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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 ...
Driving change : how workplace benefits can nudge solo car commuters toward sustainable modes
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
This thesis investigates the role that employer benefits can play in encouraging commuters to use sustainable modes of transportation, motivated by the increasing cost of parking provision at urban workplaces and the broader ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...