Urban Research

Incremental Integration of Land Use and Activity-Based Travel Modeling: Workplace Choices and Travel Demand

2012-05-28T02:01:00.000-07:00

by Liming Wang, Paul Waddell, and Maren L. Outwater Recent advances in activity-based travel modeling and integrated land use and transportation modeling have significantly advanced the understanding of and the capacity to model location choices and travel behavior more realistically. These advances, however, come with greater data requirements, and the risk and the substantial cost involved

Skyline photos of Frankfurt (Oder), Germany

2012-05-28T01:50:00.001-07:00

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Documentary film: Sprawling from Grace: The Consequences of Suburbanization

2012-04-28T08:05:00.001-07:00

The following documentarey film shows concerns about the suburban sprawl trend in the United States. The basic element of the American dream, which is the basis of the nation's urban and suburban sprawl is automobile. The the same trend of motorization the we have today, the Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) in 2025 in the country will be 58% more than today. The money needed for building more

Walking and cycling for sustainable mobility in Singapore

2012-04-25T03:21:00.001-07:00

by Koh, P.P., Wong, Y. D., Chandrasekar, P. and Ho, S.T. Singapore, a small island of 712 km2 and a population of over 5 millions in 2010, has seen the rising importance of non-motorised transport (in particular walking and cycling), as part of the fresh impetus to de-carbonize its environment. The land-scare country, with recent, substantive population growth and tight planning population (

Towards a Sustainable Transportation Environment: The Case of “Pedicabs” and Cycling in the Philippines

2012-04-25T03:14:00.001-07:00

by Brian C. Gozun and Marie Danielle V. Guillen Various studies have confirmed the numerous advantages of non-motorized transportation (NMT) especially on the environment and personal well-being of the commuter. Unfortunately its transportation modal share has always been negligible in the Philippines. Recently, the rapid rise in the price of oil and an overwhelming increase in environmental

TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE URBAN TRANSPORT SYSTEM: PLANNING FOR NON-MOTORIZED VEHICLES IN CITIES

2012-04-25T03:04:00.001-07:00

by Geetam Tiwari A sustainable transport system must meet the mobility and accessibility needs of people by providing safe and environmentally friendly modes of transportation. This is a complex and difficult task in the mega-cities of developing countries because the needs of people belonging to various income groups are not only different, but also often conflicting in nature. For example,

Skyline photos of Melbourne, Australia (1)

2012-04-20T06:56:00.002-07:00

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Developing a geo-spatial urban form - travel behaviour model for the city of Ahmedabad, India

2012-04-20T06:45:00.006-07:00

by Talat Munshi, Mark Brussel, and Mark Zuidgeest Urban land use and transport planning and management are constant mutative interrelated processes. Even though, there is a growing body of research concerned with the relationship between urban and travel behaviour, studies. Since these studies originate from a diversity of sources and encompass a variety of geographic scales and locations and

The Effects of Teleshopping on Travel Behavior and Urban Form

2012-04-20T06:38:00.001-07:00

by Christopher Erin Ferrell This dissertation employs structural equation modeling (SEM) techniques to explore the tradeoffs people make when engaging in teleshopping activities from home. Using the Bay Area Travel Survey (BATS) 2000 this dissertation performs an activities analysis to investigate these relationships. Time use variables are included that predict the amount of time each

Photos of public spaces and pedestrian streets in Oslo, Norway

2012-04-19T05:51:00.000-07:00

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Sustainable Urban Transportation A Winning Strategy for Canada

2012-04-19T05:45:00.001-07:00

by Anne Golden and Natalie Brender As The Conference Board of Canada noted in Mission Possible: Successful Canadian Cities, the fate of Canada’s cities is intimately bound up with the long-term prosperity and sustainability of the country as a whole. Among the core elements that make cities successful, efficient urban transportation networks are pivotal on several fronts. They are key to

The eco-city: ten key transport and planning dimensions for sustainable city development

