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In auto-oriented communities, access to an automobile is essential for good mobility, but not everyone owns a car or is able
to drive. Little is known about how individuals in these circumstances might still use vehicles for transportation. To provide
insight on the nature of vehicle use by those with potentially limited vehicle access, we present qualitative findings from
focus groups with recent Mexican immigrants living in California, half of whom owned no cars. Our results demonstrate varying
degrees of participants’ access to vehicle travel not always corresponding to auto ownership, with extensive sharing of cars,
borrowing of cars, and getting rides. We describe the different dimensions of vehicle access that participants experienced
and identify specific factors that seemed to influence their access levels. We discuss the implications of our findings for
transportation policy and future research.
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Susan HandyEmail: |
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The majority of comparisons between state transportation systems do not control for characteristics that may vary greatly
between states (e.g., vehicle miles traveled). A shortcoming of such analyses is that a state’s individual characteristics
can be highly influential in determining how transportation policy is set and funds are spent. The purpose of this paper is
to extend previous efforts to create groups of similar peer states by developing a new methodological framework that incorporates
demographic, temporal, and locational variability into the peer group delineations. We collected historical data for 42 variables
on transportation infrastructure, population, economy, growth, topography and weather. To examine trends before and after
the passage of ISTEA we gathered data over two time periods: 1985 through 1990 and 1995 through 2000. Using principal components
analysis (PCA) we reduced variables into seven components, and then statistically clustered states into peer groups for each
time period based on the components and the remaining variables. We identified a range of cluster solutions and demonstrate
how cluster statistics help to describe the contextual basis behind the peer grouping. The results of this study are to provide
government agencies, researchers and the public with a systematic methodological framework for identifying peer states that
reflect similar attributes contributing to the development and maintenance of state transportation systems.
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Debbie A. Niemeier (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Konstantinos G. Zografos Konstantinos N. Androutsopoulos Teemu Sihvola 《Transportation》2008,35(6):777-795
Flexible transport services include a wide range of demand responsive transport systems that provide non-conventional passenger
and freight transportation services. Several alternative business models varying according to the local market conditions,
the socio-economic, legal, and institutional framework may be developed for the provision of Flexible Transport Systems (FTS).
The objective of this paper is twofold: first to present an integrated methodological framework for developing and assessing
alternative FTS business models and second to demonstrate its applicability to a case study regarding the prioritization of
alternative FTS business models for the provision of flexible passenger transport services in Helsinki.
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Teemu SihvolaEmail: |
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Paul Stangl 《Transportation》2008,35(6):759-775
Following the passage of ISTEA, increased attention to pedestrian planning has led to the development of pedestrian plans,
particularly at the metropolitan and municipal levels. This has raised the issue of how cities and metropolitan areas evaluate
the walkability of the pedestrian realm and identify improvement projects. Three approaches to evaluating the pedestrian realm
are examined: instrumental rationality, communicative rationality, and phenomenology. Case studies demonstrating the application
of these approaches to the development of pedestrian plans are examined in the Phoenix metropolitan area, Portland, Oregon,
and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Paul Stangl obtained a Doctorate in Geography at the University of Texas, Austin, in 2001 and a Masters Degree in City and Regional Planning from Rutgers University, in 1992. He has worked as a transportation planner for the City of North Charleston, S.C. and currently teaches city and regional planning at Western Washington University. 相似文献
Paul StanglEmail: |
Paul Stangl obtained a Doctorate in Geography at the University of Texas, Austin, in 2001 and a Masters Degree in City and Regional Planning from Rutgers University, in 1992. He has worked as a transportation planner for the City of North Charleston, S.C. and currently teaches city and regional planning at Western Washington University. 相似文献
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Modeling residential sorting effects to understand the impact of the built environment on commute mode choice 总被引:5,自引:2,他引:3
Abdul Rawoof Pinjari Ram M. Pendyala Chandra R. Bhat Paul A. Waddell 《Transportation》2007,34(5):557-573
This paper presents an examination of the significance of residential sorting or self selection effects in understanding the
impacts of the built environment on travel choices. Land use and transportation system attributes are often treated as exogenous
variables in models of travel behavior. Such models ignore the potential self selection processes that may be at play wherein
households and individuals choose to locate in areas or built environments that are consistent with their lifestyle and transportation
preferences, attitudes, and values. In this paper, a simultaneous model of residential location choice and commute mode choice
that accounts for both observed and unobserved taste variations that may contribute to residential self selection is estimated
on a survey sample extracted from the 2000 San Francisco Bay Area household travel survey. Model results show that both observed
and unobserved residential self selection effects do exist; however, even after accounting for these effects, it is found
that built environment attributes can indeed significantly impact commute mode choice behavior. The paper concludes with a
discussion of the implications of the model findings for policy planning.
