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      <title>Examining Transportation Infrastructure Investments at Large Employment Hubs for Improving Workers’ Travel: A Case Study of the Denver International Airport</title>
      <link>https://rip.trb.org/View/2557003</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The U.S. economy has evolved into specialized sectors where a variety of workers are needed. These sectors are as varied as logistics, information technology, health, recreation, education, and travel. Often specialized employment hubs are located outside urban centers due to cheaper land or other accessibility benefits for the movement of goods and services. Large employment hubs, located away from urban centers, are unique in their challenges for transportation for workers. Broadly, researchers have shown that the heterogeneous nature of employment agglomeration has varying impacts on commute distance, congestion, and travel mode choice. Most workers may decide to drive to and from work since transit is generally limited especially during off-peak travel times and active transportation is infeasible to/from such destinations due to greater travel distance. This pushes workers to rely on single-occupancy vehicle trips, with accompanying impacts on higher congestion in and around large employment centers.

Denver International Airport is a case study of such a large employment hub, located outside the urban center, serving 82.3 million passengers in 2024. The Airport employs about 40,000 people who experience traffic congestion, higher out-of-pocket costs, and other issues while traveling to and from work. In this research, the research team will build on previous work conducted with the Airport during the Fall 2023 semester, where Dr. Shirgaokar’s graduate transportation class had the Airport as a client and studied transportation investments to aid workers’ travel. Separately, the Airport conducted a large survey of employees (n=2700) and collected data through other techniques by engaging with both workers and on-site employers (e.g., concessioners). Denver International Airport will act as subject-matter experts and provide access to data assets and feedback for this research.

The main objective of this research is to identify consumer segments in the employee pool at the Airport through statistical analysis. The team asks: Based on stated travel preferences, what types of infrastructure investments can make travel for workers more efficient? The research team, in close collaboration with the Airport staff, will also engage directly with workers at the Airport using semi-structured interviews and/or focus groups to gather deeper insights regarding what workers value in terms of easing transportation to/from the Airport. Especially in cases such as airports, transportation investments are made with passengers in mind. The Denver International Airport’s focus on workers’ travel needs is timely and offers a unique opportunity to study policy changes in real time. The research team will help with evaluation of several strategies that the Airport will roll out during 2025-26. Working closely with the Airport Planning & Design team, this research is uniquely positioned to have a significant technology transfer component in terms of evaluation of infrastructure investment strategies and consumer segment identification.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2025 13:04:27 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Improving Transit Agency (Commuter Rail) Performance to Attract Riders: What Works?</title>
      <link>https://rip.trb.org/View/2518948</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The purpose of this project is to identify successful strategies that commuter rail providers have used to rebuild their ridership to counter stagnant or declining ridership in the post-COVID–19 era. It will also identify how transferable these strategies are to other areas by assessing whether they involved local partnership and/or were based on local conditions.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2025 19:12:04 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Empowering Sustainability and Equity: Harnessing School Buses for Workforce Transit</title>
      <link>https://rip.trb.org/View/2441688</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Project Description: In addressing the dual challenges of environmental sustainability and transportation equity, the project aims to repurpose school buses for workforce transportation. This strategy emerges against a backdrop where low-income individuals frequently face limited access to efficient transit options and are more vulnerable to climate change and environmental pollutions. The objective is to reduce dependency on private vehicles and the associated carbon footprint and air pollutions, while broadening job access for these communities. The method involves the strategic rerouting of school buses during off-peak hours to serve as a bridge between home and work. Outcomes of this innovative approach are expected to include a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and air pollutions, enhanced access to employment, and the promotion of equitable transportation options within underserved areas. This sustainable mobility model offers a blueprint for communities nationwide to improve transit access while also contributing to broader environmental goals.

US DOT Priorities: This project supports three US DOT strategies goals as follows:
a.	Climate and Sustainability. The proposed mobility solution stands as a significant stride toward the United States' goal of achieving net-zero emissions. By decreasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and air pollution related to commuting, it contributes directly to national efforts to curtail the impacts of climate change. Additionally, the strategy has the potential to deliver pronounced environmental and public health benefits. Low-income communities, which often bear a disproportionate burden of the consequences of climate change and air pollution, could see substantial improvements in air quality and health outcomes as a result of reduced emissions. 
b.	Economic Strength and Global Competitiveness. By decreasing the reliance of low-income workers on private vehicles, there are substantial savings in terms of direct car ownership costs and commuting expenses. This shift is likely to alleviate some of the dissatisfaction associated with long commuting distances and the high costs tied to personal vehicle use and provide a reliable public transit option opens up job opportunities for those without access to a car, which could help alleviate labor shortages that many industries are currently facing. Looking to the future, if school buses were to be electrified, we could expect even further savings in fuel and maintenance costs over their operational lives. Such savings could redirect funds towards educational activities, enhancing the quality of education and, subsequently, the workforce. 
c.	Equity. The limited access to public transportation within low-income communities contributes significantly to high transportation costs and restricts job opportunities. The proposed solution is poised to address these disparities by improving the accessibility of public transport. With the benefit of GHG emissions and air pollutions reduction, this project also contributes to the health and well-being of those most vulnerable.

