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Pedestrian Environments and Transit Ridership
Journal of Public Transportation, 2009 This paper explores how the quality of the pedestrian environment around transit stops relates with transit ridership. The primary hypothesis tested is that transit trip-making is higher in urban environments that are more conducive to non-motorized travel, given that bus transit systems are most frequently accessed via walking or biking.
Ryan, Sherry, Frank, Lawrence F.
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Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.With urbanization reducing the amount of available wildlife habitat, and outdoor recreation increasing the human activity within wildlife habitats, it is important to understand the effects of human activity on animal behavior. This study examined how the reduction in human presence in urban parks in Gainesville, Florida, affected the temporal ...
Maya Fives, Matthew Hallett
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Assessing the Employee Welfare Impact of Right‐To‐Work Laws: Insights From State‐Level Legislation
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine the effect of right‐to‐work (RTW) laws on employee welfare using the stacked difference‐in‐differences (DiD) methodology. We posit that RTW laws weaken collective bargaining power, increase free riding, and ultimately reduce employee welfare. We document a significant employee welfare decline following RTW adoption, especially among
Shima Amini +2 more
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Transportation Research Interdisciplinary PerspectivesTransit ridership is an important factor in evaluating transit service performance and an essential source of revenue for transit authorities in the United States. Alongside internal service characteristics such as average headways and service frequency,
Qian He, Jianling Li
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Understanding Transit Ridership Demand for a Multi-Destination, Multimodal Transit Network in an American Metropolitan Area, Research Report 11-06 [PDF]
, 2012 This study examines the factors underlying transit demand in the multi-destination, integrated bus and rail transit network for Atlanta, Georgia. Atlanta provides an opportunity to explore the consequences of a multi-destination transit network for bus ...
Bhattacharya, Torsha +3 more
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Journal of Economic Surveys, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper reviews how large‐scale mobility data can enhance economic analyses, highlighting its contributions to understanding travel behavior, labor markets, social interactions, and health outcomes. We discuss its advantages over traditional mobility data sources, which include real‐time location information and fine spatial resolution ...
Cristina Connolly +3 more
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When Infrastructure Pushes Residents Out: High‐Speed Rail and Tourism Outflows
Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the impact of high‐speed rail (HSR) connectivity on both inbound and outbound tourism inflows. Leveraging the opening of a new HSR line connecting a northern Spanish region with mainland Spain, we employ a triple difference‐in‐differences design combined with inverse probability weighting (IPW) to evaluate the causal effect
David Boto‐García +2 more
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Public Transit Ridership and Car-Oriented Cities: The Case of the Dallas Region
Economies, 2019 U.S. cities have invested large amounts of sums on public transit and urban rail in the last few decades, but the transit usage in most of these car-oriented cities is very low, and previous efforts to increase ridership have been mostly fruitless.
Ahmed Daqrouq, Ardeshir Anjomani
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Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2021 Amenities at bus stops are thought to affect transit ridership, yet this relationship is rarely quantified. We assembled data on ridership and stop amenities, including Real-Time Information System (RTIS), shelters, lighting, litter receptacles, benches,
Xiao Shi +5 more
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Public Transportation Syntheses Series: Fare, Free or Something in Between? [PDF]
, 2004 Lo digital ha cambiado nuestras vidas, nuestra rutina diaria, la forma de trabajar y las relaciones sociales. Es así, que en un donde lo digital lo aborda todo, donde nos podemos conectar desde cualquiera lugar del mundo, ¿es posible crear un espacio de ...
CUTR
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