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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Car ownership"”.
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Parking policy as a mechanism to reduce car ownership and use
The vast majority of Americans own a car, despite its high cost and low utilization rate. Through a stated preference survey in Washington D.C., Chicago, Dallas, and Seattle metro areas, I find that people value their car at $11,197, and the majority of that value comes from owning the car, rather …
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Measuring car pride and its implications for car ownership and use across individuals, cities, and countries
… understanding how to avoid growth in car ownership and how to shift current users towards more efficient, environmentally-friendly, safe, and inclusive alternatives is a critical vision for meeting sustainable (transportation) development goals. Policy makers looking to shift consumer …
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The impact of ride-hailing services on travel behaviour
… share of other modes such as public transit and car ownership. This study delves into links between ride-hailing services and private vehicles ownership. It also questions the impact of ridesharing services on public transport use and the role neighborhood context plays on the link between …
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Estimating the number of cars in UK and US households
… investigate factors responsible for households’ car ownership. While literature holds an extensive body of investigation usually compartmentalised in individual different disciplines, limited efforts have been made to promote inter-linkages of this strand of research across different disciplines. …
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Capturing the impacts of land use on travel behavior : comparison of modeling approaches
… employed to investigate the variables related to car ownership and travel behavior. The first analysis uses a discrete-continuous choice model to understand the attributes that influence car-ownership and travel emissions. The second study uses structural equation modeling to simultaneously …
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Does energy follow urban form? : an examination of neighborhoods and transport energy use in Jinan, China
… attitudes and their choices of vehicle ownership, both taken into account in the short-term utility maximization process. However, due to other complicating interactions among different aspects of travel patterns and other factors (e.g., housing choice), we cannot a priori determine what …
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Contribuição metodológica para determinação de despesas individuais com transporte urbano
… income, gender, age, activity, education degree, car ownership, among others. Among the main results it can be mentioned that 12.15% of the average monthly income of the individual is spent with urban transport, considering those that present non-zero displacements and the value of 7.74% for the …
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Strategic change in the UK railway network through reorganization and major projects
… there just rudderless “drift” as the roads and car ownership expanded following the Transports Act of 1947, 1953, 1962, 1985 and 2000? What resulted from Southall (1997), Ladbroke Grove (1999) and Hatfield (2000)? In its thankfully short existence was the Strategic Rail Authority (2001-2006) …
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Green mobility Taipei City : with the arrival of mobility-on-demand system with ultra small electric vehicles
… new concepts about various alternative types of car ownership, such as Mobility-on-Demand (MoD) systems, a one-way rental car sharing systems, for which the Smart Cities group of MIT Media Lab is doing research. The regulation and infrastructure of current cities are mainly designed to …
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Personal city mobility in the context of sustainable development = Személyes városi mobilitás a fenntartható fejlődés kontextusában
… in my dissertation, has made private passenger cars so affordable, that we have reached a point, where most people in the developed countries (and not only there) cannot imagine a day without driving. The number of passenger cars continuously increases. The evolution of the automobile, together …
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Preference accommodating and preference shaping : incorporating traveler preferences into transportation planning
… personality traits, environmental attitudes, car pride and perceptions of convenience and comfort. Despite the recognition of the importance of these psychological factors in better understanding travel behavior, transportation agencies have failed to integrate them into planning practice and …
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Increasing Saudi females' accessibility to employment via car-pooling in Riyadh : measure the realistic commute cost by network computing methods and investigate the share-ability based on actual taxi trip data
… is restrained, especially among lower car ownership segments. Such restrictions have negative influence on Saudi females' employment. The employment rate of Saudi women is only 22%. However, no previous research has quantitatively investigated the commute cost as a financial burden and …
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Tarmac cowboys : an ethnographic study of the cultural world of boy racers
… my varying degrees of engagement with the street car culture which existed around the area where I lived in Cornwall, I had become aware of the extent to which cars played an important role and represented the norm of daily discourse, entered into by others, and particularly young men. Yet as one …
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Transport Choice and the Fragmentation of Mobility in Britain, 1959-1974
… modes between 1959 and 1974. The dawn of mass car ownership, which precipitated the decline of bus and rail demand, reshaped the importance of each to different groups. The rise of the car spread unevenly across different locations according to class, age, and gender. Thus, as the car became an …
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Examining Community Integration of Individuals With Psychiatric Disabilities Residing In Supported and Non-Supported Housing
… Personal characteristics (i.e., age, sex, race, car ownership, monthly income, psychiatric diagnosis, physical health impairment, and psychiatric distress); housing/ neighborhood variables (i.e., neighborhood quality, perceptions of safety, neighbor relations, residential satisfaction, …
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Institutional perspectives on road pricing : essays on implementation, response, and adaptation
… have not been able to prevent the growth in car ownership and traffic congestion, creating the need to consider alternative market-based approaches such as road pricing along with complementary investments in urban public transportation.
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Modeling preferences for innovative modes and services : a case study in Lisbon
Increases in car ownership and usage have resulted in serious traffic congestion problems in many large cities worldwide. Innovative travel modes and services can play an important role in improving the efficiency and sustainability of transportation systems. In this study, we evaluate the …
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Architecture's Invisible Tie to Loneliness
… enough is time. We spend a lot of our time in cars commuting to and from work during the week and to the grocery store over the weekend. In a time when we are slowly moving towards normalcy, if normalcy still is physically going to places, I wanted to take into account some factors to help me …
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