Shared autonomous vehicles could provide low-cost service to travelers and possibly replace the need for personal vehicles. Previous studies found that each SAV could service multiple travelers, thereby eliminating several personal vehicle trips, and strategies such as preemptive relocation or dynamic ride-sharing could further improve service. However, a major limitation of previous studies is...

27 Shared autonomous vehicles (SAVs) could provide low-cost service to travelers and possibly 28 replace the need for personal vehicles. Previous studies found that each SAV could service 29 multiple travelers, thereby eliminating several personal vehicle trips. However, a major 30 limitation of previous studies is the reliance on custom software packages with unrealistic 31 congestion models, ...

urban space can be the most successful public arena in this century if employ the potentialsfor collective cooperation in creative ways in order to provide further services. the theory of creative city tries tostrengthen the qualities which enhance the image of a city for the citizens and create a dynamic city in terms of cultureand intercultural learning. therefore, the existence of generator,...

urban settlements and their connectivity will be the dominant driver of global change during the twenty-first century. in an attempt to assess the effects of urban growth on available land for other uses and its associated impacts on environmental parameters, we modeled the change in the extent of gorgan city, the capital of the golestan province of iran. we used landsat tm and etm+ imagery of ...

objectives: researchers have focused their attention on balance in the elderly because there is a significant correlation between balance and fall. therefore, it is very important to identify the factors that can affect elderly balance. the aim of this study was to investigate relation between sustained attention and balance in elderly. methods: this cross sectional study was conducted in 2013 ...

Managing City Evacuations

Prior research debates focus on whether investors are smart enough to invest in funds that subsequently outperform. This paper documents a robust smart money effect among small fund investors who invest in the top performing funds, even after controlling for the momentum factor argued by Sapp and Tiwari (2004). I further explore the reason for the smart money effect and find that such outperfor...

We construct a game theoretic model of an oligarchic economy that potentially could be targeted by smart international sanctions. Oligarchs in this economy provide support for their leader, a strong man and potentially an autocrat, in return for favors that results in having income higher than the average income in the country. We derive the conditions under which smart sanctions lead to compli...