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The usual focus of analyses of road transportation is on vehicle-distance traveled, without taking into account the number of passengers in the vehicle. In contrast, air-transportation analyses typically include passenger-distance traveled among the variables of interest. by Michael Sivak.

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JANUARY 19, 2011

A study by researchers at the University of Nottingham (UK) found a statistically significant association between acute respiratory infection (ARI) and bus or tram use in the five days before symptom onset. The risk appeared greatest among occasional bus or tram users, but this trend was not statistically significant.

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on average, increasing even more in car-dependent cities, according to a new study led by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. I would have expected people to own fewer vehicles once they gain access to this alternative transportation mode. Sloan Foundation, the US Department of Energy, and Carnegie Mellon University.

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Accompanying the lower noise levels from bus traffic was a reduction of fatigue, day time sleepiness and low mood, a study at the University of Gothenburg shows. Noise levels from the preceding system of bus transportation had been perceived as disturbing, especially on the uphill stretches. —Kerstin Persson Waye.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

However, the starting year of this analysis is 1966 because (1) for 1923 through 1935, fuel-economy information is available only for the entire fleet of all vehicles, and (2) from 1936 through 1965, light trucks were included with other trucks in the relevant statistics.?. Department of Transportation. Annual statistics from the U.S.

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MARCH 19, 2019

Bureau of Labor Statistics. Given the sizes of the standard errors, none of the three variables of interest showed a statistically significant difference between 2007 and 2017. This analysis examined whether one can discern any influence of the growth of e-commerce on the amount of travel. ATUS is an annual time-diary study by the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The energy intensity of a transportation mode is calculated by dividing the amount of fuel used by the number of passenger miles traveled and converting the result into a common measure—Btu (British thermal units) per passenger mile traveled. by Michael Sivak, Sivak Applied Research. The flying data are for domestic operations of U.S.

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DECEMBER 8, 2021

Gasoline consumption per capita was calculated using the population estimates in the ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States. Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. Consumption per capita.

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JANUARY 27, 2020

statistics segment road vehicles differently, the data are for all road vehicles. (I Department for Transport (distances traveled) and the U.K. Department for Transport (distances traveled) and the U.K. Office for National Statistics (populations). The years examined were 1993 through 2018. Because British and U.S.

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JUNE 19, 2020

A team of researchers, led by Professor Gavin Shaddick at the University of Exeter, has shown that, despite global efforts to improve air quality, half of the world’s population is exposed to increasing air pollution. Credit: Professor Gavin Shaddick/University of Exeter. a)Map of global PM 2.5 Units for both are ?g/m

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JULY 9, 2019

The arrival of ridehailing is associated with an increase of approximately 3 percent in the number of motor vehicle fatalities and fatal accidents, according to research from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Rice University. From the study, Barrios et al.

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Biomass feedstocks can be produced by municipal solid waste (MSW) streams and algae and converted into low-carbon fuels that can significantly contribute to the decarbonization of transportation sectors that face barriers to electrification, such as aviation and marine. University of Maryland: College Park. Lehigh University.

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JULY 9, 2020

Replacing a gasoline-powered ride-hailing vehicle with an electric vehicle can deliver three times the carbon benefits of a personally owned electric vehicle, according to a study by a University of California, Davis, researcher of Uber and Lyft data. The paper is published in the journal Nature Energy.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Travel by air plummeted at the start of the pandemic in early 2020 (as did travel by other modes of transportation). The source of the data was the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. by Michael Sivak, Sivak Applied Research. There has been, however, a gradual rebound since then. The lowest value—13.8%—was

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OCTOBER 7, 2022

A new research report released by the Transportation Research Board (TRB), E-scooter Safety: Issues and Solutions , finds that amid a rapid rise in the use and prevalence of electric scooters (e-scooters) on US roads and sidewalks, more must be done to address regulatory, infrastructure and educational deficiencies that are putting riders at risk.

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JUNE 14, 2021

Among the variables included in my ongoing monthly monitoring of key transportation indexes is revenue passenger miles for domestic flying. However, the underlying data for that analysis (from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics ) are published with a substantial lag. . -41. May 2021. -33. June 1-June 12, 2021. -29.

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JULY 17, 2020

The raw data for the analysis came from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (revenue passenger miles flown on all scheduled domestic flights) and the Federal Highway Administration (vehicle miles traveled). Thus, this measure also includes travel for road-based freight transport and road-based public transport.

