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Capturing the impacts of land use on travel behavior : comparison of modeling approaches
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
Most urban planning literature suggests that compact and mixed-use neighborhoods correlate with lower vehicle kilometers traveled (VKT), and accordingly, lower energy consumption and transportation-related emissions. ...
Towards 3-minutes : application of holding and crew interventions to improve service regularity on a high frequency rail transit line
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
Transit service regularity is an important factor in achieving reliable high frequency operations. This thesis explores aspects of headway and dwell time regularity and their impact on service provision on the MBTA Red ...
Bundled mobility passes : a framework for partnership between public transit and new mobility services
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
The emergence and proliferation of "new" mobility has the potential to fundamentally disrupt urban mobility in the 21st century. This includes bikesharing, carsharing, or on-demand vehicles that can be summoned from a ...
Multi-scale regional transportation governance : evaluating cooperation and decision-making at New York Penn Station
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
This thesis examines the existing regional transportation governance structure in New York City, and use Penn Station and the Gateway Rail Tunnel Project as lenses to explore the effectiveness of governance and the ability ...
Measuring travel equity and representativeness : opportunities and challenges of using smartphone-based travel survey in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
Dar es Salaam is one of numerous large cities in the developing countries facing tremendous development challenges: growing population, rapid urbanization and motorization, sprawled informal settlements, problematic informal ...
Dynamics of vehicle ownership in Singapore
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Cities around the world are trying out a wide range of transportation policy and investment alternatives to reduce car-induced externalities. However, without a solid understanding of how people behave within the constraints ...
Temporal transferability assessments of vehicle ownership models and trip generation models for Boston Metropolitan Area
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
In the last few decades, travel demand models have undergone tremendous development and, today, are routinely used to support planning and policy decisions. But uncertainty in forecasting with such models is often overlooked, ...
An analysis of area type and the availability of alternative transportation services on subjective well-being : are people happiest in cities?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
This study is a comprehensive analysis of how rural, suburban, and urban areas compare in terms of the subjective well-being (SWB) of their residents and how the availability of transportation services affects SWB. Because ...
Automobile regulations in China examined from a behavioral perspective
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
Automobile growth has created severe problems such as traffic congestion, air pollution, and carbon emission worldwide. To address these problems, Chinese local governments implemented a series of automobile regulations ...
Quantifying passenger impact of disruptions on metro lines
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Disruptions occur frequently in urban rail transit systems. Whether due to asset failure, passenger action, weather, or other causes, disruptions often force passengers to change their preferred route or mode, defer their ...