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Paul A. WaddellEmail: |
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This paper analyzes transportation mode choice for short home-based trips using a 1999 activity survey from the Puget Sound
region of Washington State, U.S.A. Short trips are defined as those within the 95th percentile walking distance in the data,
here 1.40 miles (2.25 km). The mean walking distance was 0.4 miles (0.6 km). The mode distribution was automobile (75%), walk
(23%), bicycle (1%), and bus (1%). Walk and bicycle are found less likely as the individual’s age increases. People are more
likely to drive if they can or are accustomed to. People in multi-person families are less likely to walk or use bus, especially
families with children. An environment that attracts people’s interest and provides activity opportunities encourages people
to walk on short trips. Influencing people’s choice of transport mode on short trips should be an important part of efforts
encouraging the use of non-automobile alternatives.
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Gudmundur F. UlfarssonEmail: |
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Transportation and land-use preferences and residents’ neighborhood choices: the sufficiency of compact development in the Atlanta region 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
This paper analyzes the transportation and land-use preference and actual neighborhood choices of a sample of 1,455 residents
of metro Atlanta. We develop a stated-preference scale on which desires for neighborhood type are gauged, from preferences
for low-density, auto-oriented environments to desires for compact, walkable, and transit-oriented neighborhoods. This scale
is then related to desires for change in one’s own neighborhood characteristics after a hypothetical move. If all neighborhood
preferences were equally likely to be satisfied, then neighborhood preferences would not be correlated with a desire for change.
By contrast, in the current study, stronger preferences for a more walkable environment are associated with greater desire
for change in one’s neighborhood characteristics. This suggests an undersupply of compact, walkable, and transit-friendly
neighborhood types relative to current demand.
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Lawrence D. Frank (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Galit Cohen-Blankshtain 《Transportation》2008,35(3):411-424
Transportation analysis emphasizes the necessity to internalize the transport externalities of car usage through taxation.
Yet taxation decisions are often made with non-transport goals in mind. In such cases, transport policies are made ‘by the
way.’ This paper examines such a case: Israel’s taxation policy on company cars. It shows that current taxation policies result
in increasing numbers of company cars and growing numbers of transport users who are not sensitive to the marginal cost of
car use and make excessive use of the car. As a result, a significant portion of Travel Demand Management (TDM) measures cannot
affect this group. The Israeli case of company car tax reform demonstrates the problematic effect of a policy that does not
take its overall consequences on other policy fields into account and thereby impairs efforts to reduce the negative impacts
of the transport system. Also, it demonstrates the importance of institutional aspects of transport policymaking.
Cohen-Blankshtain is a lecturer at the department of Geography and School of Public Policy at the Hebrew University. Her research interests include urban policy, transport and ICT policy and participation process in public policy. 相似文献
Galit Cohen-BlankshtainEmail: |
Cohen-Blankshtain is a lecturer at the department of Geography and School of Public Policy at the Hebrew University. Her research interests include urban policy, transport and ICT policy and participation process in public policy. 相似文献
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Those who oppose tolls and other forms of road pricing argue that low-income, urban residents will suffer if they must pay
to use congested freeways. This contention, however, fails to consider (1) how much low-income residents already pay for transportation
in taxes and fees, or (2) how much residents would pay for highway infrastructure under an alternative revenue-generating
scheme, such as a sales tax. This paper compares the cost burden of a value-priced road, State Route 91 (SR91) in Orange County,
California with the cost burden under Orange County’s local option transportation sales tax, Measure M. We find that although
the sales tax spreads the costs of transportation facilities across a large number of people inside and outside Orange County,
it redistributes about $3 million (USD) in revenues from less affluent residents to those with higher incomes. The entire
Measure M program redistributes an estimated $26 million from low-income residents to the more affluent. Low-income drivers
as individuals save substantially if they do not have to pay tolls, but as a group low-income residents, on average, pay more
out-of-pocket with sales taxes.
Lisa Schweitzer is an assistant professor at the University of Southern California. Her work on environmental injustice in transportation has appeared in Urban Studies, Built Environment, and Transportation Research Parts A and D. Brian D. Taylor is the Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies and Professor of Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research centers on how society pays for transportation systems and how these systems in turn serve the needs of people who have low levels of mobility. 相似文献
Brian D. TaylorEmail: |
Lisa Schweitzer is an assistant professor at the University of Southern California. Her work on environmental injustice in transportation has appeared in Urban Studies, Built Environment, and Transportation Research Parts A and D. Brian D. Taylor is the Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies and Professor of Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research centers on how society pays for transportation systems and how these systems in turn serve the needs of people who have low levels of mobility. 相似文献
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Land use-transportation scenario planning: promise and reality 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Keith Bartholomew 《Transportation》2007,34(4):397-412
Land use-transportation scenario planning has become increasingly common in regional and sub-regional planning processes.
