'Crawling to my seat': Some travel experiences can be avoided with better technology
"People who don't use the equipment just don't realize how important it is for individuals," a wheelchair user told USA TODAY.
Mar 23, 2022
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"People who don't use the equipment just don't realize how important it is for individuals," a wheelchair user told USA TODAY.
Mar 23, 2022
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Computer Sciences
Parameter calibration of traffic assignment models is vital to travel demand analysis and management. As an extension of the conventional traffic assignment, boundedly rational activity-travel assignment (BR-ATA) combines ...
Jan 20, 2023
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Low-income residents, immigrants, seniors, and people with disabilities—these are people who stand to gain the most from new tools and services that reduce transportation costs and travel time. However, issues of affordability, ...
Nov 10, 2021
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Automotive
Public transport use in Adelaide has plummeted with the increase in COVID-19 cases as commuters shun buses, trains and trams in favor of private cars.
Mar 25, 2020
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Business
Why do Uber, Lyft, Didi, OLA and other ride-sharing companies want to partner with public transport agencies? For Uber and Lyft, the reason is simple: their business plans were based on eventually using driverless vehicles ...
Feb 21, 2023
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Automotive
In the 1930s and 1940s, the Rural Electrification Act wired farms to the grid, turning on lights across the American countryside. Parallel efforts added phone service in these sprawling, sparsely populated areas. At long ...
Oct 14, 2021
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Business
When ride-hailing heavyweights Uber and Lyft and delivery giants Grubhub and Instacart began making shared rides and meals available with a few taps on a smartphone, they transformed the way people work, travel and get food ...
Aug 19, 2020
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Consumer & Gadgets
The technology-driven revolution in urban transport is largely centred on the inner city. It has completely missed the suburbs, which lack the public transport services and shared micromobility devices, such as e-scooters, ...
Mar 12, 2020
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Automotive
Long-term planning has delivered mass transit systems to cater for high-patronage, hub-and-spoke transport systems. Unfortunately, this has left many city residents without basic access to public transport services. And we ...
Oct 12, 2020
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Business
United Airlines says when flights are delayed or canceled it will use its app to send customers options for rebooking and, in some cases, vouchers for meals and hotel rooms.
Jun 22, 2023
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