INFORMAL DISCUSSION. PUBLIC TRANSPORT AND THE NEW LOCAL GOVERNMENT WHITE PAPER.

1972 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 687-689
Author(s):  
LH SMITH ◽  
TJ POWELL ◽  
CF MEW
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
White Paper ◽  
Informal Discussion

scholarly journals The Quality of Life of Suburbanities: A Case Study of the Gdańsk Agglomeration

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (14) ◽  
pp. 91-101
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Masik
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Made In

The Quality of Life of Suburbanities: A Case Study of the Gdańsk Agglomeration The article explains the meaning of the concept of ‘quality of life’, placing emphasis on its subjective dimension. As the concept is more and more discussed in the literature, the author intends to examine the satisfaction within public spaces for which local government is responsible. According to research made in Canada it is worth measuring not only satisfaction as such but also the importance of its constituent dynamics. Therefore, a survey made in the suburbs of the Gdańsk agglomeration asked respondents about their satisfaction with public transport, roads, environment, etc., including questions about the relative importance of such issues. The combination of satisfaction and importance provide the overall quality of life. At the end of the paper the author considers if there is a chance to improve the quality of life through a brief analysis of local governments expenditure.

Poverty, local services and austerity

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glen Bramley ◽  
Kirsten Besemer
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Government Spending ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Service Access ◽  
Service Usage ◽  
Cultural Services ◽  
Local Services

While public support for local services as ‘essential’ remains high, there have been divergent trends in usage, with increases in public transport, corner shops and childrens services, but declines in information,leisure and cultural services. Distribution of service usage has become slightly more ‘pro-poor’, yet poorer groups are still more likely to report constraints in service access or quality. Services are not systematically worse in poorer neighbourhoods, in most cases, and service exclusion does not overlap much with other dimensions of social exclusion. While the service domain thus appears to continue to bolster equality, post-austerity cuts to local government spending threaten significant retrenchment in poorer localities.

scholarly journals Towards a more effective and efficient public transport system : a case study

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Dhiren Allopi
Keyword(s):  
Public Transport ◽  
White Paper ◽  
Forced Flow ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Strategic Objectives ◽  
Public Transport System ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
System A ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The Government

The Government of South Africa has recognised transport as one of its five main priority areas for socia-economic development. One of the Governments strategic objectives, as reflected in the white paper on National Transport Policy, is to promote the use of public transport with the goal of achieving a ratio of 80:20 between public transport and private car usage, as a long term vision. This is no easy task and in order to achieve this goal, an in depth analysis of the current transport situation is required. The structure and land-use patterns of most of the South African cities have forced the residents to be predominantly dependent on private transport, resulting in high car ownerships. Over the years, this has caused the traffic on the major links connecting the suburban areas leading to the city centres to be very high and some of them have already approached forced flow conditions during morning and evening peak periods

scholarly journals The use of network analysis in the process of delimitation as exemplifi ed by the administrative division of Poland

2017 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Borowska-Stefańska ◽  
Szymon Wiśniewski
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Travel Time ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Transport Network ◽  
Network Data ◽  
Optimum Number ◽  
Location Allocation ◽  
Administrative Division ◽  
Territorial Division

AbstractThe cognitive aim of this study is to point to the optimum number of local government units and the optimum boundaries of spatial units in Poland with the assumption of minimizing the cumulated theoretical travel time to all settlement units in the country. The methodological aim, in turn, is to present the use of the ArcGIS location-allocation tool for the purposes of delimitation processes as exemplifi ed by administrative boundaries in Poland. The rationale for the implementation of this study is that number and the boundaries of units of all levels of Poland’s current territorial division are far from optimum in the light of minimization of accumulated theoretical travel time to all settlement units in the country. It may be concluded that it would be justifi able to increase the number of voivodships from the current number of 16 to 18. Besides it would be necessary to introduce modifi cations in relation to units with regional functions. In contrast, the number of districts and communes should be reduced. A continuation of this research may go in the direction of including analysis of public transport network in the research, creating in this way a multimodal set of network data. This would illustrate, apart from the potential itself resulting from the infrastructure, also the actually existing connections.

The British White Paper on Local Government

1945 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
Jacob Crane ◽  
Wm. L. C. Wheaton
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
White Paper
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