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Greening Your Business
Published in Eric Koester, Green Entrepreneur Handbook, 2016
Here are some ideas: Carpool. Set up a carpool system and offer incentives to those workers that use it, such as free parking passes or gift certificates to local lunch destinations.Buy bike storage. Install bike racks and, where possible, showers and lockers for employees who choose to bike to work.Employee benefits. Include public transportation tickets or passes in your employees’ benefits packages.Understand public commuter incentive programs. Educate yourself and your employees on available commuter tax credits or other federal and state incentives meant to encourage alternative forms of transportation. The IRS Web site provides general information on commuter tax credits here: www.irs.gov/formspubs/ article/0„id=181059,00.html.Lead by example. If you are the business owner or manager, make an effort to show that you are using alternative forms of transportation to get to work.
Co-producing mobility
Published in William Riggs, Disruptive Transport, 2018
Though this study provides naturalistic, mixed methods data on “how people actually use ICTs, not just how they say they use them” (Stephens & Sætre 2008, p. 34), the context of the pilot test imposes limitations. The Austin, Texas region lacks several conditions that are known to facilitate transportation mode choices other than driving alone. First is the lack of high-occupancy vehicle lanes, which previous research in the Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston areas in Texas shows is “the most important factor in their decision to form a carpool” (Li et al. 2007, p. 10) because they provide a speed advantage to avoid highway congestion. Second, increased automobile parking rates are associated with higher use of transportation modes other than driving alone (Christiansen et al. 2017; Hamre & Buehler 2014; Shoup 2005; Whitfield et al. 2016). Parking in Austin is largely free, with a $1/hour charge for most on-street spaces in downtown (The Downtown Austin Alliance, 2016), which was the median rate for low-density United States cities in 2009 (Auchincloss et al. 2014). Travel demand management research shows parking is a vital part of travel mode choice (Riggs 2014). Finally, the price of gasoline dropped $1.42 per gallon during the pilot study—about the same cost as tolls on a suburban commute in the region, but more than the average reimbursement of tolls for the average trip in this study ($1.08) (Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority, 2015; U.S. Energy Information Administration, 2015). The decreasing cost of fuel during this pilot nullified the financial advantages of toll reimbursement, suggesting a similar pilot in different contexts could achieve different results.
A greedy approach for carpool scheduling optimisation in smart cities
Published in International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems, 2020
Yubin Duan, Jie Wu, Huanyang Zheng
In recent years, the number of private vehicles on streets has skyrocketed, leading to numerous problems in cities, and especially in metropolitan areas. According to a study by Meyer et al. [1], the global car population is projected to reach 2.8 billion by 2050. The rapid increase of vehicles has led to environmental, economic, and social problems, including increased carbon emission, travel costs, and congestion [2]. To relieve the pressure caused by increasing demands for cars for transportation, carpools were proposed. The non-household carpool, which allows two or more commuters from different residences to travel together in the same private vehicle, reduces the number of single-occupied vehicles needed per journey [3]. According to the research conducted by Javid et al. [4], under a hypothetical scenario where high-occupancy vehicle lanes (also known as carpool lanes) that encourage carpool are increased, the annual reduction in the emissions of the 50 U.S states and the District of Columbia may reach up to 1.83 million metric tons. Cathy Wu et al. [5] has studied carpool algorithms for 3+ high-occupancy vehicle lanes. In addition to reducing environmental impact, carpooling also reduces the economic burdens of users. Driven by the advantages of carpooling, this paper proposes a carpool scheduling algorithm that could be used in carpool assignment procedures.
Toward using social media to support ridesharing services: challenges and opportunities
Published in Transportation Planning and Technology, 2019
Lei Tang, Zongtao Duan, Yaling Zhao
According to the above scenario, drivers and passengers can take a variety of steps to address the functionalities of ridesharing services. These include creating a personal motive to carpool, communicating this motive with others, negotiating and executing an agreed plan, as well as proving appropriate feedback (Galland et al. 2014). In particular, the statement of the service was based overall on the dynamic and real-time matching between passenger and driver (Gargiulo et al. 2015).