Journal: Transport Reviews

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Transp. rev.

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Routledge

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0144-1647
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  • Operating a bus and coach business
    Item type: Book Review
    Axhausen, Kay W. (1998)
    Transport Reviews
  • The economics of motorist information systems revisited
    Item type: Journal Article
    Emmerink, Richard H.M.; Nijkamp, Peter; Rietveld, Piet; et al. (1994)
    Transport Reviews
  • Structures of leisure travel
    Item type: Journal Article
    Schlich, Robert; Schönfelder, Stefan; Hanson, Susan; et al. (2004)
    Transport Reviews
    Leisure activities play an increasingly dominant role in our daily lives. Their importance has increased steadily over the last 40 years compared with other activities. Considering leisure travel, one would expect to discover this trend in recent empirical work. Unfortunately, this has not been possible in Germany or other countries due to a lack of suitable data. The lack of such data is mainly caused by different leisure activities being performed sporadically, which are influenced by changing conditions such as the weather, traffic, etc. It is thus desirable to obtain data over periods substantially longer than 1 or even several days (longitudinal data). The longitudinal 6‐week Mobidrive survey data match this requirement and are analysed here with regards to leisure activities. The Mobidrive data allow the examination of aspects of temporal and spatial variability and separate analyses of distinct detailed leisure activities. Because leisure traffic has been rarely analysed from a longitudinal perspective, it is difficult to generalize the results. For this reason, a similar but outdated dataset (Uppsala dataset) is used to validate the results.
  • Flexible Urban Transportation By JON L. GIFFORD (Oxford, Elsevier Science, 2003) ISBN 0 08044 053 3
    Item type: Book Review
    Axhausen, Kay W. (2003)
    Transport Reviews
  • Activity-based approaches to travel analysis
    Item type: Journal Article
    Axhausen, Kay W.; Gärling, Tommy (1992)
    Transport Reviews
  • Opportunities and risks during the introduction of fuel cell cars
    Item type: Journal Article
    Carle, Gian; Axhausen, Kay W.; Wokaun, Alexander; et al. (2005)
    Transport Reviews
    Specific competitive conditions will decide the successful introduction of proton exchange membrane fuel cells as the core of an automotive traction system. Michael Porter’s competitive analysis methodology, the ‘five forces model of competitive structure’, was used in the first part of the paper to develop an overview of the competitive forces in the fuel cell industry. Porter’s model places emphasis on external factors by examining the nature of the market environment. A company is considered to be in a favourable competitive position if the five threatening forces are not too strong. The five forces are potential new competitors, supplier power, customer power, competition in the industry group and the threat of substitutes. The second part gives an overview of success factors that may contribute to a breakthrough of fuel cell technology from niche market to mass market in the automotive industry. This analysis also identifies critical factors that affect both market penetration time and the rate of product diffusion into the mass market. Several fuel cell manufacturers such as Ballard Power Systems, Nuvera and United Technologies Fuel Cells will enter the competitive fuel cell market. Customers will have a high degree of bargaining power as they will merge to a few big companies and will threaten the fuel cell companies with a possible backward integration. The high sum to be invested into research, into development and production methods will lead to high market entrance barriers. A strong competition comes from the possible substitution goods. Although the fuel cell is, in principle, an ideal energy source without local carbon dioxide emission, substitution goods such as further developed gasoline and diesel engines, hybrid and compressed natural gas vehicles will have medium‐term competitive advantages.
  • What do we really know about the acceptance of battery electric vehicles? – Turns out, not much
    Item type: Journal Article
    Wicki, Michael; Brückmann, Gracia; Quoß, Franziska; et al. (2023)
    Transport Reviews
    Battery electric vehicles (BEV) are essential in most countries’ transition towards an efficient, cleaner and low-carbon transport system. BEV technology has been making rapid progress, but low market uptake poses major challenges for governments and industry. Based on the PRISMA framework (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses), we assessed 94 studies published in the era of BEVs becoming visible market products between 2010 and 2019. The main goal is to understand what we know about attitudes and behaviour of consumers/citizens towards BEVs. In contrast to the conventional wisdom that we know the key facilitators and obstacles in this area, we find that few studies are designed to identify causal effects of facilitators and obstacles, and findings on widely presumed key determinants are surprisingly mixed and context-dependent. We conclude that we still lack robust evidence on the facilitators of BEV uptake and prospective ownership. Moreover, and particularly alarming from a scientific viewpoint, many existing studies cannot be replicated because the respective data is unavailable, neither publicly accessible nor on request. Given the saliency of the issue, the main implication of our assessment is that a concerted, internationally coordinated effort in this area is needed, based on pre-registration of study designs and full accessibility of replication data.
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