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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"vehicle ownership"”.
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Dynamics of vehicle ownership in Singapore
… The focus of this paper is the determinants of vehicle ownership in the motorized city-state context of Singapore. Using survey data from 1997 to 2008, a discrete choice model of vehicle ownership suggests that income dominates the household vehicle ownership decision. Further modeling, …
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Reinterpreting vehicle ownership in the era of shared and smart mobility
… transportation technologies like autonomous vehicles and services like on-demand shared mobility are casting their shadows over the traditional paradigm of vehicle ownership. Several countries are witnessing stagnation in overall car use, perhaps due to the proliferation of access-based …
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Will millennials save the planet? : generational trends in vehicle ownership & use
… or ride-hailing, will not purchase personal vehicles. This claim has the potential to both upset the economy and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) from transportation. This work explores Millennials' preferences for personal vehicles from a quantitative approach utilizing data from …
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The impact of accessibility of vehicle loans on vehicle ownership in Singapore
… amongst the types of consumer loans available, vehicle loans have gained considerable attention due to the increase in demand for vehicles as the vehicle becomes a mass consumer item with rising affluence and growth of economies. In addition, the rising prices of new and used vehicles due to the …
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Modeling Vehicle Ownership Decisions in Maryland: A Preliminary Stated Preference Survey and Model
In the near future, the culmination of new vehicle technologies, greater competition in the energy markets, and government policies to fight pollution and reduce energy consumption will result in changes in the United States' vehicle marketplace. This project proposes to create a stated preference …
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Temporal transferability assessments of vehicle ownership models and trip generation models for Boston Metropolitan Area
… I assess the temporal transferability of vehicle ownership models and trip generation models for Boston metropolitan area from 1990 to 2010. Through statistical tests, I find significantly changed preferences in household vehicle ownership choice and trip production. For vehicle ownership …
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Representing accessibility in long-term household decisions evidence from vehicle ownership and residential location-related choice models
… decisions. Specifically, we estimate household vehicle ownership models and real estate market price models with different measures of accessibility. Better performing accessibility measures are better representations of accessibility - at least for the purposes of explaining the modelled …
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Neighborhood environment and physical activity
… of these associations were mediated by vehicle ownership. A positive association was also found between the availability of exercise facilities and time spent in moderate to vigorous physical activity and meeting the physical activity recommendations. None of the associations found in …
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Passenger transport in China under climate constraints : general equilibrium analysis, uncertainty, and policy
Vehicle sales and road travel volume in China have grown rapidly in recent years, and with them energy demand, greenhouse gas emissions and local air pollution. Aviation and rail travel have also grown, while ceding a large share to private vehicles. What path will household transport demand in …
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Simulation of household in-home and transportation energy use : an integrated behavioral model for estimating energy consumption at the neighborhood scale
… and consumer patterns - evident in increased ownership of appliances and motor vehicles - will have a large impact on residential energy use in the future. The pattern of growth of Chinese cities may also play an intertwined role in influencing and being influenced by consumption patterns and, …
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Identifying Healthcare Access and Enhancing Geospatial Analysis with Generative AI
… based on travel time, supply-demand ratios, and vehicle ownership. Results show that public transit accessibility is significantly lower and more unequal than driving access, particularly for Medicaid recipients, with variation across regions. Spatial error models further reveal demographic …
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Driven to Care: A Society-Centric Analysis of Family Caregivers' Travel Behavior and its Determinents
… government subsidized wheelchair accessible vehicle ownership, and inter-agency collaboration between transportation institutions and welfare agencies.
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A comparative financial analysis of the automobile and public transportation in London
… systems, not only is infrastructure but vehicles and operators are usually provided by government or contracted private sector partners, while in the automobile system, infrastructure is normally government owned but costs of vehicle ownership and operation and parking are private. …
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Neighborhood design and the energy efficiency of urban lifestyle in China : treating residence and mobility as lifestyle bundle
… and finds that: (1) Household residential and vehicle ownership choice is made as a bundle reflecting the chosen lifestyle, making the combined evaluation of both travel and residential energy use possible; (2) Households belonging to different lifestyle groups have different decision-making …
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Utilizing geographic information systems to examine the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics in food oasis and food desert in Wayne County, MI
… healthy food, especially for those without a vehicle or who live more than ¼ mile walking distance from grocery stores. Although the food desert metaphor has been used in research in different disciplines such as regional planning and public health, this term has been used loosely without a …
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Exploring the use of quantitative modelling approaches to support volcanic crisis management in the Auckland Volcanic Field
… spatial variability in population exposure and vehicle ownership (and thus public transport demand during an evacuation) with road data. The median evacuation clearance time with no congestion was calculated to be approximately 37 hours, increasing to between 38 and 55 hours with a 10 km vent …
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A comparative study of public transport systems in developing countries
… and mobility. In most African cities, private vehicle ownership and traffic is increasing rapidly, scheduled or formal public transport systems are declining or have disappeared altogether and the unscheduled or informal Para-transit systems that have replaced them are unsafe and offer a low …
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Does energy follow urban form? : an examination of neighborhoods and transport energy use in Jinan, China
… households' attitudes and their choices of vehicle ownership, both taken into account in the short-term utility maximization process. However, due to other complicating interactions among different aspects of travel patterns and other factors (e.g., housing choice), we cannot a priori …
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Spatial Analysis of Fatal Automobile Crashes in Nashville, TN, 2001-2011
<p>With increasing levels of motor vehicle ownership, automobile crashes have become a serious public issue in the U.S. and around the world. Knowing when, where, and how traffic accidents happen is critical in order to ensure road safety and to plan for adequate road infrastructure. There is a …
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Traffic accidents in Saudi Arabia: a study of their causes and association with driver behaviour, with specific reference to the eastern region
… undertaken. Through this review, a list of road, vehicle and driver-related variables was selected for investigation in this study.The target population for the study was 4,100 drivers in Eastern Saudi Arabia who had been involved in road accidents in the period. Out of this population, a sample …
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