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The paper discusses innovation within the traditionally conservative legal sector as a diverse service improvement mechanism that models positive firm change. A resource-based view and practice-based view blend provided a systematic theoretical benchmark for the study. Fifty-three semi-structured interviews were conducted with law professionals from seven countries capturing their day-to-day work experiences and identifying the barriers that hinder and the opportunities that support innovation adoption in legal firms today. A data-intensive thematic analysis uncovers six core themes: human factor and culture, client and market, technology, organizational transitions, legal processes, and education. The paper contributes to the state of art by (i) contextualizing each of these themes and their diverse underpinning dimensions; (ii) developing an evidence-based conceptual framework that critically assesses legal innovation uptake barriers and opportunities; and (iii) advancing the theoretical and empirical understanding of law service operations demonstrating the rationale for legal firms to invest in technology, multidisciplinary education, and training, and to adopt leaner, hybrid and more client-driven management approaches.
Kalliopi Michalakopoulou; David Bamford; Iain Reid; Alexandros Nikitas. Barriers and opportunities to innovation for legal service firms: a thematic analysis-based contextualization. Production Planning & Control 2021, 1 -19.
AMA StyleKalliopi Michalakopoulou, David Bamford, Iain Reid, Alexandros Nikitas. Barriers and opportunities to innovation for legal service firms: a thematic analysis-based contextualization. Production Planning & Control. 2021; ():1-19.
Chicago/Turabian StyleKalliopi Michalakopoulou; David Bamford; Iain Reid; Alexandros Nikitas. 2021. "Barriers and opportunities to innovation for legal service firms: a thematic analysis-based contextualization." Production Planning & Control , no. : 1-19.
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected our cities in monumental ways with no sector likely being more severely impacted than transport. Lockdowns, physical spacing, transport restrictions and stay-at-home guidelines have transformed personal mobility and highlighted the mistakes of an unbalanced pro-car culture that defined a century of urban planning. One immediate effect of the virus in relation to travel demand and supply was the emergence of active travel modes because of their unique ability to provide a socially distanced way of transport. Cycling is one of the modes that has enjoyed significant attention. Numerous cities have reallocated street and public space to cyclists and introduced pro-bike interventions like pop-up cycle lanes, e-bike subsidies, free bike-share use and traffic calming measures. This newly found outbreak-induced momentum creates an opportunity to establish a new ethos that allows the promotion of potentially permanent strategies that may help cycling to be (re-)established as a robust, mainstream and resilient travel mode for inner city trips and not as a second-class alternative operating under the automobile’s giant shadow. This paper provides a state-of-the-art description of the anti-COVID cycling-friendly initiatives that have been introduced globally, the successes and failures of these initiatives, the lessons learnt that can help us redefine the bicycle’s role in local societies today and a best cycling practice policy guide for planning a more bike-centric future.
Alexandros Nikitas; Stefanos Tsigdinos; Christos Karolemeas; Efthymia Kourmpa; Efthimios Bakogiannis. Cycling in the Era of COVID-19: Lessons Learnt and Best Practice Policy Recommendations for a More Bike-Centric Future. Sustainability 2021, 13, 4620 .
AMA StyleAlexandros Nikitas, Stefanos Tsigdinos, Christos Karolemeas, Efthymia Kourmpa, Efthimios Bakogiannis. Cycling in the Era of COVID-19: Lessons Learnt and Best Practice Policy Recommendations for a More Bike-Centric Future. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (9):4620.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlexandros Nikitas; Stefanos Tsigdinos; Christos Karolemeas; Efthymia Kourmpa; Efthimios Bakogiannis. 2021. "Cycling in the Era of COVID-19: Lessons Learnt and Best Practice Policy Recommendations for a More Bike-Centric Future." Sustainability 13, no. 9: 4620.
