Engineering Livable Streets: A Thematic Review of Advancements in Urban Street Design

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 451-465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Dumbaugh ◽  
Michael King
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Project Planning ◽  
Urban Streets ◽  
Street Design ◽  
Urban Street ◽  
Design Practices ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Thematic Review ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Engineering Practices

Planners and urban designers have long sought to encourage the creation of livable streets. Despite these professions’ best efforts, the creation of such streets has proven difficult to implement due to the design practices employed by traffic engineers. This article details how engineering practices modify the design of urban streets and provides a thematic review of recent innovations to engineering guidance. It concludes by presenting four general strategies for ensuring that walkable streets emerge from the engineering phases of the project planning and design process.

scholarly journals People’s Experiences in Relation to the City Liveliness of Urban Heritage Trail

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syazana Suaidah Shahimi ◽  
Izawati Tukiman ◽  
Mohd Ramzi Mohd Hussain
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Street Life ◽  
Urban Streets ◽  
Street Design ◽  
Urban Street ◽  
City Environment ◽  
Urban Heritage ◽  
The City

Populaces are prominent indicators of livability in creating ‘street life’ for cities and public spaces. Evaluating people’s experiences is significant in creating a city liveliness and urban heritage trail. The exploration of design strategies that could allow them to integrated and connected with other spaces in the context of city and heritage as well as creating a social life among them. The measuring variables are people’s experience on the spaces; thus, create the pattern of behavior, which cause spaces liveliness, using Kuala Lumpur Heritage Trail as an example of pedestrian priority streets, city environment and heritage value. The aim of this research is to evaluate people’s experiences and analyze their behavior towards the urban street design within cities environment and Malaysia heritage values. The analyzed review comprising on the livability of the street in the context of interrelation between behavioral patter of people and the preferences of urban heritage. Hence, this paper will give an understanding of how people experiences the presence of urban streets and heritage values, thus, bringing liveliness to the streets.

scholarly journals Street Design and Human Behaviour Factors towards a Safe Urban Environment for Women

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (17) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Norhafizah Abdul Rahman ◽  
Maimon Ali ◽  
Izham Ghani
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Living Standard ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Urban Streets ◽  
Street Design ◽  
Urban Street ◽  
International Publishing ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Street Environment

Integrating women safety in the urban street environment is critical in creating good quality living to improve living standard. This paper discusses women’s needs and characteristics of urban streets that can affect women’s behaviour. The objectives of this paper are to identify the characters of urban environment in making streets safe for women and establishing the characteristics of safe urban street environment for women. This study is conducted using mixed methodology to identify the relationship between urban street design and women’s behaviour. This paper will contribute towards safe urban street design with an excellent urban environment and dynamic economic activities. Keywords: women safety; urban design; safe cities; behavioural study eISSN: 2398-4295 © 2019. The Authors. Published for AMER, ABRA & cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.21834/ajbes.v4i17.184

scholarly journals Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) in Event Planning and Management

10.29007/35b9 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chloe Penn ◽  
Ken Farnes ◽  
Farshid Rahmani
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Project Planning ◽  
Mega Events ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Planning And Management ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Specialist Knowledge ◽  
Event Planning

Large and mega-events employ traditional procurement approaches, adopting an adversarial stance with contractors/suppliers. These events are often beset with problems with the contractors/suppliers. This study investigates whether early contractor involvement (ECI) is being applied to the procurement processes within the event planning and management industry and to explore the potential benefits and challenges of the application of ECI within that industry. ECI attempts to exploit the contractor/supplier's specialist knowledge and expertise to the benefit the project planning and design process to provide mutual benefits and minimise the drawbacks associated with an adversarial contract. This paper argues that an event is a particular type of project and discusses the potential benefits of ECI to the event planning and management industry. A literature review approach was used to explore the construction and infrastructure industries and the event planning and management industry to determine whether ECI is being utilized to any meaningful degree. Overall the study findings indicate that by adopting ECI the event planning and management industry could expect similar benefits to those observed in the construction and infrastructure industries.

A Brief Analysis of the Urban Street Design Based on TOD Mode

2013 ◽  
Vol 357-360 ◽  
pp. 1970-1974
Author(s):  
Qiao Ning ◽  
Bing Ran Zhou ◽  
Yu Xiao Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Street Design ◽  
Urban Street ◽  
Street Networks ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
New Development ◽  
Urban Planning And Design

With the introduction of the concept and practice of TOD in Urban planning and design, the concept and practice of urban street design also has a new development. This paper focuses on the theory, principle and technique of urban street design based on the TOD mode, including the design of street networks, the introduction of transport calming and the design of urban street form.

scholarly journals Relationship Between Street Design and Human Behaviour in Making Cities Safe for Women

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (11) ◽  
pp. 213
Author(s):  
Norhafizah Abdul Rahman ◽  
Maimon Ali ◽  
Izham Ghani
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Living Standard ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Urban Streets ◽  
Street Design ◽  
Urban Street ◽  
International Publishing ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Street Environment

Integrating women safety in the urban street environment is critical in creating good quality living to improve living standard. This paper discusses women needs and characteristics of urban streets that can affect women behaviour. The objectives of this paper are to identify the characters of the urban environment in making streets safe for women and establishing the characteristics of safe urban street environment for women. This study is conducted using a mixed methodology to identify the relationship between urban street design and women behaviour. This paper will contribute towards safe urban street design with an excellent urban environment and dynamic economic activities. Keywords: women safety; urban design; safe cities; behavioural study eISSN: 2398-4287 © 2019. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v4i11.1741