Outputs: This research project is anticipated to yield innovative outputs that stand to revolutionize sustainable transportation practices. The primary result will be a new transportation model that integrates school and work schedules with work shift reschedule and route optimization to enhance the efficiency of bus fleets. Additionally, the research team will develop cutting-edge algorithms designed for route optimization, taking into account unpredictable and stochastic conditions such as fluctuating traffic patterns and variable travel times. 

The project will produce an extensive database of demonstrating the current commuting patterns, transportation needs, as well as the current commuting environmental impacts with a focus on low-income workers from Central Texas area. The project can also reveal the potential environmental impacts of the proposed innovative transportation strategy. This project will also produce a report detailing the potential challenges for the implementation of this sustainable mobility solution and discuss the necessary actions to overcome the challenges. The research findings will be disseminated through peer-reviewed journal publications, conference presentations, webinars, workshops, ensuring that the knowledge gained reaches a wide audience.

Outcomes/Impacts: The transportation model proposed in this research aims to repurpose school buses during their idle hours to serve low-income workers, reducing the reliance on personal vehicles and underutilized public buses. The implementation of this model requires significant policy changes, including clearances for using public assets like school buses, partnerships between private enterprises and school districts, and potentially new regulatory frameworks. The model's success also depends on adapting safety standards and possibly altering vehicle designs to accommodate adult passengers.
The environmental benefits are substantial, including reduced greenhouse gas emissions, lower energy costs, improved air quality, and public health. The model also addresses transportation equity, improving job accessibility for individuals without personal vehicles, potentially boosting economic prosperity in low-income communities.
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2024 15:12:32 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Quantifying Public Transit Improvements: A Multimodal Evaluation
of Recent Improvements to Los Angeles Rail Infrastructure
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      <description><![CDATA[While billions of dollars are spent on public transit infrastructure, equilibrium implications of these investments are poorly understood. The research team builds a model that combines key features of transportation models and quantitative spatial equilibrium models in order to be able to produce more precise predictions of the effects of transit improvements. The quantitative model features thousands of spatial units populated by commuters who choose locations of residence and work, as well as transportation mode and route to commute between these locations. The team estimates the model using unique cell phone data that tracks individual trips and routes. The team uses the model to estimate the effects of recent transit improvements in Los Angeles, the K Line and the Regional Connector. The team also shows how the framework can be applied by policymakers and planners in any urban area in the United States to evaluate the impact of transit improvements.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2024 14:53:47 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Integrating Progression Band and Delay Optimization for Arterials with Unbalanced Directional Traffic</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Unbalanced directional traffic is commonly observed in commuting corridors, where the high-volume direction may experience queue spillbacks and turning bay blockages that significantly downgrade the traffic efficiency. The traditional wisdom that naturally favors the high-volume direction often neglect the needs of the low-volume direction, incurring unnecessary delays. Such a dilemma raises a challenging need for a signal plan that concurrently ensures the traffic efficiency of both directions with distinct traffic features.
Fully recognizing the achievement of two major families of signal optimization models, delay minimization and progression maximization, this project intend to integrate their merits, and present a novel traffic signal model to minimize the through delay in the high-volume direction while preserving the progression in the low-volume direction. To achieve such an objective, this project will develop a mathematical programming framework with essential formulations. Especially, to estimate the queueing delay accurately with signal related parameters, unlike most existing studies assuming the uniformly distributed incoming traffic flow, the project will explicitly formulate the queue evolution process by accounting for the time-varying vehicle arrival rates resulting from the distinct upstream traffic streams. Such a detailed formulation shall enable the model to flexibly select the optimal phase sequences that allow low-volume traffic streams to
join the queue prior to those high-volume ones, thus minimizing queuing delays despite the maximum queue length being inevitably long. Moreover, the negative impacts of left turn vehicles merging into through queues due to the left-turn bay blockage by the expanding through queue should be also taken into consideration in the through delay computation. The proposed model with carefully designed formulations is expected to yield improved network-wide delay, fewer vehicle stops, and a shorter duration of left-turn bay blockage.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2024 15:54:19 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Quick-Response Research on Long-Term Strategic Issues. Task 45. Future of Commuter Rail in North America</title>
      <link>https://rip.trb.org/View/2083650</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Beginning in March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic and the ability of many office workers to work from home seriously affected ridership on commuter rail services. Although public transportation ridership has partially recovered since the height of the pandemic, passenger counts for most commuter rail services, remain below 2019 levels. Commuter rail providers are facing challenges to redefine themselves to serve a broader array of passenger markets and improve integration with other public transportation services.