Paradigm-shifting technologies such as Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) despite a wealth of promised benefits for the future of our cities may generate new unprecedented threats. The transportation industry will be the first to experience the aftermath of AVs since these can kill driving professions and create new layers of employability-related social exclusion. This paper appraises public perceptions of AVs and their employment repercussions as a forecasting tool that can drive equitable policy planning that prioritises humans over machines. The study is based on an online survey of 773 responses from an international audience. Descriptive statistics and ordinal regression modelling have been used. Most respondents recognised that the arrival of AVs is likely to revolutionise the distribution of jobs within the transport industry. They also believe governments are not prepared for the transformations AVs will force upon workplace arenas. Age, field of work/study, level of understanding AVs, income, gender, awareness about the risks on own employment were factors influencing the respondents' perceptions of whether transport professionals' job security will be jeopardised. The study argues that AVs are perceived as a significant employment disruptor and that reskilling, public engagement and awareness exercises should be widely adopted by the stakeholders ‘responsible’ for the transition.
Alexandros Nikitas; Alexandra-Elena Vitel; Corneliu Cotet. Autonomous vehicles and employment: An urban futures revolution or catastrophe? Cities 2021, 114, 103203 .
AMA StyleAlexandros Nikitas, Alexandra-Elena Vitel, Corneliu Cotet. Autonomous vehicles and employment: An urban futures revolution or catastrophe? Cities. 2021; 114 ():103203.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlexandros Nikitas; Alexandra-Elena Vitel; Corneliu Cotet. 2021. "Autonomous vehicles and employment: An urban futures revolution or catastrophe?" Cities 114, no. : 103203.
Shifting from a fossil-fueled to an eco-friendly vehicle fleet in cities could pave the way towards a more sustainable future. Electric Vehicles (EVs) should thus be prioritized, so that they could replace conventional vehicles gradually. In this context, an EV-accommodating infrastructure, which ensures the functionality of the entire system, is essential. This study aims to develop a methodological framework to identify suitable locations for the deployment of EV charging points in urban environments. To meet this objective, we acquired a mixed method approach including a systematic literature review, 12 semistructured stakeholder interviews which were thematically analyzed, and an Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). The outcome is a spatial model function, which consists of parameters and weights for estimating the suitability of each urban road link that will allow the establishment of EV charging points. Results show that the key location selection factors are: transport hubs, marked or controlled parking spaces, and points of interest. The less significant factor is public services. Therefore, there is a preference, in stakeholder level, for transport features over the land use ones (69% over 31%). Although this research is conducted in Greece, we intend to suggest methods and generate valuable findings that may be valid and generalizable for a more global context.
Christos Karolemeas; Stefanos Tsigdinos; Panagiotis Tzouras; Alexandros Nikitas; Efthimios Bakogiannis. Determining Electric Vehicle Charging Station Location Suitability: A Qualitative Study of Greek Stakeholders Employing Thematic Analysis and Analytical Hierarchy Process. Sustainability 2021, 13, 2298 .
AMA StyleChristos Karolemeas, Stefanos Tsigdinos, Panagiotis Tzouras, Alexandros Nikitas, Efthimios Bakogiannis. Determining Electric Vehicle Charging Station Location Suitability: A Qualitative Study of Greek Stakeholders Employing Thematic Analysis and Analytical Hierarchy Process. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (4):2298.
Chicago/Turabian StyleChristos Karolemeas; Stefanos Tsigdinos; Panagiotis Tzouras; Alexandros Nikitas; Efthimios Bakogiannis. 2021. "Determining Electric Vehicle Charging Station Location Suitability: A Qualitative Study of Greek Stakeholders Employing Thematic Analysis and Analytical Hierarchy Process." Sustainability 13, no. 4: 2298.
Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) constitute an automotive development carrying paradigm-shifting potential that may soon be embedded into a dynamically changing urban mobility landscape. The complex machine-led dynamics of CAVs make them more prone to data exploitation and vulnerable to cyber attacks than any of their predecessors increasing the risks of privacy breaches and cyber security violations for their users. This can adversely affect the public acceptability of CAVs, give them a bad reputation at this embryonic stage of their development, create barriers to their adoption and increased use, and complicate the business models of their future operations. Therefore, it is vital to identify and create an in-depth understanding of the cyber security and privacy issues associated with CAVs, and of the way these can be prioritised and addressed. This work employs 36 semi-structured elite interviews to explore the diverse dimensions of user acceptance through the lens of the well-informed CAV experts that already anticipate problems and look for their solutions. Our international interviewee sample represents academia, industry and policy-making so that all the key stakeholder voices are heard. Thematic analysis was used to identify and contextualise the factors that reflect and affect CAV acceptance in relation to the privacy and cyber security agendas. Six core themes emerged: awareness, user and vendor education, safety, responsibility, legislation, and trust. Each of these themes has diverse and distinctive dimensions and are discussed as sub-themes. We recommend that mitigating the cyber security and privacy risks embedded in CAVs require inter-institutional cooperation, awareness campaigns and trials for trust-building purposes, mandatory educational training for manufacturers and perhaps more importantly for end-users, balanced and fair responsibility-sharing, two-way dynamic communication channels and a clear consensus on what constitutes threats and solutions.
