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Item 2005 Twin Cities Area Survey: Results and Technical Report.(Minnesota Center for Survey Research (MCSR), 2005) Minnesota Center for Survey ResearchItem Assessing Transportation Needs on Indian Reservations. Final Report.(1993) Anding, Thomas L.; Fulton, R. EvanItem Carpooling: An Overview with Annotated Bibliography.(Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota, 1979) Plum, Roger; Edwards, JerryItem Catching Up: Bus Operations and Potential on the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area.(Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota., 1973) Adams, Russell B.; Dickson, Scott R.; Isaacs, Aaron R.Item Central Avenue Parking Study: Collaboration and CPTED in Practice.(1998) Geisen-KischItem Creating and Sustaining Equity in Little Canada through Pedestrian, Bicycle, and Public Transit Connectivity(Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2022) Berger, Jacob; Burstein, Regina; Koenen, Frank; Paquin, JarredThis project was completed in partnership between the City of Little Canada and the University of Minnesota’s Resilient Communities Project (https://rcp.umn.edu/). The goal of this project was to research how the City of Little Canada might equitably prioritize improvements to its transportation infrastructure to provide safe, accessible, and connected pathways for people walking, rolling, biking, and taking public transit. City of Little Canada project lead Corrin Wendell collaborated with a team of students in Dr. Greg Lindsey’s course PA 8081 to conduct four analyses - demographic, crash risk, connectivity, and economic – and solict feedback from the community through an online survey and several key informant interviews. A final student report, executive summary, and PowerPoint presentation slides from the project are available.Item Demand Activated Transit.(Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota., 1974) Navin, Francis P. D.Item Development of Methods for Planning Automated Network-Cab Transport Systems. A Research Proposal to the Department of Transportation.(1972) Anderson, J. Edward et al.Item Effect of Level of Service on Intercity Bus Ridership in Minnesota.(1976) Stern, EliahuItem Essays in Urban Economics(2020-08) Postal, VeronicaThis dissertation is comprised of three essays, each dealing with topics in Urban Economics and Applied Microeconomics. In the first chapter, I use a dynamic discrete-continuous choice model to examine the decision to invest in home improvement. In each time period, households face the decision of whether to reoptimize their housing consumption, either through home improvement or by selling their property. The structural model is estimated using a uniquely rich micro-level dataset that encompasses each property in Minneapolis for a period of almost 20 years. I reconstruct the optimal investment policy and choice probabilities as a function of a property's housing quality and neighborhood quality. Then, I explore a counterfactual scenario in which the cost of investment in home improvement is subsidized and show that such a policy would be effective in increasing the predicted level of investment. I find that policies aimed at encouraging home improvement can be a cost-effective tool to leverage private investment in housing renovation, and to promote urban revitalization without displacing the residents of low income neighborhoods. In the second chapter, I investigate how the development of new apartment buildings can affect local property prices. On one hand, increasing the supply of available residential units is expected to lower the price of other housing options in a given area through a substitution effect. On the other hand, apartment building development may produce aggregation economies and other spillovers increasing the desirability of a given neighborhood and in turn property prices. Estimating the net effect under a standard parametric framework is complicated by the non-linear interaction of geographic and temporal distance from the site of construction. I apply a new econometric technique developed by Diamond and McQuade (2019) to non-parametrically estimate the effect of apartment building construction on nearby residential property prices, transforming transaction prices into a price gradient that is a smooth function of time and distance and then numerically integrating over the estimated derivatives to measure changes in property prices. I find that property prices increase with distance from the site of a new development, suggesting that the substitution effect might be stronger than other potential spillovers, although the overall effect varies heterogeneously across different types of neighborhood. In the third chapter, Mark Ponder and I examine the effect of the introduction of light rail transit in Minneapolis. We focus on decomposing the overall impact on local property prices to assess what share is attributable to the direct effect of improved access to public transit and what share is attributable to an indirect spillover effect through the increase in local amenities. After assembling a rich spatial dataset encompassing every residential property in Minneapolis and hundreds of thousands of businesses and neighborhood amenities, we use machine learning techniques to estimate a hedonic pricing surface. We extend the method of Boosted Smooth Trees introduced by Fonseca et al. (2018) to a high-dimensional dataset and to incorporate instrumental variables, allowing us to control for endogenous changes in amenities. Our results indicate that the price of properties located within a half mile of a light rail station increased by around 11.3%. The direct impact of access to the light rail itself is estimated to increase local housing prices by 5.5%, while the estimated spillover due to changes in amenities is quantifiable at 5.8%.Item Franklin Avenue Light Rail Transit Task Force.