The Hitchhiker’s Guide to challenges in transport policy research: Towards ANSWERing questions regarding life, mobility, and everything

Sebastian Wandelt, Anming Zhang, Constantinos Antoniou, Lucy Budd, Mercedes Castro-Nuno, Yida Ding, Jonas Eliasson, Stefan Goessling, Sylvia Y. He, Stephen Ison, Changmin Jiang, Jasmine Siu Lee Lam, Kevin Li, Zhiyuan Liu, Becky P.Y. Loo, Xiaolei Ma, Juan de Dios Ortúzar, Oscar Oviedo-Trespalacios, Donggen Wang and Xiaoqian Sun

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2025, vol. 200, issue C

Abstract: Transport policy research has been developed systematically since the second half of the 20th century, when urban planning and transportation systems became critical components of economic development and urbanization. The field has evolved through a wealth of diverse publications and scholarly contributions. Our comprehensive guide synthesizes the state of the art in 20 major categories of transport policy research, identified based on a data-driven categorization. Each category is represented by a leading expert in the field, providing a rigorous assessment of the state of the art on an area together with an identification of challenges to inform future research and policymaking. Aggregated analysis reveals six major trends in policy research, namely: Adaptability, Network Integration, Sustainability, Wireless Connectivity, Equity, and Resilience — combined to form the word ANSWER, with each component being crucial to understanding and addressing the field’s multifaceted challenges. Our guide aims to provide answers to pressing challenges and serve as an essential, accessible reference regarding transport policy research for academics, policymakers, and industry stakeholders alike.

Keywords: Transportation; Policymaking; Review; Challenges (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2025.104650

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