Na Liu; Alexandros Nikitas; Simon Parkinson. Exploring expert perceptions about the cyber security and privacy of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles: A thematic analysis approach. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour 2020, 75, 66 -86.
AMA StyleNa Liu, Alexandros Nikitas, Simon Parkinson. Exploring expert perceptions about the cyber security and privacy of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles: A thematic analysis approach. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour. 2020; 75 ():66-86.
Chicago/Turabian StyleNa Liu; Alexandros Nikitas; Simon Parkinson. 2020. "Exploring expert perceptions about the cyber security and privacy of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles: A thematic analysis approach." Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour 75, no. : 66-86.
Mobility as a Service (MaaS) is a novel brand of transport that promises to replace private cars with multimodal personalised mobility packages enabled by a digital platform capable of integrating travel planning, booking and ticketing, and real-time information services. It is an intervention that through its digitisation, connectivity, information and sharing merits intends to inspire and support the transition to a more sustainable mobility paradigm. Recent research suggests, however, that the potential uptake of MaaS might not be overwhelming; current car drivers could face considerable difficulties in bypassing their personal car for it and, more worryingly, future MaaS users may substitute not only personal car trips but also public transport journeys with car-sharing and ride-sharing services. This means that MaaS might not be able to create travel behaviour change, and even if it does, the changes may not be always towards the right direction. Through conducting 40 semi-structured interviews in three different UK cities, namely London, Birmingham and Huddersfield, and employing a robust Thematic Analysis approach, this study explores the factors underpinning the uptake and potential success of MaaS as a sustainable travel mechanism. The challenges and opportunities reflecting and affecting potential for responsible MaaS usage refer to five core themes Car Dependence; Trust; Human Element Externalities; Value; and Cost, each of them with distinctive and diverse dimensions. Policy-makers and mobility providers should realise that MaaS success relies on changing people’s attitudes to private cars (something very challenging) and thus they should incentivise responsible MaaS use, promote public transport as its backbone, use public engagement exercises and trials to expose people to the concept and somewhat demonise private car ownership and car use.
Elena Alyavina; Alexandros Nikitas; Eric Tchouamou Njoya. Mobility as a service and sustainable travel behaviour: A thematic analysis study. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour 2020, 73, 362 -381.
AMA StyleElena Alyavina, Alexandros Nikitas, Eric Tchouamou Njoya. Mobility as a service and sustainable travel behaviour: A thematic analysis study. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour. 2020; 73 ():362-381.
Chicago/Turabian StyleElena Alyavina; Alexandros Nikitas; Eric Tchouamou Njoya. 2020. "Mobility as a service and sustainable travel behaviour: A thematic analysis study." Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour 73, no. : 362-381.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful concept still in its infancy that has the potential, if utilised responsibly, to provide a vehicle for positive change that could promote sustainable transitions to a more resource-efficient livability paradigm. AI with its deep learning functions and capabilities can be employed as a tool which empowers machines to solve problems that could reform urban landscapes as we have known them for decades now and help with establishing a new era; the era of the “smart city”. One of the key areas that AI can redefine is transport. Mobility provision and its impact on urban development can be significantly improved by the employment of intelligent transport systems in general and automated transport in particular. This new breed of AI-based mobility, despite its machine-orientation, has to be a user-centred technology that “understands” and “satisfies” the human user, the markets and the society as a whole. Trust should be built, and risks should be eliminated, for this transition to take off. This paper provides a novel conceptual contribution that thoroughly discusses the scarcely studied nexus of AI, transportation and the smart city and how this will affect urban futures. It specifically covers key smart mobility initiatives referring to Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs), autonomous Personal and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (PAVs and UAVs) and Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS), but also interventions that may work as enabling technologies for transport, such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and Physical Internet (PI) or reflect broader transformations like Industry 4.0. This work is ultimately a reference tool for researchers and city planners that provides clear and systematic definitions of the ambiguous smart mobility terms of tomorrow and describes their individual and collective roles underpinning the nexus in scope.
