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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Commuting Times"”.
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Examining Commuting Times and Jobs-housing Imbalance in Seoul: An Empirical Analysis of Urban Spatial Structure
… between socioeconomic characteristics and commuting patterns by applying smart card data that includes individual travel behaviors during commuting periods. Among regression results, average commuting times are significantly associated with the proportion of population with lower levels of …
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Agricultural Technologies and Economic Development: Three Essays on Technology Adoption and Inequality
… Upward Income Mobility: The Hidden Cost of Commuting' focuses on commuting times as a determinant of upward income mobility in the United States. We provide an explanation of the channel through which the effect of commuting times on upward income mobility operates. Additionally, it …
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Modeling demand of bike share system using built environment attributes in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina
… to alleviate traffic congestion, reduce commuting times and improve air quality. This research is an initial attempt to measure the relationship between demand of Buenos Aires' bikeshare system and sociodemographic, built environment and transportation attributes using a linear regression …
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VEHICLE DASHBOARD TRAFFIC LIGHT SYSTEMS AT A 4-WAY INTERSECTION
… of a technology that has remained behind the times. While there is a lot of potential for reducing CO2 gas emissions, oil consumption, and commuting times, research in this area has resulted in minor changes. In this thesis, we improve on what others have learned to provide a solution in …
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New urbanism on a grand scale : the challenges for large-scale, multi-phase master planned developments
… housing and transportation costs, arduous commuting times, negative environmental impacts, and harmful effects to individuals' physical health. There have been a number of smaller -- "town-scale" -- New Urbanist developments built since the movement gained traction and formal organization …
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Urban Spatial Structure and Household Travel Time
… the sprawl of business activity and travel times by examining only its effects on commuting times and has concluded that people do not choosing housing and work locations to minimize commutes. This research takes a more comprehensive approach by analyzing the relationship between household …
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Spatial mismatch in Cape Town : business location and the impacts on workers
… public transport, by intensifying the burdens of commuting times and costs. A further finding is that many businesses resort to highly informal methods of recruitment, such as word-of-mouth and internal referral techniques, revealing the significance of social networks in gaining access to job …
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Higher occupancy humanism : the trade-offs for encouraging middle income housing in a global city
… and jobs are located. This causes extended commuting times that result in the exacerbation of pollution and wasted allocation of resources. In effect, the overall function of the city grows more inefficient. All the while, the demographic texture of the central city becomes a polarized …
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Essays in immigration economics
… to legally obtain driver's licenses shifts commuting patterns, increases job accessibility, and improves labor market outcomes. Using state- and nativity-level variation in reforms, I show that granting driving privileges to undocumented immigrants increases vehicle ownership and the …
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Driving connectivity : the future of the U.S. telematics industry and its impact to Toyota Motors
… usage of the World Wide Web and increasing commuting times. In short Guglielmi asserted that due to growing consumer expectations concerning connectivity, Telematics represented not only a new line of business for automotive OEMs and wireless manufacturers, but a very profitable one as well. …
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Evaluation of the modal choice behaviour and bus service preferences of commuters of the scheduled Golden Arrow Bus Services (Pty) Ltd using stated choice data
… levels during the morning and afternoon peak commuting times. The commuters' willingness to pay for a switch to a new MyCiTi IRT-type service from their current choice of an existing GABS bus service is estimated. The choice data is collected by means of an on-board bus survey along three …