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The European Transport Industry has been heavily deregulated during the past 30 years, through initiatives that … opening the transport industry have had. By analyzing current data, the impact of economic deregulation on the volume of … transport industry production is studied. The empirical evidence confirm the positive impact on the system wide level suggesting …
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What is a feasible and efficient policy to regulate air pollution from vehicles? A Pigouvian tax is technologically infeasible. Most countries instead rely on exhaust standards that limit air pollution emissions per mile for new vehicles. We assess the effectiveness and efficiency of these...
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This paper will argue that it is imperative regulations on UAVs address cybersecurity and privacy issues in order to remain on the forefront of technology within the aviation industry. Although it may seem like it is more important to establish basic laws on UAS, legislators need to work...
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This paper examines the housing affordability conditions of the low and moderate income rental households in the United States between 1980 and 2010. Using Integrated Public Use Census Microdata Samples (IPUMS) 5% sample data, we create income and rent distribution for households separately for...
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With the election of a new government, intercity passenger rail, which had faded for years, is now back on President Obama's agenda. Technological innovation has brought focus to high speed intercity passenger rail transportation. This new focus has revealed too many people who are tired of...
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The development of high speed rail infrastructures in the US faces a great challenge given the concern of economic viability and political complexity. However, a deeper investigation reveals that most of these concerns and complexity issues can be explained from a cultural perspective, which...
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As urbanized areas have grown across the United States, roads have quickly developed with them. Yet many cities have developed this infrastructure at the cost of failing to adequately fund urban mass transit, in spite of the important services it provides for the poor, commuters, and the...
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Charging infrastructure is critical to electric vehicle (EV) adoption, but for chargers to be most useful, EV drivers need to know in real time where they are and whether they are working and available. We investigate the availability of real-time data from DC fast chargers on six major US...
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