® The contents of this report reflect the views of the authors, who are responsible for the facts and the accuracy of the information presented herein. This document is disseminated under the sponsorship of the Department of Transportation University Transportation Centers Program, in the interest of information exchange. Abstract Over the last decade, state governments have experienced two rec...

Ülkeler ekonomik büyüme ve kalkınma hedefleri doğrultusunda ekonominin yapı taşı olan tüketimi karşılayabilmek için yoğun sanayi üretim tesisleri kurmuşlardır. Üretim ile tüketim arasındaki en önemli bağlantı ulaştırma sektörü olarak karşımıza çıkmaktadır. Ulaştırma sektöründeki enerji dünya üzerinde yer alan fosil yakıtların %50 sini, toplam kaynaklarının ise üçte birini kullanmaktadır. Bu çal...

Promoting physical activity and sustainable transportation is essential in the face of rising health care costs, obesity rates, and other public health threats resulting from lack of physical activity. Targeted communications can encourage distinct population segments to adopt active and sustainable transportation modes. Our work is designed to promote the health, social, and environmental bene...

Food as perishable goods represents a specific and sensitive part in the supply chain theory, since changing physical or chemical characteristics considerably influence the approach to stock management. The most delicate phase of this process is transportation, where it becomes difficult to ensure the stable conditions which limit deterioration, since the value of the deterioration rate could b...

BACKGROUND Little is known about train suicide and factors influencing its prevalence. This study tests the hypotheses that railway density, railway transportation volume, familiarity with railway transportation and population density contribute to train suicide. It also tests the relationship between train suicide and general population suicide and examines the prevalence and the characteristi...

PURPOSE This study was designed to examine the relationship between active transportation (defined as the percentage of trips taken by walking, bicycling, and public transit) and obesity rates (BMI > or = 30 kg . m-2) in different countries. METHODS National surveys of travel behavior and health indicators in Europe, North America, and Australia were used in this study; the surveys were condu...