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The determinants of urban public transport: an international comparison and econometric analysis [PDF]

open access: yes
The analysis presented in this paper is based on the database created by the UITP (International Association of Public Transport), "The Millennium Cities Database", which covers the public transport systems in 100 of the world's cities.
Iragaël Joly   +2 more
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Sustainable Urban Mobility: Assessing Different Neighbourhood Models in Greater Cairo Region, Egypt [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Sustainable urban mobility aims to encourage movement behavior that reduce automobile dependency and induce non-automobile and public mobility. As cities continue to change, planners are facing the challenge of designing urban mobility systems that are
El Zamly, Hassan, Ghonimi, Islam
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Parents' WhatsApp coping resources in the context of ongoing political conflicts: An ecological exploration

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Mobile technologies have become significant resources for crisis communication and social support in recent years. However, despite empirical evidence pointing to the centrality of these technologies for parenthood in everyday life, it is yet unknown how parents' coping resources play a role in the digital environment.
Daphna Yeshua‐Katz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Leisure mobility and mobility problems of elderly people in urban, suburban and rural environment: preliminary results from the research project FRAME [PDF]

open access: yes
Ageing is a lifelong process. But currently the attitudes about ageing and the opportunities for older people are changing. The foreseeable demographic development in the next 30 years provides a challenge to analyse and develop for the expected social ...
Kasper, Birgit, Scheiner, Joachim
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Examining pathways by which socioeconomic instability in adolescence influence sexual health during emerging adulthood in an agricultural setting in California

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates the longitudinal impact of socioeconomic instability on teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection (STI) diagnosis among adolescents and young adults (AYA) living in an agricultural region and examines pathways including supportive family and social structures, decision making autonomy in romantic relationships ...
Marie C. D. Stoner   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Study on the Relationship between Tram Stop Location Layout and Intersection Delay Time

open access: yesChengshi guidao jiaotong yanjiu
[Objective] In order to improve the operating service efficiency and reliability of trams, it is necessary to study the relationship between the layout of tram stop location and the intersection delay time.
ZHOU Weixia   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social Determinants of Health and Health‐Related Quality of Life: The Potential Mediating Role of Social Activities, Access to Medical Services, and Access to Social Services

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explored the mediating influences of access to social activities, social services, and health and medical services on the relationship between social determinants of health and health‐related quality of life. A survey of 602 adults was conducted in a regional area of Australia.
Candice Oster   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

RETRACTED: Improvement in Collision Avoidance in Cut-In Maneuvers Using Time-to-Collision Metrics

open access: yesSmart Cities
This paper proposes a new strategy for a collision avoidance system leveraging time-to-collision (TTC) metrics for handling cut-in scenarios, which are particularly challenging for autonomous vehicles (AVs).
Jamal Raiyn
doaj   +1 more source

Urban crime and labor mobility [PDF]

open access: yes
We present a model of crime where two municipalities exist within a metro area (MSA). Consistent with the literature, local law enforcement has a crime reduction effect and a crime diversion effect.
Christopher H. Wheeler   +1 more
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
wiley   +1 more source

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