Annesha Enam, Charisma F. Choudhury
This paper presents issues and challenges associated with development of a comprehensive mode choice model for Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh and the 11th largest city in the world. As in most other developing countries, reliable level-of-service data are not available for the wide variety of moto...
Zia Wadud, Sheikh Mokhlesur Rahman, Annesha Enam
INTRODUCTION: Concerns have been raised about the potential for risk compensation in the context of mask mandates for mitigating the spread of COVID-19. However, the debate about the presence or absence of risk compensation for universal mandatory mask-wearing rules-especially in the context of COVI...
Samnun Yasir, Tanzim Ahmad, Annesha Enam
Bangladesh—located in south Asia and home to almost 167 M people, is one of the most densely populated countries in the world. Despite high population density, the country is yet to have a well-coordinated mass transit system. However, most people rely on public transportation due to comparatively l...
Annesha Enam, Imtiaz Ibne Azad, Shadia Afrin
Compared to the Western world, online shopping penetration in Bangladesh is relatively low – a mere 3% of people do online shopping there. However, the country encountered a surge in online buying propensity in 2020 due to COVID-19-related lockdown measures. Online shopping increased in the country ...
Annesha Enam, Ali Ardeshiri, Taha Hossein Rashidi, Joshua Auld
The anticipation of automated vehicles (AV) has resulted in diverse research topics, including understanding the adoption and usage of this emerging mode. Using attitudinal indicators, this paper identifies prevalent types of attitudes towards AV. It then explores the variation of those attitudes ac...
Muntahith Mehadil Orvin, Annesha Enam, Mahmudur Rahman Fatmi
Residential relocation is a process involving the interdependent decisions of mobility (i.e. the decision to move) and location choice. Location choice is a discrete choice decision, whereas mobility has a continuous time dimension. Since households relocate along their life course for different rea...
Nazmul Arefin Khan, Annesha Enam, Muhammad Ahsanul Habib, Karthik C. Konduri
This paper presents the findings of an activity-based tour-level model that jointly investigates individuals’ decisions of activity-tour participation, time allocation, and mode choice. A multiple discrete continuous extreme value (MDCEV) model is developed that explores the participation and time a...
Annesha Enam, Sheikh Mokhlesur Rahman, Shoaib Mahmud, Zia Wadud
Transport plays a major role in spreading contagious diseases such as COVID-19 by facilitating social contacts. The standard response to fighting COVID-19 in most countries has been imposing a lockdown-including on the transport sector-to slow down the spread. Though the Government of Bangladesh als...
Md Shahadat Hossain, Mahmudur Rahman Fatmi, Annesha Enam
<title>Abstract</title> Households’ vehicle fleet composition has important policy implications in the area of transport-related energy consumption and emissions. With the recent development in different alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs) such as hybrid and electric vehicles and advanced technology fe...
Tanmay Das, Md. Hadiuzzaman, Annesha Enam, Md Mizanur Rahman
The critical role of evacuation, particularly for the communities in developing countries exposed to cyclones, has only been realized after some disastrous evacuation experiences in recent cyclones. A profound understanding of the factors influencing the evacuation behavior is necessary to reduce th...
Md Shahadat Hossain, Mahmudur Rahman Fatmi, Annesha Enam
Fariha Chowdhury, Tanmoy Nath Ananda, Annesha Enam
Kaiser Hamid, Manifa Noor, Annesha Enam
Using passive data to investigate travel behavior is becoming increasingly prevalent, owing to its convenient data acquisition process. This study seeks to evaluate the feasibility of leveraging Google Location History (GLH) data for analyzing travel behavior within the context of a developing natio...
Annesha Enam, Charisma F. Choudhury
Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh and one of the fastest growing megacities of the world, is already subjected to acute traffic congestion on a regular basis. Increasing the physical capacity to relieve congestion is however not feasible since already more than 70 per cent of the area is built up Thi...