Location and Coverage Analysis of Bike- Sharing Stations in University Campus

Abstract Background: Bike-sharing programmes have become popular in a large number of cities in order to facilitate bicycle use. Determining the location of bike sharing stations is vital to success of these programmes. Objectives: In this paper, a case study is applied to the Gaziantep University campus in order to find possible locations of the stations for users (students). The purpose is to minimize the total walking distance. Methods/Approach: Set and maximal covering mathematical models are considered to decide on coverage capability of determined 20 demand points and 20 potential bike stations. Then, the mathematical models of P-center and P-median are used to build possible stations and to allocate demand points to the opened stations. Finally, an undesirable facility location model is used to find the bike stations, which have the maximum distance from demand nodes, and to eliminate them. Results: In computational results, it is clearly seen that the proposed approaches set the potential bike station covering all demand points. They also provide different solutions for the campus planners. Conclusions: The methodology outlined in this study can provide university administrators with a useful insight into locations of stations, and in this way, it contributes significantly to future planning of bike-sharing systems.

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Micromobility Station Placement Optimization for a Rural Setting

Journal of Advanced Transportation ◽

10.1155/2021/9808922 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2021 ◽

pp. 1-10

Author(s):

Taraneh Askarzadeh ◽

Raj Bridgelall

Keyword(s):

Traffic Congestion ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Rural Setting ◽

Walking Distance ◽

Location Allocation ◽

Placement Decisions ◽

Placement Optimization ◽

Bike Sharing ◽

New Challenges

Micromobility is an evolving form of transportation modality that uses small human- or electric-powered vehicles to move people short distances. Planners expected that bike sharing, the first form of micromobility, would reduce traffic congestion, cut travel cost, reduce pollution, enable connectivity with other modes of transport, and promote public health. However, micromobility options also brought new challenges such as the difficulty of placement decisions to encourage adoption and to minimize conflict with other transport modes. Sound deployment decisions depend on the unique environmental characteristics and demographics of a location. Most studies analyzed deployments in high-density urban areas. This research determines the best locations for 5 new bike-sharing stations in Fargo, North Dakota, a small urban area in the rural United States. The workflow combines a geographic information system (GIS), level of traffic stress (LTS) ratings, and location-allocation optimization models. The spatial analysis considered 18 candidate station locations and eliminated those that fell within the 700-meter isochrone walking distance of the 11 existing stations. This case study demonstrates a scalable workflow that planners can repeat to achieve sustainable micromobility deployments by considering the land use, population density, activity points, and characteristics of the available pathways in their unique setting.

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Exploration on development mode of material and energy circulating metabolism on university campus:a case study of Chang’an campus of Northwest Polytechnical University

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202014302051 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 143 ◽

pp. 02051

Author(s):

He Xijie ◽

Li Ying

Keyword(s):

Colleges And Universities ◽

Typical Case ◽

Ecological Crisis ◽

University Campus ◽

Development Mode ◽

Environmental Pressure ◽

The University ◽

Insight Into ◽

Focus Point

Every university campus usually bears the living consumption of materials and energy for thousands of people, and the linear metabolism aggravates the waste of materials and energy,and worsens the environmental pressure. However,the university campus can provide the additional site for the cycle facilities of the material and energy because of its abundant occupied land and low building density.Hence,the Chang’an campus of northwest polytechnic university will be studied as a typical case,and the development mode of material and energy circulating metabolism will be explored on the basis of the perspective of architecture and the focus point of material and energy circulating metabolism.The findings in this study will provide a new insight into developing the ecological mode of colleges and universities, thus propose a new solution to the ecological crisis.

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Data Collection Techniques for Subsurface Utility Planning on a University Campus: A Case Study

Pipelines 2016 ◽

10.1061/9780784479957.076 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Kristopher B. Harbin

Keyword(s):

Data Collection ◽

University Campus ◽

Utility Planning

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Margins and Modernity: A Geocritical Approach to Anna Seward's Llangollen Vale

Romanticism ◽

10.3366/rom.2019.0402 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 25 (1) ◽

pp. 69-80

Author(s):

Ruth Knezevich

Keyword(s):

Analytic Approach ◽

Romantic Era ◽

Insight Into

The genre of annotated verse represents an under-explored form of transporting romanticism. In annotated, locodescriptive poems like those in Anna Seward's Llangollen Vale, readers are invited to read not only the spatiality of the landscapes depicted in the verse but also the landscape of the page itself. Seward's poems, with their focus on understanding geographical, political, and historical spaces both real and imaginary, provide geocritical insight into poetic productions of the early Romantic era. Likewise, geocriticism offers a fresh and useful – even necessary – analytic approach to such poems. I adopt Anna Seward as a case study in annotated verse and argue that attending to the materiality and paratextuality of her work allows us to access the complexities of her poetry and prose as well as her position within the wider framework of transporting Romanticism.

