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A Great Reckoning: Healing a Growing Divide: A Summary of the Boston Indicators Report 2009 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Summarizes the Boston Indicators Project's findings on the city's economic, social, and technological progress in civic vitality, cultural life and the arts, economy, education, environment, health, housing, public safety, technology, and ...

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Nonlinear and Threshold Effects on Station-Level Ridership: Insights from Disproportionate Weekday-to-Weekend Impacts

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
Station-level ridership is an important indicator for understanding the relationship between land use and rail transit, which is crucial for building more sustainable urban mobility systems.
Yanyan Gu, Mingxuan Dou
doaj   +1 more source

Access–egress and other travel characteristics of metro users in Delhi and its satellite cities

open access: yesIATSS Research, 2016
We present details of access–egress as well as other travel characteristics of metro users in Delhi, and its satellite cities. For this study, we conducted an on-board survey of metro commuters (n = 1112) in 2011. Survey respondents reported use of seven
Rahul Goel, Geetam Tiwari
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Mapping Potential Metro Rail Ridership In Los Angeles County

open access: yesCartographic Perspectives, 2012
Los Angeles County, as in many metropolitan areas, is coping with increasing street and highway traffic. Transit, and particularly rail, often is regarded as a strategy to help reduce urban traffic congestion especially in these economic downturn times, the rising price of gasoline and the acute awareness of global warming. The objectives of this paper
openaire   +1 more source

Exploration of Travel Patterns of Intercity Metro Passengers—A Case Study in Changsha–Zhuzhou–Xiangtan Metropolitan Area, China

open access: yesApplied Sciences
(1) Background: Rapid urban growth in China has extended rail systems to neighboring cities to meet intercity travel needs, making it important to understand intercity travel patterns.
Yao Xie   +4 more
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International Lessons for Promoting Transit Connections to High-Speed Rail Systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
As the California High-Speed Rail (HSR) project becomes reality, many communities involved in, or affected by, the California HSR project have considered how to connect the new HSR passenger services to local urban transportation systems – such as bus ...
Feinsod, Stan   +3 more
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Increasing Transit Ridership: Lessons from the Most Successful Transit Systems in the 1990s, MTI Report-01-22 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
This study systematically examines recent trends in public transit ridership in the U.S. during the 1990s. Specifically, this analysis focuses on agencies that increased ridership during the latter half of the decade.
Boyd, Brent   +5 more
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Unlocking multimodality: E-scooters as first/last mile connectors and multimodal hub exploration in Doha

open access: yesJournal of Cycling and Micromobility Research
Overcoming Doha's ''first/last-mile'' gap is critical if its new metro is to win riders in a car-oriented, hot-climate city. We therefore combined over 44,000 anonymised e-scooter GPS traces collected between December 2020 and August 2021 with hourly ...
Ioannis Tsouros   +6 more
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The Right Track: Building a 21st Century High-Speed Rail System for America [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Provides an overview of U.S. investment in high-speed intercity passenger rail, its economic and environmental benefits, analyses by region, and key steps for building an efficient network, including balancing private investment with public ...
Phineas Baxandall   +2 more
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Planning and Policymaking for Transit-Oriented Development, Transit, and Active Transport in California Cities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This report provides research findings from the first year of a two-year research project on patterns of local policymaking in California to support transit-oriented development (TOD), transit, and active transport. The project aims to assess motivations,
Barbour, Elisa   +4 more
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