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Whose parking space is it? : managing residential parking in the context of urban growth : case study of Cambridge, MA
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
In the context of urban growth, how can a city approach residential parking issues? Cambridge, MA is experiencing rapid growth in real estate development and investment, shifts in demographics and travel behavior. How do ...
Accelerating bus electrification : enabling a sustainable transition to low carbon transportation systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
With growing agreement that credible pathways to zero carbon electricity exist, many support the notion that widespread electrification of the transportation sector will be an essential strategy for meeting scientifically-based ...
Ceramic filter manufacturing in Northern Ghana : water storage and quality control
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
In 2009, Pure Home Water (PHW), a Ghana based non-profit organization working to provide affordable and safe drinking water to people in the Northern Region of Ghana, began the construction of a ceramic pot filter (CPF) ...
Social enterprise as a rights-based approach to development : a comparative study of two organizations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
Social enterprise has emerged as a potential new way to combat poverty and conduct development interventions. Social enterprise uses business methods to achieve financial sustainability for organizations seeking to create ...
Discrimination, regulation, and design in ridehailing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
In the past decade transportation network companies (TNCs) like Uber and Lyft have replaced, supplemented, and disrupted traditional modes of transportation. The rapid growth of these companies makes equitable access to ...
Telling the future together : the potential of collaborative scenario-building in the transformation of urban governance in Portugal
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
In cities worldwide, the geographic and functional mismatch between urban governance structures and the actual dynamics of urban activities has hindered efforts to achieve sustainable and equitable development at the ...
Real-time ridesharing : exploring the opportunities and challenges of designing a technology-based rideshare trial for the MIT community
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
The potential benefits from increased ridesharing are substantial, and impact a wide range of stakeholders. In a properly applied rideshare scheme, drivers and passengers achieve cost savings, they potentially achieve ...
Factors affecting public support of transportation policies : using an international survey and hybrid discrete choice modeling
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
What transportation policies do people support? What factors affect people's policy support? Detangling people's support of transportation policies is a way to understand public needs, to understand how the public evaluates ...
Analyzing transit equity using automatically collected data
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
By inferring individual passengers' origins, destinations, and transfers using automatically collected transit data, transit providers can obtain and analyze larger volumes of information, with more accuracy, and at more ...
Modeling household residential choice using multiple imputation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Households are one of the core agents in the urban system. Household behavior plays a crucial role in urban system performance and can profoundly shape the urban landscape. This thesis examines households' behavior in the ...