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The Use Of Ride Sharing During Emergencies

The Horizons Tracker

Transportation during emergencies is often heavily disrupted, but new research from Carnegie Mellon suggests that ride-sharing platforms held up considerably better than taxis during events like terrorist attacks or public transport shutdowns. In contrast, daily use of ride-sharing platforms remained relatively stable.

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February 2015 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the February 2015 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! John Hunter of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog provided Bad Weather Is Part Of The Transportation System. For those of you who watched the Super Bowl this weekend, did you gain any leadership takeaways? Find Joel on Twitter at @JoelGarfinkle.

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Study Suggests Global North Still Appropriates Wealth From South

The Horizons Tracker

The study uses environmental input-output data alongside footprint analysis to explore the scale and value of the resource drain from the global South between 1990 and 2015. trillion during 2015 alone, which is enough to end extreme poverty 70 times over. This was accompanied by 21 exajoules of energy and 392 billion hours of work.

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The Growing Urban Wealth Divide

The Horizons Tracker

The study highlights that some of the factors typically believed to affect neighborhood values, such as transport links and proximity to the center of town, aren’t as influential as previously thought. Transport links. What did appear to influence values is the proximity of major transport links. Wealth divide.

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6 Advantages of a Remote Team

Lead Change Blog

In 2015 alone, as much as 23 percent of staff reported doing some of their work from outside the office, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Broken down, that’s a daily cost of $10 just on transportation alone. Conducting further research will bring you to similar statistics. Reduced Stress.

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Technology Is Changing Transportation, and Cities Should Adapt

Harvard Business Review

million deaths in 2015 ), and air pollution (health problems like respiratory ailments). Research has shown , for example, that the more people use shared private transportation like ride-hailing apps, the more likely they are to also use public transit. billion per year by 2030.

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America’s Transportation Infrastructure Needs Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Sensors, smartphones, tablets, wireless networks, and Big Data are starting to transform transportation and infrastructure. The appropriately-named Bridj is a Boston-based transportation start-up that provides “pop-up” express bus service based on demand. Photo by Andrew Nguyen. But not fast enough. infrastructure problems.