The technique promises to provide citizens with opportunities to engage in constructive dialogue about the future of their
communities, and to serve as a basis for assertive action to direct the course of that future. This study reviews 80 scenario
planning projects from more than 50 U.S. metropolitan areas. The analysis reveals important gaps in the practice of scenario
planning—particularly in the areas of public participation, methodology, and institutional structures—and recent efforts to
address the shortcomings.
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Keith BartholomewEmail: |
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This paper reports the results of a stated-preference study aimed at investigating how transport decisions are made by receivers
or by transport operators about the potential use of an urban freight consolidation centre in the city of Fano, Italy. Because
there are no revealed preference data, a stated-choice methodology is used. The stated-choice experiments present two alternatives—one
using a private vehicle subject to various traffic regulations and one using the urban freight consolidation centre with varying
cost and efficiency levels. Conventional discrete choice data modelling shows that the potential demand is influenced mainly
by the distance of the parking bay from the shop, by access permit cost, by the service cost of the urban freight consolidation
centre, and by the delay in delivery time. Simulations are then performed to assess how the potential demand is affected by
various incentives and regulations affecting urban goods distribution.
Edoardo Marcucci is Associate Professor of Applied Economics at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Roma Tre, Italy, General Secretary of the Italian Society of Transportation Economists, and co-founder of the Kuhmo—Nectar Conference and Summer School Series on Pricing, Financing, Regulating Transport Infrastructures and Services. He has studied freight transportation concentrating on interactions along logistic supply chains. Romeo Danielis is Full Professor at the University of Trieste, Italy. He is managing editor of European Transport\Trasporti Europei. He has published articles on input-output modelling, regional environmental policy, social costing of transport externalities, EU enlargement and on several transport issues including road pricing, the Down-Thompson paradox, energy use and CO2 emissions, freight transport demand and stated preferences. 相似文献
Edoardo MarcucciEmail: |
Edoardo Marcucci is Associate Professor of Applied Economics at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Roma Tre, Italy, General Secretary of the Italian Society of Transportation Economists, and co-founder of the Kuhmo—Nectar Conference and Summer School Series on Pricing, Financing, Regulating Transport Infrastructures and Services. He has studied freight transportation concentrating on interactions along logistic supply chains. Romeo Danielis is Full Professor at the University of Trieste, Italy. He is managing editor of European Transport\Trasporti Europei. He has published articles on input-output modelling, regional environmental policy, social costing of transport externalities, EU enlargement and on several transport issues including road pricing, the Down-Thompson paradox, energy use and CO2 emissions, freight transport demand and stated preferences. 相似文献
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Gerard de Jong Andrew Daly Marits Pieters Stephen Miller Ronald Plasmeijer Frank Hofman 《Transportation》2007,34(4):375-395
This paper provides a review of transport model applications that not only provide a central traffic forecast (or forecasts
for a few scenarios), but also quantify the uncertainty in the traffic forecasts in the form of a confidence interval or related
measures. Both uncertainty that results from using uncertain inputs (e.g. on income) and uncertainty in the model itself are
treated. The paper goes on to describe the methods used and the results obtained for a case study in quantifying uncertainty
in traffic forecasts in The Netherlands.
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Gerard de JongEmail: |
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The impact of urban form on automobile travel: disentangling causation from correlation 总被引:5,自引:3,他引:2
A longstanding question within the field of transportation demand management is the strength of the relationship between urban
form and mobility behavior. Although several studies have identified a strong correlation between these variables, there is
as yet scant evidence to support policy interventions that target land use as a means of influencing travel. To the contrary,
some of the more recent research has cast skepticism on the proposition that the relationship is causative, recognizing the
possibility that households endogenously self-select themselves into communities that support their preferences for particular
transportation modes. Focusing on individual automobile travel, the present study seeks to contribute to this line of inquiry
by estimating econometric models on a panel of travel-diary data collected in Germany between 1996 and 2003. Specifically,
we employ the two-part model (2PM)—a procedure involving probit and OLS estimators—to assess the determinants of the discrete
decision to use the car and the continuous decision of distance traveled. Beyond modeling variables that capture the urban
form features that are commonly suggested to influence mobility behavior, including mixed use and public transit, this study
employs instrumental variables to control for potential endogeneity emerging from the simultaneity of residential and mode
choices. Unlike much of the work to date, our results suggest that urban form has a causative impact on car use, a finding
that is robust to alternative econometric specifications.
