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The Differential Accessibility Effects of Work from Home: Travel Behavior Outcomes and Transportation Equity Implications

Researchers have long highlighted the potential effects of telework on the geography of opportunity in metropolitan areas. Telework, despite increasing accessibility to certain job markets, can further cause employment and population to decentralize, facilitating a spatially dispersed pattern of metropolitan growth. This could exacerbate existing disparities and inequities, making it harder for disadvantaged and transit-dependent […]

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Consumer Preferences for Restaurant and Grocery Delivery Services in Seattle: Impacts on Travel Behavior

The use of restaurant and grocery delivery services, coupled with the growth of e-commerce and related parcel delivery raises concern for the safety of drivers and pedestrians in urban areas. Traditional restaurants, ghost restaurants which operate out of storefront kitchens, grocery delivery services which similarly operate out of traditional stores or urban warehouses or micro-fulfilment

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A Pilot Study to Integrate Mobility Data Collection APPs with Personalized Recommendation Systems

Recent years have witnessed many efforts to use smartphones to collect travel data. Typical examples include the automatic collection of sensor data such as location, accelerometer, or microphone readings, and personalized recommendation/behavior modification by gamifying travel and providing incentives for particular mode choices or building route choice models for active transportation modes such as bicycling.

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