In the quest for sustainable urban living, understanding the complex relationships between urban form and mobility behavior is crucial. A recent study published in Transportation Research Part D by Dr. Peter Berrill and colleagues ...
Environment
Feb 28, 2024
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Construction of the main railway lines in Sweden included a large-scale garden project. Parks and kitchen gardens were built around the new stations, and long hedges were planted along the railways. A new dissertation from ...
Environment
Jan 25, 2023
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Researchers from Boston University, Rutgers University, University of Washington, Cornell University, and University of Pennsylvania published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that proposes that preserving psychological ...
Social Sciences
Oct 30, 2020
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For one low-income woman, not having a car meant long commutes on public transit with her children in tow, sometimes slogging through cold or inclement weather. But after buying a subsidized car through a Maryland-based nonprofit, ...
Economics & Business
Oct 3, 2020
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Freeways have failed to solve traffic congestion, but transport planners globally are hesitant to remove or rethink them, according to University of Queensland research.
Social Sciences
Apr 6, 2020
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Can scientists understand human behavior enough to figure out what drives the choices you make? In fact, it's called "decision science," and it's something that Anna Spurlock, a behavioral economist with Lawrence Berkeley ...
Economics & Business
Mar 13, 2020
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The technology of autonomous vehicles (AVs) is progressing rapidly, but have we really thought through how they'll work in reality?
Energy & Green Tech
Dec 4, 2018
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Sweeping changes to social-economic conditions and living circumstances are the main factors behind a marked drop in car ownership among young people over the past 25 years, academics from the University of the West of England ...
Social Sciences
Jan 25, 2018
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Some policy analysts worry that if per capita wealth in China continues to escalate and approaches that of the United States, automobile ownership could quadruple. The likely consequences: extreme traffic congestion and even ...
Environment
Jan 5, 2017
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The move to self-driving cars is coming faster than most people think, says the head of ridesharing giant Lyft.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Sep 19, 2016
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