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The importance of a focus on mobility and the kilometres travelled using light duty vehicles is reflected in the persistence of strong demand for personal mobility and emissions that tend to be linked with population and economic growth. Simulation results using the WITCH model show that changes...
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In the current system, school bus stops in Howard County, Maryland are manually placed along the school bus routes based on safety, cost-efficiency, and many other variables. With such liberal placement, bus stops are sometimes placed unnecessarily. This issue is prevalent in many school...
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-specific transportation monitoring was carried out with the help of a real-time web-based monitoring system. Both smart phones and reader … along the forest chip transportation from the forest roadside storages to the power plant by using either traditional solid …
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This paper examines the factors that impact the quality of tomatoes during the transportation through the supply chain …. This is motivated by the criticality transportation in north India region. Primary data was collected through a survey … transportation stage. Based on the analysis, three factors were identified that impact quality: Operational, Preservation and …
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represents an important, complex node in the multimodal transportation of goods. Many operations have to be planned in order to …
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This article describes how taxi service is an essential means of mobility in many cities. Recent findings show that average automobile owners utilize their vehicles for only 5% of its time in a day. Therefore, the advent of autonomous vehicles and car sharing will make it possible for owners to...
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Pacific economies are confronted with several structural constraints that limit their economic growth, most importantly their small size and remoteness from major world markets. In this paper we study the importance of transport connectivity for Pacific economies when participating in the world...
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creation of the new Metropolitan Authorities of Transportation, which will require Mobility Plans. Even though the Portuguese …-density areas where the risk of loosing competitiveness is too high to ignore the importance of the transportation and mobility … support to decision-makers in order to define Mobility and Transportation Policies. The opportunity provided by using adapted …
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This paper analyses how several spatial variables coming from cities and transportation system can affect money market … supply, and hence the price and output levels. Key words: transportation, regional growth, convergence, congestion. JEL Class …
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of transportation in total consumption, which suggests a more rapid rise in transportation consumption than based on …
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