Commuting carbon emissions are an essential component of urban emissions, and determining how to reduce them is area great debate among researchers. The current research lacks a tool instrument that can extensively account for residents’ commuting. Traditional methods mainly based on questionnaire surveys, which have low accuracy at spatial temporal aspects. High emission accounting effectively...

This paper presents a new approach to the delineation of local labor markets based on evolutionary computation. The aim of the exercise is the division of a given territory into functional regions based on travel-to-work flows. Such regions are defined so that a high degree of inter-regional separation and of intra-regional integration in both cases in terms of commuting flows is guaranteed. Ad...

Many school districts in the United States allow parents to choose which school their child attends (`school choice' or `magnet schools') while other school districts require students to attend their nearest (`neighborhood') school. Such policies influence children's transportation. We survey elementary-school parents in St. Paul and Roseville, Minnesota, to discover how children travel to scho...

Ridesharing as a mode of travel offers potential solutions to a variety of the transportation sectors toughest challenges including congestion, energy security, GHG emissions and the provision of travel options. However, the transportation literature provides little quantified information on the potential social and environmental benefits that ridesharing could provide. This paper proposes a da...

This study identified correlates of active commute mode, transport physical activity (TPA), and intention to use light rail transit (LRT) at a large university in advance new LRT connection campus. Staff, faculty students completed campus-wide travel survey 2017. Multivariable logistic linear regression models assessed associations between individual, organizational environmental with outcomes ...

Policymakers pay much attention to effectively increasing frequency of people's cycling in the context of developing sustainable and green cities. Investigating associations of environmental characteristics and cycling behaviour could offer implications for changing urban infrastructure aiming at encouraging active travel. However, earlier examinations of associations between environmental char...

This article describes a framework that capitalizes on the large-scale opportunistic mobile sensing approach for tourist behavior analysis. The article describes the use of massive mobile phone GPS location records to study tourist travel behavior, in particular, number of trips made, time spent at destinations, and mode of transportation used. Moreover, this study examined the relationship bet...

BACKGROUND Independent mobility (IM) and perceptions of the built environment may relate differentially to children's participation in various physical activity contexts. This cross-sectional study investigated whether independent mobility and perceptions of the built environment in boys and girls were related to physical activity in three different contexts (outdoor play, structured exercise/s...