2012-04-19T05:32:00.002-07:00

by JEFFREY R KENWORTHY Making existing cities and new urban development more ecologically based and liveable is an urgent priority in the global push for sustainability. This paper discusses ten critical responses to this issue and summarizes them in a simple conceptual model that places the nexus between transport and urban form at the heart of developing an eco-city. This involves compact,

Urbanization and Natural Disasters in the Mediterranean Population Growth and Climate Change in the 21st Century Case Studies on Izmit, Algiers and Alexandria

2012-04-18T03:44:00.001-07:00

by Hans Günter Brauch This paper analyzes the relationship between urbanization – in relation with population growth and climate change – (as causes) and natural disasters as outcomes of environmental stress for the Mediterranean region from 1900 to 2001 – with a specific focus at three case studies in Turkey, Algeria and Egypt. It includes trends of urbanization up to 2015/2030, for

Skyline photos of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (2)

2012-04-18T03:38:00.002-07:00

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Skyline photos of Mexico City (1)

2012-04-18T03:31:00.003-07:00

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Skyline photos of Philadelphia (2)

2012-04-17T03:22:00.000-07:00

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GATED COMMUNITIES: PHYSICAL CONSTRUCTION OR SOCIAL DESTRUCTION TOOL?

2012-04-17T03:16:00.000-07:00

by ABDELHAMID Hatem Touman The Congress theme: “The Dream of a Greater Europe” combined with themes of some tracks such as: “Housing and community development”, have both encouraged us to present this paper. The social blend which we are gaining by the birth of The Greater Europe ; the big variety of social classes living together on the new European community ; and the mobility freedom all

Travel mode choice: affected by objective or subjective determinants?

2012-04-17T03:06:00.000-07:00

by Joachim Scheiner and Christian Holz-Rau The contribution presents theoretical considerations concerning the connections between life situation, lifestyle, choice of residential location and travel behaviour, as well as empirical results of structural equation models. The analyses are based on data resulting from a survey in seven study areas in the region of Cologne. The results indicate

Pictures of the pedestrian streets in downtown Glasgow

2012-04-16T08:55:00.000-07:00

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Skyline photos of Tucson, Arizona

2012-04-16T08:43:00.001-07:00

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Skyline photos of Sacramento, California

2012-04-16T08:32:00.000-07:00

A Methodology for Incorporating Fuel Price Impacts into Short-term Transit Ridership Forecasts

2012-04-16T08:12:00.000-07:00

by Ashley Raye Haire Anticipating changes to public transportation ridership demand is important to planning for and meeting service goals and maintaining system viability. These changes may occur in the short- or long-term; extensive academic work has focused on bettering long-term forecasting procedures while improvements to short-term forecasting techniques have not received significant

Tackling eco-urbanity: Housing and placemaking at the urban edge

2012-04-16T08:05:00.000-07:00

by A.Senem DEVİREN With more than half of the world population is now living in urban settlements, urban growth is almost inevitable. But our cities are not growing in healthier and ecological ways, they are ‘sprawling’. Much of this sprawl is a result of new housing developments and constructions for their related services, occurring rapidly one after the other at urban peripheries. There

MESSAGE FROM TRADITIONAL SETTLEMENTS FOR FUTURE CITIES

2012-04-15T14:08:00.001-07:00

by S. Ecemis Kilic The concepts of “liveable city” or “sustainable city” are used widely for describing what the expectation of the future cities is. The concepts have some common objectives and refer to human oriented, environmentally friendly, economically efficient and socially sound, urban areas. When different traditional urban fabrics in Turkey have analyzed, it is seen that they are

URBAN TRANSFORMATION OF ASIANS’ TRADITIONAL CBD AREAS BY LEGAL REDEVELOPMENT PROJECTS: CASE STUDY OF SEOUL AND TOKYO

2012-04-15T13:41:00.000-07:00

by SEUNGYEOUN CHO After World War II, Seoul and Tokyo developed modern planning systems to modernize their urban structures. Seoul and Tokyo had very similar planning schemes for redevelopment, which consisted of legal urban redevelopment projects and subsidies under the Urban Redevelopment Law. They also had similar problems as part of their rapid urbanization. The differences in their