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Ralf HedelEmail: |
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The impact of high-speed technology on railway demand 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
This paper estimates a passenger railway demand function to analyse effects arising from the introduction and use of high-speed
technologies. The paper reports estimates of demand elasticities with respect to price, income, quality of service and a range
of exogenous characteristics. The results show that travel time savings from conventional high-speed technology have a larger
impact on passenger demand than tilting train technology. The introduction of conventional high-speed technology is associated
with an 8% increase in passenger railway demand. Increasing the use of either type of high-speed technology appears to induce
small positive effects on demand beyond those obtained from usual traffic density increases on non-high-speed existing technology.
Antonio Couto is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Engineering (FEUP) at the University of Porto. He received his PhD from FEUP in 2005 having completed a thesis in railway transport economics. His research focuses on issues related to transport economics and infrastructures. Daniel J. Graham is a Reader in the Centre for Transport Studies at Imperial College London. He specialises in the economics of transport, focusing in particular on modelling the implications of transport provision and accessibility for productivity and economic growth. 相似文献
Daniel J. Graham (Corresponding author)Email: |
Antonio Couto is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Engineering (FEUP) at the University of Porto. He received his PhD from FEUP in 2005 having completed a thesis in railway transport economics. His research focuses on issues related to transport economics and infrastructures. Daniel J. Graham is a Reader in the Centre for Transport Studies at Imperial College London. He specialises in the economics of transport, focusing in particular on modelling the implications of transport provision and accessibility for productivity and economic growth. 相似文献
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Children’s mode choice for the school trip: the role of distance and school location in walking to school 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Noreen C. McDonald 《Transportation》2008,35(1):23-35
Rising levels of childhood obesity in the United States and a 75% decline in the proportion of children walking to school
in the past 30 years have focused attention on school travel. This paper uses data from the US Department of Transportation’s
2001 National Household Travel Survey to analyze the factors affecting mode choice for elementary and middle school children.
The analysis shows that walk travel time is the most policy-relevant factor affecting the decision to walk to school with
an estimated direct elasticity of −0.75. If policymakers want to increase walking rates, these findings suggest that current
policies, such as Safe Routes to School, which do not affect the spatial distribution of schools and residences will not be
enough to change travel behavior. The final part of the paper uses the mode choice model to test how a land use strategy—community
schools—might affect walking to school. The results show that community schools have the potential to increase walking rates
but would require large changes from current land use, school, and transportation planning practices.
Noreen C. McDonald is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on how the environment affects children’s travel behavior. 相似文献
Noreen C. McDonaldEmail: |
Noreen C. McDonald is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on how the environment affects children’s travel behavior. 相似文献
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This contribution presents theoretical considerations concerning the connections between life situation, lifestyle, choice
of residential location and travel behaviour, as well as empirical results of structural equation models. The analyses are
based on data resulting from a survey in seven study areas in the region of Cologne. The results indicate that lifestyles
influence mode choice, although slightly, even when life situation is controlled for. The influence of life situation on mode
choice exceeds the influence of lifestyle. The influence that lifestyle, and in part also life situation, has on mode choice
is primarily mediated by specific location attitudes and location decisions that influence mode choice, respectively. Here
objective spatial conditions as well as subjective location attitudes are important.
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Joachim ScheinerEmail: |
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Understanding of the activity-travel patterns of children is becoming increasingly important to various policy makers. Further,
there is also a growing recognition that intra-household interactions need to be explicitly accommodated in travel models
for realistic forecasts and policy evaluation. In the light of these issues, this paper contributes towards an overall understanding
of the school-travel behavior of children and the related interdependencies among the travel patterns of parents and children.
An econometric model is formulated to simultaneously determine the choice of mode and the escorting person for children’s
travel to and from school. The 2000 San Francisco Bay Area Travel Survey (BATS) data are used in the model estimation process.
Empirical results indicate that the characteristics of child like age, gender, and ethnicity, and employment and work flexibility
characteristics of the parents have strong impacts on the mode choice decisions. In addition, the impacts of some of these
attributes on the choice of mode to school are different from the corresponding impacts on the choice of mode from school. The distance between home and school is found to strongly and negatively impact the choice of walking to and from
school, with the impact being stronger for walking to school. Several land-use and built-environment variables were explored,
but were found not to be statistically significant predictors.
