Journal of Urban Planning and Development: Recent submissions
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Householder Satisfaction in Apartment Block Neighborhoods: Case of Ankara, Turkey
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)In Turkey, the satisfaction of households with their neighborhoods has never been an explicit concern of policymakers. Multistory apartment buildings dominate the urban environment, and they lack, in most cases, any ... -
Urbanization and Rural Development in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Metropolitan Region: Coupling-Degree Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Regarding urbanization as an interactive process between urban and rural development, this paper attempts to reveal the correlation between urbanization and rural development in China through comprehensive quantitative ... -
Two-Phase Approach for Designing Bus-Based Park-and-Ride System: Case Study of Isfahan, Iran
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Public transit network design is a very important part of urban transportation planning. In this paper, a new two-phase approach is proposed to design the bus-based park-and-ride system. In the first phase, park-and-ride ... -
Vulnerability Analysis of Metro Network Incorporating Flow Impact and Capacity Constraint after a Disaster
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)This paper presents a modified topological vulnerability analysis for the metro network. The flow impacts and the capacity constraint are taken into account in this work. A node-based congestion is considered in the travel ... -
Identifying Growth Patterns of the High-Tech Manufacturing Industry across the Seoul Metropolitan Area Using Latent Class Analysis
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Latent class analysis (LCA) is a well-established research method in social science for explaining observed correlations or variance by identifying latent classes, but it has rarely been applied in urban studies. This paper ... -
Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making Tool for Local Governments to Evaluate the Global and Local Sustainability of Transportation Systems in Urban Areas: Case Study
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Efficient management of urban transportation systems is a challenge for any local government that wishes to improve public wellbeing and comfort. With that end in mind, this paper proposes a tool for decision making and ... -
Sustainable Rehabilitation of Historical Urban Areas: Portuguese Case of the Urban Rehabilitation Societies
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)The role of urban rehabilitation in the vitality of urban centers is commonly perceived as a mandatory strategy for most cities with historical city centers. This unanimous principle has been developed under different ... -
Trail Network Accessibility: Analyzing Collector Pathways to Support Pedestrian and Cycling Mobility
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Opportunities for trail development are emerging as pedestrian and cycling mobility is in demand. Similar to the arterial, collector, and local road classifications, pathways can also be analyzed to support network ... -
Local Public Spending and Urban Sprawl: Analysis of This Relationship in the Veneto Region of Italy
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)This paper describes and analyzes an Italian case of urban sprawl in the central area of the Veneto Region, which covers about 3,700 square km and 145 municipalities. The main aim of this paper is to find out if urban ... -
Modeling Satisfaction with the Walking Environment: The Case of an Urban University Neighborhood in a Developing Country
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)This case study investigates the level of satisfaction of students at the American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, with the walking environment of the university’s surroundings. The analysis is conducted by developing ... -
Discussion of “How to Have Sustainable Transportation without Making People Drive Less or Give Up Suburban Living” by Mark Delucchi and Kenneth S. Kurani
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How Are Children Accompanied to School?
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)A growing number of parents accompany their children to and from school, to make sure they travel with the best care and minimum stress. Policies that aim at promoting nonmotorized modes of transportation or at least ... -
Impact of Neighborhood Walkability on Trip Generation and Trip Chaining: Case of Los Angeles
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The purpose of this study was to test whether a compact neighborhood design is associated with trip-chaining behavior. Trip chaining is regarded as a growing phenomenon in travel and activity behavior because people seek ... -
Effects of Frequently Overriding Regulations on Urban Renewal in Seoul: A Warning
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)South Korea enjoyed remarkable growth in real estate development from the late 1990s until 2010. Development projects included aboveground metro stations, which were characterized by extensive urban blight and had created ... -
Multidimensional Assessment of Developing an Urban Public Transit Metropolis in China
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)This paper presents a multidimensional framework to evaluate, monitor, and compare the development of public transportation systems towards Transit Metropolis status in different cities in China. In the proposed framework, ... -
Analysis of the Factors Influencing the Use of Public Buses in Delhi
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Many people use public bus transport to commute to work in Delhi. The mode share of the bus trip has reduced from 60% in 2001 to 41% today. Only 3% of this population shifted to the Delhi metro (57% of metro users are ... -
Describing Changes in the Built Environment of Shrinking Cities: Case Study of Incheon, South Korea
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)In the early 2000s, nearly 30% of South Korean cities reportedly shrunk in terms of population, number of enterprises, and property disinvestment. Although many researchers have already documented socioeconomic changes ... -
Optimal Coordination Strategy for an Integrated Multimodal and Multioperator Transit System: Case of Singapore
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)This paper develops a model for evaluating optimal coordination of a multimodal and multioperator transit system. The core logic of the modeling is to minimize the total cost for both transit operators and users. Hence, ... -
Assessment of Institutions in Sustainable Urban-Management Effects on Sustainable Development of Tehran: Learning from a Developing Country
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Land-use patterns are important to urban planning and management and face challenges from market forces, government, and local urban management in Iran. This research examines the problems arising from such issues in the ...