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Travel Behavior, Responses To Fuel Prices, And Barriers To Change In Small And Rural Communities, Erica Quallen
Travel Behavior, Responses To Fuel Prices, And Barriers To Change In Small And Rural Communities, Erica Quallen
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
Travel behavior and the factors which drive it in small and rural communities has been historically understudied in transportation research. By understanding these factors and behaviors, a clearer picture of these regions can be drawn so that meaningful change towards greenhouse gas reductions can be realized. My research aims to examine barriers to making sustainable travel behavior changes such as using multi-modal transportation, reducing overall amounts of travel, or moving to locations closer to necessary services. I do this by first evaluating what “rural” means in terms of existing definitions of the term. The assessment of rural definitions analyzes vehicle …
Development Of Protocols For Determining Deleterious Material Content In Crushed Recycled Glass, Fiona Nutbeam
Development Of Protocols For Determining Deleterious Material Content In Crushed Recycled Glass, Fiona Nutbeam
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
Glass recycling appears to be a viable way to reduce waste; however, there are many challenges to ensuring the recycled product has an economically and environmentally sustainable end use. Cleaning recycled glass to a standard that allows it to be melted down into new glass is extremely difficult when single-stream recycling is in practice. The recycled glass that is not melted down is processed into different materials, such as processed glass aggregate (PGA). As states implement bans on landfilling recyclable materials (e.g., Act 148 in Vermont), additional uses for PGA are needed. In New England, there are diminishing sources of …