Alexandros Nikitas; Kalliopi Michalakopoulou; Eric Tchouamou Njoya; Dimitris Karampatzakis. Artificial Intelligence, Transport and the Smart City: Definitions and Dimensions of a New Mobility Era. Sustainability 2020, 12, 2789 .
AMA StyleAlexandros Nikitas, Kalliopi Michalakopoulou, Eric Tchouamou Njoya, Dimitris Karampatzakis. Artificial Intelligence, Transport and the Smart City: Definitions and Dimensions of a New Mobility Era. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (7):2789.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlexandros Nikitas; Kalliopi Michalakopoulou; Eric Tchouamou Njoya; Dimitris Karampatzakis. 2020. "Artificial Intelligence, Transport and the Smart City: Definitions and Dimensions of a New Mobility Era." Sustainability 12, no. 7: 2789.
Richard D. Knowles; Fiona Ferbrache; Alexandros Nikitas. Transport's historical, contemporary and future role in shaping urban development: Re-evaluating transit oriented development. Cities 2020, 99, 1 .
AMA StyleRichard D. Knowles, Fiona Ferbrache, Alexandros Nikitas. Transport's historical, contemporary and future role in shaping urban development: Re-evaluating transit oriented development. Cities. 2020; 99 ():1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleRichard D. Knowles; Fiona Ferbrache; Alexandros Nikitas. 2020. "Transport's historical, contemporary and future role in shaping urban development: Re-evaluating transit oriented development." Cities 99, no. : 1.
The city of Rethymno in Crete is the first Greek city to host a Dockless Bike Sharing System (DBSS). This is a scheme that means to promote sustainable mobility and help mitigating high levels of car traffic induced particularly during summer by a consistently increasing number of tourists. The present paper examines the efficiency of this DBSS aiming at: a) analysing the current usage patterns, b) identifying and discussing the various reasons that encourage or deter its use and c) capturing a few key user perceptions reflecting and affecting scheme acceptanceand usage. The study adopts a mix-method approach consisting of secondary data analysis, field observations and a quantitative survey, completed by 534 DBSS users. The findings illustrate that DBSS is used primarily for short-distance trips (up to 1,5 km) and very short rentals (up to 15 min). Traffic safety concerns and limitations in the existing cycling infrastructure are two of the factors adversely affecting the scheme's usage, since many questioned whether the scheme was an effective investment under the present situation with the given constrains of Rethymno's transport system. The majority of both frequent and occasional users thought that the scheme is affordable, easy to use and suitable for both tourist and local populations. These findings constitute the first ever footprint of DBSS usage in Greece and can be used as an input for delivering appropriate policy interventions in future urban transportation strategies looking to promote and reinforce bike sharing usage and increase cycling uptake. The paper also offers valuable guidance to mobility providers about how bike sharing businesses can prosper long-term in an environment where shared mobility schemes constitute novel socio-technical interventions.
Efthimios Bakogiannis; Maria Siti; Stefanos Tsigdinos; Avgi Vassi; Alexandros Nikitas. Monitoring the first dockless bike sharing system in Greece: Understanding user perceptions, usage patterns and adoption barriers. Research in Transportation Business & Management 2019, 33, 100432 .
AMA StyleEfthimios Bakogiannis, Maria Siti, Stefanos Tsigdinos, Avgi Vassi, Alexandros Nikitas. Monitoring the first dockless bike sharing system in Greece: Understanding user perceptions, usage patterns and adoption barriers. Research in Transportation Business & Management. 2019; 33 ():100432.
Chicago/Turabian StyleEfthimios Bakogiannis; Maria Siti; Stefanos Tsigdinos; Avgi Vassi; Alexandros Nikitas. 2019. "Monitoring the first dockless bike sharing system in Greece: Understanding user perceptions, usage patterns and adoption barriers." Research in Transportation Business & Management 33, no. : 100432.
