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Showing 1 to 20 of 70 for “"infrastructure planning"”.
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Infrastructure planning for drought mitigation under climate change
… the risk of drought at local scale? Are current infrastructure and their operation enough to mitigate the damage of future drought, or do we need in-advance infrastructure expansion for future drought preparedness? To address these questions, this study presents a decision support framework based …
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Strategic infrastructure planning to enable personal vehicle electrification
… questions remain about the impact of different infrastructure expansion strategies. This thesis addresses a gap in the current literature by examining infrastructure requirements in the context of varying travel patterns and technology performance. Specifically, this work evaluates …
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Utilization of information management systems for sustainable infrastructure planning
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2003.
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Contextual Practices in City Infrastructure Planning in the US and Indonesia
… contains an international examination of infrastructure planning in context, which applies new institutional economics and transaction costs theory for comparative international study, collecting exemplary social infrastructure practices across the global north and south, and contrasting …
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Alternative fuel vehicles evacuation: routing, refueling infrastructure planning, and behavioral insights
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Learning and flexibility for water supply infrastructure planning under diverse uncertainties
Water supply infrastructure planning faces many uncertainties. Uncertainty in short-term in rainfall and runoff, groundwater storage, and long-term climate change impacts water supply forecasts. Population and economic growth drive urban water demand growth at rapid but uncertain rates. …
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U.S. Navy infrastructure--planning, bugeting and acquisition at Naval Submarine Base New London
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1997.
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Evolution of the university business model and infrastructure planning due to technological innovations
The quality of higher education has been a growing concern in the United States and United Kingdom. There have been no notable improvements in the education system until the last few years. Considerable transformation in the higher education arena has begun to take place in step with the shift of …
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Using inclusive wealth as a measure of sustainability for infrastructure planning and evaluation
… measuring the impact of alternative infrastructure plans on IW. The focus of the work is on electricity planning in oil-exporting countries. Domestic oil consumption in these countries, driven by increasing electricity use, threatens long-term development by reducing the export …
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Environmental integration in infrastructure planning: a Foucauldian discourse analysis of the trans-European transport network
<p>Planning theory is turning again towards the question of power, particularly in relation to recent claims to a new communicative planning 'paradigm'. This thesis investigates how Foucauldian discourse analytics, embracing concepts of discourse, power/knowledge, rationality and space can …
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Inclusion of Knowledge Communities in Planning Processes : An Analysis of Green Infrastructure Planning in Maryland, USA.
… haphazard development patterns. Recently, green infrastructure planning initiatives have emerged, providing a proactive approach to conservation planning. One area under particular stress is the Chesapeake Bay region of Maryland. Several counties within Maryland have created countywide green …
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Guiding green stormwater infrastructure planning through socio-ecological vulnerability: An integrated and spatially scalable prioritization framework
"Green stormwater infrastructure (GSI; e.g., rain gardens, bioswales, green roofs) is widely used as a climate change mitigation strategy for its potential to reduce stormwater management problems (e.g., poor water quality, increased streamflow velocities, and flood risk due to impervious …
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Capacity evaluation and infrastructure planning techniques for heterogeneous railway traffic under structured, mixed, and flexible operation
The student, Mei-Cheng Shih, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2017-07-12 at 12:06.
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The potential for demand side management in water and wastewater infrastructure planning : a case study from Argentina
… of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1996.
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Landscape Aesthetics in Practice: A critical enquiry into the development and use of an arts practice as a constructive intervention within the context of landscape change, community action, Green Infrastructure planning and delivery and Landscape Character Assessment processes.
The research considers why aesthetics, the subjective ways in which we experience and value places, and nature's agency are not readily included in decision-making processes. This action research adopts a hopeful, participatory and auto-ethnographic inquiry into the potential for developing and …
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Development of a multi-criteria, GIS-based, backcasting framework model (G-BFM) for progression towards zero waste futures, for holistic resource management policy and practice in Northamptonshire by 2050
The complex nature of waste management and planning requires a long-term strategic policy formation approach incorporating sustainable development principles. Consequently, the transition from a waste paradigm to valuing materials as resources is central for transitioning towards a 'zero waste' …
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Open Space Planning; Utilizing Green Infrastructure to Preserve Community
… progress has been made in reorganizing community planning towards sustainable development practices. However, these alternatives still work under the misconception that there is a disconnect between planning open space networks and planning development. Through a comprehensive land use planning …
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Mobility politics : local ideologies in the multi-jurisdictional metropolis
… between local politics and metropolitan infrastructure planning in the context of the multi-jurisdictional governance of contemporary urban regions? I interrogate, first, how cities make policy when many governmental organizations are involved in city planning. And I ask, second, how …
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Automatic road network extraction from high resolution satellite imagery using spectral classification methods
… geospatial applications, such as cartographic, infrastructure planning and traffic routing software. Automatic and semi-automatic road network extraction techniques have significantly increased the extraction rate of road networks. Automated processes still yield some erroneous and incomplete …
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"Sequencing infrastructure development in the ""barrios marginales"" of Quito, Ecuador: Policy findings of a hedonic price model"
… of low income housing by buying land, providing infrastructure, and reselling the land. Recently, this ""sites and services"" approach has been criticized by scholars who assert that the provision of infrastructure raises land values beyond the reach of low-income residents. For land to remain …
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