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Research Highlights
Investigating Effects of TNCs on Parking Demand and Revenues
Benjamin Clark Anne Brown
For the past century, mobility in the United States has been dictated by cars. Furthermore, cars—and even more so, the storage of cars—have dictated urban form. With cities dedicating more space to parking than even streets and roads, parking has become baked into city land use, regulations, codes, ordinances, master plans, and even finances. What happens when a car trip no longer ends in a parking space? Both transportation network companies (TNCs) and, eventually, autonomous vehicles (AVs),…
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How Can E-bike Purchase Incentives Grow the E-bike Market?
John MacArthur Christopher Cherry , Luke Jones
The electric bicycle (e-bike) is a low-emission mode of transportation that offers communities benefits in the areas of health, planning, time, cost, street safety, congestion, air pollution, noise pollution, and energy security, among others. Despite the establishment of a stable and growing market, e-bike ownership remains prohibitively expensive for many people. Across the world, incentive programs have emerged as a popular technique in the effort to bridge the chasm of e-bikes' technology…
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