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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Transportation demand management"”.
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Democratizing mobility and accessibility in American communities : transportation demand management and universal design approaches
… are two approaches can create more accommodating transportation journeys in the public realm and on transit for specific protected groups and restore mobility and accessibility injustice for historically marginalized groups.
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What Would it Take for You to Stop Driving to Work? Employer-Based Transportation Demand Management at Brock University
… is through the implementation of employer-based transportation demand management (TDM), which is a set of policies that can be used to influence the commute behaviors of employees. From the employees at Brock University, in St. Catharines, Ontario, we wanted to know: What would it take for you to …
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Managing pavement in a busy urban highway network
In this dissertation, two dynamic transportation models are formulated and analyzed. When employed in optimal control exercises, these models determine for some metropolitan highway a set of optimal transportation policies, specifically relating to the problem of pavement management. The first …
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Great Langdale Valley, Cumbria: An Analysis of the viability of road-user charging as a Demand Management Tool for motor-vehicle dependent recreation
… application of road-user charging to the Transportation Demand Management Strategy for Great Langdale Valley in the Lake District National Park. There were three research objectives: firstly, to investigate the response of motorists to the hypothetical imposition of monetary road-user …
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Distance based vehicle insurance : actuarial and planning issues
… per-km” insurance) has long been advocated by transportation planners as a transportation demand management (TDM) strategy. In addition to reducing congestion and greenhouse gas emissions, it also has the potential to meet a number of planning goals, such as health and equity improvements. …
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Determining relationships and policies that transit properties have with regional employers to increase ridership : a case of the Tren Urbano in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Employer-based transportation demand management measures are increasingly seen by transportation planners as one of the potential means to manage the demand for private transport. These measures are essentially a comprehensive package of incentives and disincentives targeted at employees to …
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Suburb-to-suburb commuting and transit planning : a case study of Surrey, B.C.
… and more pedestrian and transit friendly design. Transportation demand management must also be used to encourage transit use by increasing the costs of driving an automobile. This three-pronged, comprehensive approach should allow transit to compete successfully in some suburban markets.
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New incentives to change modes : an experimental design to reduce single-occupant vehicle commuting in Kendall Square
… and MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Sustainable transportation incentive programs for employers can be mutually beneficial for employees, employers, transit agencies, and cities if the options are offered in a manner that is simple to implement and maintain, flexible for employees, and cost …
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Heuristic Prioritization Of Emergency Evacuation Staging To Reduce Clearance Time
A region's evacuation strategy encompasses a variety of areas and needs. Primary among these is the minimization of total evacuation time, represented in models as the clearance time estimate (CTE). A generic testbed simulation network model was developed. An input/output (I/O) analysis was …
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Revenue Management in High-Density Urban Parking Districts: Modeling and Evaluation
This thesis explores how revenue management (RM) principles would integrate into a parking system, and how advanced reservation-making, coupled with dynamic pricing (based on booking limits) could be used to maximize parking revenue. Detailed here is a comprehensive RM strategy for the parking …