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Description:: The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the status quo of the telemobility landscape in the United States, forcing millions of Americans into lock down, significantly changing the way we work, travel, and spend our time and money for an extended period of time. After several months of adaptation, adoption, learning, and unlearning,...
Keyword:: latent variable modeling, e-commerce, covid-19, longitudinal tracking, telemobility, and telework
Subject:: Transportation and Civil engineering
Creator:: Tahlyan, Divyakant
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 08/23/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16722 and etdadmin_upload_1012495

Description:: Urban Air Taxi (UAT) is the use case of passenger-carrying Urban Air Mobility (UAM) at its mature state, and it offers a ubiquitous on-demand (or nearly on-demand) per-seat service that moves passengers in urban or suburban areas using groundbreaking aircraft. However, the absence of a dominant electric vertical take-off and...
Keyword:: Short Repositioning Elimination, Urban Air Mobility (UAM), Real-time Fleet Operation, Urban Air Taxi, and Air Pooling
Subject:: Transportation and Civil engineering
Creator:: Ale Ahmad, Haleh Sadat
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15931 and etdadmin_upload_879342

Description:: Travel time is a key aspect of capturing and evaluating the operational performance and service quality of transportation systems, and travel time improvement is a common objective for travelers, service providers, transportation practitioners and agencies. However, the reliability of travel times, including the probability of unexpected delays, is an important...
Keyword:: algorithms, networks, travel time reliability, stochastic networks, routing, and path finding
Subject:: Transportation, Operations research, and Civil engineering
Creator:: Filipovska, Monika
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/02/2022
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_850853 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15794

Description:: Providing quality transit service to travelers is a constant challenge for transit agencies. The advent of fully-autonomous vehicles (AVs) and their inclusion in mobility service fleets may allow transit agencies to offer better service or reduce their own capital and operational costs. This study focuses on the problem of allocating...
Keyword:: public transit, autonomous vehicles, optimization, network modeling, and shared mobility
Subject:: Transportation, Civil engineering, and Urban planning
Creator:: Pinto, Helen
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 04/15/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_796818 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15474

Description:: The transportation infrastructure privatization is an essential solution to the public fund's shortage of transportation investments. In the privatization practices, the private firms build, operate, and own the transportation infrastructure under a limited term. Due to the private sector's involvement, the efficiency of the transportation service is determined not only...
Keyword:: Tolling and capacity decision, Pareto efficiency analysis, Mechanism design, Transportation infrastructure, Network analysis, and Public-private partnership
Subject:: Transportation and Civil engineering
Creator:: Shu, Hang
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_764914 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15283

Description:: With connected vehicle generated (CVG) information, traffic stream parameters become straightforwardly quantifiable, enabling traffic state characterization and examination over a variety of operational conditions. Since the observation is independent of any spatial restrictions and unaffected by queue buildup and discharge, CVG data offer more comprehensive, more reliable inputs to the...
Keyword:: Connected Vehicles, High-Resolution Measures, Trajectory Analytics, Performance Assessment, Traffic Signal System, and Connected Signal
Subject:: Transportation and Civil engineering
Creator:: Ostojic, Marija
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_765215 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15296

Description:: A hybrid multimodal mobility system aims to deliver mobility as a service by integrating a broad range of existing and emerging public transportation services. The appeal of a hybrid system is twofold. First, it can strike a better balance between cost and level of service (accessibility, efficiency etc.). Second, it...
Keyword:: Network design, Continuous approximation, Hybrid mobility system, and Public transit
Subject:: Transportation and Civil engineering
Creator:: Luo, Sida
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15206 and etdadmin_upload_758565

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