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Transformative Encounters and Uncanny Intimacies: Biotechnology and Contemporary Art – A Practitioner's Approach and Perspective

Somatechnics ◽

10.3366/soma.2012.0061 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 263-283 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Svenja J. Kratz

Keyword(s):

Tissue Culture ◽

Human Skin ◽

Contemporary Art ◽

Skin Equivalent ◽

Biomedical Innovation ◽

Equivalent Models ◽

Science Projects ◽

Insight Into ◽

Human Skin Equivalent

Abstract: Presented from an ArtScience practitioner's perspective, this paper provides an overview of Svenja Kratz's experience working as an artist within the area of cell and tissue culture at QUT's Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation (IHBI). Using The Absence of Alice, a multi-medium exhibition based on the experience of culturing cells, as a case study, the paper gives insight into the artist's approach to working across art and science and how ideas, processes, and languages from each discipline can intermesh and extend the possibilities of each system. The paper also provides an overview of her most recent artwork, The Human Skin Equivalent/Experience Project, which involves the creation of personal jewellery items incorporating human skin equivalent models grown from the artist's skin and participant cells. Referencing this project, and other contemporary bioart works, the value of ArtScience is discussed, focusing in particular on the way in which cross-art-science projects enable an alternative voice to enter into scientific dialogues and have the potential to yield outcomes valuable to both disciplines.

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A Novel Integrated Reliability Test System for BEOL TDDB Study

ISTFA 2012: Conference Proceedings from the 38th International Symposium for Testing and Failure Analysis ◽

10.31399/asm.cp.istfa2012p0297 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Jifeng Chen ◽

Peilin Song ◽

Thomas M. Shaw ◽

Franco Stellari ◽

Lynne Gignac ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Preliminary Analysis ◽

Dielectric Breakdown ◽

Test System ◽

Accurate Information ◽

Reliability Test ◽

Electrical Measurements ◽

Time Dependent Dielectric Breakdown ◽

Microscopy Images ◽

Insight Into

Abstract In this paper, we propose a new methodology and test system to enable the early detection and precise localization of Time-Dependent-Dielectric-Breakdown (TDDB) occurrence in Back-End-of-Line (BEOL) interconnection. The methodology is implemented as a novel Integrated Reliability Test System (IRTS). In particular, through our methodology and test system, we can easily synchronize electrical measurements and emission microscopy images to gather more accurate information and thereby gain insight into the nature of the defects and their relationship to chip manufacturing steps and materials, so that we can ultimately better engineer these steps for higher reliable systems. The details of our IRTS will be presented along with a case study and preliminary analysis results.

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Radical Subject Acceleration for Gifted Students: One School's Response

Australasian Journal of Gifted Education ◽

10.21505/ajge.2019.0014 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 29-46

Author(s):

Kaye Chalwell ◽

Therese Cumming

Keyword(s):

Gifted And Talented ◽

Gifted Students ◽

Subject Area ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Gifted Student ◽

Learning Needs ◽

Mathematically Gifted ◽

Support Students ◽

Insight Into

Radical subject acceleration, or moving students through a subject area faster than is typical, including skipping grades, is a widely accepted approach to support students who are gifted and talented. This is done in order to match the student’s cognitive level and learning needs. This case study explored radical subject acceleration for gifted students by focusing on one school’s response to the learning needs of a ten year old mathematically gifted student. It provides insight into the challenges, accommodations and approach to radical subject acceleration in an Australian school. It explored the processes and decisions made to ensure that a gifted student’s learning needs were met and identified salient issues for radical subject acceleration. Lessons learned from this case study may be helpful for schools considering radical acceleration.

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Ethnic Enterprises, Class Resources and Market Conditions: Indian owned SMEs in Malaysia

The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies ◽

10.22439/cjas.v35i2.5444 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 35 (2) ◽

pp. 5-29

Author(s):

JESRINA ANN XAVIER ◽

EDMUND TERENCE GOMEZ

Keyword(s):

Food Industry ◽

Case Study Method ◽

Market Conditions ◽

New Generation ◽

Insight Into

This article investigates changes in the conduct of ethnic enterprises followingthe emergence of a new generation of owners with varying class resources andas market conditions transform. The case study method is used to examinethe impact of changing class resources and market conditions on ethnicallybasedenterprises, exploring the effects of generational transitions among smallIndian owned companies in the food industry in Malaysia. The results providean insight into key changes in the evolution of Indian owned enterprises. Theyindicate that changes in class resources and market conditions have enabledIndian owned food-based companies to alter their products to fit a largermarket, while responding to the demands of a rapidly modernizing society.

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