main determining factors of WOM. So, it can be concluded that Awareness has a positive influence on word-of-mouth intention. ...

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Antecedents Word of Mouth Intention in the Restaurant Industry

... In contrast, the research conducted by Cheng et al. in the Shanghai metro context revealed that high crowding levels led to noticeable shifts in departure times, with individuals showing a stronger aversion to arriving late than to arriving early [27]. Singh et al. observed that rail travelers' aversion to onboard crowding was inversely related to vaccination rates [28]. In addition, connecting transport may also affect residents' choice of departure time, as Yu et al. found that reducing the number of shared bikes reduces the earliest departure time for metro commuters, prompting them to depart earlier [29]. ...

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Modeling Passengers’ Reserved Time Before High-Speed Rail Departure

... In this study, the Cronbach's alpha coefficients of the total scale and four subscales corresponding to four latent variables of travel philosophy, travel preference, perceived usefulness, and perceived risk were calculated to analyze the consistency of the data, as shown in Table 8. If the questionnaire results are reliable, the Cronbach's alpha coefficient of the total scale should preferably be above 0.8, or at least above 0.7 [47]. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient of the subscale is preferably above 0.7, or at least above 0.6. ...

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Applying a Modified Technology Acceptance Model to Explore Individuals’ Willingness to Use Mobility as a Service (MaaS): A Case Study of Beijing, China

... Deployment of AVs at any scale will have far-reaching societal, ethical, legal, and environmental implications. approach is crucial to address the potentially exclusionary nature of this technology (Martens et al. 2022), and to move toward inclusivity in all its dimensions; yet the ability to safely interact with wildlife remains a key challenge at the frontier of AV research. As core components of the future of transportation, AVs will have major implications for sustainability and biodiversity. ...

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Emerging opportunities for wildlife conservation with sustainable autonomous transportation

... Moreover, the provider-to-population indicator considers only the availability of intraregional resources, ignoring the spatial accessibility of interregional facilities that are particularly accessed by patients living at the borders not only at regional level [16,17] but also across countries [18]. Although the majority of national and international authorities still rely on these provider-to-population indicators, different methodologies have been proposed in the literature to overcome these limits [17,[19][20][21]. They are mainly based on the gravity-based focusing in the provision of healthcare services at different geographical scales (e.g., urban, regional, or national). ...

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Analysing the intra and interregional components of spatial accessibility gravity model to capture the level of equity in the distribution of hospital services in Italy: do they influence patient mobility?