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Does energy follow urban form? : an examination of neighborhoods and transport energy use in Jinan, China
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
This thesis explores the impacts of neighborhood form and location on household transportation energy use in the context of Jinan, China. From a theoretical perspective, energy use is a derived outcome of activities, and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Driven to congestion : how the planning, engineering and politics of transportation established, preserves and perpetuates the automobile city
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
The last eight decades of urban transportation planning and engineering in the United States have been dominated by the hegemony of the automobile. Auto-oriented planning of the transportation and land use system has had ...
The evolution of passenger accessibility in the US airline industry, 1980-2010
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
Since deregulation, passenger air travel and the airline industry as a whole have changed dramatically. While most previous research has focused on the changes experienced by the airlines, this thesis seeks to understand ...
Intermodal passenger flows on London's public transport network : automated inference of full passenger journeys using fare-transaction and vehicle-location data
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Urban public transport providers have historically planned and managed their networks and services with limited knowledge of their customers' travel patterns. While ticket gates and bus fareboxes yield counts of passenger ...
The entrepreneurial process in construction and real estate ventures
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
This study determines the fit of the success pattern defined by Timmons' model with the entrepreneurial process of two successful ventures. One is Northland Investment, a real estate venture, and the other is Collaborative ...
Environmental liability, policy and technology in real estate development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
Under the Federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act ("CERCLA"), 42 U.S.C. [paragraph]9601 et seq., "owner/operators" of contaminated real property may face cleanup costs that greatly ...
Coordinated transportation and land use planning in the developing world : the case of Mexico City
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
Transportation, land use and the environment are inextricably linked. In recent decades there have been efforts, primarily in the developed world, to coordinate transportation and land use planning so as to use land resources ...