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Poorer People More Likely To Have To Wait For Services

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They compared wait times across households with varying income levels and made adjustments for factors such as work and travel time, family responsibilities, education, and demographics. This data was based on time diaries that were collected by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Autonomous Vehicles Could Decimate Parking Revenues

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The relationship is far from linear, however, as should Uber-style trips grow three times their level in 2016, parking revenues will begin to decline considerably. Lower parking prices – This is arguably the easiest option to counter the reduced demand for parking, but it runs up against policies to promote alternative forms of travel.

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How Does Public Transport Affect Greenhouse Gases?

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“We accounted for all of the 2016 passenger miles by scaling the farecard data, and we know which trips farecard holders make on buses, light rail and commuter rail.” “Now we can truly quantify trips in both time and space,” they explain. Greener transit.

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What Flight Data Can Tell Us About Economic Health

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What would ordinarily be a crazy mismash of planes zipping around the world has been a much more sparsely populated picture in recent months, as people’s travel activities have been hugely curtailed by the lockdown procedures most governments have enacted to tackle the spread of the virus.

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How High-Speed Trains Affect The Mobility Of Talent

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The paper highlights the growing number of routes across Europe that are faster to travel by train than by plane, both do to the journey time itself, but more specifically by the reduced security checks and the fact that you typically disembark in the city center itself rather than its outskirts. Mobile talent. The fast track.

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Creating Scalable Opportunities For Lifelong Learning

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In 2016 there were over 700,000 students studying for a British university qualification overseas, and it’s easy to see Coursera on Campus extending this possibility, with world leading academics delivering the content as well as authoring it. The early forays of such licensing of curricula provide a clear direction of travel however.

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