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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"Parking Lots"”.
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Designing With Climate: Using Parking Lots to Mitigate Urban Climate
… a few key principles by which to mitigate them. Parking lots can cover up to half of the land area in cities and offer a great opportunity to correct urban climate problems. This thesis looks at current United States parking lot ordinances to determine if and how well principles of designing with …
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Between Auto(mobile) and Building: A Study of Pedestrian Oriented Parking Lots
… environment. The typical suburban retail parking lot is one symptom of our automobile dependence. Frequently the proposed solutions to sprawl development tend to minimize the economic and marketing appeal of a large surface parking lot. For many communities, the anticipated economic …
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Constructing use in surface parking lots : strategies for enhancing lots as part-time public spaces
Surface parking lots occupy vast amounts of land in urbanized areas-at times covering up to 40% of land in downtown areas in the United States. It is estimated that there are seven parking spaces for every vehicle in the nation; given that a vehicle can be in only one place at any given time, there …
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Pervious Concrete: A Hydrologic Analysis For Stormwater Management Credit
… on long term performances of pervious concrete parking lots and their stormwater management credit. Before stormwater management credit could be estimated, it was necessary to develop a testing device to gather information from existing pervious concrete parking lots currently in use. Eight …
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Evaluation and Development of a University Visitor Parking Management Framework
… State University (Virginia Tech) has a current parking inventory of approximately 14,310 parking spaces in 88 surface lots. Of the available parking spaces 92% are designated for the use of Virginia Tech students, faculty and staff members. The share of visitor usage of these parking spaces is …
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Design And Implementation Of Wireles Sensor Networks For Parking Management System
… physical environment. A new approach to solve parking-related issues of vehicles in parking lots using wireless sensor networks is presented. This approach enables the implementation of the Parking Management System (PMS®) in public parking lots found in Airports, Commercial Buildings, …
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Paradise in the Parking Lot
Parking lots can no longer be the inhospitable, pedestrian-minimalizing, environmentally-degrading uses of valuable open space that are accepted and tolerated as the "norm". The open space that makes way for parking lots is too precious to be wasted on places that provide little or no comfort to …
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Evaluating the Effect of Smart Parking Technology on Campus Parking System Efficiency using Discrete Event Simulation
… was conducted to investigate the effect of smart parking systems (SPS) on parking search times (PST) in large parking lots. SPSs are systems that disseminate real-time parking spot availability to drivers searching for parking. The literature review revealed discrete event simulation (DES) to be a …
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Characterizing the Impact of Freshwater Salinization on Engineered Ecosystems: Implications for Performance, Resilience, and Self-Repair Through Phytoremediation
… detention basins draining mostly pervious areas, parking lots, or roads in Northern Virginia and measured temporal variations in stormwater and soil salinities, depth profiles of soil salinities, plant community composition, and plant tissue ion concentration. The results indicated elevated levels …
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A Stormwater Management Model for California Polytechnic State University Campus
… student apartment at the current H-1 and R-1 parking lots and a BRC system for the proposed engineering project facilities at the current H-2 parking lots will significantly reduce peak flow and runoff volume. Overall, the developed model will help the university with the traditional …
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Waiting for TOD : developing in the Millbrae BART Station Area
… station dedicates large amounts of land for parking in order to cater to its driving riders, and causes a trade-off tension between attracting ridership through providing park-and-rides and building transit-oriented development (TOD) within station areas. I focus my research on the Millbrae …
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united stadium. united station.
… RFK Stadium. This structure and the surrounding parking lots sit vacant for most of the year, though they occupy a prime site along the Anacostia River. In this project, I am proposing to incorporate a new metro station, transit hub and commercial development into the design of a stadium for DC …
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Wildly Inaccessible: Reaching Public Lands via Public Transit
… for outdoor access has resulted in visitors parking in unauthorized spots along the shoulder of roads when trailhead parking lots reach capacity, creating congestion and unsafe road conditions as people walk between their cars and trailheads alongside moving traffic. City dwellers and the …
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Portmanteau
… habitats and species to build condominiums and parking lots. Each living thing has value and significance.</p>
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Nonpoint source pollution during dry and wet weather flows in an urbanized watershed
… the quality of runoff from residential areas and parking lots during WWF. DWF samples were collected from storm channels on a weekly and monthly basis. WWF samples were collected when the precipitation was at least 1mm. DWF water quality results indicated that monitoring stations were possibly …
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Labor Heights Plaza: Place for an Emergent Public
… policy in the U.S. Their presence in area parking lots has agitated local residents, who demand action by municipalities. This thesis explores the issue of day labor waiting sites in the Metropolitan Washington, D.C. region and proposes a physical design solution to help integrate these …
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Redefining Urban Landscapes: A Methodological Approach to Transforming Underused Parking Spaces with Dynamic Urban Functions
… underutilized urban spaces, focusing on parking areas, and explores potential reutilization strategies in Greater Boston. Under the milieu of the information age, global urbanization, and technological development, the prosperity of urban data serves as the new method to approach urban …
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Place d'Orleans Reinvente: A Senior-Centric Vision for a Suburban Mall
… complex open the mall's mass, while naturalized parking lots reactivate local marshlands and their relationship to nearby housing. By considering future changes in transportation habits and parking requirements, and taking the new LRT station into account, the proposal aims to reconnect Place …
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An Evolving Main Street: The Impact of Urban Renewal on Downtown Las Cruces, New Mexico, 1966-1974
… Street's rich, regional history with expansive parking lots and an unsuccessful pedestrian mall that mimicked enclosed shopping centers.
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