Journal of Urban Planning and Development: Recent submissions
Now showing items 1261-1280 of 1597
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Area-Based Models of Highway Growth
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007)Empirical data and statistical models are employed to predict where new highway routes are most likely to be located. The land use, population distribution, and highway network for the Twin Cities’ Metro Area from 1958 to ... -
Structural Dynamics in the Policy Planning of Large Infrastructure Investment under the Competitive Environment: Context of Port Throughput and Capacity
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)Capital investments in developing ports and/or expanding port capacity are costly ventures. The investment and policy planning of port owners would depend on anticipated port throughput. Such issues within an ex ante context ... -
Evaluating the Performance of Privatization on Regional Transit Services: Case Study
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007)In this study, we propose three categories of productivity measures of changes in production, service, and consumption following privatization of the Taiwan Motor Transport Company. The results indicate that privatization ... -
Perspectives for Network Management in Response to Unplanned Disruptions
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007)This paper presents two important perspectives that road authorities should consider under terrorism evacuation scenarios. First, households have been observed to gather prior to evacuating an area. Rather than immediately ... -
Optimizing Rail Transit Routes with Genetic Algorithms and Geographic Information System
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007)The location of rail transit lines and stations is a challenging problem because the number of possible alternatives is astronomical, the number of requirements and constraints is very large, and the evaluation of each ... -
Effects of Urban Land Use on Surface Temperature in Berlin: Case Study
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007)Surface temperature as an important factor in urban microclimate is studied to provide quantitative information on the effects of the degree of surface sealing and vegetated surfaces for purposes of integrated urban planning. ... -
Case Study: Relationship of Walk Access Distance to Transit with Service, Travel, and Personal Characteristics
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007)This paper explores the relationship between walk access distance to transit and various characteristics of the transit service and transit users in the city of Toronto, Canada. The data used in this study included individual ... -
Research on Rational Urban Growth and Land-Use Issues
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Integrating Mobility Management in Land Development Planning with Off-Street Parking Regulations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007)Parking policy is widely seen today as a proper tool for influencing mobility behavior in urban and rural areas. Stories of success have been reported due to regulation of on-street parking capacity and pricing. The ... -
Measuring and Assessing Economic Activities of Central Business Districts for Planning Purposes
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Impacts of Bus Rapid Transit Lanes on Traffic and Commuter Mobility
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007)Implementing bus rapid transit (BRT) raises many challenging issues of technical, operational, and institutional nature. The present study sets the groundwork for a methodology that can be used to selectively target corridor ... -
Integrated Cost–Benefit Analysis with Environmental Factors for a Transportation Project: Case of Pinglin Interchange in Taiwan
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007)The concern over sustainable development gives rise to the importance of the environmental factors in evaluating an environment-sensitive project. In this regard, the widely adopted exercise which involves the environmental ... -
Integrated Modeling Approach for the Transportation Disadvantaged
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007)Transportation models have not been adequate in addressing severe long-term urban transportation problems that transportation disadvantaged groups overwhelmingly encounter, and the negative impacts of transportation on the ... -
Role of Transportation Accessibility in Attracting New Businesses to New Jersey
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007)A general research methodology is developed to analyze the factors affecting companies’ relocation decisions, and its practicality is tested through an application on a study region that includes 21 counties in New Jersey ... -
Estimating Water Quality Pollution Impacts Based on Economic Loss Models in Urbanization Process in Xi’an, China
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007)The study investigates water quality pollution impacts on urbanization by analyzing temporal and spatial characteristics of different water quality parameters, and simulating economic loss of water quality pollution in ... -
Fiscal Impacts of Alternative Single-Family Housing Densities
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007)Across the nation, new residential development requires the construction of new infrastructure. However, financing the construction and maintenance of this infrastructure has become a contentious issue because of the various ... -
CommunityViz-Based Prototype Model for Assessing Development Impacts in a Naturalized Floodplain—EmiquonViz
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006)We present a prototype spreadsheet-based and geographic information system-based model, EmiquonViz, developed to examine the economic, fiscal, and social impacts of development. The model is designed to facilitate examination ... -
Assessing Performance under Regulatory Evolution: A European Transit System Perspective
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006)Assessing the performance of transit systems operating under different regulatory regimes is a topic of considerable interest in the literature. The goal of this paper is to investigate the performance characteristics and ... -
What Is an Effective Evacuation Operation?
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007)Evacuation plans are traditionally based on empirical knowledge and local experience. Many studies are underway to improve and, even, optimize the process of evacuation planning and operations. To this end, a commonly ... -
Traffic Signal Timing for Urban Evacuation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007)Numerous works have considered methods for improving traffic conditions, and hence reducing evacuation time, in a geographic evacuation. The majority of these efforts have focused on traffic flow along freeways, and it ...