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JULY 22, 2021

Among the variables included in my ongoing monthly monitoring of key transportation indexes is revenue passenger miles for domestic flying. However, the underlying data for that analysis (from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics ) are published with a substantial lag. . -33. June 2021. -27. July 1-July 20, 2021. -21.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2021

The same study also concluded an overall lower consumption of tobacco worldwide is statistically linked to less people contracting lung squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC)—another type of NSCLC. This study, done in collaboration between NTU and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, showed that a 0.1 micrograms per cubic meter (?

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MARCH 17, 2020

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions have conducted a statistical analysis of pollution exposure and yields from 1980 to 2015 on a key sector making up about 38% of the state’s total agricultural output: perennial crops such as almonds, grapes, nectarines, peaches, strawberries and walnuts.

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MIT researchers have built a model to simulate long-range atmospheric transport of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). For emerging contaminants in the Arctic, we need to know more about their sources, environmental behavior, and transport pathways in order to regulate them more effectively. —Noelle Selin, lead researcher.

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Bureau of Labor Statistics ). Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. The raw data for the calculations were seasonally adjusted total and e-commerce retail sales (from the U.S. vs. 16.1% ).

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JUNE 25, 2013

The committee that wrote the report found that diluted bitumen from oil sands has physical and chemical properties within the range of other crude oils and that no aspect of its transportation by pipeline would make it more likely than other crude oils to cause an accidental release. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Bureau of Labor Statistics ). Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. The raw data for the calculations were seasonally adjusted total and e-commerce retail sales (from the U.S. of total sales.).

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While there is global potential to generate renewable energy at costs already competitive with fossil fuels, a means of storing and transporting this energy at a very large scale is a roadblock to large-scale investment, development and deployment. Note the logarithmic ordinate scale. Credit: Joule , MacFarlane et al.

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Bureau of the Census (e-commerce and traditional retail sales), Proquest (population), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics (Consumer Price Index). Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Bureau of Labor Statistics. Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. ATUS provides nationally representative estimates of the amount of time people spend doing various activities.

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JUNE 26, 2020

Fewer wild animals, including threatened mountain lions, are becoming roadkill during shelter-in-place orders, according to a study on three states from the University of California, Davis. Photo courtesy Orange County Transportation Authority). A mountain lion from the Santa Ana range in California approaches a road.

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OsComp Systems, a startup formed by MIT alumni, has developed , with support from the US Department of Energy (DOE), a hybrid rotary compressor design that decreases the energy required to compress and transport natural gas, lowers operating costs, improves efficiencies and reduces the environmental footprint of well site operations.

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JULY 8, 2012

The inventory also forecasts that BC emissions in China in 2050 will be 920–2,183 Gg/yr under various scenarios, with the industrial and transportation sectors standing to benefit the most from technological improvements. 1979); provincial data from the China Energy Statistics Yearbook (CESY) (1980?2007); 2007 were used in this study.

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AUGUST 14, 2017

Researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, Texas A&M Transportation Institute and Columbia University surveyed more than 1,200 people in Austin, Texas, to examine how their habits changed after Uber and Lyft pulled drivers out of the city due to a local law change. 2977969.

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AUGUST 23, 2019

Efforts to fill in monitoring gaps with estimates from satellite remote sensing, chemical transport modeling, and statistical models have biases at individual monitor locations that can exceed 50??g?m Chemical Engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. monitor is 220?km,

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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

A study by researchers at The Ohio State University suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic had varying effects on demand for public transit in US cities. The researchers said the study revealed how important public transportation is in our cities, even those that aren’t thought of as reliant on buses and subways.

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MADNI University of California, Los Angeles “For pioneering contributions to the development and commercialization of innovative sensing and systems technologies, and for distinguished research leadership.” Kumar Texas A&M University College Station “For seminal contributions to the modeling, analysis, and design of wireless networks.”

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OCTOBER 30, 2017

Based on their findings in a new study, researchers from the University of Washington and the University of Minnesota suggest that modifying urban form—as a means of affecting motor vehicle usage—may be a strategy to mitigate urban air pollution. Their paper appears in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology.

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SPLT operates a platform that allows companies, universities, and municipal authorities to offer their workforces ridesharing services. According to the German Federal Motor Transport Authority, there are more than 60 million vehicles on Germany’s roads alone. SPLT ), a US start-up based in Detroit. Carpooling is still the exception.

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AUGUST 17, 2018

a provider of real-time, predictive traffic signal information, as part of the University of Florida Transportation Institute’s I-STREET testbed. I-STREET was created in partnership with Florida Depart of Transportation’s (FDOT) Connected Vehicle Initiative to test connected and autonomous vehicle technologies.

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