A new mobility ethos is needed for cities looking to overcome the problems that have been accumulated for decades by a transport paradigm that prioritises automobiles over people. Bike-sharing, a measure promoting voluntary travel behaviour change, could be part of a refined toolbox that will help in forging this new ethos. Despite a rapid emergence during the last handful of years, as evidenced by 1956 operational local schemes and approximately 15,254,400 self-service public use bicycles across the world, bike-sharing has been attracting negative attention lately. Tens of schemes have closed down, deemed as financial or operational failures, stigmatising bike-sharing’s brand and putting the future of the concept itself in jeopardy. However, discounting bike-sharing as flawed may not be fair or accurate. This paper identifies a formula of success for bike-sharing operations based on a state-of-the-art case study analysis, which is supported by primary data evidence from two survey-based studies in Sweden and Greece. This paper suggests that residents in cities hosting or looking to host bike-sharing schemes are usually very supportive of them but not always likely to use them. More importantly, this paper delivers some key policy and business lessons that form a survival guide for effectively introducing and running public bicycle schemes. These lessons include, among others, the need for: tailoring the system design and expansion strategy according to the host city needs, city-operator and commercial partner synergies, more bike-friendly infrastructure and legislation, pro-active cultural engagement, anti-abuse measures, enhanced fleet management and realistic profit expectations.
Alexandros Nikitas. How to Save Bike-Sharing: An Evidence-Based Survival Toolkit for Policy-Makers and Mobility Providers. Sustainability 2019, 11, 3206 .
AMA StyleAlexandros Nikitas. How to Save Bike-Sharing: An Evidence-Based Survival Toolkit for Policy-Makers and Mobility Providers. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (11):3206.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlexandros Nikitas. 2019. "How to Save Bike-Sharing: An Evidence-Based Survival Toolkit for Policy-Makers and Mobility Providers." Sustainability 11, no. 11: 3206.
Establishing a less car-oriented mobility ethos through initiatives targeting, among others, children’s travel to school could be a key for unlocking the potential for a more sustainable future. A Walking School Bus (WSB) is a relatively new and scarcely evaluated commuting mechanism that in theory provides a creative scheme capable of inspiring voluntary travel behaviour change for children and parents. Through a series of in-depth focus group sessions that were conducted in Bradford, UK this article explores the perceptions of parents that are ultimately the decision-makers about how their children go to school. This work improves the understanding of the different challenges and opportunities underpinning travel to school, in general, and WSBs, in particular, by identifying and discussing six thematic areas of critical importance that explain the decision-making behind potential WSB uptake. These are namely: logistics, safety, trust, health and wellbeing, emotional needs and educational opportunities. Finally, the paper provides policy recommendations about how WSB initiatives can become more effective and attractive mobility tools for local communities.
Alexandros Nikitas; Judith Y.T. Wang; Cathy Knamiller. Exploring parental perceptions about school travel and walking school buses: A thematic analysis approach. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 2019, 124, 468 -487.
AMA StyleAlexandros Nikitas, Judith Y.T. Wang, Cathy Knamiller. Exploring parental perceptions about school travel and walking school buses: A thematic analysis approach. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. 2019; 124 ():468-487.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlexandros Nikitas; Judith Y.T. Wang; Cathy Knamiller. 2019. "Exploring parental perceptions about school travel and walking school buses: A thematic analysis approach." Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 124, no. : 468-487.
Several Mediterranean islands are not connected to the main electricity grid yet meaning that independent local grids cater for their power requirements, mainly using imported fossil fuels whose resources scarcity, especially during the high-demand summer months, is a significant challenge. Seasonal variability in power demand, fuel price volatility, as well as a growing tourism development, impose some additional complexity. The present study analyses specific island grids of the Aegean Sea. Selected islands are analysed as case studies over a 20-year period (2016–2036). The developed energy modelling exercise uses a Harmony Search Algorithm in its core. It investigates whether the deployment of renewable energy sources could lead to a sustainable system, decrease the current burden from the government budget, and support local resources. In doing so we examine whether an increased share of RES, battery storage, and their combination could reduce islands’ reliance on imports and potentially eliminate the current heavily subsidised status quo. The results show that a 30% increase of the consumption will require increases in installed power capacities by 40–70%, in the best case scenario. The latter involves significantly lower per-kWh cost, between 17% and 36% of the current values, due to the large share of RES.
Ioannis Kougias; Sándor Szabó; Alexandros Nikitas; Nicolaos Theodossiou. Sustainable energy modelling of non-interconnected Mediterranean islands. Renewable Energy 2018, 133, 930 -940.
