1 Autonomous vehicles (AVs) potentially increase vehicle travel by reducing travel and parking costs and by 2 providing improved mobility to those who are too young to drive or older people. The increase in vehicle travel 3 could be generated by both trip diversion from other modes and entirely new trips. Existing studies however tend 4 to overlook AVs’ impacts on entirely new trips. There is a...

I n order to determine the type of transportation systems needed to accommodate a proposed shopping center development, an understanding of the characteristics of shopping trips is essential. Shopping trips are complicated for two reasons: first, because a proportion of trips made are a part of a series of linked trips; and second, because the trips have a vwiety of origins and destinations bef...

over the past two decades, the role of intellectual property rights in all areas of science and technology has exploded globally– primarily due to the rules prescribed by the world trade organization’s trips and by bilateral/regional trade agreements. the trips agreement obligates all wto member countries to adopt and enforce minimum standards of intellectual property rights. the trips agreemen...

dynamically allocate resources to and make plans for solving problems as they arise in the world. The setting, Monroe County, NY, is considerably more complex than our previous domains (e.g. Pacifica, TRAINS), and raises new issues in knowledge representation and reference. Emergencies include requests for medical assistance, car accidents, civil disorder, and larger problems such as flooding a...

A \trip" is a triple (g; u; v) where g is, in general, a graph and u and v are nodes of that graph. The trip is from u to v on the graph g. For the special case that g is a tree (or even a string) we investigate ways of specifying and implementing sets of trips. The main result is that a regular set of trips, speciied as a regular tree language, can be implemented by a tree-walking automaton th...

Many short trips are made by car, and replacing them with walking is a potential strategy to increase physical activity at the population level. The prevalence and correlates of walkable short car trips were examined among adults aged 18–84 years living in the state of Queensland, Australia. Participants (N1⁄414,481) reported their travel behaviors using a 24-h travel diary in the 2009 South Ea...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to examine trends in walking for transportation among U.S. adults and youth for Healthy People 2010 objective 22-14. The objective calls for increasing the proportion of trips of 1 mile or less made by walking to 25% for adults and 50% for youth. National transportation surveys are used to track national health objectives, but data interpretation and c...

Do leaks of hydraulic fluids and jet engine lubricating oils cause potentially toxic fumes to be released into the cabins of commercial airliners? If so, do those fumes cause acute and chronic health problems such as headache, nausea, fatigue, memory loss, and neuromuscular damage in airline crew members and passengers? Those simple questions are at the heart of a brewing controversy. Advocacy ...