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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Travel Demand Management"”.
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The contribution of teleworking to travel demand management
Continuously increasing demand for travel is contributing to increasing congestion oil roads, especially within the urban settings. The cost of congestion is projected to rise if left unchallenged. Transport planners havee limited options to tackle this situation. While exploring the various …
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Linking travel demand management and emission estimation tools
… and air quality planning processes. Inclusion of Travel Demand Management (TDM) measures into a State Implementation Plan (SIP) or a Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) requires the evaluation of these measures for emission impacts. Traditional method of analysis of a TDM measure using TDM …
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Efficient and Equitable Travel Demand Management Using Price and Quantity Controls
… and society. Congestion pricing as a demand management instrument has been known to be a cost-effective approach to deal with congestion. However, the issue of equity remains one of the major challenges to the successful design, acceptance, and deployment of congestion pricing. …
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Three Essays on Travel Demand Management Strategies for Traffic Congestion Mitigation
… policy makers can assess the impact of various travel demand management interventions within a metropolitan area and as a consequence understand the complex behavior of affected transportation-socioeconomic systems. This essay builds on a previously formulated approach where fuzzy concepts are …
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Dynamic Travel Demand Management Strategies: Dynamic Congestion Pricing and Highway Space Inventory Control System
… have not kept up with this increase in travel demand. Urban road networks in many countries are severely congested, resulting in increased travel times, increased number of stops, unexpected delays, greater travel costs, inconvenience to drivers and passengers, increased air pollution …
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Measuring and analysing the impacts of travel demand management interventions on commuter travel behaviour : the case of rail-based park-and-ride facilities in Cape Town
This dissertation reports upon the findings of a study undertaken in Cape Town to measure the impacts of park-and-ride facility upgrades on commuting behaviour at selected rail stations. The study analysed data from two sources covering the period before and after park-andride facility upgrades at …
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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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Driving change : how workplace benefits can nudge solo car commuters toward sustainable modes
… urban workplaces and the broader potential for travel demand management strategies to mitigate traffic congestion and pollution. In this research, case studies are conducted at two urban employers in Greater Boston. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and at Partners HealthCare, …
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Framework for a lottery-based incentive scheme and its influence on commuting behaviors : an MIT case study
… as the most effective technique used to manage travel demand. Since congestion pricing is about charging road users to internalize the external cost induced by their travels, there have been concerns about the social equity issues it raises and the political opposition it often faces. This …
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Park and Ride Feasibility Analysis for the Evansville, Indiana, Metropolitan Area
… a means to mitigate current and future concerns, Travel Demand Management (TDM) strategies such as park and ride facilities should be utilized. Implementing shared used park and ride facilities will provide an effective and relatively inexpensive method of congestion reduction by providing …
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Travel behaviour dynamics: a mobility biography study towards change
Travel demand management (TDM) strategies continue to receive attention in recent years as a means of managing congestion in cities and promoting more sustainable transport systems. Most TDM measures focus on effecting travel behaviour change amongst commuters. Clearly such measures are likely to …
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Bring the form back to planning: Using urban form characteristics to improve the predictability of transportation mode choice models
… addressed within the United States. In response, travel demand management (TDM) has emerged as a potential way to reduce automobile-based travel in order to minimize these effects. TDM strategies are highly dependent on specific urban form characteristics such as bicycle lanes, sidewalks, or …
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Transportation problems faced after big earthquakes
… operations, traffic congestion and change in travel patterns in the San Francisco Bay Area. Emphasis is placed on travel demand management strategies adopted to meet the travel needs in the Bay Area and to return traffic to normalcy. The short-term and long-term impacts of closures of certain …
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Healthy travel and child socialisation: policy implications for social and cultural change
The way people travel has a substantial impact on health. Over reliance on car transportation has personal as well as social health effects. This thesis reports research designed to investigate the role of cultural factors on children's travel. It examined the home and the school in a project that …
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Quantifying the current and future impacts of the MBTA Corporate Pass Program
… as increased convenience for employees, better travel demand management for employers, and increased ridership for agencies. The MBTA Corporate Pass Program was established almost forty years ago in an attempt to move away from inefficient fare collection methods while providing an avenue for …
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A Downtown Space Reservation System: Its Design and Evaluation
… as an alternative and/or complementary travel demand management (TDM) strategy. A reservation indicates that a user will follow a booking procedure defined by the reservation system before traveling so as to obtain the right to access a facility or resource. In this research, the …
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Cambridge in transition : regulating parking in a growing city
… parking freeze as a suite of policies targeting demand for driving, particularly among employee commuters. Cambridge has grown significantly over the past two decades and is poised to grow further, providing the impetus for research into the city's experience with parking regulations and travel …
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Why and when to manage parking ? key indicators to be considered before implementing an on-street parking management system in Cape Town
… Cape Town is responsible for the administration, management, and regulation of all public parking bays within the metropolitan area of Cape Town. On-street parking, within central business districts (CBD), aims to facilitate and provide access to short-term parking within short distances of places …
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Carrots and Sticks in Green Moves: Assessing the Mobility, Environmental, Economic, and Social Impacts of Sustainable Mobility Solutions
… of our era, intensify-ing the complexities of travel demand management. In our contemporary landscape, these challenges are exacerbated by uncertainties arising from rapid technological innovation and unforeseen disruptions such as COVID-19. In response to these societal disruptions, various …
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Incorporation of micro-level analysis in strategic urban transport modelling: with a case study of the Greater Beijing
… interacting with a MEPLAN-based land use and travel demand model. This means that the strategic economic, social and environmental impacts of transport interventions can be tested in a robust way through accounting for the interactions among transport, land-use and background social-technical …
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