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Virtual Special Issue in Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

VSI： Travel Satisfaction

Theme: New trends in travel satisfaction research

Subjective wellbeing (SWB), a critical indicator of social sustainability, has been increasingly used as a measure of economic development and social progress in many cities and nations. As a specific domain of SWB, travel satisfaction has recently attracted significant attention. Travel satisfaction offers a direct measurement of individuals’ mood, emotion and cognitive judgement on travel experiences, and thus captures the experienced utility of travel.

In the past decade, many studies have defined and measured travel satisfaction, and investigated its correlates such as trip characteristics (e.g., mode choice, trip duration), the built environment, and travel attitudes. Most studies rely on a unidirectional theoretical framework, where travel satisfaction serves as the dependent variable. However, feedback effects, such as the impact of travel satisfaction on travel behaviour and residential location choice, are barely examined. Additionally, the literature has little information on how people experience new forms of mobility (e.g., shared mobility and micro-mobility modes) and the extent to which vulnerable groups (e.g., older people, children, disadvantaged populations including minority groups, those with disabilities, and those with lower-incomes) are satisfied with their travel. The broad impacts of travel satisfaction on personal health, family life, social interactions, and work productivity also merit further investigation. Emerging open and real-time sensor data and new data analytical methods may provide opportunities to examine various aspects of travel satisfaction from a new perspective.

This special issue aims to bring together novel research on travel satisfaction, and encourages submissions of original research and review articles on (but not limited to) the following topics:

* Travel affect and positive utility of travel
* New ways of measuring travel satisfaction
* New evidence on the correlates of travel satisfaction
* Effects of travel satisfaction on travel behaviour, travel attitudes, residential location choice, etc.
* Travel satisfaction of vulnerable and disadvantaged populations
* Commute satisfaction and its spill-over effects
* Satisfaction with emerging and future travel modes (ridesharing, e-bikes, etc.)
* Impacts of travel satisfaction on important life domains (social interactions, family relationships, health, work performance, etc.) and life satisfaction
* Travel satisfaction oriented policy for transport planning

Timeline:

Call for papers issued: August 1, 2020

Submission deadline: March 31, 2021

This issue will be a virtual special issue. The paper will appear in the next regular issue after it is accepted. After all papers are accepted, guest editors will compile a virtual issue on the journal website. For more information on a virtual issue, please visit:

https://www.journals.elsevier.com/applied-soft-computing/news/virtual-special-issue-vsi-introduction

Submission Method:

All submissions must be original and may not be under review by any other journals. All manuscripts will be submitted via the Transportation Research Part D online submission system. Authors should indicate that the paper is submitted for consideration for publication in this special issue. Author Guidelines: https://www.elsevier.com/journals/transportation-research-part-d-transport-and-environment/1361-9209/guide-for-authors

When choosing Manuscript “Article Type” during the submission procedure, click “VSI: Travel satisfaction”, otherwise your submission will be handled as a regular manuscript.

All submitted papers should address significant issues pertinent to the themes of this issue and fall within the scope of Transportation Research: Part D. Criteria for acceptance include originality, contribution, and scientific merit. All manuscripts must be written in English with high scientific writing standards.

Acceptance for publication will be based on referees’ and editors’ recommendations following a standard peer review process.

All submissions and inquiries should be directed to the attention of guest editors:

Runing Ye, University of Melbourne, E-mail: runing.ye@unimelb.edu.au<mailto:runing.ye@unimelb.edu.au>

Jonas De Vos, University College London, E-mail: Jonas.devos@ucl.edu.uk<mailto:Jonas.devos@ucl.edu.uk>

Liang Ma, Peking University, E-mail: liang.ma@pku.edu.cn<mailto:liang.ma@pku.edu.cn>

Runing Ye | Mckenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning

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The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia

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