Gemessen an der Wohnbevölkerung stehen für Kinder ab drei Jahren in Dresden insgesamt genügend Kindergartenplätze zur Verfügung. Ein Unterangebot an Betreuungsplätzen zeigt sich jedoch bei der Betrachtung der einzelnen Stadtteile: In jedem zweiten Stadtteil reicht das Angebot an...

High speed railway (HSR) planners aim to select locations that optimize the overall utility or benefit of HSR stations by satisfying various desirable requirements. Among other factors, accessibility and environmental impact are important considerations for HSR station location selection. The...

Integrated interoperable rail systems facilitate high speed rail (HSR) train movement on conventional intercity lines, and vice versa. Hence, for such rail systems, it is preferred that HSR stations are located at existing intercity rail stations. However, all existing intercity stations may not...

67% der Wähler haben sich in einer Volksbefragung in Österreich gegen die Zusammenlegung dreier kleinerer Krankenhäuser zu einem Zentralkrankenhaus ausgesprochen. Selbst dort, wo sich durch den Neubau die Entfernung zum nächsten Krankenhaus nicht verändern würde, lehnt immer noch jeder...

Using data on academic citations, career and educational histories of mathematicians, and disaggregated distance data for the world's top 1000 math departments, we study how geography and ties affect knowledge flows among scholars. The ties we consider are coauthorship, past colocation,...

This study proposes new family-centered measures of access to early care and education (ECE) services with respect to quantity, cost, and quality and uses them to assess disparities in access across locations and socio-demographic groups in Minnesota. These measures are distance-based and use...