Under TCRP Project J-11/Task 45, “Future of Commuter Rail in North America,” DB E.C.O. North America was tasked to conduct research to identify practical, implementable strategies for commuter rail providers in North America that will facilitate recovery from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, manage their transformation, and enable continued relevance. This research was built on a review of historical and current literature; data from public sources to understand trends and context for the various commuter rail systems; interviews with experts and practitioners, including transportation agency staff and board members, labor representatives, elected officials, consultants, planners, and operations teams; six case studies of U.S. commuter rail agencies focused on specific strategies and emerging practices; and a review of regional rail models in Germany.

To assess and transform for the future, the research concludes that providers follow a three-part, iterative strategic planning process that is tailored for the unique nature of commuter rail given its fixed infrastructure, historical agreements, and financial position. The planning process needs to integrate market information with service innovation options in a manner that recognizes and responds to challenges in governance, infrastructure, and funding. These factors need to fit into regional mobility discussions: this process should be part of understanding what broad mobility goals a region has and determining what is the role of commuter rail in achieving those goals.

TCRP Research Report 254, Future of Commuter Rail in North America, presents practical, implementable strategies to support the recovery of commuter rail services from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The report addresses how commuter railroads might navigate the market, service, and funding challenges they face in the coming years and decades. This report is of immediate use to leadership and staff of commuter rail providers, and it can also inform funders, elected officials, other decision-makers, and stakeholders interested in regional mobility.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2022 09:30:47 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Tax Revenue and Telecommuting</title>
      <link>https://rip.trb.org/View/1878005</link>
      <description><![CDATA[According to the D.C. Tax Facts, the motor fuel tax in 2000 was reported to be $32.65 million dollars and was drastically decreased to $25.1 million dollars in 2017. Transportation infrastructure is costly to build and even costlier to maintain; in 2017, The Condition of the District’s Roadways reported that the actual expenditure on the District roadways was 4.5 times higher than the FY 2010-2014 average. Concurrently, the adoption of electric and hybrid vehicles and decreases in road trips due to the transition to telecommuting and eCommerce, especially with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, are significantly influencing transportation revenue generation from gasoline taxes. This will become a serious challenge for infrastructure asset management in the near future.
The main objective of this research is to investigate the most influential parameters and possible scenarios affecting the District’s Highway Trust Fund revenues due to increased telecommuting and changes in commute mode in order to propose a multi-criteria decision-making model for transportation tax revenue generation.
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      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:00:15 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Mobility and sustainability in the post-pandemic reopening phase</title>
      <link>https://rip.trb.org/View/1864509</link>
      <description><![CDATA[This project will study how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected both travel and pro-environmental preferences and how commuters interact with transportation infrastructure, with particular focus on sustainable transportation modes and how transit preferences evolve during the pandemic receding stage. A multi-wave survey of commuters will capture changes in behavior and priorities and how attitudes toward the environment and diseases shape mobility preferences over time. The collected data will be used to train a microeconometric model of welfare changes under the “new normal” of the mobility ecosystem.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2021 15:39:07 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis--The Transit IDEA Program. Bike Love</title>
      <link>https://rip.trb.org/View/1777141</link>
      <description><![CDATA[In this project, Palo Alto Transportation Management Association implemented a new cross-platform mobile app, “Bike Love” that provides daily incentives for verifiable active mode first-mile commute trips to transit and active mode commutes from home to work, up to $600 per year per commuter. Automated travel mode detection identifies bike, e-bike, e-scooter, and e-skateboard trips. Commute trips are verified to stop or start within geofences at 30 Caltrain (commuter rail) stations and two Palo Alto job centers. Incentive dollars are instantly redeemed at local merchants via reloadable Apple Wallet Virtual Visa cards, a new type of payment card. 67% of incentive dollars are spent in Palo Alto, recycling funds back into the local economy. Rapid program growth was achieved by a persuade-to-join-program commute survey and via door-to-door outreach to 800 small businesses. In only eight weeks, the research team’s marketing outreach motivated 106 Palo Alto workers to participate in the project. Commuter retention was 60%, above the team’s 50% retention expectation.  Successful marketing outreach motivated 106 Palo Alto workers to apply to join the Bike Love program. The software team discovered and implemented improved financial technology (fintech), eliminating expected onboarding problems with merchants, and enabling Tap and Pay at all merchants accepting Apple Pay. Travel mode detection was 95% accurate. There were 158 Virtual Visa transactions at 90 different merchants worth a total of $2,355 with an average transaction amount of $14.90. The project was overwhelmed by onboarding issues. Only 33 out of 106 commuters completed the entire seven-step onboarding process. For future software releases, numerous improvements to the onboarding process have been identified. 

