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Social change and cycling as a form of sustainable transportation : the behavior-policy interaction in a medium-sized developing city
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
In developing countries, growth frequently parallels increasing motorization rates, and visions of mobility are often centered on the private automobile as the most flexible form of personal transportation and a symbol of ...
Transportation megaproject procurement : benefits and challenges for PPPs and alternative delivery strategies, and the resulting implications for Crossrail
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
This thesis evaluates the applicability of public-private partnerships (PPPs) and alternative delivery strategies to transportation megaprojects. There has been tremendous expansion of innovative procurement and financing ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...