2026-08-29

7 arXiv categories· 96 journals· 2084 candidates — 4 worth your time· 106 without an open abstract

Headline

Cyclist exposure literacy, transit delay networks, epidemic invasion routes and transport injustice

Today, together

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shares references
Transport (in)justice and the city: a relational analysis of transport in India shares 6 references with What is enough? Rethinking sufficiency in transport through relational egalitarianism (2026-08-01)
3 of them
  • I—Elizabeth Anderson: Expanding the Egalitarian Toolbox: Equality and Bureaucracy
  • Distributive justice and equity in transportation
  • Sizing up transport poverty: A national scale accounting of low-income households suffering from inaccessibility in Canada, and what to do about it
; Transport (in)justice and the city: a relational analysis of transport in India shares 3 references with Public participation in transport planning. Lessons learned from a co-creation workshop with elderly women in Lund, Sweden (2026-08-08)
3 of them
  • The New Mobilities Paradigm
  • Distributive justice and equity in transportation
  • Theorising mobility justice
counted over the 4 papers published above
on the same shoulders
5 of the day's papers cite Travel demand and the 3Ds: Density, diversity, and design (Robert Cervero, Kara M. Kockelman 1997); 5 cite Travel and the Built Environment (Reid Ewing, Robert Cervero 2010) counted over the 105 of this day's 110 named papers whose reference lists we have — standing on the same older work is not the same as being about the same thing
first appearance
Jožef Stefan Institute; Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School none of them on a paper we published in the 78 days before this issue

Two counts, not one counted twice: every row here but “on the same shoulders” counts the papers published above, and that one counts every paper this day named — those and the ones under Also published today, whose abstracts we could not read.

This study establishes a theoretical framework for constructing functional connectivity networks to model delay propagation in transportation systems, detailing common pitfalls in correlation and causality testing. Another paper applies a relational egalitarianism framework to analyze transport injustice in the medium-sized Indian city of Siliguri, drawing on interviews with institutional stakeholders, slum-dwelling households, and shop owners near railway stations. Finally, a third study evaluated environmental health literacy among 205 urban cyclists in Ljubljana, Slovenia, who participated in a two-week citizen science project using personal PM2.5 and noise sensors alongside a custom visualization platform.

published: Journal of Transport & Health

María Alejandra Rubio, Rok Novak, Carolyn Finck, et al.
Journal of Transport & Health

Jožef Stefan Institute

Urban Transport and Accessibility · Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting · Air Quality and Health Impacts · Jožef Stefan Institute · Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School · Universidad de Los Andes

Environmental health literacy among urban cyclists: insights from a citizen science study in Ljubljana

This study evaluated environmental health literacy among 205 urban cyclists in Ljubljana, Slovenia, who participated in a two-week citizen science project using personal PM2.5 and noise sensors alongside a custom visualization platform. The researchers integrated the survey data with 10 ride-along interviews, exit field notes, and a mapping workshop with 21 participants to analyze how cyclists interact with exposure data. The intervention increased awareness of environmental stressors, especially noise, but revealed that actual route changes are constrained by safety, convenience, and existing infrastructure.

Why it matters — It demonstrates that providing personal exposure data is insufficient on its own to change commuting behavior, showing instead that individual environmental health literacy must be supported by physical infrastructure like green corridors and car-free routes to enable safer travel choices.

Caveat: The findings are based on a self-selected sample of cyclists in a single European city, which may limit generalizability to cities with different cycling cultures or infrastructure levels.

Journal of Transport & Health · pdf · doi

published: Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Carlson Moses Büth, Massimiliano Zanin
Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives · was arXiv

Complex Network Analysis Techniques

Functional connectivity networks for transportation delay analysis: From theory to software

This study establishes a theoretical framework for constructing functional connectivity networks to model delay propagation in transportation systems, detailing common pitfalls in correlation and causality testing. The researchers developed and released 'delaynet', a Python package designed to automate the reconstruction and analysis of these networks, and demonstrated its utility by analyzing delay propagation across the Swiss railway system.

Why it matters — It standardizes a previously fragmented methodology, replacing ad-hoc researcher decisions with a coherent framework and providing an open-source tool to systematically analyze how delays spread through transit networks.

Caveat: The empirical demonstration of the framework and software is limited to a single national rail system.

Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives · doi

published: Transportation

Iman Banerjee, Karel Martens
Transportation

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Urban Transport and Accessibility · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Urban Planning and Governance · interview · Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Transport (in)justice and the city: a relational analysis of transport in India

This study applies a relational egalitarianism framework to analyze transport injustice in the medium-sized Indian city of Siliguri, drawing on interviews with 11 institutional stakeholders, 400 slum-dwelling households, and 391 shop owners near railway stations. The research documents how transport planning prioritizes road construction and flyovers over non-motorized transit, while decision-making remains dominated by elite political actors with minimal public engagement.

Why it matters — It demonstrates that transport injustice extends beyond the unequal distribution of physical infrastructure to encompass social hierarchies of power, standing, and esteem that marginalize low-income residents, small business owners, and women.

Caveat: The empirical findings are based on a single case study of a historic railway town in eastern India, which may limit direct generalizability to larger metropolitan areas or different regional contexts.

Transportation · pdf · doi

preprint

Tiandong Wang, Wei Yang
arXiv math.ST

United States

Pooling Mobility Obscures Epidemic Invasion Routes

The study mathematically demonstrates how pooling different mobility layers, such as air travel and commuting, into a single network preserves total infection imports but obscures the specific transport modes and routes of epidemic invasion. Using a controlled metapopulation model and historical reconstructions of US pandemic influenza and early Italian COVID-19 waves, the researchers quantified the surveillance decision cost of this information loss. They found that while air travel provided distinct predictive information beyond commuting in the US context, commuting data was more critical for reconstructing early COVID-19 onset in Italy.

Why it matters — It proves that aggregate mobility networks are fundamentally inadequate for designing mode-specific interventions, establishing a mathematical condition for when route composition can be recovered and when it is permanently lost.

Caveat: The findings are demonstrated using historical influenza and COVID-19 data, meaning the relative importance of specific mobility layers may vary for pathogens with different transmission dynamics.

arXiv · pdf

Still cited

Rafael H. M. Pereira, Tim Schwanen (2016), Distributive justice and equity in transportation 1 of today's items cite it · 37 of 3240 in the archive stand on it

Also published today

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