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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Sustainable travel"”.
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Exploring Sustainable Travel Behavior for Generation Y and Z
… tourist numbers and levels of spending that traveler previously engaged in. The young generations, specifically Gen Y and Z, play an important role in the tourism market, and they often embody a mindset that takes into consideration issues of sustainability. However, they are not as active as …
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Promoting Tourists' Responsible Behaviour: Exploring the Effectiveness of Pledge
… a responsible tourist pledge on their official travel website. However, its application in a responsible tourism context is still not well understood. This research investigates the effectiveness of using a pledge to promote sustainable travel behaviours in tourists. An online experiment was …
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Sustainability Transitions in Rural Tourism Travel: Understanding Global South Travel Practices using the case of Bali Island, Indonesia
Practicing sustainable travel to rural areas is challenging. Public transport barely covers rural areas, while active travel often requires advanced physical ability. Whilst the Global South has a low exposure to sustainable tourism transport research, they have difficulties providing adequate …
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A sustainable journey to school: global issues, local places, children's lives
… access to public space, social exclusion, sustainable transport policy and children’s rights (Barker, 2003; CABE, 2008; Lolichen, 2007; SEU, 2003; Unicef, 2007). Despite heightened interest in these issues, little is known about the individual experiences of children’s journeys to school at …
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Leveraging smartphones to incentivize city-wide, energy ecient transportation
… on inefficient transportation sources. The "Sustainable Travel Incentives with Prediction, Optimization and Personalization" (Tripod) project seeks to incentivize people to improve their transportation-related behavior through redeemable tokens. These tokens are rewarded through city-wide, …
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The Impact of Transit Oriented Development on the Travel Behaviors of Workers in Denver, Colorado
<p>To combat unsustainable transportation systems characterized by reliance on petroleum, polluting emissions, traffic congestion and suburban sprawl, planners encourage mixed use, densely populated areas that provide individuals with opportunities to live, work, eat and shop without necessarily …
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Longitudinal multilevel models analyzing the trends of land use effects on non-driving travel choice
… numerous studies about land use effects on travel mode choice, and probed for effective policies to reduce driving, since less driving and more non-driving are widely recognized as more sustainable travel behaviors to resolve many environmental, energy and social equity issues. However, most …
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Negotiating ROI (Return on Investment) for ROI (Return on Impact) A Pre-Feasibility Study of Socio-Eco Resort Development in Eastern Indonesia
… consider the growing demand for environmentally sustainable travel and the desire of travelers to positively impact the local economy. The research aims to determine the best partnership structure and agreement for the general partner (GP), limited partner (LP), and hotel management to achieve …
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Evaluating the significance of travel plans in shaping commuting practices within the university sector in Greater Manchester
… this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of travel plans in promoting and encouraging sustainable travel behaviours in Greater Manchester’s university sector. To achieve the aim this study will use practice theory to explore the effects of university travel plans on the commuting habits of …
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Choice modeling with observed and unobserved information search
… service which provides on-demand incentives for sustainable travel behaviors. The second part of the thesis considers the case where the decision-maker might not process all the acquired information. A search action model is proposed to fully acknowledge the latency of the information processing …
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Analysis of Commuter Modal Choice Decisions in Boston, Massachusetts
… practice in travel demand analysis is to use discrete choice models in the analysis of transport mode selection. The study follows these generally accepted principles by using a multinomial logit model for the quantitative analysis of the case study …
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Are There Alternatives to Greenbelts? Evidence from a New Land-use Transport Interaction Model for Greater Beijing
… are considered a key instrument for shaping sustainable urban growth and protecting the environment in a large number of cities in the world. In most cities, there is a widely shared belief that urban greenbelts are beneficial to the natural environment. By contrast, there is little …
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Sperimentazione e modellizzazione di un programma di cambiamento volontario del comportamento di viaggio
… and in particular assess the efficacy of travel behaviour change strategies. This work aims to provide major insights into how to reduce private car use and addresses sustainable mobility objectives associated with CO2 reduction. This is particularly important at a time when the car still …
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The role of urban spatial structure in reducing VMT and GHG emissions
… gas (GHG) mitigation and to understand how sustainable urban form can better reduce climate change. Until now, a great number of studies have focused on the links between urban spatial structure and travel behavior, but little is known about spatial structure impacts on residential energy …