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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"gas stations"”.
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Old gas stations - new fuel for environmental awareness
… country there are currently over 1400 abandoned gas station sites that are contaminated. Unbeknownst to local residents, many of these sites are undergoing remediation. Temporary interventions called remedial landscapes can be designed by landscape architects to communicate to the public the …
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Laboring Lesbians at Gas Stations: Pumping the "Good Life"
… lesbian bodies within the context of U.S. gas stations. I begin with an investigation of the history of gas stations in connection with the oil industry and the company for which they work. In addition, I examine how institutions of class, gender and sexuality are imprinted onto laboring …
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Charging infrastructure deployment suitability in Illinois and the transition from gas stations
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-12-04 without embargo terms
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Evolution of a Useful Place: The Gas Station in America
… more deeply about the future of the 150,000 gas stations in the United States, most of which are polluted petroleum brownfields. This thesis uses three research methods to understand the past and present state of gas stations in America and the impact they have had on the built environment: …
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Essays on the effects of market regulation
… decision of firms. I concentrate on the retail gasoline industry in Argentina. I study how the price regulation in place from 2004 to 2007 has affected the number of gas stations in the market and the price level after the regulation was eliminated. I approach the problem in two steps: firstly I …
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Análise do potencial de geração distribuída de energia solar fotovoltaica nos setores bancário, de educação básica e postos de gasolina
… were studied (basic education, bank agencies and gas stations). Aside from the sampling analysis, a quantitative approach focused on the specific sectors (basic education, banking and gas stations), including aspects related to technologies, meteorological inputs, capital expenditure, operation …
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Mississippi Motoring: Mom And Pops And Entrepreneurs
… eat. From tamales to the local fried experiment, gas stations have evolved to provide one stop shopping for the day tripper or sustenance and social interaction within a locale. The state of Mississippi has somewhat escaped the national burger or sandwich chain connected to the service station and …
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Essays in Microeconomics
… of the locations and the brands of retail gasoline outlets in Tucson, Arizona on market prices. We apply an innovative approach to model the impact of competing gas stations that avoids limiting analysis to predetermined nearby locations. We show that increased brand diversity is associated …
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Essays on market structure and price in the Korean retail gasoline market
… market structure and prices in the Korean retail gasoline market. Korea has experienced big changes in the number of gas stations. For example, nationally the number of gas stations increased 24.9% from 10,406 in 2001 to 13,003 in 2010, but in Seoul the number of stations dropped 24.9% from 816 in …
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Convergence: The Gas Station and the Future of Electric Vehicle Infrastructure
… a future vision for the next iteration of the gas station. The gas station as it functions today is an important component of the U.S. infrastructure network. However, the current network is not resilient enough to withstand the effects of climate change and it does not adequately serve or …
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Overcoming Obsolescence: A Roadmap for Redeveloping Massachusetts Gas Station Real Estate in a post-Gasoline World
… is an inherent tension between the ubiquity of gas station properties and the necessity of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the worst effects of climate change. On the one hand a significant amount of real estate value, with all its appurtenant downstream outputs including local tax …
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Unleashing knowledge in oil retailing : integrated knowledge sharing within the Japan Energy Corporation, retail marketing group
… dealers who run a network of more than 5,000 gas stations. Specifically, I have designed a framework of vertical-and-horizontal knowledge sharing within Japan Energy Corporation and its recently reorganized 11 retail subsidiary dealers named JOMO NETs. I discuss the issue from the perspective …
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After the gas station : redevelopment opportunities from rethinking America's vehicle refueling infrastructure
Gas stations are found throughout the US, but their ubiquity causes them to go largely unnoticed. Because their purpose - refueling vehicles - is so uniform and so integral to the existing automotive transportation system, stations share extensive siting and design similarities across many …
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Assessing the viability of level III electric vehicle rapid-charging stations
… feasibility of electric vehicle rapid-charging stations at power levels above 300 kW. Electric vehicle rapid-charging (reaching above 80% state-of-charge in less than 15 minutes) has been demonstrated, but concerns have been raised about the high levels of electrical power required to recharge a …
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Memory through re-use : food, fuel, fossils, filth and a few filling stations
… and pragmatic material: by using abandoned gas stations (a site typology created by a piece of sweeping national legislation) the project addresses generic issues applied nationally, making the design a repeatable intervention. by identifying local examples of these generic sites, specific …
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Preserving Los Angeles's Googie: An Analysis of a Commercial Style, Change, and Preservation
… character to bowling alleys, motels, car washes, gas stations, and restaurants. By the 1960s Googie architecture had spread beyond the Southern California boundaries, dotting the country with corresponding roadside designs. However, by the 1980s the style’s popularity had waned, and stiff …
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Dynamic route choice in hurricane evacuation
… length of a route, and availability of services (gas stations and hotels) had an effect on evacuation route choice. The magnitude of the coefficients of perceived service, accessibility, and distance differed among those evacuating in the first half of the evacuation period versus those that …
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Redeveloping Mississippi: A Case Study on Brownfields in Central & Southern Mississippi
… sites, they are our communities’ former gas stations, auto repair shops, railroad facilities, and vacant lots. In cases of successful redevelopment, however, these sites reemerge as local government offices, small businesses such as boutiques and restaurants, or empty lots transformed …
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Essays on empirical industrial organization
… Hurtado, investigates the pricing strategies of gas stations in the United States. Retail gasoline markets feature high cross-sectional price dispersion and asymmetric cycles in price dynamics, two puzzling phenomena that have gone unrelated largely because the literature defines price cycles at …
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