Motorization is transforming cities and even rural areas of the developing world. The economic and social benefits are enormous. It provides individual flexible transportation in urban areas and reduced manual labor and improved market access in rural areas. In the longer term, however, motorization may stifle local development, increase pollution, and create unprecedented safety hazards. Witho...

Rapidly increasing motorization in China, particularly private automobiles, creates both economic and individual benefits, as well as externalities and indirect negative impacts. Such externalities could be adapted and mitigated relatively easily when the rate of motorization growth is low. However, when the number of private automobiles rises by 15 to 20 percent per year and is heavily concent...

This article provides an overview of the influences of motorization trends on urban residents’ travel patterns in the Jakarta Metropolitan Area (JMA) in the last decade. The performance of the first year of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system implementation, as a way to suppress motorization in JMA, is also described. It is found that the trend of motorization has already become a critical issue...

The world is undergoing a rapid transition in population health, away from mostly infectious disease in children to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and injuries that affect adults [1,2]. The global health transition is strongly tied to levels of industrial development in lowand middle-income countries. NCDs and injuries now comprise 94% of all deaths in China, 65% in India, and 34% in sub-Saha...

Little quantitative research has focused on how factors influencing travel behavior change in rapidly developing and motorizing cities. We examine the particular case of household motor vehicle ownership, focusing on potential variations in preferences revealed through vehicle choice models estimated for Santiago de Chile in 1991 and 2001, and including zonal-level measures of relative location...

Recent progress in intracellular calcium sensors and other fluorophores has promoted the widespread adoption of functional optical imaging in the life sciences. Home-built multiphoton microscopes are easy to build, highly customizable, and cost effective. For many imaging applications a 3-axis motorized stage is critical, but commercially available motorization hardware (motorized translators, ...