INTRODUCTION Consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) such as sodas, fruit-flavored drinks, and sports drinks is a major contributor to childhood obesity. One strategy to reduce children's SSB consumption has been to restrict the sale of SSBs in schools. However, such policies may not sufficiently curb students' SSB intake, because students can obtain SSBs elsewhere, including from store...

The commuting graph of a group is a graph with vertexes set of a subset of a group and two element are adjacent if they commute. The aim of this paper is to obtain the automorphism group of the commuting graph of a conjugacy class in the symmetric groups. The clique number, coloring number, independent number, and diameter of these graphs are also computed.

There is an ongoing discussion about the impact of flexible forms work on travel behavior. Though it generally accepted that telework decreases distance commuted, there are mixed conclusions notion non-work-related journeys could be offsetting any saved commute. This paper investigates influence two working arrangements – namely and flextime commutes, non-work traffic, peak-period in Switzerlan...

ObjectivesPromoting cycling as a means of transport is now on multiple policy agendas, including health, and climate change. In this work, we use administrative data to explore whether cycle paths, particularly off road compared road, might increase the proportion people choosing work.
 MethodsOur work used from Edinburgh Glasgow, Scotland in 2011 at time population census. We limited our ...

This work develops a generic framework, called the bag-of-paths (BoP), for link and network data analysis. The central idea is to assign a probability distribution on the set of all paths in a network. More precisely, a Gibbs-Boltzmann distribution is defined over a bag of paths in a network, that is, on a representation that considers all paths independently. We show that, under this distribut...

This paper adds to the empirical literature on rent control. We hypothesize that rent control affects commute times. New Jersey census tract data (from the Urban Institute/Geolytics Neighborhood Change Database) show a positive and statistically significant relationship between rent control and commute times for 1980, 1990 and 2000. For 1980 and 1990, we confirm that it is a lack of household m...

This paper proposes a methodological framework to analyze the activity and travel pattern of workers during the evening commute. The framework uses a discrete-continuous econometric system to jointly model the decision to participate in an activity during the evening commute and the following attributes of the participation: activity type, activity duration, and travel time deviation to the act...

This work reconsiders the concept of community-based trip sharing proposed by Hasan et al. (2018) that leverages structure commuting patterns and urban communities to optimize sharing. It aims at quantifying benefits autonomous vehicles for sharing, compared a car-pooling platform where are driven their owners. In considered problem, each rider specifies desired arrival time her inbound (commut...

OBJECTIVES Increasing walking and cycling, and reducing motorised transport, are health and environmental priorities. This paper examines levels and trends in the use of different commute modes in England and Wales, both overall and with respect to small-area deprivation. It also investigates whether commute modal share can serve as a proxy for travel behaviour more generally. METHODS 23.7 mi...