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Elderly's mobility to and from work in the US: metropolitan status and population size
Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2020
This paper explores the mobility patterns of elder workers in the United States, with a focus on mobility to and from work (e.g., commuting) across metropolitan areas and metropolitan population sizes. Using detailed time diaries from the American Time Use Survey for the years 2003-2018,...
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Excess commuting in the US : differences between the self-employed and employees
Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2015
differences between the self-employed and employees in the US. In a theoretical framework where self-employed workers minimize … their commuting time, employees do not minimize their commuting time because they lack full information, and thus the … difference between the time devoted to commuting by self-employed workers and employees is modeled as wasteful commuting (i …
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Working from home and the gender gap in earnings for self-employed US Millennials
Simon, Jessica; Way, Megan McDonald - In: Gender in management : an international journal 30 (2015) 3, pp. 206-224
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Does transport behavior influence preferences for electromobility? : an analysis based on person- and alternative-specific error components
Bahamonde-Birke, Francisco - 2015
The interconnection among different choices by the same decision-maker is fairly well established in the literature. Along this line, this paper aims to identify how preferences for electromobility are affected by mode choices for regular trips. With this purpose in mind, a framework based on...
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Assessing the impact of the latest deregulatory developments in the EU28 transport industry production : a critical review based on empirical data
Koliousis, Ioannis - In: Spoudai : journal of economics and business 66 (2016) 1/2, pp. 3-21
The European Transport Industry has been heavily deregulated during the past 30 years, through initiatives that increase competition among incumbents primarily by reducing the entry restrictions and by opening the market(s) for non-state owned companies. This paper discusses the impact the...
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Cultural Constraints on High-Speed Rail in the US : Is American Exceptionalism an Explanation?
Chen, Zhenhua - 2013
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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Funding Urban Mass Transit in the United States
Gordon, Michael - 2013
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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Is the Policy Window Open for High-Speed Rail in the United States : A Perspective from the Multiple Streams Model of Policymaking
Chen, Zhenhua - 2015
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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Evidence of Directional Price Discrimination in the U.S. Airline Industry
Luttmann, Alexander - 2020
This paper explores possible determinants that may affect an airline's decision to charge passengers different roundtrip fares depending on trip origin, a case of directional price discrimination. Such fare differences cannot be the result of differences in cost, as the cost of flying a...
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The High-Speed Rail Money Sink : Why the United States Should Not Spend Trillions on Obsolete Technology
Institute, Cato; O'Toole, Randal - 2021
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg’s proposal to make the United States a “world leader” in high‐​speed rail would add more than $4 trillion to the federal debt for construction of new rail lines plus tens of billions of dollars of annual deficit spending to subsidize operating...
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