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Sivaramakrishnan Srinivasan (Corresponding author)Email: |
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The rapid and continuing changes in travel and mobility needs in India over the last decade necessitates the development and
use of dynamic models for travel demand forecasting rather than cross-sectional models. In this context, this paper investigates
mode choice dynamics among workers in Chennai city, India over a period of five years (1999–2004). Dynamics in mode choice
is captured at four levels: exogenous variable change, state-dependence, changes in users’ sensitivity to attributes, and
unobserved error terms. The results show that the dynamic models provide a substantial improvement (of over 500 log-likelihood
points and ρ2 increases from 44% to 68%) over the cross-sectional model. The performance was compared using two illustrative policy scenarios
with important methodological and practical implications. The results indicate that cross-sectional models tend to provide
inflated estimates of potential improvement measures. Improving the Level of Service (LOS) alone will not produce the anticipated
benefits to transit agencies, as it fails to overcome the persistent inertia captured in the state-dependence factors. The
results and models have important applications in the context of growing motorization and congestion management in developing
countries.
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P. BhargaviEmail: |
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An analysis on long term emission benefits of a government vehicle fleet replacement plan in northern illinois 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
There have been a number of studies of the effectiveness of vehicle scrappage programs, which offer incentives to accelerated
scrappage of older vehicles often thought to be high emitters. These programs are voluntary and aimed at replacement of household
vehicles. In contrast, there is a gap in knowledge related to the emissions benefits of government fleet replacement (retirement)
programs. In this study, the efficacy of a fleet replacement program for a local government agency in Northern Illinois, the
Forest Preserve of DuPage County (FPDC), is examined using a probabilistic vehicle survival model that accounts for time-varying
covariates such as vehicle age and gasoline price. The vehicle lifetime operating emissions are calculated based on the estimated
vehicle survival probabilities from the survival model and compared with those derived using the EPA default fleet used in
MOBILE6 and the fleet represented by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) survival curve. The results suggest that while
there may be short term emission benefits of the FPDC fleet replacement plan, the long-term emission benefits are highly sensitive
to economic factors (e.g., future gasoline price) and exhibit a decreasing trend. This indicates that an adaptive multi-stage
replacement strategy as opposed to a fixed one is preferable to achieve optimal cost effectiveness.
Dr. Jie Lin (Jane) is an assistant professor in Department of Civil and Materials Engineering and a researcher with the Institute for Environmental Science and Policy at University of Illinois at Chicago. Her current research is focused on transportation sustainability through holistic modeling of energy consumption and emissions associated with private, freight, and public transportation activities. Dr. Cynthia Chen is an assistant professor in the civil engineering department at City College of New York. Her research expertise and interests cover travel behavior analysis, land use and transportation, transportation safety, and environmental analysis. Dr. Deb Niemeier is a professor at UC Davis and her current research focus is on the nexus between transportation, land use and climate change, particularly how land use and transportation decisions affect energy consumption and contribute to climate change. She is considered an expert on transportation-air quality modeling and policy and sustainability. 相似文献
Debbie A. NiemeierEmail: |
Dr. Jie Lin (Jane) is an assistant professor in Department of Civil and Materials Engineering and a researcher with the Institute for Environmental Science and Policy at University of Illinois at Chicago. Her current research is focused on transportation sustainability through holistic modeling of energy consumption and emissions associated with private, freight, and public transportation activities. Dr. Cynthia Chen is an assistant professor in the civil engineering department at City College of New York. Her research expertise and interests cover travel behavior analysis, land use and transportation, transportation safety, and environmental analysis. Dr. Deb Niemeier is a professor at UC Davis and her current research focus is on the nexus between transportation, land use and climate change, particularly how land use and transportation decisions affect energy consumption and contribute to climate change. She is considered an expert on transportation-air quality modeling and policy and sustainability. 相似文献
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Nature or nurture: why do railroads carry greater freight share in the United States than in Europe? 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
During the 1950s, the share of freight carried by railroads was similar and declining in both the United States and Europe.
By 2000, the railroads’ share of freight (measured in ton–kilometers) had reached 38% in the United States while falling to
8% in Europe. This paper examines the reasons for the difference in rail’s share of freight in Europe and the United States.
We find that almost 83% of the gap in 2000 is probably due to natural or inherent differences, principally geography, shipment
distance, and commodity mix. However, 17% of the gap cannot be explained by these inherent differences and is presumably due
to public policies including priority of passenger service, lack of interoperability at borders, service quality and rates,
and incentives of the rail operators. We estimate that if that policy gap were closed, railroads’ share of freight in Europe
would increase from 8% to 13%.
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Mark FaganEmail: |