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Transportation for an Aging Population: Promoting Mobility and Equity for Low-Income Seniors [PDF]

, 2018
This study explores the travel patterns, needs, and mobility problems faced by diverse low-income, inner-city older adults in Los Angeles in order to identify solutions to their mobility challenges.
Brozen, Madeline, Levy-Storms, Lené, Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia, Wachs, Martin   +3 more
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Benefits and harms of DRT in suburban areas – analysis of user motivations, ridership, and side effects of an app-based demand-responsive transit

Journal of Urban Mobility
Since the rebirth of demand-responsive transit (DRT) after 2010 many failed and discontinued initiatives have been observed. The issues range from inadequate technology, ill-defined spatial and temporal conditions, to missing knowledge of user ...
Bartosz Bursa, Nils Rabeneick, Ferdinand Ebner, Markus Mailer   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Measuring the price responsiveness of gasoline demand [PDF]

This paper develops a new method for estimating the demand function for gasoline and the deadweight loss due to an increase in the gasoline tax. The method is also applicable to other goods. The method uses shape restrictions derived from economic theory
Joel Horowitz, Matthias Parey, Richard Blundell   +2 more
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Public Bikesharing in North America During a Period of Rapid Expansion: Understanding Business Models, Industry Trends & User Impacts, MTI Report 12-29 [PDF]

, 2014
Public bikesharing—the shared use of a bicycle fleet—is an innovative transportation strategy that has recently emerged in major cities around the world, including North America.
Chan, Nelson D., Cohen, Adam P., Martin, Elliot W., Pogodzinski, Mike, Shaheen, Susan A.   +4 more
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Factors affecting use of fixed-route and demand-responsive services in a university community

Discover Cities
Shared mobility systems are declining in university communities, despite its reputation as an economical, sustainable, and appealing alternative to private cars.
Muhammad Arif Khan, Roya Etminani-Ghasrodashti, Apurva Pamidimukkala, Sharareh Kermanshachi, Jay Michael Rosenberger, Greg Hladik   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Intelligent vehicle platooning transit: System design, operations management, and field and simulation experiments

Transport Economics and Management
This paper serves as a technical review on an emerging demand-responsive, vehicle platoon-based, exclusive lane-delimited mass transit system, which is officially named Intelligent Vehicle Platooning Transit (IVPT).
Chi Xie, Ziyu Zhang, Aijing Su, Bing Wu
doaj   +1 more source

You Can't Get There From Here: Government Failure in U.S. Transportation [PDF]

Consumers, firms, and government spend $1.3 trillion on transportation, which accounts for roughly 17 percent of U.S. GDP. Transportation also absorbs about $1.2 trillion in travelers' and shippers' time--a valuable commodity excluded from GDP ...
Winston, Clifford
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Public Transit Supports for Food Access: 2021 National Survey of Community-Based Policy and Environmental Supports for Healthy Eating and Active Living (CBS HEAL). [PDF]

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Smarsh BL, Park YS, Lee SH, Harris DM, Blanck HM.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Demand responsive transit simulation of Wayne County, MI

, 2021
Kagho, Grace Orowo, Hensle, David
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Stimuli-Responsive Hydrogels in Food Sector: Multi-Component Design, Stimulus-Response Mechanisms, and Broad Applications. [PDF]

Gels
Hu Z, Zhao R, Wang F, Ren L, Wang L, Jiang L.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source