Deka, Devajyoti, and Charles T. Brown. (2021) Self-perception and General Perception of the Safety Impact of Autonomous Vehicles on Pedestrians, Bicyclists, and People with Ambulatory Disability. Journal of Transportation Technologies, 11, 357-377. ABSTRACT: For autonomous vehicles (AVs) to receive general acceptance, society must have a positive perception about their safety impact on vulnerable road users. […]
2021, autonomous vehicles, Devajyoti Deka, people with disabilitiesDeka, Devajyoti. (2021). Environmental Justice, Transport Justice, and Mobility Justice. International Encyclopedia of Transportation, 305-310. ABSTRACT: This article explores three concepts of justice in transportation: environmental justice (EJ), transport justice (TJ), and mobility justice (MJ). The salient features of the concepts are discussed and the similarities and dissimilarities between the concepts are explored. Because all […]
2021, Devajyoti Deka, environmental justice, mobilityXiao Huang, Junyu Lu, Song Gao, Sicheng Wang, Zhewei Liu & Hanxue Wei (2021) Staying at Home Is a Privilege: Evidence from Fine-Grained Mobile Phone Location Data in the United States during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2021.1904819. Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has exposed and, to some […]
COVID-19, mobile phone data, random forest, sicheng wang, social inequity, stay-at-home orders
VTC researchers Robert Noland, Stephanie DiPetrillo, and Andrea Lubin, working in conjunction with the National Transit Institute, recently completed Identifying Current and Future Training Needs of the Public Transportation Industry (Report 0191) is now available on the FTA Reports and Publications page.
public transportation, training needs, transit
In an effort to understand how changes in mobility are associated with the spread of the coronavirus, distinguished professor Robert Noland used mobility data from Google correlated with estimates of the effective reproduction rate, a measure of viral infectiousness, in “Mobility and the Effective Reproduction Rate of COVID-19,” published in the Journal of Transport and […]
covid, health, research, Robert B. Noland
Bikeshare use in New York City dropped substantially during the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic, but by summer of 2020 had largely recovered to pre-pandemic levels. The patterns of usage, however, have changed. In “Changes in the Pattern of Bikeshare Usage Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic,” published in the January 2021 issue of Transport […]
bicycling, Robert B. Noland, shared mobility