| | Masoumi, H., & Sierpiński, G. (2022): The land use and individual correlates of pedestrian commuting: who walks to their work or place of study in the large cities of the MENA region?. Sustainability, 14(10), 6377. DOI: 10.3390/su14106377 This study is based on 8284 face-to-face interviews with respondents in three cities (Cairo, Istanbul, Tehran) 4543 of whom worked, and of this group 658 individuals walked to their work or place of study. By using binary logistic regression, the determinants of walking to work were identified. The paper identifies younger commuters with fewer cars or no driving license living in neighborhoods with connected street networks as the walkers. The results show that there is a significant difference between the values of these determinants for walking commuters and those who commute by other modes. Guida, C., Carpentieri, G., & Masoumi, H. (2022): Measuring spatial accessibility to urban services for older adults: an application to healthcare facilities in Milan. European transport research review, 14(1), 23. DOI: 10.1186/s12544-022-00544-3 This paper proposes a methodology to measure accessibility to healthcare provision services that considers land-use and mobility features and older adults' behavioural traits. Therefore, we have introduced innovative elements to shape actual mobility opportunities for the elderly and their travel choices. The methodology was applied to Milan's city to measure accessibility to the Health Protection Agency (ATS) services, which is responsible for healthcare assistance to the elderly dwelling in the city. The outputs show that a significant share of older people (almost 40%) suffer from poor accessibility to primary health services and that they mostly live in the city periphery. Moradi, S., Sierpiński, G., & Masoumi, H. (2022): System dynamics modeling and fuzzy MCDM approach as support for assessment of sustainability management on the example of transport sector company. Energies, 15(13), 4917. DOI: 10.3390/en15134917 The first aim of the presented research is to offer a relatively comprehensive collection of railway sustainability indicators as well as a novel causal loop. The second aim is to assess and improve sustainable management using a case study of a passenger rail transport company. To model the relationships inside and around the transport company, the system dynamics (SD) methodology was chosen, being the primary contribution of the study. Additionally, the Fuzzy-TOPSIS logic is required to find the most appropriate scenarios that may change future strategies by making them more socially and environmentally friendly. The proposed research may support experts in assessing sustainability management in transport companies and improve their performance considerably. Masoumi, H., Chakamera, C., Mapamba, L., Pisa, N., & Soltanzadeh, H. (2022): Relations of public transport use and car ownership with neighbourhood and city-level travel purposes in Kerman, Iran. Urban Science, 6(3), 48. DOI: 10.3390/urbansci6030048 Using survey data from 800 respondents, the determinants of travel behaviour of Kerman residents were investigated, based on gender, age, household size, car ownership, frequency of public transport ridership, number of working days per week, number of shopping activities in the neighbourhood per week, number of entertainment activities in the neighbourhood per week, and number of shopping activities in the city. The findings suggest that owning a car tends to increase as age, household size, number of working days and number of shopping days in the city decreases. An increase in the number of entertainment days in the neighbourhood raised the probability of car ownership while shopping in the neighbourhood did not influence car ownership. Public transport use was negatively influenced by gender, increased age and number of working days, but positively influenced by shopping in the city. Ranjbarnia, B., Kamelifar, M. J., & Masoumi, H. (2022, August): The Association between Active Mobility and Subjective Wellbeing during COVID-19 in MENA Countries. In Healthcare (Vol. 10, No. 9, p. 1603). MDPI. DOI: 10.3390/healthcare10091603 This study aimed to identify the correlations between active mobility and subjective wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic in a sample from Tabriz, Iran, which has not yet been tackled in previous study. The results an analysis of 603 respondents show that positive response relationships between four types of physical activity levels and subjective wellbeing scores were demonstrated in all of the three developed models with appropriate model fits, which confirmed the existing literature. However, these relationships showed different patterns for each type of subjective wellbeing. The factors including street length, perceived walkable places, population density, and perceived distance to shopping malls were associated with different indicators of subjective wellbeing. | |