Planning a project of the creation of an electric vehicle technical assistance point

2020 ◽  
pp. 117-123
Author(s):  
Totska Olesia ◽  
Glovatsky Anastasia
Keyword(s):  
Electric Vehicle ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Critical Path ◽  
Project Planning ◽  
The Creation

The purpose of the article is to plan a project of an electric vehicle technicalassistance point. the methodology of the study is to use the critical path method.the scientific novelty of the obtained results is that the article describes the practicalaspects of project planning of the creation of an electric vehicle technical assistancepoint. In particular, the tasks of the project are described, labor, material and financialresources necessary for its realization are specified. conclusions. The implementationof the developed project will effectively manage the content, time and resources ofthe project of the creation of an electric vehicle technical assistance point.

Perancangan Boneka Edukasi Terinspirasi oleh Pencipta Boneka Si Unyil

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Azhari Amri
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Urban Culture ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Rural Region ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The City ◽  
Simple Materials

Film Unyil puppet comes not just part of the entertainment world that can be enjoyed by people from the side of the story, music, and dialogue. However, there is more value in it which is a manifestation of the creator that can be absorbed into the charge for the benefit of educating the children of Indonesia to the public at large. The Unyil puppet created by the father of Drs. Suyadi is one of the works that are now widely known by the whole people of Indonesia. The process of creating a puppet Unyil done with simple materials and formation of character especially adapted to the realities of the existing rural region. Through this process, this research leads to the design process is fundamentally educational puppet inspired by the creation of Si Unyil puppet. The difference is the inspiring character created in this study is on the characters that exist in urban life, especially the city of Jakarta. Thus the results of this study are the pattern of how to shape the design of products through the creation of the puppet with the approach of urban culture.

Estimating the Effects of Urban Street Incidents on Capacity

2017 ◽  
Vol 2615 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aidin Massahi ◽  
Mohammed Hadi ◽  
Maria Adriana Cutillo ◽  
Yan Xiao
Keyword(s):  
Network Performance ◽  
Field Measurements ◽  
Signalized Intersection ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Microscopic Simulation ◽  
Highway Capacity ◽  
Highway Capacity Manual ◽  
Urban Streets ◽  
Urban Street ◽  
Incident Duration

The effect of incidents on capacity is the most critical parameter in estimating the influence of incidents on network performance. The Highway Capacity Manual 2010 (HCM 2010) provides estimates of the drop in capacity resulting from incidents as a function of the number of blocked lanes and the total number of lanes in the freeway section. However, there is limited information on the effects of incidents on the capacity of urban streets. This study investigated the effects on capacity of the interaction between the drop in capacity below demand at a midblock urban street segment location and upstream and downstream of signalized intersection operations. A model was developed to estimate the drop in capacity at the incident location as a function of the number of blocked lanes, the distance from the downstream intersection, and the green time–to–cycle length (g:C) ratio of the downstream signal. A second model was developed to estimate the reduction in the upstream intersection capacity resulting from the drop in capacity at the midblock incident location as estimated by the first model. The second model estimated the drop in capacity of the upstream links feeding the incident locations as a function of incident duration time, the volume-to-capacity (V/C) ratio at the incident location, and distance from an upstream signalized intersection. The models were developed on the basis of data generated with the use of a microscopic simulation model calibrated by comparison with parameters suggested in HCM 2010 for incident and no-incident conditions and by comparison with field measurements.

A Crowdsourcing Approach in Urban Design

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hisham Abusaada ◽  
Abeer Elshater
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Urban Planning And Design ◽  
The Creation

This chapter examines the problem of excessive similarity when designing new cities. It focuses on the generating of innovative ideas through urban design paradigms. The purpose of this work is to support the efforts of planners and designers toward the creation of new cities based on the concept of cities of singularity. This chapter is a bibliographic review of some conventional Western paradigms in urban planning and design. Based on this work, the three initial singularities of cities can be sketched as being architecturally singular (artwork-like/artistic and organic), societally singular (social, economic, and transcultural), or technologically and informationally singular (smart) in nature. The analytical reading depends on content analysis—which follows the potentiality of exploring the meaning of singularity and its characteristics, indicators, and principles. It collects the interrelationships of the old and new paradigms. The outcomes provide a framework for creating ‘cities of singularity' based on a crowdsourcing approach.

A Prototypical Participatory Design-Process

2018 ◽  
pp. 36-60
Author(s):  
Matthias Teine
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
User Experience ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Theoretical Discussion ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
The Creation ◽  
New Generation

Our economies and societies are changing, with significant effects on each individual, as they have to cope with increasingly complex and unpredictable working lives. Therefore, innovative digital learning applications that respond to their end user's needs and desires become inevitable. Whilst relying on user-centered design structures, the participatory design methodology provides a promising approach towards the creation of such a new generation of digital learning applications. After thoroughly outlining the research undertaking's rationale and following to a theoretical discussion, the author gives insights into the results of problem-centered interviews with digital learning and user experience experts that build the basis for the creation for a prototypical participatory design process. These findings primarily confirm the recent literature and provide, complemented by the created process, a sound basis for further theory-oriented, scientific discussions but application in practice as well.

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