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Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Highways and Transit (2007- ) Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :192 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (318 download)
Book Synopsis Using Practical Design and Context Sensitive Solutions in Developing Surface Transportation Projects by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Highways and Transit (2007- )
Download or read book Using Practical Design and Context Sensitive Solutions in Developing Surface Transportation Projects written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Highways and Transit (2007- ) and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Contextual Transit by : Jeffrey Michael Perry
Download or read book Contextual Transit written by Jeffrey Michael Perry and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last one hundred years Detroit has risen to become one of the most populated cities in America with the help of the automobile industry and has since become a deteriorating city losing population constantly as the "Big Three" try to reestablish themselves. Since the first rejection of a subway system that occurred in the early 1920's and the abandonment of the surface trolley system in the 1950's the city has been struggling to implement an efficient way of travel throughout the city. Currently people only have three ways to get from point A to point B: by using human power, taking an untimely bus, or driving a car. The problem is that a good majority of the population in Detroit do not have their own means of transportation, and with the cutting of the current bus lines citizens have no way of traveling around this once great city. Fortunately, a plan is in place to begin the process of bringing mass transit back to the city of Detroit. The first stage is the M-1 rail, a light rail system that will begin at Hart Plaza and continue north 3.4 miles along Woodward Avenue to the New Center. Future additions of the line will eventually continue out to Pontiac. Future lines of an expanded transit system following Gratiot, Grand River, Warren and Jefferson Avenue are being considered as well as a possible commuter lines connecting the city of Detroit with the cities of Ann Arbor, Pontiac, Port Huron and Toledo. This development of transit is important to the resurrection of Detroit. There are some key factors that need to be considered when developing the stations along these lines, such as the user group of the stations, the needs of local residents, and above all security. In order to start this recovery the city will need to attract people back into Detroit, while also responding to key needs of its citizens. So the question is whether Detroit, which is in such a state of disarray, can afford for these transit stations to just be a basic shelter that only serves as part of the infrastructure system? In order for these stations to fulfill their potential value to the city, each station should become its own destination. By doing so, not only would the building fulfill the basic requirements for mass transit, getting people from point A to point B safely and effectively, but the major capital investment at each station could also be seen as an opportunity to create a network of destinations that respond carefully to the neighborhoods within which they are located. Each station will have a different context so integrating it into the neighborhood will be of great importance. In order for the stations to become successful destinations the sense of arrival must be present. If the rider does not feel that they have completed their journey the sensation that the station is also a destination will be lost. Each of these stations is responsible for facilitating the transfer of passengers from point A to point B safely and effectively, but the goal of each station is to encourage a second wave of development. In order to spark this second wave there is a need for these stations to respond to their immediate surroundings. The reason for this is to allow citizens to experience the city and the characteristics of its surroundings. This balance between the larger system and the local surroundings is of great importance because if either goal is unfulfilled the stations will not function as intended.
Book Synopsis Human Mobility, Spatiotemporal Context, and Environmental Health: Recent Advances in Approaches and Methods by : Mei-Po Kwan
Download or read book Human Mobility, Spatiotemporal Context, and Environmental Health: Recent Advances in Approaches and Methods written by Mei-Po Kwan and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2019-07-12 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental health researchers have long used concepts like the neighborhood effect to assessing people’s exposure to environmental influences and the associated health impact. However, these are static notions that ignore people’s daily mobility at various spatial and temporal scales (e.g., daily travel, migratory movements, and movements over the life course) and the influence of neighborhood contexts outside their residential neighborhoods. Recent studies have started to incorporate human mobility, non-residential neighborhoods, and the temporality of exposures through collecting and using data from GPS, accelerometers, mobile phones, various types of sensors, and social media. Innovative approaches and methods have been developed. This Special Issue aims to showcase studies that use new approaches, methods, and data to examine the role of human mobility and non-residential contexts on human health behaviors and outcomes. It includes 21 articles that cover a wide range of topics, including individual exposure to air pollution, exposure and access to green spaces, spatial access to healthcare services, environmental influences on physical activity, food environmental and diet behavior, exposure to noise and its impact on mental health, and broader methodological issues such as the uncertain geographic context problem (UGCoP) and the neighborhood effect averaging problem (NEAP). This collection will be a valuable reference for scholars and students interested in recent advances in the concepts and methods in environmental health and health geography.
