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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"car use"”.
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Understanding the impact of built environment on travel behaviour with activity-based modelling: Evidence from Beijing
… zone). In the context of Beijing, the total car use and commute car use of a person is significantly affected by the level of land use mix and the continuity of street facades around home, among all built environment features. Non-commute car use is significantly affected by employment …
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Upwardly mobile: private transport, regeneration and environment in the Thames Gateway
… case study research into private vehicle use as it relates to the process of regeneration in the Thames Gateway. In doing so, it investigates two key contemporary transport policy issues. The first is the burgeoning debate surrounding the nature and extent of the relationship between …
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The contribution of teleworking to travel demand management
… adoptin and frequeny, for which a survey was carried out on car commuters to the city centre of Leeds. The survey also explored the employees' attitudes towards teleworking and its other impacts. The result from these aspects of the survey have been presented and analysed. A bespoke demand …
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Theoretical investigations into competition, regulation, and integration in transport networks
… UK transport. We identify a need to discourage car use and the role that public transport plays in this. We discuss the various options available to policymakers to reduce problems of congestion and pollution. We note how the emphasis on deregulation and competition to promote public transport, …
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Parking policy as a mechanism to reduce car ownership and use
The vast majority of Americans own a car, despite its high cost and low utilization rate. Through a stated preference survey in Washington D.C., Chicago, Dallas, and Seattle metro areas, I find that people value their car at $11,197, and the majority of that value comes from owning the car, rather …
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Reinterpreting vehicle ownership in the era of shared and smart mobility
… countries are witnessing stagnation in overall car use, perhaps due to the proliferation of access-based services and changing attitudes of millennials. Therefore, it becomes necessary to revisit this paradigm, and reconsider strategies for modeling vehicle availability and use in this new era. …
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Transport and travel in a fragile rural tourist destination: a social representations perspective of residents' and visitors' mobility patterns.
… in the UK and other parts of Europe are highly car dependent. This car dependency has resulted in a variety of initiatives intended to tackle the associated undesirable consequences. While there are some success stories, the negative impacts of transport still pervade for residents and visitors …
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Beyond the Early Adopters: Examining the potential for car-sharing in Richmond, Virginia
Car-sharing is a membership-based mobility service that offers short-term vehicle rentals. Studies have shown that car-sharing can increase transportation sustainability by encouraging the use of public transit and reducing vehicle miles traveled. This thesis examines the potential for car-sharing …
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Personal city mobility in the context of sustainable development = Személyes városi mobilitás a fenntartható fejlődés kontextusában
… in my dissertation, has made private passenger cars so affordable, that we have reached a point, where most people in the developed countries (and not only there) cannot imagine a day without driving. The number of passenger cars continuously increases. The evolution of the automobile, together …
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Preference accommodating and preference shaping : incorporating traveler preferences into transportation planning
… personality traits, environmental attitudes, car pride and perceptions of convenience and comfort. Despite the recognition of the importance of these psychological factors in better understanding travel behavior, transportation agencies have failed to integrate them into planning practice and …
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Automotive features : mass impact and deployment characterization
Passenger car use is a major driver of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and fossil fuel consumption in the United States. Vehicles continue to incorporate increasing levels of technology, these advances do not translate directly into improved fuel economy. Vehicle weight, interior volume and …
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Kalasataman autopaikaton kortteli asumisen konseptina
… future population growth and cumulative land-use pressure, it is important to respond to the growing demand for mobility in an environmentally sound manner. Parking-free concept can be seen as part of urban development which concentrates on car-free planning or the reduction of private car …
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Road User Charging: Acceptability and Effectiveness
… of the major barriers to implementation of road user charging is how to design a scheme that is simultaneously acceptable to the public and effective in achieving its objective. The aim of this research was to study how road user charging can be designed to achieve acceptability and …
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To drive, or not to drive: Mode choice in daily commute
… have more than one motivating factor to use their usual modes and some commuters share similar motivating factors. The first study also aimed to examine how committed commuters are towards their usual modes. To address the limitations of using the categorical measure of modality, the …
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Sperimentazione e modellizzazione di un programma di cambiamento volontario del comportamento di viaggio
… 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 dominates individual lifestyles. In this regard, it has been demonstrated that, though many people are …
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Race, public transit, and automobility in World War II Detroit
… of public transportation and rise of automobile use in the United States from the perspectives of social and environmental history. Through a case study of Detroit, the dissertation argues that World War II reinforced a culture of driving and set the stage for mass abandonment of public …
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Materials, Engineering, and the Economy:an Input-Output Study of Technical Decisions in the United Kingdom
… the UK economy of some technical changes in the use of materials in the manufacture of engineering and construction output. This is achieved by an analysis based on the 1968 input-output tables for the UK economy. The estimates include the effects on the output of every industry, on the UK …
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Urban sprawl: land-use, travel behaviours, and emissions in Ireland
Land-use configurations determine the distribution and intensities of human activities across space while transport infrastructure determines the ability of goods, services, and people to travel across this space. Considering this relationship, it is important to understand how these mechanisms …
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Urban Mobility Transitions: Governing through Experimentation in Bristol and New York City
Transitions away from car-dominance is one of the key debates in urban research, policy and practice today. Car-free public space, cycling and convenient public transport services are widely seen as desirable, yet the reconfiguration of our streets and transport networks has been incremental. This …
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Everyday life and travel behaviour of families with children: A case study in outer London
… on family travel behaviour, looking at whole households and their everyday life, and at travel behaviour as embedded in it. A survey with all parents of four primary schools in the study area was conducted, followed by in-depth qualitative interviews with 19 households with children, 12 of which …
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