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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Urban Streets"”.
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Multimodal Assessment of Recurrent and Non-recurrent Conditions on Urban Streets
The methodology to measure the performance of urban streets was significantly revised in the latest edition of the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM 2010). Urban Streets, which include urban and suburban signalized arterial highways, typically serve the four modes of transportation (auto, transit, …
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An operational method for assessing traffic-related air pollution in urban streets
Urban air quality has been a topic of major public concern and scientific research in recent years. Several theoretical and experimental studies have focused on the assessment of air quality within street canyons and other microenvironments (intersections, motorways, parking spaces, etc.), where …
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A method of sequence design for urban streets evaluated in case studies
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1963.
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Level of Service: Design Standards, Imposed Car Dependence, and the Production of Urban Space in the Capitalist State
… has received scrutiny for its misapplication to urban streets, accommodating highway-like traffic flow where local service and accessibility should be a priority. Combining the work of contemporary planning and engineering researchers, Marxist urban theorists, and critical theorists Henri …
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Redesigning Main Street in post-industrial communities: The case of Galesburg, Illinois
… in the Mid-western United States widened their streets to demonstrate that their towns were progressive, economically strong and vital places. But now, cities are finding that wider streets are not all that desirable after all. By today’s standards, these wide streets are no longer attractive …
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Adams Morgan Parkway: Envisioning a Network of Green Streets
The footprint of urban streets have become conflict zones of interests; ranging from efficient automobile infrastructure, building restriction lines, economical interests, shy efforts to introduce nature, services, etc. How can we, as urban designers, retrieve a portion of this footprint to nature …
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A Community In Motion: A Multimodal Transit and Waterfront Activity Center at the University of Washington
… systems form with surrounding communities. As urban centers continue to grow, they are increasingly looking to new or expanding systems of mass transit in order to cut down on congestion in crowded urban streets. These systems are integral to moving a city’s population on a daily basis, but are …
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Development of an automated GIS tool to identify and rank high pedestrian crash zones
Pedestrian safety is an important concern on many urban streets in the United States. Identification of high pedestrian crash zones is an important component to help allocate resources to enhance pedestrian safety by reducing the number and severity of crashes in a cost effective way. High crash …
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Two urban corners : a design exploration for the Holloway block
… from a brief attitudinal discussion of public urban streets.
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Re-Imagining the Street as Placemaking Tool in Claremont CBD
Among the many problems that exist in the urban built environment today, uninviting pedestrian spaces is a prominent characteristic especially adjacent to inner-city shopping centres. Often, this is accompanied by a divorce of the building from the street, where the irony is that the street, which …
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Designing Indian streets as social public spaces : contextual design and planning in Bangalore
Streets in India have traditionally been the public spaces around which social life has revolved. They constitute the urban public realm where people congregate, celebrate and interact. The hypothesis that forms the basis of this thesis is that there is a need to understand and design these urban …
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Utvärdering av cykelfälts effekter på cyklisters säkerhet och cykelns konkurrenskraft mot bil
… to compete with car traffic. Thirteen Swedish urban streets were studied before and after bicycle lanes were introduced. Data was collected using video recordings, speed studies, road side questionnaires/interviews with cyclists/car drivers, conflict studies and accident analysis. Results …
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Inventory of Aging-Friendly Pedestrian Environment
… While public space, pedestrian activities and urban space as a gathering place for urban residents have been placed in a very minor position. As motorization in contemporary cities develops, the overall pedestrian environment of cities is deteriorating, and the street spaces are seriously …
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Borgargata - hlutverk og flokkun
… en þar eru þó götur sem nefnast borgargötur (e. urban streets) þær götur eru allar í borgum en hafa enga sérstaka skilgreiningu. Höfundur ákvað að flokka borgargöturnar í þrjá undirflokka: flokk A, flokk B og flokk C - breiðgata. Greint var frá hvort Langholtsvegur, Dyngjuvegur, Austurbrún og …
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Determining key catchments for litter trap installation in urban rivers using a GIS-based approach
Litter generated in urban centres has fast become a major problem across the world and poses risks to economic, human and environmental health. It is estimated that around 2.0 billion tonnes of solid waste are produced per year. Rivers and stormwater drainage systems are the primary mechanism …
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A dynamic traffic simulation/assignment model in the context of Advanced Driver Information Systems
… highway safety, and productivity on highways and urban streets. The success of such real time control system highly depends on the new methods that address dynamic traffic assignment. Thus there is an urgent need for an effective dynamic assignment model. The main objective of this research is to …
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Spectacles of the street : performance, power, and public space in antebellum New Orleans
… social world of the nineteenth-century urban streets. It traces the alliances and conflicts that emerged as individuals, groups and the state asserted their political, cultural and economic power in the public spaces of the city. The population of New Orleans soared during the early …
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Dependence of outdoor thermal comfort on street design in hot and dry climate
… readily interpretable from the perspective of urban designers. Street geometries are investigated, including various aspect ratios, i.e. height-to-width ratio H/W, solar orientations and a number of design details. First, symmetrical urban canyons with H/W equal to 0.5, 1, 2 and 4 and for …
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A New Methodology for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Bus Rapid Transit Strategies
… capacity, especially in small and congested urban areas. However, the use of regularly scheduled buses as the main public transport mode can become useless with the presence of traffic congestion and dense construction areas. In cases like these, innovative solutions, such as bus rapid …
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Mitigating negative transport externalities in industrialized and industrializing countries
The ongoing urbanization process all around the globe is likely to increase transport-related negative externalities e.g., congestion, air pollution, climate change etc. The situation is severe in rapidly expanding cities where the demand for motorized transport is increasing. This has increased …