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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Carpooling"”.
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Does Carpooling To/From Work Reduce Stress?
… purpose of this study is to investigate whether carpooling to/from work reduces stress levels in adults. Many people (including the investigator) have long commutes to/from work everyday. Long commutes are not only costly, but they are also very stressful. The reason for conducting this research …
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Exploring human activity behavior and mobility data in carpooling
… of these concepts to the practice of carpooling. We propose a semantic regularity profile based on the entropy of the spatial and temporal frequency of visits to certain categories of places. We analyze the user’s behavior with respect to regularity and irregularity, identifying users …
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Aplicación de carpooling para el traslado seguro orientado al segmento escolar
… presentada busca desarrollar una aplicación de carpooling, denominada PaMaCar, para mejorar la experiencia de transporte escolar en el Colegio Diocesano El Buen Pastor, situado en Los Olivos, Lima, Perú. Actualmente, los padres enfrentan múltiples desafíos relacionados con el traslado de sus …
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Estudio de prefactibilidad para la instalación de una empresa de transporte compartido (carpooling) en una universidad privada de la ciudad de Lima
… de una empresa de transporte compartido (carpooling) de una universidad privada de la ciudad de Lima, en el que el conductor sea un estudiante de la universidad y el medio de transporte sea su propio auto. Con el fin de que genere seguridad y tranquilidad al pasajero, el cual también es …
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Quantifying the environmental impacts of selected sustainable transportation policies
… of first, High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes and carpooling as a realization of avoid strategies; and second, Plug-in Electric Vehicles (PEVs) as an example of replace strategies. The resulting models have a wide range of applications in evaluating the effectiveness of each strategy, including the …
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Enhancing Capacity and Managing Demand to Increase Short-Term Throughput on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
… four categories of improving transit, promoting carpooling, implementing intelligent transportation systems practices, and incentivizing alternatives to using the Bay Bridge. Top priorities include HOV improvements on the West Grand Avenue and Powell Street onramps, altering WestCAT Lynx and BART …
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Ozone air pollution and stage-of-change status for alternative transportation usage among college students
… and incentives for usage of walking, bicycling, carpooling, and public transit for commuting purposes, and to determine health beliefs regarding ozone air pollution. The survey was administered to 103 male and 99 female college students between the ages of 18 to 65. Chi-square analysis revealed …
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Dynamic matching algorithms
… matching markets such as kidney exchange and carpooling platforms. In such platforms, the algorithm which determines whom to match and when to do so plays an important role in the efficiency of the marketplace. In the first part, we study the interface between the participant heterogeneity, …
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Information, Learning and Incentive Design for Urban Transportation Networks
… 2) Market mechanism design for efficient carpooling and toll pricing in the presence of autonomous driving technology; 3) Security analysis and resource allocation for robustness under random or adversarial disruptions. Firstly, we present game-theoretic analysis to evaluate the impact of …
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Changing car culture: a case study at Binghamton University
… System, Satisfaction with Parking, Comfort with Carpooling, and Perceived Benefits and Drawbacks, which were analyzed under different qualitative and quantitative methods to test for their effect on car culture. Qualitative analysis was conducted using R and SPSS to run Chi-square tests and …
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Framework for a lottery-based incentive scheme and its influence on commuting behaviors : an MIT case study
… via walking, bicycling, taking public transit or carpooling instead of driving alone. The credits accrued can either be used to exchange for a deterministic cash prize, or a chance to enter a grand lottery draw. This thesis reviews the research literature to explain the influence of lottery …
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ANALYSIS OF SLACK TIME FOR A REAL-TIME RIDESHARE SYSTEM
Ridesharing and carpooling are effective traffic demand management strategies with many benefits comparable to other highway management methods. As a safety factor can increase the reliability of transit systems, a slack time can be added to the passenger pickup schedule to increase the system …
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Impact of Real-Time Information and Road User Fees on Individuals Mode Choice Decision
… delays reduce the likelihood of driving alone, carpooling, and transit. The findings of this research provide critical insights, supporting the implementation of evidence-based strategies to promote alternative sustainable transportation modes in the presence of real-time information and MBUF.
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THE NUTRITION ENVIRONMENT IN RURAL SOUTHERN ILLINOIS: AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE
… quality food items. Coordinating shopping trips, carpooling, and gardening, community sharing, were ways challenges in the nutrition environment were managed. Limits of the nutrition environment were further managed through roadside markets, mobile sources, and pantries or give-a-ways. Health …