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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Urban Network"”.
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Assessment of Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication based Applications in an Urban Network
… have used hypothetical study areas with simple networks for connected vehicle environment. This study represents connected vehicle environment in TRANSIMS to assess the performance of V2V communication applications in the realistic urban network. The communication duration rate and …
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Using the Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram to Characterize the Traffic Flow in Urban Network
… work shows that a number of MFDs exist in an urban network. The number of MFDs basically indicate the existence of different levels of service on different network routes. It also demonstrate that the modification of control strategy can optimize the signal timing plan for the links with high …
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The Geography of Insurgency: An Urban Network Insurgency Model of the Viet Nam War
… insurgency as a conflict over nodes within the urban network and hypothesizes that we can expect to observe different stages of conflict (types of political activity and violence) in different parts of the urban hierarchy at different times. The hypothesized relationships were generally found to …
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Critical enhancements of a dynamic traffic assignment model for highly congested, complex urban network
… highly congested traffic situation of a complex urban network, significant challenges are posed to current simulation-based dynamic traffic assignment (DTA) models. This thesis discusses these challenges and corresponding solutions with consideration of model accuracy and computational …
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Using GPS data in route choice analysis : case study in Boston
… how people choose the route given the existing urban network. However, dealing with the excessive amount of data and the modeling of route choice behavior are two major challenges in the route choice analysis.This thesis discusses the general process in the route choice analysis, from GPS data …
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Seeing, surfacing, patterning: A socially inclusive architecture for the blind
… community, but also shifts focus to how the ‘urban surface' (Wall, 1999) within which these buildings are situated could do the same; extending the concept of enabling design beyond the confines of interior spaces into the public urban network.
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ΠΡΟΣΔΙΟΡΙΣΜΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΦΟΡΑΣ ΚΙΝΗΣΗΣ ΤΩΝ ΟΧΗΜΑΤΩΝ ΣΕ ΕΝΑ ΑΣΤΙΚΟ ΟΔΙΚΟ ΔΙΚΤΥΟ ΓΙΑ ΤΗ ΜΕΓΙΣΤΟΠΟΙΗΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΚΥΚΛΟΦΟΡΙΑΚΗΣ ΤΟΥ ΙΚΑΝΟΤΗΤΑΣ
… OF THE DIRECTION OF THE ONE WAY ROADS, IN AN URBAN NETWORK IN ORDER TO MAXIMIZE NETWORK CAPACITY. IT HAS BEEN GIVEN IN DETAIL THE DEFINITION OF THE NETWORK CAPACITY AND HAVE BEEN STUDIED THE PARAMETERS THAT MUST BE TAKEN UNDER CONSIDERATION SUCH AS THE TRIP DISTRIBUTION, THE RELATION BETWEEN …
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Food insecurity in Cape Town: how inadequate access affects human health and livelihoods
Despite the increase in research on urban food insecurity, little has explicitly focused on spatial food access and malnutrition and under-nutrition amongst the urban poor in South Africa. Therefore, using a quantitative household data survey completed by the African Food Security Urban Network in …
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The new food-tech city : adapting Chicago's post-stockyard urbanism
… Stock Yard was once symbolic of an era where urban progress was equated with efficiency and growth. Today, the site is facing an identity crisis: it is characterized predominantly by underutilized warehousing, however, innovative closed-loop food producers (such as The Plant and the Iron …
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Public places through the private eye
… rapid transformation of the character of public urban places and the way they are used. The urban network is no longer the primary space for and means of communication as it was before the introduction of television, computers and other electronic media; its role needs reevaluation. This thesis …
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Evaluating transportation facility arrangements in urban areas: a balanced level of service approach
… of bus, auto, and roadway facilities for urban areas. Models for balancing intermodal and interzonal travel are developed for such transportation systems. A total community cost function incorporating auto operating costs, bus fares, travel time costs, and, in come cases, utilization costs …
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Prioritizing Sidewalk Accessibility Improvements for the Aging Population and Individuals with Disabilities: A Case Study of Bandung, Indonesia
While walking is fundamental to inclusive urban mobility, major cities in Indonesia continue to face challenges in providing barrier-free pedestrian infrastructure, even for individuals without physical impairments. As the population of older adults in Indonesia continues to grow, the risk of …
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Integrated urban transportation and land use modeling by application of system dynamics
… land uses and vehicle route selection within an urban network are both dependent upon travel times between zones in an urban region. These location and accessibility components form the basis of a time dependent feedback structure linking land use and transportation planning. Integrating …
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Use of Advanced Techniques to Estimate Zonal Level Safety Planning Models and Examine their Temporal Transferability
… is required for examining the influence of the urban network development on road safety, and in particular, determining the effects of the many variables that affect safety in urban planning. Safety planning models can provide a decision-support tool that facilitates the assessment of the safety …
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Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis. A case-study of institutional curating of contemporary art in an urban context
… and contemporary art exhibitions in a Western urban context today. It is concerned with exhibition studies’ methodology, the reciprocity between the art institution and the city, and the relationship between the art institution and the independent curator. With regards to methodology, I propose …
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Economy and authority: a study of the coinage of Hiberno-Scandinavian Dublin and Ireland
… enormous growth in commerce, the emergence of an urban network and increasingly centralised polities are all indicative of this process. Ireland has rarely been considered in discussion of this sort but analysis of Ireland’s political economy has much to contribute to the debate. This will be …
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Bayeux/PB: uma “cidade dormitório”, analisada a partir do processo de migração pendular.
… of daily migration between a cities peri-urban type, and another polarizer center type. Regarding General Objective, presents that the main purpose of the research is constituted in analysis of factor pendular migration, between cities, resulting in the character of the satellization …
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Evaluating the impact of interventions on network capacity
… impact of different diverse interventions on the network is essential in understanding the causes of congestion. In this thesis, a framework to understand the effects of different disruption events and activities on the network has been presented. A common unit, independent of network and type of …
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The values of urban design - spatial models
Urban network morphometrics (UNeMos) is a research technique and a design decision aid in urban design. UNeMOS are network science-based configurational metrics of urban morphology that can inform urban designing decision-making, helping designers to discriminate between different 2D and 3D design …
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Court in the Market: The 'Business' of a Princely Court in the Burgundian Netherlands, 1467-1503
… of the Burgundian court. It exposes the wider network of court officials, urban merchants and artisans who, tied by marriage and business relationships, together produced and managed the ducal liveries, jewelries, tapestries and finances that realized the splendor of the court. It shows how the …
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