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Crime, environments, service characteristics, and transit ridership: a multilevel analysis
Although crime is well recognized as a factor detrimental to ridership, fewer empirical studies have tested the effect of crime on ridership and results are inconclusive. Moreover, existing studies seldom perf...
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A Bomb Attack on a Shop** Mall
Many of the international mall attacks occurred on the peripheries of the malls/shop** centers rather than deeply inside. This suggests that preventive measures, no matter how expensive and/or thorough, can ...
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Peak Load Road Pricing: Potential Impacts on Los Angeles
Peak-load pricing has long been seen as a way to internalize externalities and as a set of incentives to shift some peak-hour trips to off-peak periods. The policy has also been viewed as a mechanism to genera...
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The Local Economic and Social Impacts of a University
There have been many studies of the economic impacts of universities over the years. Many of them focused on college towns where the university was the prime economic activity. This chapter focuses on a differ...
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Introduction
This book deals with perhaps the most long-established regional science model, the multiregional input-output model (MRIO), and applies to several public policy issues in a metropolitan context. The version of...
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Alternative Terrorist Attacks on the Twin Ports of Los Angeles-Long Beach
This chapter sums up some of the recent research on the potential economic impacts of terrorist attacks on the twin ports of Los Angeles-Long Beach. The research considers two types of attack—radiological bomb...
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The Economic Impacts of SR-91 and I-5 Corridor Improvements
This chapter analyses two similar cases relating to freeway widening in Southern California: the first deals with the issue of how to expand a combined free-toll road corridor (SR91) and the second looks at th...
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Theory and Methodologies: Input–Output, SCPM and CGE
Input–output modeling of inter-industry analysis was introduced in English in the original work of Leontief (1928); it was first developed by Bogdanov in Russian in 1921. Leontief illustrated the circular flow...
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A Radiological Bomb Attack on the Downtown Los Angeles Financial District
This chapter summarizes a study on the economic impacts of a radiological bomb attack on a major office building in Downtown Los Angeles financial district. A radiological bomb will generate effects within an ...
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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 ...
