A Review of COVID-19-Related Literature on Freight Transport: Impacts, Mitigation Strategies, Recovery Measures, and Future Research Directions

Karam, Ahmed; Eltoukhy, Abdelrahman E. E.; Shaban, Ibrahim Abdelfadeel; Attia, El-Awady

doi:10.3390/ijerph191912287

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“…Among all the analysed studies on the impact of COVID-19 on road freight transport, there was one involving a literature review based on bibliometric and scientometric analyses. The authors (Karam et al, 2022) selected 68 studies on the impact of COVID-19 on freight transport, which makes their work similar to our original analyses.…”

Section: The Impact Of the Covid-19 Pandemic On Polish Road Transport...mentioning

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Is there any ‘new normal’? Economics of the turmoil

2024

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With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world came to a standstill. Scholars and policymakers dealing with the economic consequences of the pandemic quickly realised that returning to the pre-pandemic state was impossible—the global community had been heading toward a “new normal”. Unfortunately, before we could recognise and tame the “new normal” for good, it was disrupted by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and subsequent energy crises. Therefore, in the monograph’s title, we question whether any “new normal” exists. However, disruptions and shocks are unimaginable to get used to; as researchers, we believe knowledge becomes particularly valuable in such circumstances. Defining, studying and describing turmoils allow, if only to some extent, to control the damages they cause. Hence, the research presented in this book aims to identify and explore challenges at the supranational and national levels. Focusing on those challenges, we got to investigate the multidimensional impact of the pandemic shock on business reality. In doing that, we hoped to collect a valuable foundation for formulating a resilience policy, which, to be effective, must respect the peculiarity of national economies, industries, firms, and individual consumers.

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“…SRs offer several advantages, such as providing a reliable and comprehensive assessment of evidence, guiding evidence-based practice and policymaking, identifying research gaps, and enhancing statistical power through meta-analysis [4,5]. It is worth mentioning that SR articles are a valuable tool for synthesizing and analyzing research evidence in many fields of research, particularly in fields where research evidence is constantly evolving, such as in healthcare [6][7][8][9], project management [10][11][12][13], construction management [14][15][16][17][18][19], and aviation routing management [20,21]. To ensure that SRs are reported accurately and comprehensively, PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for SRs and Meta-Analyses) is widely used.…”

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Harnessing the Power of ChatGPT for Automating Systematic Review Process: Methodology, Case Study, Limitations, and Future Directions

Alshami

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Ali

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Systematic reviews (SR) are crucial in synthesizing and analyzing existing scientific literature to inform evidence-based decision-making. However, traditional SR methods often have limitations, including a lack of automation and decision support, resulting in time-consuming and error-prone reviews. To address these limitations and drive the field forward, we harness the power of the revolutionary language model, ChatGPT, which has demonstrated remarkable capabilities in various scientific writing tasks. By utilizing ChatGPT’s natural language processing abilities, our objective is to automate and streamline the steps involved in traditional SR, explicitly focusing on literature search, screening, data extraction, and content analysis. Therefore, our methodology comprises four modules: (1) Preparation of Boolean research terms and article collection, (2) Abstract screening and articles categorization, (3) Full-text filtering and information extraction, and (4) Content analysis to identify trends, challenges, gaps, and proposed solutions. Throughout each step, our focus has been on providing quantitative analyses to strengthen the robustness of the review process. To illustrate the practical application of our method, we have chosen the topic of IoT applications in water and wastewater management and quality monitoring due to its critical importance and the dearth of comprehensive reviews in this field. The findings demonstrate the potential of ChatGPT in bridging the gap between traditional SR methods and AI language models, resulting in enhanced efficiency and reliability of SR processes. Notably, ChatGPT exhibits exceptional performance in filtering and categorizing relevant articles, leading to significant time and effort savings. Our quantitative assessment reveals the following: (1) the overall accuracy of ChatGPT for article discarding and classification is 88%, and (2) the F-1 scores of ChatGPT for article discarding and classification are 91% and 88%, respectively, compared to expert assessments. However, we identify limitations in its suitability for article extraction. Overall, this research contributes valuable insights to the field of SR, empowering researchers to conduct more comprehensive and reliable reviews while advancing knowledge and decision-making across various domains.

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“…It has the characteristics of time concentration and space aggregation. The COVID-19 pandemic has boosted many studies to understand the interplay between road transport and pandemics [5][6][7]. Most findings show that the pandemic and road closure have harmed road transport [8,9].…”

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Quantifying Road Transport Resilience to Emergencies: Evidence from China

Zhang,

Lu,

Wang

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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Facing the shock of emergencies, how resilient is the road transport system? In this process, how are the system’s absorption capacity, adaptability, and recovery capacity? These are very important for the development of sustainable road transportation. Taking China’s road transport during the COVID-19 pandemic as the research object, this paper introduces an integrated resilience quantification method, draws a road transport resilience curve, and comprehensively and dynamically analyzes and compares the resilience of China’s road transport system at different stages among different regions and under different epidemic waves. The results show that the resilience of road passenger and freight transport differs in the face of external disturbance. Freight transport resilience is better than that of passenger transport. Compared to passenger transport, freight transport is more robust; the impacted speed is slower, the recovery speed is faster, the recovery capacity is stronger, and the affected period is shorter. There is regional heterogeneity in road transport resilience. This heterogeneity is reflected in the whole change process of system performance with external disturbance, including absorption capacity, adaptation capacity, and recovery capacity. The resilience of road transport under different waves of the epidemic is different. Compared to the first wave of the epidemic, the resilience of road transport indicators at all stages has been dramatically improved in the later rebound wave of the epidemic. This can help in the development of evidence-based road transport sustainability strategies.

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A Review of COVID-19-Related Literature on Freight Transport: Impacts, Mitigation Strategies, Recovery Measures, and Future Research Directions

Cited by 11 publications

References 79 publications

Is there any ‘new normal’? Economics of the turmoil

Is there any ‘new normal’? Economics of the turmoil

Harnessing the Power of ChatGPT for Automating Systematic Review Process: Methodology, Case Study, Limitations, and Future Directions

Quantifying Road Transport Resilience to Emergencies: Evidence from China

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