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Agglomeration economies and evolving urban form
Agglomeration economies are a fundamental explanation for the existence of cities. Spatial clustering allows for a variety of external benefits such as labor pooling, sharing of suppliers, and specialization; ...
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School choice: understanding the trade-off between travel distance and school quality
Children are traveling longer distances to school, and the share traveling by car is increasing. This paper examines the effects of school attributes on school choice, which in turn gives rise to travel distan...
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Factors affecting children’s journeys to school: a joint escort-mode choice model
A child’s mode of travelling to school is influenced by, or dependent on, parental choices. Thus, an increasing proportion of car trips may reflect parental choices and constraints. Whether a parent can escor...
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Strangers in our midst: the usefulness of exploring polycentricity
The existence and persistence of cities provide prima facie evidence of agglomeration economies, but do little to inform our understanding of the specific nature of forces that induce the concentration of econ...
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Estimating Freight Flows for Metropolitan Area Highway Networks Using Secondary Data Sources
We present a method for estimating intra-metropolitan freight flows on a highway network. The work is part of a larger project aimed at develo** an automated, integrated system for freight flow analysis and ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Beyond Benefits and Costs
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An Employer Panel for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Trip Reduction Incentives
Three waves of data were collected on a panel of Southern California employment sites subject to the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) Regulation XV, in force from 1988–1995. This regulation...
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Alternative Strategies for Co** with Traffic Congestion
Traffic congestion is a disruptive fact of urban life. It inflicts delays and frustrations in virtually all major cities in the world, new or old, rich or poor. Although many countermeasures have been tried, i...
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An assessment of the political acceptability of congestion pricing
There is renewed interest in implementing congestion pricing in metropolitan areas throughout the US. This paper reviews changes in the transportation policy environment that have led to this renewed interest ...
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Impact of high occupancy vehicle lanes on carpooling behavior
High occupancy vehicle lanes have become an integral part of regional transportation planning. Their purpose is to increase ridesharing by offering a travel time advantage to multiple occupant vehicles. This p...
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Using longitudinal methods for analysis of a short-term transportation demonstration project
This paper documents an application of panel, or longitudinal data collection in the evaluation of a TSM (Transportation Systems Management) demonstration project. The project was a four-week demonstration of ...
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Testing the limits of TSM: the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics
This paper analyzes the impact of the transportation system management (TSM) program employed during the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics. Two issues are examined. First, the impact of the various elements of ...
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Economies of scale in bus transit: A review of concepts and evidence
The issue of returns of scale in bus transit continues to be a subject of debate among transportation analysts. From a public policy perspective, returns to scale are relevant to many policy areas such as tran...
