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This paper aims to investigate the relationship between commuting and spatial labour market developments in the … commuting flows, public transport, especially the train, is a more environmentally-benign mode of transport, compared with the … system, which can provide more opportunities for sustainable commuting patterns, may lead to favourable employment …
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This paper describes mobility habits of cross border commuters and its determinants in the canton of Geneva, with special emphasis on the the use of public transports. At least one fifth of Geneva's labour force is composed by cross border workers coming from France. Our first findings show that...
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strike induces car speed to decrease only marginally on the highway ring road (by 3 percent) but substantially on inner city … substantial, equivalent to about half of the public transit subsidy. We demonstrate that during weekends, car speed does not …
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car speed during public transit strikes. Arguably, strikes can be interpreted as exogenous transit supply shocks and …, more recently, Anderson (2014) both analyse the effect of (the same) single transit strike lasting 35 days on highway speed … public transit modes (e.g. bus, light rail) that are citywide. Third, we examine the strike effect on car speed (and flow …
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per person made by bus, tram and metro. Rain strongly affects the speed of bus, tram and metro commuting trips on …In the present study we carry out an analysis of speed fluctuations as a determinant of the quality of public transport … weather conditions. The panel data results imply that snow has a substantial negative effect on the speed public transport …
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excess mortality in Italy attributable to the spread of COVID-19. We found that places characterised by larger commuting …
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This study employs an administrative dataset containing high-frequency transaction records for approximately four million smart transit cards used by Singaporean residents in order to study the travel preferences of public transport commuters. We examine the impact of service attributes,...
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In this paper, we study the commuting behavior of citizens living in or near a city who must decide how to get to work …
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This paper aims to investigate the relationship between commuting and spatial labour market developments in the … commuting flows, public transport, especially the train, is a more environmentally-benign mode of transport, compared with the … system, which can provide more opportunities for sustainable commuting patterns, may lead to favourable employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014171449
Ride-hailing applications create new challenges for governments providing transit services, but also create new opportunities to raise tax revenue. To shed light on the effect of taxing or subsidizing ride-hailing applications, we extend a pseudo-monocentric city model to include multiple...
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