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Riding with Charlie: Public Transportation Policy and its Impact on Businesses and Road Safety in Massachusetts

May 19, 2020 pfarias 2020 Senior Theses

By Pedro Farias Can public transportation help local businesses and save lives and costs? My thesis seeks to understand this dual question by considering a natural experiment in Boston. From March 2014 to March 2016, the MBTA expanded public transportation service on weekends from 12:30am to 2:30am for certain routes. With data on MBTA service, Read More

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