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Characteristics, Impacts and Trends of Urban Transportation

open access: yesEncyclopedia, 2022
Economic growth, urban development and the prosperity of the automobile industry have driven a huge shift in global urban transportation from walking to public transportation and then to automobiles.
Yuan Gao, Jiaxing Zhu
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Performance Evaluation and Improvement via Mathematical Modeling: Total Cost of Ownership [PDF]

open access: yesمدیریت بهره وری, 2020
A significant amount of costs in the process of supply chain assessment and management is often overlooked when applying traditional ways of evaluation and supplier choice, and it is essential to provide a comprehensive approach that can take into ...
maghsoud amiri   +2 more
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Dynamics of Automobile Ownership under Rapid Growth [PDF]

open access: yesTransportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2012
Little research has focused on how the factors that influence travel behavior change in rapidly developing and increasingly motorized cities. This paper examines household motor vehicle ownership and focuses on potential variations in the preferences revealed through vehicle choice models estimated for Santiago, Chile, in 1991 and 2001 and includes ...
P. Christopher Zegras   +1 more
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Parking Problem in Ankara and Policy Recommendations

open access: yesMegaron, 2018
In recent years, motorization has gradually increased its pace in Ankara, which has the highest automobile ownership per capita level in Turkey. Considering recent increase in automobile number, this study deals with the need for parking spaces.
Emine Yetişkul, Metin Şenbil
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Past and present of active school transportation: An exploration of the built environment effects in Toronto, Canada from 1986 to 2006

open access: yesJournal of Transport and Land Use, 2015
The health benefits of walking and cycling to and from school, also called active school transportation (AST), are well documented. In the context of a declining trend in AST across the Western world, this paper examines school-travel behavior of 11-year-
Raktim Mitra   +2 more
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Optimising Traffic Safety – Locating Traffic Gendarmes Based on Multi-Criteria Decision Making

open access: yesPromet (Zagreb), 2023
Turkey’s expanding population and growing economy have resulted in a significant increase in automobile ownership, leading to a rise in traffic volume and, subsequently, an increase in the number of accidents.
Adnan Abdulvahitoğlu   +2 more
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Identifying the areas of walking, transit and automobile urban fabrics in Finnish intermediate cities

open access: yesTransportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2020
The theory of urban fabrics is based on a schema that identifies walking, transit and automobile fabrics. From the urban fabrics perspective, the basic sustainability challenge for cities is the automobile fabric and its impact on walking and transit ...
Ville Helminen   +3 more
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Research on Automatic Parking System Strategy

open access: yesWorld Electric Vehicle Journal, 2021
The development of the automobile industry and the increase in car ownership has brought great traffic pressures to the city, among which, the difficulty of parking has become a serious problem to the majority of drivers.
Chuanwei Zhang   +3 more
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In the driver’s seat: Pathways to automobile ownership for lower-income households in the United States

open access: yesTransportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2023
We examine how lower-income households in the United States acquire automobiles. Although car ownership plays a vital role in social and economic mobility in the US, transportation scholars know little about how low-income households obtain cars.
Nicholas J. Klein   +2 more
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Corporate ownership network in the automobile industry: Owners, shareholders and passive investment funds

open access: yesResearch in Globalization, 2020
Who controls the corporate ownership network in the automotive industry: owners, shareholders or financial institutions? Recent studies have suggested that corporate control of automotive firms is increasingly associated with banks, investment funds and ...
Mario Sacomano Neto   +3 more
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