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calculated using different accessibility indicators by transport mode (walking, cycling, public transport, and car), for … methodology for the twenty largest cities in Brazil. This database is made publicly available by the Ipea through the website of …
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conditions in Austrian cities. It covers the following areas: a) education and upbringing, b) health, c) housing, d) public … transport, e) the expenditure structure of households and f) the personal assessment of living conditions by the inhabitants of … representative cities. These areas are presented either in European comparison or in comparison to Bavaria. The results show that …
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bicycle spending by means of gross health benefits alone, as are inframarginal benefits to existing cyclists. By monetizing … campaigns) in bicycle policy. Finally, we propose an empirical method for identifying internal costs using a latent variable … approach and apply it to eight Swiss cities. Our results imply that Swiss cyclists internalize more than mortality …
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of non-motorised transport modes to the performance of transport systems. In terms of the totalnumber of trips, non …-motorised transport modes have retained high shares, however. The potential of non-motorised transport modes to contribute to the urban … motorised transport are discussed. In addition,attention is paid to the issue of complementarity between motorised and non …
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secondary school enrollment by providing girls who continued to secondary school with a bicycle that would improve access to … safety cost of school attendance made possible by the bicycle. We find that the Cycle program was much more cost effective at …
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for internal costs of bicycling. We apply our model to eight Swiss cities using data from the Swiss national travel survey …
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Aerodynamic drag in a bicycle can originate through the rotation of wheels, and the addition of cladding on the wheels … has a pronounced impact on the same. In the present work, the effect of cladding on the wheels of a bicycle is studied in … Simulation is used to conduct an external analysis of flow air around the bicycle and rider. The k-ε turbulence model is used to …
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network and transport strategy of its own to leverage its economic potential. It should not rely on China's Belt and Road … in particular needs an upgrading of its transport infrastructure. If this is achieved, the boost to incomes and living … standards would be particularly significant in that part of the continent, as a 'big push' in transport infrastructure …
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of the transport capacity on the train's return trips. The survey results also show the current bottlenecks and the … potential and trends for the future development of the Brazilian logistics and transport sector for agricultural bulk products … Schüttgüter am Beispiel von Sojabohnen. Um den Einfluss von Transport und Logistik auf die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der Sojaproduktion …
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This paper builds a dynamic general equilibrium model of cities and uses it to analyze the role of local housing … compile using more than 350 U.S. cities for the years 1984 to 2008. Based on this measurement, we find that our model is …
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