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America's surface transportation infrastructure needs significant improvements and rehabilitation, yet Congress is uncertain about how to do this. Some want to significantly increase federal spending on infrastructure. Others want to end deficit financing of transportation and end federal...
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Cities, across the world, are facing the challenges and problems of balancing the transport demands with the supply and its management; it is viewed as rather complex in large metropolitan cities like Mumbai. Mumbai's structure of transport is ideal, yet its transport is plagued by several...
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Randal O'Toole reviews Robert Bruegmann's SPRAWL. Richard Gordon reviews Jan Kalicki and David Goldwyn's ENERGY AND SECURITY. George Leef reviews Joseph Vranich's END OF THE LINE. Richard Gordon reviews James Griffin and Stephen Puller's ELECTRICITY DEREGULATION
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Until recently the main function of urban bus transport was to satisfy the individual needs of the less affluent members of society, but now it has to contribute for congestion relief and environmental preservation. This requires a fundamental change of emphasis to fulfill its new role of...
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Using bike rental data from Transport for London, this paper exploits of the timing of Premier League games to identify how proximity to Premier League stadiums affects the daily ridership of nearby bike stations in London’s bike-sharing system. While bike stations within 0.5km of London...
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“India lives in its Villages”- Mahatma Gandhi. India consists nearly 6,500,000 villages, as per last census 2011 identified that 68.8% of population of our country and 72.4% of workforce lives in village areas. Today two third of the households and 70% workforce still lives in the villages...
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This paper proposes a stochastic congestion and pricing model that combines a bottleneck model with stochastic queuing to study roadway congestion and pricing. Employing this model, two pricing schemes are developed: one is omniscient pricing for which the transportation administrative agency is...
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Indian bus industry, since independence, has been organized along a mixed pattern of public andprivate sector ownership. The industry is dominated by state owned State Transport Undertakings (STUs)since private sector is highly fragmented. The STUs have a special responsibility to provide...
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Parking1) is an essential component of the transportation system and every vehicle needs a place to be parked at every destination when they are not being used. It is said that a typical automobile is parked 95 percent of the time.2) The fundamental problem with parking is that there are no...
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This research investigates the Australian rental sector during the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic and considers priorities for governments; tenant experiences and reflections on the effectiveness of assistance and interventions; changing tenant aspirations; and the priorities for emerging...
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