Transportation to employment

Transportation and Minority Womens Employment: Insights from New York

Costs and benefits of employment transportation for low-wage workers: an assessment of job access public transportation services.

This paper focuses on an evaluation of public transportation-based employment transportation (ET) services to transport low-wage workers to jobs in the US. We make an attempt to capture a more comprehensive range of intended and unintended outcomes of ET services than those traditionally considered in the case of public transportation services. Using primary data from 23 locations across the co...

Transportation Research Contributions to Society by University Transportation Centers

This paper discusses the importance of knowledge in the global economy and reviews the process in which knowledge is applied to develop innovations. It confirms the importance of innovation as a key factor for success in today’s competitive environment. The paper discusses the contributions a university can make to the innovation process in the field of transportation, and offers a vision of ho...

Benchmarking Sustainability with Respect to Transportation Supply and Demand

This paper is an endeavor to quantify the concept of sustainable transportation. The prevailing idea in the context of sustainable development (SD) emphasizes on the reduction of transportation demand in order to reduce the environmental and social consequences of it. Nevertheless, in the current paper using a measure for SD, and based on the conformity of the growths of all sectors with transp...

Emergency medical services use for trauma patient transportation to hospital

abstract Introduction: An effort is being made to reduce pre-hospital emergency missions as much as possible without any harm to people and reduce the quality of services. This can be achieved by determining some characters and conditions of patients with their need for emergency services.  The purpose of the present study was to determine the rate of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) use for t...