Book Synopsis Crime and Fear in Public Places by : Vania Ceccato
Download or read book Crime and Fear in Public Places written by Vania Ceccato and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429352775 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. No city environment reflects the meaning of urban life better than a public place. A public place, whatever its nature—a park, a mall, a train platform or a street corner—is where people pass by, meet each other and at times become a victim of crime. With this book, we submit that crime and safety in public places are not issues that can be easily dealt with within the boundaries of a single discipline. The book aims to illustrate the complexity of patterns of crime and fear in public places with examples of studies on these topics contextualized in different cities and countries around the world. This is achieved by tackling five cross-cutting themes: the nature of the city’s environment as a backdrop for crime and fear; the dynamics of individuals’ daily routines and their transit safety; the safety perceptions experienced by those who are most in fear in public places; the metrics of crime and fear; and, finally, examples of current practices in promoting safety. All these original chapters contribute to our quest for safer, more inclusive, resilient, equitable and sustainable cities and human settlements aligned to the Global 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Book Synopsis Local and Regional Funding Mechanisms for Public Transportation by :
Download or read book Local and Regional Funding Mechanisms for Public Transportation written by and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2009 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 129: Local and Regional Funding Mechanisms for Public Transportation explores a series of transit funding mechanisms with a primary focus on traditional tax- and fee-based funding; and common business, activity, and related funding sources. The report includes an online regional funding database that provides an extensive list of funding sources that are in use or have the prospect of being used at the local and regional level to support public transportation. A user manual for the database is also available online"--Publisher's description.
Book Synopsis Sustainable and Resilient Communities by : Stephen J. Coyle
Download or read book Sustainable and Resilient Communities written by Stephen J. Coyle and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-05-12 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of today's communities face an unprecedented struggle to adapt and maintain their environmental, economic, and social well-being in an era beleaguered by fiscal constraints, uncertainty about energy prices and supplies, rapid demographic shifts, and accelerated climate impacts. This step-by-step guidebook for urban planners and urban designers explains how to create and implement an actionable plan for making neighborhoods, communities, and regions more environmentally healthy, resource-conserving, and economically resilient. Sustainable and Resilient Communitiesdelineates measures for repairing, retrofitting, and transforming our built environments and supporting systems.
Book Synopsis Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by : Frederic Sturges Allen
Download or read book Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms written by Frederic Sturges Allen and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Regional Transit System Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tribal Transportation Programs by : Stuart Meck
Download or read book Tribal Transportation Programs written by Stuart Meck and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2007 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NCHRP synthesis 366 explores innovations and model practices among tribal transportation programs. The report also examines the history, and legal and administrative evolution, of tribal transportation programs within the larger context of issues of tribal sovereignty and relationships with federal, state, and local governments, and local and regional planning agencies.
Book Synopsis Spatiotemporal Data Analytics and Modeling by : John A
Download or read book Spatiotemporal Data Analytics and Modeling written by John A and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Building the Digital Enterprise by : Mark Skilton
Download or read book Building the Digital Enterprise written by Mark Skilton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The digital economy is at a tipping point. This practical book defines digital ecosystems, discusses digital design using converging technologies of social networking, mobility, big data and cloud computing, and provides a methods for linking digital technologies together to meet the challenges of building a digital enterprise in the new economy.
Book Synopsis Building a Sustainable Workforce in the Public Transportation Industry— A Systems Approach by : Candace Blair Cronin
Download or read book Building a Sustainable Workforce in the Public Transportation Industry— A Systems Approach written by Candace Blair Cronin and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2013 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [This is] "a guidebook that addresses contemporary issues in workforce development, retention, and attraction, and public transportation image management. [It] is separated into modules that may be used independently or together [...]. Information across the modules is in the form of example successful programs, state-of-the-art initiatives, industry effective practices, and directions to implement and measure those practices. The results of this research may be used by human resource professionals and transportation policy makers in implementing more effective human resource business-planning processes"--Foreword.
Book Synopsis Handbook of Choice Modelling by : Stephane Hess
Download or read book Handbook of Choice Modelling written by Stephane Hess and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-05 with total page 797 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoroughly revised second edition Handbook provides an authoritative and in-depth overview of choice modelling, covering essential topics range from data collection through model specification and estimation to analysis and use of results. It aptly emphasises the broad relevance of choice modelling when applied to a multitude of fields, including but not limited to transport, marketing, health and environmental economics.