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      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2021 12:03:45 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Best Practices in Coordination of Public Transit and Ride Sharing



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      <link>https://rip.trb.org/View/1628595</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Shared-Use Mobility (SUM) commonly encompasses ride sharing, car sharing, ride hailing, microtransit, mobility on demand, and vanpooling services and systems, as well as other forms of transportation services shared among users, as defined in TCRP Research Report 188. The emergence of SUM practices in urban areas raises the question of how any of these practices can be applied in less populated areas. There may be an opportunity to use these urban SUM practices to address the unmet transportation needs in less populated communities. SUM applications have been successful at connecting people to mobility options, and there is increasing interest by small urban, rural, and frontier communities to pursue partnerships/SUM practices as a means to improve overall mobility and accessibility.

In less densely populated areas, fewer private transportation options, greater distances between origins and destinations, limited public transportation staff and resources, and a limited supporting infrastructure (e.g., wireless cellular network coverage and broadband) create challenges to successfully implement SUM options. However, some of these SUM options from urban areas may be properly scaled.  

Research is needed to further existing research in this area to aid state departments of transportation (DOTs) in providing technical assistance to public transportation providers in order to meet the increasingly varied transportation needs of communities.

 OBJECTIVE: The objective of this research is to provide state DOTs and public transportation providers with a report and implementation guidebook on innovative applications for integrating public transportation in less populated areas with SUM services and providers. For this research, SUM services include ride sharing, car sharing, ride hailing, microtransit, mobility on demand, and vanpooling services/systems. The report include case studies of urban, rural, and frontier partnerships, highlighting challenges and solutions.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2019 03:09:51 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Commuter Bus Demand, Incentives for Modal Shift, and Impact on GHG: Part II – Service Design Concepts</title>
      <link>https://rip.trb.org/View/1580238</link>
      <description><![CDATA[This is a continuation of a project to model and evaluate the opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by expanding express commuter bus services in the Greater Boston area.  The previous project developed a model to estimate the emissions associated with the current mode split of commuters traveling by car, carpool, walk, bike, or four transit modes by walk or drive access.  The model was then used to estimate the effect of a new commuter bus service on operating costs, mode share, and greenhouse gas emissions. The purpose of this project is to analyze the performance of existing commuter bus services that are included in the travel demand model that is maintained by the Central Transportation Planning Staff (CTPS) and new commuter bus service that has since been introduced.  This project includes specific attention on one of the corridors identified as a “high-efficiency corridor”: Framingham-Boston.  It also provides the opportunity to explore whether there are additional efficiencies that could be attained through service design adjustments. Specifically, this project involves refining the accuracy of the model, analyzing the potential impact of running buses in dedicated lanes or highway shoulders, and consideration of specific details of commuter bus stop location that affect the attractiveness for access by walking or driving.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2019 10:13:56 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Expanding the Capabilities of Business Commute Optimization System to Model Additional Transportation Alternatives and On-Demand Needs</title>
      <link>https://rip.trb.org/View/1575784</link>
      <description><![CDATA[This proposal focuses on expanding the capabilities of a system developed by the principal investigators called, Business Commute Optimization system (BCOS). BCOS is designed to identify optimal selection of commute alternatives for employees in a business to minimize their transportation emissions and air pollution as well as commute time and cost. BCOS is designed to identify commute plan for each employee in a business that complies with an individual's commute preference and convenience while incentivizing commute behavior change using monetary incentives and savings. The objectives of this research will focus on: (1) expanding the capabilities of BCOS to model additional decision variables, including hybrid vehicles, electric vehicles, Uber, and Lyft in order to minimize transportation emissions as well as commuting time and cost; (2) analyzing and optimizing on-demand needs along with an optimal commute plan of business commuters; (3) developing new mobile apps to facilitate data collection and interaction with business commuters; and (4) demonstrating the new capabilities of BCOS using a pilot case study of a business and on-demand needs. Expanding the optimization capabilities of BCOS and analyzing on-demand needs will include, (1) modeling additional decision variables, (2) expanding formulation of the objective functions and modeling additional constraints, and (3) implementing the new system computations using reasonable optimization algorithm. The new apps will be developed in Android and IOS environments to facilitate and maximize their use by various commuters.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2018 04:27:45 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Commuter-focused Parking - Benefits and Impacts</title>
      <link>https://rip.trb.org/View/1508458</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Research leading to a sketch tool / model document that addresses the benefits costs and impacts of commuter-focused parking on congestion and emissions.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2018 15:16:11 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Increasing the Recognition and Support of Employer-Provided Commute Benefits Via
Best Workplaces for Commuters</title>
      <link>https://rip.trb.org/View/1501523</link>
      <description><![CDATA[NCTR’s theme is to make public transportation and all other travel choices, safe, effective, efficient, desirable, and secure.  This project focuses on increasing the desirability, effectiveness, and efficiency of employer-provided commute benefits (e.g., transit subsidies, telework, etc.) by providing national recognition in a membership-based program – Best Workplaces for Commuters (BWC) within the NCTR National TDM and Telework Clearinghouse.  

