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BTS Releases Third Issue of the Journal of Transportation and Statistics
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DOT 6-99
Marsha Fenn
202-366-DATA
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Monday, January 11, 1999 -- The U.S. Department of
Transportations Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)
today released the third and final edition of Volume One of the Journal
of Transportation and Statistics. The first part of Volume
Two is expected later this year.
"This edition of the journal is
rich with important transportation data," said BTS Director
Dr. Ashish Sen. "The journals distinguished group of
contributing researchers provides in-depth analysis of worldwide
transportation trends."
This edition contains a broad range of
transportation research topics, which include:
- "The External Damage Cost
of Noise from Motor Vehicles," by Mark Delucchi,
Institute of Transportation Studies, University of
California at Davis; and Shi-Ling Hsu, Department of
Agricultural Economics, University of California at
Davis.
- "Analyzing the Travel
Behavior of Home-Based Workers in the 1991 CALTRANS
Statewide Travel Survey," by Patricia L.
Mokhtarian, Department of Civil Engineering and
Institute of Transportation Studies, University of
California at Davis; and Dennis K. Henderson,
Department of Mechanical/Aeronautical Engineering,
University of California at Davis.
- "Home-to-Work Trips
During the Transportation Strikes in Ile-de-France at
the End of 1995," by Jean-Paul Coindet, the
French National Institute for Transport and Safety
Research (Institut National de Recherche sur les
Transports et Leur Sécurité).
- "Weighting or
Imputations? The Example of Nonresponses for Daily
Trips in the French NPTS," by Jimmy Armoogum and
Jean-Loup Madre of the French National Institute for
Transport and Safety Research (Institut National de
Recherche sur les Transports et Leur Sécurité).
- "Productivity and
Accessibility: Bridging Project-Specific and
Macroeconomic Analyses of Transportation
Investments," by Glen Weisbrod, Economic
Development Research Group; and Frederick Treyz,
Regional Economic Models, Inc.
- "Positive Externalities
and the Public Provision of Transportation
Infrastructure: An Evolutionary Perspective," by
Ulrich Blum, Dresden University of Technology,
Germany.
- A Research Note on
"Sources of Error in Estimating Truck Traffic
from Automatic Vehicle Classification Data," by
Satish C. Sharma, Guo Xin Liu and Scott Thomas,
University of Regina, Canada.
For information on submitting a paper
or to receive journal guidelines for paper submission, write to:
Managing Editor, JTS, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U.S.
Department of Transportation, Room 3430, 400 Seventh Street,
S.W., Washington, D.C. 20590, or e-mail: journal@
bts.gov.
Subscriptions are complimentary through
1999 and may be obtained by faxing requests to (202) 366-3640, by
e-mailing to journal@ bts.gov, by writing to the Bureau of Transportation
Statistics at the address above or by contacting the BTS website
at www.bts.gov/programs/jts/.
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