Developing Consistent Travel Demand Model Systems as a Building Block for Cooperative Planning: Case Study of San Francisco Bay Area

1997 ◽  
Vol 1606 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-131
Author(s):  
Valerie R. Knepper
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Travel Demand ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Model Systems ◽  
Demand Model ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Demand Models ◽  
Cooperative Planning ◽  
Travel Demand Model

The San Francisco Bay Area is characterized by a diverse mixture of urban, suburban, and rural development patterns; multiple jurisdictions with local, state, and federal responsibilities; and a multiplicity of transportation system planners, owners, and operators. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), the metropolitan planning organization for the region, is responsible for coordinating transportation for the nine-county region and has a sophisticated set of travel-demand models. California established county-level congestion management programs in 1990, including a requirement for travel-demand model consistency with the regional model. Coordination of the multiple travel-demand model systems that proliferated in the region thus became a significant issue. The cooperative planning approach promoted by MTC through the Bay Area Partnership, and the passage of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act, gave additional impetus to integrating transportation information from multiple agencies, including travel-demand model information. The development of an approach to establishing consistency between the travel-demand model systems in the San Francisco Bay Area is described, as are the immediate and subsequent strategies undertaken.

Exploratory Analysis of Weekend Activity Patterns in the San Francisco Bay Area, California

2005 ◽  
Vol 1926 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison M. Lockwood ◽  
Sivaramakrishnan Srinivasan ◽  
Chandra R. Bhat
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Travel Behavior ◽  
Transportation Planning ◽  
Travel Demand ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Exploratory Analysis ◽  
Travel Patterns ◽  
Peak Period ◽  
Bay Area

Research on travel demand modeling has predominantly focused on weekday activity–travel patterns, with studying the effects of commute travel on peak period traffic congestion as a major objective. Few studies have examined the weekend activity–travel behavior of individuals. However, weekend travel volume has been increasing over time and is comparable to weekday travel volumes. Hence, weekend activity–travel patterns warrant careful attention in transportation planning. This paper focuses on presenting a comprehensive exploratory analysis of weekend activity–travel patterns and contrasting weekday and weekend activity participation characteristics. Data from the 2000 San Francisco Bay Area Travel Survey, California, are used in the analysis. A comparative analysis of several aggregate activity–travel characteristics indicates that, although weekday and weekend travel volumes are comparable, there are several key differences in activity–travel characteristics. Specifically, weekend activity–travel is predominantly leisure oriented and undertaken during the midday period. Average trip distances are longer on weekends. Transit shares are lower but occupancy levels in personal automobiles are higher on weekends. The weekend activity sequencing and trip-chaining characteristics explored in this study provide further insights into individuals’ activity organization patterns on weekend days. This paper highlights the importance of studying weekend activity–travel behavior for transportation planning and air-quality modeling. Insights from this exploratory analysis can form the basis for comprehensive weekend activity–travel modeling efforts.

A Qualitative Study of Ecstasy Sellers in the San Francisco Bay Area

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheigla Murphy ◽  
Paloma Sales ◽  
Micheline Duterte ◽  
Camille Jacinto
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Bay Area

Cyborg Jotería Pedagogies: Latinx Drag Queens Leveraging Communication Ecologies in the Age of the Digital and Social Displacement

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-66
Author(s):  
José Ramón Lizárraga ◽  
Arturo Cortez
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Drag Queen ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Online Presence ◽  
Drag Queens

Researchers and practitioners have much to learn from drag queens, specifically Latinx queens, as they leverage everyday queerness and brownness in ways that contribute to pedagogy locally and globally, individually and collectively. Drawing on previous work examining the digital queer gestures of drag queen educators (Lizárraga & Cortez, 2019), this essay explores how non-dominant people that exist and fluctuate in the in-between of boundaries of gender, race, sexuality, the physical, and the virtual provide pedagogical overtures for imagining and organizing for new possible futures that are equitable and just. Further animated by Donna Haraway’s (2006) influential feminist post-humanist work, we interrogate how Latinx drag queens as cyborgs use digital technologies to enhance their craft and engage in powerful pedagogical moves. This essay draws from robust analyses of the digital presence of and interviews with two Latinx drag queens in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as the online presence of a Xicanx doggie drag queen named RuPawl. Our participants actively drew on their liminality to provoke and mobilize communities around socio-political issues. In this regard, we see them engaging in transformative public cyborg jotería pedagogies that are made visible and historicized in the digital and physical world.

scholarly journals Elegy

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 6-9
Author(s):  
David L. Ulin
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Experience Of Time

Traversing the kaleidoscope of memory of early adulthood in the San Francisco bay area, David Ulin describes the places as he remembers them with picturesque account: Andrew Molera State Park, Fort Mason, Marin Headlands, Old Waldorf, and Sutro Tower, with the particulars, and what happened to his experience of time in those places that summer of 1980. Experienced as a series of fleeting memories, joining together with others who lived there for a time. They left, and so did the author, experiencing the power of temporality or “abandon” both in and from this place.

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