Changes in fares paid by commuters can improve transit’s desirability, effectiveness, and efficiency. TCRP Report 107 Analyzing the Effectiveness of Commuter Benefits Programs (Transit Cooperative Research Board, 2005) found that lowering the cost of transit via employer-provided commute subsidies increases transit ridership and attracts commuters who drive alone. The same report found that "Transit benefits programs can make up a substantial portion of systemwide ridership and revenues. Employer transit benefits programs can make up a substantial portion of total transit agency ridership and revenues. Among the agencies interviewed, employer programs contributed 5 to 25 percent of total transit riders and 5 to 40 percent of customer revenues."      

While the impacts can be significant, access to these benefits is very limited. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, only 7% of civilian workers have access to subsidized commuting (transit) benefits.  (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2017) Increasing the number of employers that provide transit and vanpool subsidies and/or provide commute friendly services such emergency ride home, bicycle lockers, etc. is an effective strategy for increasing use of transit, ridesharing, etc.   
Helping the employers and the agencies that promote transit and all other travel choices is what the Clearinghouse and BWC is all about. They do this by providing technical assistance and recognition to those BWC employers-members such as Florida Hospital, IBM, Seattle Childrens Hospital, U.S. Geological Survey, Fairfax County, and Yale University. Through webinars, case studies, online knowledge base, e-newsletters, and listservs, they seek to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the TDM and transit industries' outreach efforts as well as support continuing growth among employer commute programs.  As evidenced of its growing popularity and recognition of BWC, the BWC website has about 20,000 users and 100,000 page views per year.    

Finally, this project will be leveraged with $20,000 in program-generated income from the BWC workplaces.  CUTR has operated Best Workplaces for Commuters since 2007 and has leveraged NCTR funding to obtain over $132,000 in cash payments over that time.  Most of this income is from employer-paid membership dues at $230 per year that meet the National Standard of Excellence.     

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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2018 12:00:15 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Sustainability of Urban Consumption Practices</title>
      <link>https://rip.trb.org/View/1485722</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Urban logistics are becoming increasingly complex: in addition to the heterogeneity of goods transported and of the means of transportation, urban logistics encompass diverse multiple stakeholders (local authorities, transporters, retailers). The sustainability of goods transported and personal mobility will be a major challenge for both public and private sectors. The New York University (NYU) Rudin Center for Transportation is conducting research aiming to understand the sustainability challenges associated with freight and passenger mobility in cities, and recommend policies for sustainable consumption practices at the local level. The sustainability research will deepen understanding of the true sustainability of urban residents who commute by public transportation, but regularly receive packages from online retailers, and recommend corresponding policies. This work is being conducted with the research group 6-t: Bureau de Recherche, based in Paris. The project aims to better understand and compare the consumption practices and mobility behaviors of the residents living in two of the major cities in the world (Paris and New York City). The work will be conducted through a simultaneous survey in both cities, analysis, stakeholder meeting and narrative.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2017 13:07:00 GMT</pubDate>
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