{"650163":{"#nid":"650163","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Econ Faculty in the News: Dhongde Featured in the AJC","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAssociate Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/econ.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/shatakshee-dhongde\u0022\u003EShatakshee Dhongde\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;was featured in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EAtlanta Journal-Constitution\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;in an\u0026nbsp;article titled\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/commuting-blog\/georgia-tech-study-bicycling-has-496-million-impact-in-georgia\/7BUXKSXCR5GVHBDZELPCLARN3I\/\u0022\u003E\u0026quot;Georgia Tech Study: Bicycling has $496 Million Impact in Georgia.\u0026quot;\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe article quotes Dhongde and spotlights her research report on bicycling in Georgia for the Georgia Department of Transportation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAn excerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShatakshee Dhongde, an associate professor of economics, conducted the study for the Georgia Department of Transportation. She examined five years of sales and employment records for more than 700 businesses, the construction and maintenance costs of more than 80 biking trails and the budgets and other information for more than 60 events and 30 bicycling organizations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;People are going to need this information if they want to justify any type of investments or improvements in the bicycle infrastructure in Georgia, so there is definitely a need to conduct a rigorous impact analysis for any new project,\u0026rdquo; Dhongde said in a press release announcing the study. You can\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/g92018.eos-intl.net\/eLibSQL14_G92018_Documents\/17-04.pdf\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eread the report here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The article quotes Dhongde and spotlights her research report on bicycling in Georgia for the Georgia Department of Transportation.\u00a0"}],"uid":"35766","created_gmt":"2021-08-27 13:36:17","changed_gmt":"2021-08-27 13:36:17","author":"dminardi3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-08-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-08-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"650162":{"id":"650162","type":"image","title":"Dhongde\u0027s Biking Research Featured in the AJC","body":null,"created":"1630071328","gmt_created":"2021-08-27 13:35:28","changed":"1630071328","gmt_changed":"2021-08-27 13:35:28","alt":"Person biking around a bend in a dirt road in the woods","file":{"fid":"246775","name":"Econ 692 x 500 (25).png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Econ%20692%20x%20500%20%2825%29.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Econ%20692%20x%20500%20%2825%29.png","mime":"image\/png","size":824030,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Econ%20692%20x%20500%20%2825%29.png?itok=iIKICnhD"}}},"media_ids":["650162"],"groups":[{"id":"1282","name":"School of Economics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}