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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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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...