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This paper presents a model of vehicle choice and empirically examines the risk posed by light trucks (sport-utility vehicles, vans, and pickups) to those that drive them and to other drivers, relative to the risk posed by cars. It compares the relative risk of dying and the relative crash...
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Previous CV studies of the WTP for road noise reduction have used stated annoyance as an independent variable. We argue that this may be inappropriate due to potential endogeneity bias. Instead, an alternative model is proposed that treats both WTP and annoyance as endogenous variables in a...
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is the existence of a large group of people (57% of the sample) for whom telecommuting is a Preferred Impossible … people do not choose telecommuting due to the presence of active continuous constraints. For only 11% of the entire sample …, telecommuting is possible, preferred, and chosen. The potential impacts of self-selection bias are estimated, and sampling bias is …
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This study examines the impact of telecommuting on passenger vehicle- miles traveled (VMT) through a multivariate time … series analysis of aggregate nationwide data spanning 1966-1999 for all variables except telecommuting, and 1988-1998 for … telecommuting. The analysis was conducted in two stages. In the first stage, VMT (1966-1999) was modeled as a function of …
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-based telecommuting. Noting that there is a wide gap between preferring to telecommute (88% of the sample) and actually telecommuting (13 …%), this paper develops binary logit models of telecommuting adoption. Two approaches to dealing with constraints are compared … people in the sample for whom telecommuting was previously identified to be a Preferred Impossible Alternative. When …
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report on Urban Transport, particularly its assessment of the rationales for entry restrictions and fare regulation, and its …
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elasticity for forecasting the future VTTS in economic evaluations of transport projects. This discrepancy may be resolved as …
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Computer Mediated Communications and Distance Learning (CMC/CMDL), and particularly asynchronous learning through the Internet, are becoming major vehicles for fulfilling the needs of Lifelong Learning (LLL). With the inception of computer technology in the 1980s and developments in...
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wide-ranging agenda for nationally coordinated reform, particularly in the areas of energy and water, freight transport …
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