AMA StyleIoannis Kougias, Sándor Szabó, Alexandros Nikitas, Nicolaos Theodossiou. Sustainable energy modelling of non-interconnected Mediterranean islands. Renewable Energy. 2018; 133 ():930-940.
Chicago/Turabian StyleIoannis Kougias; Sándor Szabó; Alexandros Nikitas; Nicolaos Theodossiou. 2018. "Sustainable energy modelling of non-interconnected Mediterranean islands." Renewable Energy 133, no. : 930-940.
Carbon capture and utilization (CCU) is recognized by the European Union, along with carbon, capture and storage (CCS), as one of the main tools towards global warming mitigation. It has, thus, been extensively studied by various researchers around the world. The majority of the papers published so far focus on the individual stages of a CCU value chain (carbon capture, separation, purification, transportation, and transformation/utilization). However, a holistic approach, taking into account the matching and the interaction between these stages, is also necessary in order to optimize and develop technically and economically feasible CCU value chains. The objective of this contribution is to present the most important studies that are related to the individual stages of CCU and to perform a critical review of the major existing methods, algorithms and tools that focus on the simulation or optimization of CCU value chains. The key research gaps will be identified and examined in order to lay the foundation for the development of a methodology towards the holistic assessment of CCU value chains.
Tryfonas Pieri; Alexandros Nikitas; Arturo Castillo-Castillo; Athanasios Angelis-Dimakis. Holistic Assessment of Carbon Capture and Utilization Value Chains. Environments 2018, 5, 108 .
AMA StyleTryfonas Pieri, Alexandros Nikitas, Arturo Castillo-Castillo, Athanasios Angelis-Dimakis. Holistic Assessment of Carbon Capture and Utilization Value Chains. Environments. 2018; 5 (10):108.
Chicago/Turabian StyleTryfonas Pieri; Alexandros Nikitas; Arturo Castillo-Castillo; Athanasios Angelis-Dimakis. 2018. "Holistic Assessment of Carbon Capture and Utilization Value Chains." Environments 5, no. 10: 108.
Alexandros Nikitas; Erel Avineri; Graham Parkhurst. Understanding the public acceptability of road pricing and the roles of older age, social norms, pro-social values and trust for urban policy-making: The case of Bristol. Cities 2018, 79, 78 -91.
AMA StyleAlexandros Nikitas, Erel Avineri, Graham Parkhurst. Understanding the public acceptability of road pricing and the roles of older age, social norms, pro-social values and trust for urban policy-making: The case of Bristol. Cities. 2018; 79 ():78-91.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlexandros Nikitas; Erel Avineri; Graham Parkhurst. 2018. "Understanding the public acceptability of road pricing and the roles of older age, social norms, pro-social values and trust for urban policy-making: The case of Bristol." Cities 79, no. : 78-91.
The aim of this paper is to discuss the impact of recent regulatory changes in air passenger transport between Europe and Africa. We quantify the impacts of liberalisation of the EU-Africa aviation market on air fare and service frequency using a two-stage least squares model approach. The analysis shows that inter-continental air services between Europe and Africa are mainly governed by bilateral agreements negotiated between the individual countries of the EU and the various African governments. Compared to the developments in the links between Africa and the rest of the world, the EU-Africa market appears to be losing momentum. The results of the econometric model suggest that EU-Africa routes which experienced liberalisation over the period 2002 and 2016 had 28% higher departure frequency and 14% lower fares than those routes without such a regime change. Furthermore, the results show that the presence of a low-cost carrier reduces fare by 31%.
Eric Tchouamou Njoya; Panayiotis Christidis; Alexandros Nikitas. Understanding the impact of liberalisation in the EU-Africa aviation market. Journal of Transport Geography 2018, 71, 161 -171.
AMA StyleEric Tchouamou Njoya, Panayiotis Christidis, Alexandros Nikitas. Understanding the impact of liberalisation in the EU-Africa aviation market. Journal of Transport Geography. 2018; 71 ():161-171.
Chicago/Turabian StyleEric Tchouamou Njoya; Panayiotis Christidis; Alexandros Nikitas. 2018. "Understanding the impact of liberalisation in the EU-Africa aviation market." Journal of Transport Geography 71, no. : 161-171.
