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Past research has found that immigrants are less likely to drive alone than the native-born, all else equal. This thesis finds that endogenous social interactions effects may explain this “immigrant effect” by estimating alternative-specific conditional logit mode choice models using New York City travel survey data. The share of fellow mode users from a traveler’s own immigrant group positively ... read moreaffects the likelihood that the traveler chooses a given mode, as does the share of same-immigrant-status neighbors commuting using that mode. Incorporating these feedback effects into transportation demand models could better guide future investments.read less
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