Spatial regulation of taxicab services: Measuring empty travel in New York City

Measuring Energy Savings from Benchmarking Policies in New York City

Benchmarking policies, also known as disclosure ordinances, are being pursued in many countries and at all levels of government. These policies are intended to transform the market for energy efficient buildings by requiring owners to measure and disclose their energy use, therefore making energy efficiency investments more visible and therefore valuable. Two critical questions to improving the...

Determining the Relation between Fire Engine Travel Times and Travel Distances in New York City

A simple physical model of the way fire engines travel leads to the hypothesis that T, the average fire engine travel time, depends on D, the distance travelled according to T(D) = 2(D/a)'12 if D ? d and T(D)=v,/a+D/v, if D>d. The parameter a can be interpreted as an acceleration and v, as a cruising velocity. A field experiment was run, and the above model validated and the parameters estimate...

Spatial Narration in Amir Naderi's New York Trilogy

This article is concerned with the relationship of language and city in Amir Naderi’s trilogy of films on New York, comprising of Manhattan by Numbers (1993), A, B, C… Manhattan (1997), and Marathon (2002). By dint of a narrative relied on spatiality, he is in fact able to causally link the solitude and the spectral existence of his protagonists to the lack of a common language for reco...

Diabetes in New York City.

Taxicab Regulation in Japan

This paper proposes a model of a cruising taxicab industry under laissez faire pricing and free entry, and compares it with alternative regimes including collusive fare setting, collusive restrictions on entry, or both. In the model, under laissez faire, prices are determined by Nash bargaining with complete information and lie above marginal costs. Under laissez faire pricing and free entry th...