A Dimorphic Color Pattern of the Garter Snake Thamnophis elegans vagrans in the Puget Sound Region

Recent developments in information technologies, providing new ways to disseminate and use information, may help alleviate congestion, reduce user cost and time, and enhance safety. This influence of technology use, however, is mediated by telecommunication and information technology ownership and use. A multivariate probit model specification is used to determine how these parameters influence traveler decision making when one is confronted with information about traffic problems before making a trip to work or school, en route to or from work or school, and before making a trip from work or school. Addressed is the key relationship between telecommunication and information technology ownership and use with travel decisions when information about traffic problems is available. Data from the Puget Sound region for 1997 are used in the analysis. The results suggest technology ownership and use influence travel decision making in different ways for each stage of travel—before leaving home, en route, and returning home.

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Integrating Land Use Policy into Regional Transport Planning: The Metropolitan Planning Process in the Central Puget Sound Region of Washington State, USA

Spatial Planning, Urban Form and Sustainable Transport ◽

10.4324/9781315242668-23 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 217-230

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Planning Process ◽

Puget Sound ◽

Land Use Policy ◽

Washington State ◽

Transport Planning ◽

Regional Transport ◽

Metropolitan Planning ◽

Puget Sound Region

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Climate change and the Puget Sound: Building the legal framework for adaptation

Climate Law ◽

10.1163/cl-2011-039 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

pp. 299-344 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Yee Huang ◽

Robert L. Glicksman ◽

Catherine O’Neill ◽

William L. Andreen ◽

Victor Flatt ◽

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Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Climate Change Adaptation ◽

Puget Sound ◽

Legal Framework ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Climate Change Effects ◽

Decision Making Processes ◽

Adaptation Policies ◽

Impacts Of Climate Change ◽

Puget Sound Region

Regardless of the efforts governments may take to mitigate the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions and other human activities on climate change, the need for society to adapt to climate change is unavoidable. Adapting to the myriad impacts of climate change will require actions at all levels of government. This article focuses on the anticipated impacts of climate change on the Puget Sound region in the northwestern United States as an example of the range of problems climate change will present and of the solutions available to governments and others interested in avoiding or minimizing the adverse impacts of climate change. As a guide for policy-makers, the article offers general principles for formulating climate change adaptation policies, suggestions for changes in decision-making processes that make them more suitable for addressing the unpredictable impacts of climate change, and strategies for adapting to three specific categories of climate change effects: impacts on the hydrologic cycle, sea-level rise, and altered meteorological conditions. The strategies and recommendations analysed in the article can provide a model for climate change adaptation policies, both in the Puget Sound region and more broadly, that are both environmentally protective and socially equitable.

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