In recent years, the Neotraditional Neighborhood Development (NTND) land use planning movement, which is also known as "Traditional Neighborhood Development", has gained increasing attention from planning, engineering, and development professionals. This increased popularity stems from the...

The neighborhood electric vehicle (NEV) is a small, electric car designed for low-speed, local trips in neighborhoods and urban areas. The market potenttal for NEVs depends m part on the availability of a network of safe and accessible roads The processes revolved in developing new...

We examine some consequences of dumping used oil in the environment and review some policies to foster used oil recycling. We then contrast policies adopted in the Canadian Prairie Provinces for managing used oil, used oil filters, and containers, with those put in place in the rest of Canada....

Congestion pricing provides opportunities for transit to become more self-reliant. Both the theory of congestion pricing and its use in congested US corridors are examined. A 5% increase in commuter demand for transit is estimated in suburban corridors. New opportunities for transit are required...

Much transportation research has sought to understand the factor's influencing people's decisions to travel via one mode or another. Bodies of literature, overwhelmingly quantitative, exist about mode choice and the demographics of travel behavior. Most of this research has focused on the who,...

This is an empirical study of food shopping trips in Seattle, Washington. In travel forecasting models, land use activities and transportation systems are assumed to be in static equilibrium. This paper deals with the dynamic nature of urban systems, specifically the interaction between food...

In the two decades since the United States Congress passed the federal Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act, there has been a surge of interest in making urban transportation systems more sustainable. Many agencies, representing all levels of government, have searched for strategies...