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Transportation in Developing Economies, 2017 Cycling is considered an environmentally-friendly mode of transport that offers many personal benefits including health, affordability and flexibility of travel.
R. Acheampong
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To travel or not to travel: ‘Weather’ is the question. Modelling the effect of local weather conditions on bus ridership [PDF]
, 2017 © 2017 The Authors While the influence of weather on public transport performance and ridership has been the topic for some research, the real-time response of transit usage to variations in weather conditions is yet to be fully understood.
Corcoran, J, Hickman, M, Rowe, F, Tao, S
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Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT American municipalities increasingly regulate panhandling. That regulation is controversial. The determinants of panhandling activeness are unknown, and it is doubted whether panhandling activity responds rationally to incentives. To shed light on these issues, we collect data on hundreds of panhandlers and the passersby they solicit at ...
Peter T. Leeson +2 more
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The Impact of Routing Option on Tangerang Bus Lane Corridor [PDF]
, 2012 The objective of this study is to analyze the impact of re-routing bus lane corridor on some performance indicators. The Tangerang Bus Lane is taken as a case study.
Alvinsyah, A. (Alvinsyah) +1 more
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Greenhouse gas considerations in rail infrastructure in the UK [PDF]
, 2015 Transportation-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions account for an increasing proportion of total emissions in the UK and globally. The provision of rail transit is popularly proposed to reduce transport GHG emissions, but the provision of new ...
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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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Integrating spatial and temporal approaches for explaining bicycle crashes in high-risk areas in Antwerp (Belgium) [PDF]
, 2019 The majority of bicycle crash studies aim at determining risk factors and estimating crash risks by employing statistics. Accordingly, the goal of this paper is to evaluate bicycle-motor vehicle crashes by using spatial and temporal approaches to ...
Chang, SK Jason +4 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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Changes in Transit Use and Service and Associated Changes in Driving Near a New Light Rail Transit Line, MTI Report 12-44 [PDF]
, 2015 Los Angeles is pursuing possibly the most ambitious rail transit investment program in the nation with plans to open six new rail transit lines between now and 2019.
Boarnet, Marlon +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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