Developing initiatives that allow societies to embrace more sustainable travel behaviour patterns is a prerequisite for creating more livable urban futures. Bike-sharing, a measure designed to inspire modal shift from short car-trips, despite its recent exponential growth, is still understudied. This paper discusses a quantitative survey of 640 responses examining road users' attitudes towards bike-sharing and its possible introduction to Drama, a small Greek city resembling many others in terms of size, transport culture and socio-economic characteristics, which has never been exposed to a similar intervention. Most of the respondents recognised that bike-sharing is a mode with pro-environmental, cost-effective and health-improving qualities and the potential to promote a greener identity for the city. Evidence is provided that people would support a bike-sharing investment even in cases where the frequency of their current bicycle use and the regularity with which they intend to use an eventual scheme is low. Age, gender, the primary factor for modal choice, its perceived effectiveness in reducing traffic congestion and their usage expectations were all factors influencing the respondents’ acceptability of such an introduction. The lack of cycling infrastructure and road safety concerns were identified as possible usage barriers but the pro-social potential of bike-sharing combined with policy efforts to create a more pro-cycling culture could outweigh them. The present analysis suggests that bike-sharing can go beyond, what is typically regarded as its primary function, that of a last-mile solution for metropolitan areas, and be a publicly acceptable investment for smaller cities.
Alexandros Nikitas. Understanding bike-sharing acceptability and expected usage patterns in the context of a small city novel to the concept: A story of ‘Greek Drama’. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour 2018, 56, 306 -321.
AMA StyleAlexandros Nikitas. Understanding bike-sharing acceptability and expected usage patterns in the context of a small city novel to the concept: A story of ‘Greek Drama’. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour. 2018; 56 ():306-321.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlexandros Nikitas. 2018. "Understanding bike-sharing acceptability and expected usage patterns in the context of a small city novel to the concept: A story of ‘Greek Drama’." Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour 56, no. : 306-321.
A smarter transport system that caters for social, economic and environmental sustainability is arguably one of the most critical prerequisites for creating pathways to more livable urban futures. This paper aims to provide a state-of-the-art analysis of a selection of mobility initiatives that may dictate the future of urban transportation and make cities smarter. These are mechanisms either recently introduced with encouraging uptake so far and much greater potential to contribute in a shift to a better transport paradigm or still in an embryonic stage of their development and yet to be embraced as powerful mechanisms that could change travel behaviour norms. Autonomous and connected vehicles are set to revolutionise the urban landscape by allowing machines to take over driving that for over a century has been exclusively a human activity, while electrical vehicles are already helping decarbonising the transport sector. Bus rapid transit has been steadily reinventing and rebranding conventional bus services revitalising the use of the humblest form of public transport, while hyperloop is an entirely new, disruptive, and somewhat provocative, travel mode proposition based on the use of sealed tube systems through which pods could travel free of air resistance with speeds exceeding 1000 km/h. Shared use mobility mechanisms like car-sharing, ride-sharing, ride-sourcing and public bicycles can help establishing a culture for using mobility resources on an as-needed basis, while mobility-as-a-service will take this sharing culture a step further, offering tailored mobility and trip planning packages that could entirely replace the need for privately owned modes of transport.
Alexandros Nikitas; Ioannis Kougias; Elena Alyavina; Eric Njoya Tchouamou. How Can Autonomous and Connected Vehicles, Electromobility, BRT, Hyperloop, Shared Use Mobility and Mobility-As-A-Service Shape Transport Futures for the Context of Smart Cities? Urban Science 2017, 1, 36 .
AMA StyleAlexandros Nikitas, Ioannis Kougias, Elena Alyavina, Eric Njoya Tchouamou. How Can Autonomous and Connected Vehicles, Electromobility, BRT, Hyperloop, Shared Use Mobility and Mobility-As-A-Service Shape Transport Futures for the Context of Smart Cities? Urban Science. 2017; 1 (4):36.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlexandros Nikitas; Ioannis Kougias; Elena Alyavina; Eric Njoya Tchouamou. 2017. "How Can Autonomous and Connected Vehicles, Electromobility, BRT, Hyperloop, Shared Use Mobility and Mobility-As-A-Service Shape Transport Futures for the Context of Smart Cities?" Urban Science 1, no. 4: 36.