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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 ...
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 ...
Transit fare policy : use of automated data to improve incremental decision making
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
Incremental changes in fare policy can have substantial and long-term impacts on transit ridership and revenue, but they are often driven by near-term revenue needs and determined within short time frames with limited ...
Winning the housing lottery in Rio de Janeiro : curse or cure?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the Brazilian federal government launched My House, My Life (PMCMV), an ambitious program to build subsidized housing for over five million low-income families. While the program ...
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 ...
Whereto next? : analyzing livability and accessibility in the later stages of life
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
The global population is aging; and municipalities across the globe are striving to better understand the needs and desires of older adults in order to better serve this growing population. Yet existing transportation ...
Estimating the impacts of route changes for Chicago's rapid transit system
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
The Chicago Transit Authority is the second largest transit agency in the US, and the CTA's rail transit division currently serves nearly half of the rides in the system. The system is adaptable to changes in population ...
Reinterpreting vehicle ownership in the era of shared and smart mobility
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
Emerging transportation technologies like autonomous vehicles and services like on-demand shared mobility are casting their shadows over the traditional paradigm of vehicle ownership. Several countries are witnessing ...
Future transit service for a broader user base : demand analysis of hypothetical autonomous vehicle mobility services using a stated preference approach
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
Mobility services and autonomous vehicles (AVs) are predicted to be key revolutionary forces in the future of transportation. In particular, certain forms of the amalgamations of the two technologies not only are expected ...