Author :ITE (Institute of Transportation Engineers) Publisher :John Wiley & Sons ISBN 13 :1118762355 Total Pages :1204 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (187 download)
Book Synopsis Transportation Planning Handbook by : ITE (Institute of Transportation Engineers)
Download or read book Transportation Planning Handbook written by ITE (Institute of Transportation Engineers) and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 1204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multi-disciplinary approach to transportation planning fundamentals The Transportation Planning Handbook is a comprehensive, practice-oriented reference that presents the fundamental concepts of transportation planning alongside proven techniques. This new fourth edition is more strongly focused on serving the needs of all users, the role of safety in the planning process, and transportation planning in the context of societal concerns, including the development of more sustainable transportation solutions. The content structure has been redesigned with a new format that promotes a more functionally driven multimodal approach to planning, design, and implementation, including guidance toward the latest tools and technology. The material has been updated to reflect the latest changes to major transportation resources such as the HCM, MUTCD, HSM, and more, including the most current ADA accessibility regulations. Transportation planning has historically followed the rational planning model of defining objectives, identifying problems, generating and evaluating alternatives, and developing plans. Planners are increasingly expected to adopt a more multi-disciplinary approach, especially in light of the rising importance of sustainability and environmental concerns. This book presents the fundamentals of transportation planning in a multidisciplinary context, giving readers a practical reference for day-to-day answers. Serve the needs of all users Incorporate safety into the planning process Examine the latest transportation planning software packages Get up to date on the latest standards, recommendations, and codes Developed by The Institute of Transportation Engineers, this book is the culmination of over seventy years of transportation planning solutions, fully updated to reflect the needs of a changing society. For a comprehensive guide with practical answers, The Transportation Planning Handbook is an essential reference.
Book Synopsis Wireless Sensor Networks by : Shafiullah Khan
Download or read book Wireless Sensor Networks written by Shafiullah Khan and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) utilize fast, cheap, and effective applications to imitate the human intelligence capability of sensing on a wider distributed scale. But acquiring data from the deployment area of a WSN is not always easy and multiple issues arise, including the limited resources of sensor devices run with one-time batteries. Additi
Book Synopsis Bridging the Gap between Life and Physics by : Ron Cottam
Download or read book Bridging the Gap between Life and Physics written by Ron Cottam and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only book which deals with the correlatory comparison between hierarchical living systems and inorganic physical ones. The culmination of the book is the proposition of research to discover and understand the natural underlying level of organization which produces the descriptive commonality of life and physics. Traditional science eliminates life from its purview by its rejection of interrelationships as a primary content of systems. The conventional procedure of science is that of reductionism, whereby complex systems are dismantled to characterize lower level components, but virtually no attention is given to how to rebuild those systems—the underlying assumption is that analysis and synthesis are symmetrical. This book fulfills two main coupled functions. Firstly, it details hierarchy as the major formulation of natural complex systems and investigates the fundamental character of natural hierarchy as a widely transferable ‘container’ of structure and/or function – and this in the case of the new development of a representational or model hierarchy. Secondly, it couples this hierarchical description to that of the electronic properties of semiconductors, as a well-modeled canonical example of physical properties. The central thesis is that these two descriptions are comparable, if care is taken to treat logical and epistemological aspects with prudence: a large part of the book is composed of just this aspect of care for grounding consistency. As such great attention is given to correct assessment of argumentative features which are otherwise presumed ‘known’ but which are usually left uncertain. Development of the ideas is always based on a relationship between entity or phenomenon and their associated ecosystems, and this applies equally well to the consequent derivations of consciousness and information.
Book Synopsis Transit Crime and Sexual Violence in Cities by : Vania Ceccato
Download or read book Transit Crime and Sexual Violence in Cities written by Vania Ceccato and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-17 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How cities are planned and designed has a major impact on individuals’ mobility and safety. If individuals feel unsafe in public transportation or on the way to it, they may avoid certain routes or particular times of the day. This is problematic, since research has also found that, in some cities, especially those in the Global South, a large percentage of women are "transit captives". Namely, they have relatively less access to non-public forms of transportation and are, therefore, especially reliant on public transport. This issue is important not only because it affects people’s safety but also because it influences the long-term sustainability of a city. In a sustainable city, safety guarantees the ability to move freely for everyone and provides a wider sense of place attachment. Transit Crime and Sexual Violence in Cities examines the evidence of victimization in transit environments in countries around the world, exploring individuals’ feelings of perceived safety or lack thereof and the necessary improvements that can make transit safer and, hence, cities more sustainable. The book’s contributions are grounded in theories at the crossroads of several disciplines such as environmental criminology, architecture and design, urban planning, geography, psychology, gender and LGBTQI studies, transportation, and law enforcement. International case studies include Los Angeles, Vancouver, Stockholm, London, Paris, São Paulo, Mexico City, Bogotá, Tokyo, Guangzho, Melbourne, and Lagos, among others.
