ABSTRACT
The transport sector plays an important role as a dynamic network linking social, economic, and environmental dimensions. In recent decades, socially sustainable development has become essential to multinational transportation policies and strategies. Several bibliometric analysis studies have systematically evaluated sustainable transport, economically sustainable transport, and environmentally sustainable transport;however, no such analysis has been conducted on socially sustainable transport. In response to this research gap, we conducted a comprehensive bibliometric analysis and thorough visualization and mapping of socially sustainable transport research over 1993–2021. A total of 2,703 publications from the Web of Science core collection database were analyzed using VOSviewer, ArcGIS, and CiteSpace. The results found that the United States of America published 17.13% of the total number of articles, China published 14.17% of the articles, and the United Kingdom published 13.47% of the articles. Four stages of development were identified: 50 articles in the initial stage (1993–2000), 76 articles in the exploration stage (2001–2005), 550 articles in the stable development stage (2006–2014), and 1877 articles in the rapid development stage (2015–2021). Cluster analysis revealed two persistent research topics: multi-objective optimization and social sustainability index for the transport sector. Emerging research topics included shared transport, frames of transportation, smart city, sustainable mobility, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mobility. Finally, we explored the four potential avenues to develop the socially sustainable transport field. These analytical findings may be valuable for sustainable transportation industry practitioners, researchers, and policymakers.
ABSTRACT
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 has resulted in a transition from physical education to online learning, leading to a collapse of the established educational order and a wisdom test for the education governance system. As a country seriously affected by the pandemic, the health of the Indian higher education system urgently requires assessment to achieve sustainable development and maximize educational externalities. This research systematically proposes a health assessment model from four perspectives, including educational volume, efficiency, equality, and sustainability, by employing the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to an Ideal Solution Model, Principal Component Analysis, DEA-Tobit Model, and Augmented Solow Model. Empirical results demonstrate that India has high efficiency and an absolute health score in the higher education system through multiple comparisons between India and the other selected countries while having certain deficiencies in equality and sustainability. Additionally, single-target and multiple-target path are simultaneously proposed to enhance the Indian current education system. The multiple-target approach of the India-China-Japan-Europe-USA process is more feasible to achieve sustainable development, which would improve the overall health score from .351 to .716. This finding also reveals that the changes are relatively complex and would take 91.5 years considering the relationship between economic growth rates and crucial indicators. Four targeted policies are suggested for each catching-up period, including expanding and increasing the social funding sources, striving for government expenditure support to improve infrastructures, imposing gender equality in education, and accelerating the construction of high-quality teachers.