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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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Increasing Transit Ridership: Lessons from the Most Successful Transit Systems in the 1990s, MTI Report-01-22 [PDF]
, 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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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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Access to Public Transit and Its Influence on Ridership for Older Adults in Two U.S. Cities
Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2009 Growth in the population of older adults (age 60 and above) in coming years will challenge urban planners and transportation managers to provide travel options that support autonomy.
Daniel Baldwin Hess
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Node, place, ridership, and time model for rail-transit stations: a case study
Scientific Reports, 2022 Nowadays, Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) plays a vital role for public transport planners in developing potential city facilities. Knowing the necessity of this concept indicates that TOD effective parameters such as network accessibility (node value)
Ahad Amini Pishro +8 more
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Impact of COVID-19 on Public Transit Accessibility and Ridership
CoRR, 2020 Public transit is central to cultivating equitable communities. Meanwhile, the novel coronavirus disease COVID-19 and associated social restrictions has radically transformed ridership behavior in urban areas. Perhaps the most concerning aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic is that low-income and historically marginalized groups are not only the most ...
Michael Wilbur +9 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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Pain at the Pump: The relationship between gas prices and transit ridership in urban and rural counties of Vermont [PDF]
, 2015 I researched gas price and transit ridership data in the rural state of Vermont by county in the time period from January 1, 2004, to December 31, 2013.
Taylor, Olivia Irene
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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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Relationships between density, transit, and household expenditures in small urban areas
Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2020 This study developed three models to estimate the relationships between density, transit ridership, and household expenditures, with a focus on small urban areas.
Jeremy Mattson
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