Selima Sultana

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined commuting patterns in the Atlanta metropolitan area to determine the extent to which commuting flow volume is the result of an imbalance between the location of home and workplace by using the most sophisticated and largest geographical scale data provided by the 1990 U.S. Census of Transportation Planning Package.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the extent to which workers living in sprawl areas commute farther to work than those living in higher density areas and found that workers commuting from sprawl to urban areas experience a longer commute in terms of time as well as mileage, though this varies when workplace and home locations are taken into account.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated Twitter usage during Hurricane Sandy following the survey of the general population and exploring communication dynamics on Twitter through different modalities, finding that Twitter is a highly valuable source of disaster-related information particularly during the power outage.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors measure the accessibility of each stage of HSR network extension and evaluate its spatial distribution, variation, and changes using weighted averaged travel time and potential accessibility indicators.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the issue with the expectation that geography is an important part of the explanation for low minority visitation rates and find that potential minority visitors live anywhere near national park units and are more likely to visit the ones to which they live nearest.