IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jlands/v15y2026i6p1019-d1963451.html

Quantifying Urban Travel Resilience Under Multi-Source External Stimuli: Linking Social Perception, Green Exposure, and Low-Carbon Mobility

Author

Listed:
  • Yantong Li

    (School of Architecture, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China)

  • Taoyu Chen

    (The International Joint Institute of Tianjin University, Fuzhou, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China)

  • Yajie Guo

    (School of Architecture, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China)

  • Rui Wang

    (School of Architecture, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China)

  • Shisen Meng

    (Dipartimento di Architettura e Design (DAD), Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Torino, Italy)

  • He Zhang

    (School of Architecture, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China)

Abstract

Demand-side management is increasingly important for low-carbon transport governance. However, many studies assume relatively stable travel preferences and pay limited attention to behavioural changes under sudden external shocks. This study proposes an Event–Behaviour–Resilience framework and applies Natural Language Processing to Sina Weibo data to examine travel responses to extreme heat and refined oil price adjustments. The results show asymmetric response patterns. Oil price increases were associated with cost-based low-carbon substitution, with new-energy vehicle intentions accounting for 64.4% of the share. In contrast, extreme heat was associated with both trip reduction and motorised travel. Travel reduction reached 52.4%, while ride-hailing or taxi responses accounted for 24.6%. A quadratic fitting analysis identified 38.0–39.0 °C as an observed transition interval, within which high-carbon motorised willingness began to exceed low-carbon slow mobility willingness. Group-level analysis showed unequal behavioural flexibility. While 80.0% of the general population reduced travel under extreme heat, the forced mobility group showed limited travel reduction and maintained a high level of low-carbon willingness at 86.87%. XGBoost-SHAP results indicated that temperature, emotional valence, and behavioural constraints contributed to low-carbon mobility intention. These findings suggest that behavioural responses can help identify spatial interventions for low-carbon transport, especially in relation to heat exposure, mobility flexibility, and access to adaptive travel options.

Suggested Citation

  • Yantong Li & Taoyu Chen & Yajie Guo & Rui Wang & Shisen Meng & He Zhang, 2026. "Quantifying Urban Travel Resilience Under Multi-Source External Stimuli: Linking Social Perception, Green Exposure, and Low-Carbon Mobility," Land, MDPI, vol. 15(6), pages 1-25, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jlands:v:15:y:2026:i:6:p:1019-:d:1963451
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/15/6/1019/pdf
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/15/6/1019/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jlands:v:15:y:2026:i:6:p:1019-:d:1963451. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager The email address of this maintainer does not seem to be valid anymore. Please ask MDPI Indexing Manager to update the entry or send us the correct address (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.