(2000) Mendez, VeronicaItem Future of Transportation in Minnesota(2013-10-30) Zelle, Charles; Haign, Susan; Peter, BellItem Marketing Transit Sustainability: SouthWest Transit Final Campaign Book(Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2015) Keena, Krystyna; Stanley, James; Cress, Mitchell; Curtis, Matthew; Golie, Sara; Stephens, Leslie; Frick, KylieThis project was completed as part of a year-long partnership between Carver County and the University of Minnesota’s Resilient Communities Project (http://www.rcp.umn.edu). SouthWest Transit, which is the transit provider for Carver County, wanted to leverage its sustainability efforts to expand bus ridership by appealing to people's concern for the environment. SouthWest Transit project lead Matt Fyten worked with a team of students in JOUR 4263 to develop marketing materials and strategies that can be used to promote the sustainability benefits of SouthWest Transit’s services. A final report and PowerPoint presentation slides from this project are available.Item Modeling and design of integrated transit systems with strategic passenger behavior(2022-09) Kumar, PrameshExperimental evidence shows that the uncertainty in travel time causes transit passengers to employ "strategies" when traveling between various origin-destination pairs. Such strategic behavior helps passengers adapt to the varying traffic conditions in the network. The current dissertation develops modeling frameworks to predict strategic passenger behavior in stochastic and time-dependent (STD) transit networks and use it for the design and long-term planning of integrated transit systems. It makes four principal contributions. First, it develops routing algorithms to describe the strategic behavior of transit and park-and-ride passengers using online information about road congestion and bus arrival at stops when traveling in a STD network. Second, to predict the average passenger flow on each link of the network, it develops schedule-based transit assignment models with online information for uncapacitated and capacitated transit networks. Third, it proposes an optimization model to design transit routes' alignment and corresponding frequencies incorporating the strategic passenger behavior. Fourth, it develops an optimization model to design an integrated Mobility-on-Demand (MoD) and transit systems to decide which transit routes to operate, the frequency of operating transit routes, and the MoD fleet size required to address the transit first-mile last-mile problem. Efficient algorithms are devised to solve the proposed models. Numerical experiments show that the park-and-ride passengers commuting from suburban regions to Downtown Minneapolis can save around 36 hours/year by employing strategic routing. The transit assignment results show complex passenger behavior as passengers consider alternative routes to avoid missing transfers and denied boarding due to congestion. Finally, the design results show a significant improvement in the congestion in the city center of the City of Sioux Falls with the introduction of the integrated system.Item Modeling the commute mode share of transit using continuous accessibility to jobs(2013-09) Owen, AndrewThis research develops an accessibility-based model of aggregate commute mode share, focusing on the share of transit relative to auto. It demonstrates the use of continuous accessibility -- calculated continuously in time, rather than at a single or a few departure times -- for the evaluation of transit systems. These accessibility calculations are accomplished using only publicly-available data sources. Multiple time thresholds for a cumulative opportunities measure of accessibility are evaluated for their usefulness in modeling transit mode share. A binomial logit model is estimated which predicts the likelihood that a commuter will choose transit rather than auto for a commute trip based on aggregate characteristics of the surrounding area. Variables in this model include demographic factors as well as detailed accessibility calculations for both transit and auto. The model achieves a pseudo-R-sqaure value of 0.597, and analysis of the results suggests that continuous accessibility of transit systems may be a valuable tool for use in modeling and forecasting. It may be possible to apply these techniques to existing models of transit ridership and mode share to improve their performance and cost-effectiveness.Item Planning for Personal Rapid Transit.(Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota., 1972) Anderson, J. Edward et al.Item Planning for Personal Rapid Transit: A Summary Report to the Minnesota State Legislature.(Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota., 1973) Anderson, J. Edward et al.Item Progress Reports on the Program in Urban Transportation, 1969-1973.(1973) Gerlough, Daniel L.