The airline, automobile, and rail industries—as well as the energy industry that powers them all— were hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, as stay-at-home orders and social distancing guidance sharply reduced travel demand. Though the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act attempted to
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Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein’s “nudge theory” defines a nudge as “any aspect of choice architecture that alters people’s behavior in a predictable way without forbidding any options or significantly changing their economic incentives.” Transportation agencies across the United States have applied nudge theory to
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