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Future Travel Foresight Catalyst: A Unique Approach to Exploring the Intersection of Transformative Technologies and Future Travel Behavior and Demand

A growing number of advanced technologies — including AI, automation, robotics, spatial computing, quantum technologies, and more — have the potential to revolutionize future travel behavior and demand. However successfully navigating the intersection between travel, emerging technologies, and a changing society, will demand bold new ideas and insights. Building on and integrating with the work […]

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Exploring the Changing Dynamics of Household Vehicle Ownership and Use in the U.S.

This project is driven by a pressing need to understand the rapidly evolving landscape of household vehicle dynamics amidst technological advancements and significant societal changes. It focuses on the growing urgency of climate change mitigation and adaptation, a push for equitable mobility for all, and the transition towards vehicle electrification. Aiming to fill the knowledge

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A Dynamic Analysis of the Built Environment-Travel Behavior Relationship Using Three Activity-Travel Surveys in the Austin, Texas Region

The relationship between the built environment (BE) and travel behavior (TB) has long interested scholars and practitioners in transportation, urban planning and design, health, and other fields. The proposed research aims to advance knowledge of the BE-TB relationship by taking a dynamic analysis approach. The study will pool three activity-travel surveys (1998, 2007, and 2017)

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

Researchers have long examined the potential effects of telework on the geography of opportunity within metropolitan areas. While telework can increase access to certain job markets, it may also contribute to the decentralization of employment and population, fostering more spatially dispersed patterns of metropolitan growth. As jobs and services become more widely distributed, the central

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Promoting Sustainable Travel Within Communities Through Behavioral Interventions and Emerging Mobility Solutions

Traditionally, interventions to change travel behavior have relied on penalty-based approaches (such as tolls). Recent discussions have shifted towards monetary incentive-based approaches to promote sustainable modes. However, due to limited funding, relying on monetary incentives alone is not sustainable. Hence, it is important to explore the potential of sustainable non-monetary incentives such as gamification, nudges,

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Identifying Targets for Electric Vehicle Industry Improvement

Electric vehicle (EV) sales have increased dramatically over the last several years. While Tesla has a growing network of Supercharging stations, owners of the newer, more luxurious EVs cannot necessarily use these charging facilities and are only able to consistently access public charging stations. In general, the public perceives the Supercharger network as more reliable

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The Effects of Changing Commutes on Home Delivery Activity

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, New York, like most US and global cities, has seen rapid evolution of (1) work location and time flexibility and (2) adoption of online shopping alternatives for diverse commodities by varying shopper populations.  It is expected that changes in work location – particularly the increased opportunity for some individuals to work

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The Effects of Street Repurposing on Pedestrian, Vehicle and Visitor Patterns

COVID is a crisis that is unanticipated both in its occurrence and also its length of impact. In the early days, many office employers implemented work-from-home policies while retail businesses shuttered, leading to deserted downtowns across the country. Yet crisis is also an opportunity, and municipalities and businesses innovated in response to the fears of

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Enhanced Network Models for Multimodal Resiliency

This project will develop next-generation multimodal network resilience models.  We will examine the performance of networked transportation systems in disrupted conditions using field data, generate mathematical models to describe system performance and user behavior, and develop mitigation strategies based on this model.  This project is distinguished from previous efforts in this space by explicitly considering

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Teleworking to Play or Playing to Telework? A Latent Segmentation Approach to Exploring the Relationship Between Telework and Nonwork Travel

Technology has evolved at a tremendous pace over the past decade, permeating into our everyday existence and affecting literally every aspect of our lives. Our activity-travel choices have been no exception in this regard, as we make continuous and joint decisions about which activities we can and want to undertake (either in-person or virtually). Add

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