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Subject: International [PDF]

, 2006
Compiled by Susan LaCette.International.pdf: 820 downloads, before Oct.
LaCette, Susan
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Nation of Mechanics: Automobility, Animality, and Indigeneity in John Joseph Mathews’s Sundown (1934)

European Journal of American Studies
In the early twentieth century, American national identity became increasingly associated with automobility and the move from “a nation of horsemen to a nation of mechanics,” as automotive periodical Horseless Age described it.
Daniel Bowman
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Changing Features of the Automobile Industry in Asia:Comparison of Production, Trade and Market Structure in Selected Countries [PDF]

The global automotive industry, increasingly characterized by global mergers and relocation of production centers to emerging developing economies, is in the grips of a global price-war. The industry is subject to imperfect competition which has resulted
Biswajit Nag, Rittwik Chatterjee, Saikat Banerjee   +2 more
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Motor Vehicle Usage Patterns in Australia: A Comparative Analysis of Driver, Vehicle & Purpose Characteristics for Household & Freight Travel [PDF]

, 2003
An ordered probit model is used to predict motor vehicle usage in Australia on the basis of the unit record files underlying the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ Survey of Motor Vehicle Use. Both household and freight transport are analysed.
Goffey, Kathleen, Worthington, Andrew
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A strategic shift of automobile manufacturing firms in Turkey [PDF]

This paper examines major business environmental changes influencing a strategic shift of automobile manufacturing firms in Turkey. Within a conceptual model consisting of environmental forces, strategic shift, and mediating variables, including firm ...
Gursoy, Guner
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U.S. Motor Vehicle Industry Restructuring and Dealership Terminations [PDF]

, 2009
[Exerpt] As Chrysler and General Motors (GM) moved toward and into bankruptcy, they sought and received permission from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to terminate about 2,000 contracts with auto dealers.
Canis, Bill, Platzer, Michaela D
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All That Sprawl, Y’all: An Analysis of Development on Steinwehr Avenue and York Street in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, from 1971 to 2014

, 2014
The advent of the automobile transformed the American landscape in the 20th century. In conjunction with the increasing importance of the automobile, numerous post-WW II government programs such as the Interstate Highway System encouraged suburban sprawl.
Emmons, Elizabeth K., Hansel, Kalley S., Simpson, Daly   +2 more
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From Consumer Incomes to Car Ages: How the Distribution of Income Affects the Distribution of Vehicle Vintages [PDF]

, 2008
This paper studies the relationship between consumer incomes and ages of the durable goods consumed. At the household level, it presents evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Survey of a negative correlation between incomes and ages of the vehicles ...
Yurko, Anna
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Sprawl and Urban Growth [PDF]

Cities can be thought of as the absence of physical space between people and firms. As such, they exist to eliminate transportation costs for goods, people and ideas and transportation technologies dictate urban form.
Edward L. Glaeser, Matthew E. Kahn
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The influence of urban form on travel patterns. An application to the metropolitan area of Bordeaux [PDF]

The influence of urban form on travel patterns is of growing interest among researchers. It has been notably argued that high density, mixed land use settlements reduce automobile use and distances travelled, hence energy consumption per capita.
Guillaume Pouyanne
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