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Gomez, JuanAuthorGarrido, LauraAuthorVassallo, Jose ManuelAuthor

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July 31, 2025
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How does e-commerce impact shopping mobility behavior?

Publicated to: Transportation. 52 (6): 2399-2432 - 2025-07-21 52(6), DOI: 10.1007/s11116-025-10658-x

Authors:

Castaño-Herrera D; Gomez J; Garrido L; Tapiador L; Vassallo JM
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Univ Politecn Madrid, Ctr Invest Transporte TRANSyT, Calle Prof Aranguren 3, Madrid 28040, Spain - Author

Abstract

The exponential growth of e-commerce over the last years is changing people's shopping and mobility, with sustainability implications. Most contributions explore the substitution or complementarity effects of e-commerce by analyzing people's shopping trips, but customer behavior in the counterfactual scenario (non-availability of e-shopping) has not been addressed. This paper provides interesting insights by studying mobility and shopping behavior if e-commerce had not been available through a survey data analysis, taking the Region of Madrid (Spain) as the case study, with more than 1,300 valid observations. The research calibrates a Generalized Structural Equation Model (GSEM) to analyze e-shopping habits and associated mobility at the individual level, both in actual and counterfactual shopping behavior, and study the influence of multiple explanatory variables: socio-demographics, mobility patterns, e-shopping behavior (delivery characteristics and mobility), and psychological and lifestyle preferences. According to the results, more than half of the e-purchases corresponded to products available close to home, while only a minority of them were induced (products that would not otherwise have been purchased). E-shopping behavior, residential location (urban vs suburban) and lifestyle attitudes (e.g., environmental consciousness) emerge as key drivers in determining the substitution or complementarity effect of e-shopping and its resulting implications on mobility. In view of the modelling results, the paper discusses the impact (positive or negative) that e-commerce may have on sustainability depending on the spatial context. Finally, it proposes recommendations to make e-commerce more sustainable.
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Keywords

AdoptionAttitudesChoiceDelivery optionsE-commerceIn-storeModelsOnlineOnline shoppingSustainabilitSustainabilityTravel behaviorTrip

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Transportation due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2025, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category . Notably, the journal is positioned above the 90th percentile.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2025-12-20:

  • WoS: 1
  • Scopus: 1
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-12-20:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 15.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 41 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 18.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 2 (Altmetric).
  • The number of mentions in news outlets: 2 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Castano-Herrera, Daniela) and Last Author (VASSALLO MAGRO, JOSE MANUEL).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Castano-Herrera, Daniela.

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Awards linked to the item

The authors wish to thank the Grant IMPETUS PID2021-123672OB-I00 funded by MICIU/AEI/ https://doi.org/10.13039/501100011033 and by ERDF/EU.
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