Enhancing Transit Circulation in Resort Areas: Operational and Design Strategies

2000 ◽  
Vol 1735 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan A. Thrasher ◽  
Thomas R. Hickey ◽  
Robert J. Hudome
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Combination Strategy ◽  
Traffic Jam ◽  
Major Activity ◽  
Virginia Beach

Many resort areas and other major activity centers are facing transportation challenges as rising traffic congestion erodes the quality of a visitor’s experience. Many resort areas have turned to public transportation as an alternative strategy for visitor circulation, but these services often become enmeshed in the same traffic jam that they were intended to circumvent. The city of Virginia Beach, Virginia, undertook an aggressive, long-term effort to establish and enhance an effective transit circulation in its beachfront resort area through a combination of physical design improvements and operational management. The development and implementation of the combination strategy are described, and lessons learned that are relevant to other resort-area transit-circulator services are outlined.

scholarly journals Analysis of Urban Car Owners Commute Mode Choice Based on Evolutionary Game Model

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huawei Gong ◽  
Wenzhou Jin
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Initial Conditions ◽  
Heavy Traffic ◽  
Mode Selection ◽  
Evolutionary Game ◽  
The Public ◽  
Transportation Development ◽  
The City

With the aggravation of the traffic congestion in the city, car owners will have to give up commuting with private cars and take the public transportation instead. The paper uses the replication dynamic mechanism to simulate the learning and adjustment mechanism of the automobile owners commuting mode selection. The evolutionary stable strategy is used to describe the long-term evolution of competition game trend. Finally we simulate equilibrium and stability of an evolution of the game under a payoff imbalance situation. The research shows that a certain proportion of car owners will choose public transit under the pressure of public transport development and heavy traffic, and the proportion will be closely related to the initial conditions and urban transportation development policy.

scholarly journals ALGORITMA GENERATE AND TEST UNTUK OPTIMALISASI MASALAH RUTE PERJALANAN

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-114
Author(s):  
Khairunnisak Khairunnisak ◽  
Dina Fajar Sulistiyani ◽  
Zezya Ramadhany
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Heavy Traffic ◽  
Optimal Route ◽  
Traffic Jam ◽  
The Public ◽  
Central Java ◽  
Urban City ◽  
Transportation Service ◽  
Test Algorithm

The common of urban city problem is a traffic jam, and it is heavily affect the public transportation service quality. Many cities in tropical countries suffer of heavy traffic jam due to the populaition of motorbike. According to Central Java Province Government, in 2014 the population of motorcycle is 439.418 units with the ownership ratio at 0.75 unit/person. Solo is one of typical middle size city in Central Java, Indonesia. Solo suffers from traffic jam in particular time of the day and it affect the quality of service of batik solo as the mass transportation service in Surakarta. This research would like to help the community get the optimal travel route with the fastest time, especially at the busiest times. The method used is Generate and Test algorithm. This method is a combination of Depth First Search and Backtracking. This research is conducted to get information about the influence of traffic volume, service road level and traffic jam level toward the time needed for Batik Solo Trans to find the optimal route. There is a route that been selected to be the most optimal route by considering the factors that influence it and the algorithm applied

scholarly journals Leveraging Promising Policies to Support Long-Term Care Residents' Quality of Life Post-Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 369-370
Author(s):  
Deanne Taylor ◽  
Janice Keefe ◽  
Heather Cook
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Policy Language ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Pandemic Planning ◽  
Health Decision

Abstract Long-term care (LTC) is highly regulated and often the policy language is complex and in tension with residents’ quality of life goals. Prior to COVID-19, LTC policy levers prioritized safety over other quality domains such as privacy, dignity, spirituality, and comfort. During the pandemic, this focus on safety regulations, while important, intensified in ways that often negatively impacted residents’ overall quality of life. In this symposium, we share findings from a five- year research project where we conducted a unique and expansive review of regulatory policy across four Canadian jurisdictions. We highlight how 11 different quality of life domains are supported and which texts offering promising policy language to enhance a well-rounded quality of life for residents. These are timely insights to offer as policy-makers look to the future and consider the lessons learned from the pandemic. We contend that creating more LTC policy is not a timely pathway forward to LTC reform. Instead, we suggest that existing policy can be leveraged when applied within a resident-centred quality of life lens. We will guide attendees through examples of existing promising policies highlighting how they might leveraged in planning for a better LTC system. The discussion will be rooted in our unique resident-centred approach to policy analysis using specific domains of quality of life and then applied to four different perspectives: residents, families, staff and volunteers. Our discussant a Ministry of Health decision-maker will address the implications of our research for post-pandemic planning to improve resident quality of life

TRANSPORTATION AND QUALITY OF LIFE

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (13) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul Ghapar Othman ◽  
Kausar Hj. Ali
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Urban Area ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Transportation ◽  
Potential Threat ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Negative Impacts

Transportation is one of the key indicators used to measure the Quality of Life of people especially those living in the urban area. Many aspects of transportation are very significant as they have the power to directly influence our way of life in search for a better Quality of Life. Many Malaysians depend on private vehicle transportations to cater their daily travel needs which inevitably leads to an over infiltration of vehicles into the urban area. Automobile dependency has always been viewed as a potential threat to Malaysia’s urban areas, as it contributes to the increase in traffic congestion, higher accidents rate, inefficient usage of urban land, environmental pollution, adverse economic impacts, urban sprawling and reduces the overall quality of public transportation. All these negative impacts deteriorate the quality of life of urban dwellers. This chapter will discuss Malaysia's urban transportation in general, focusing on the struggle between private and public transportation usage and the impacts of automobile dependency towards the urban dwellers’ Quality of Life; as well as putting forward possible strategies and measures in an attempt to provide a balanced urban transportation system.

scholarly journals Defining and Measuring the Relevance of Criteria for the Evaluation of the Inflow of Goods in City Centers

Logistics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Mladen Jardas ◽  
Ana Perić Hadžić ◽  
Edvard Tijan
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
City Center ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Research Gap ◽  
Questionnaire Method ◽  
The City

The aim of this paper is to define and measure the relevance of the criteria for the evaluation of the inflow of goods in city centers, in order to improve delivery activities within city centers. The development of the city center leads to the grouping of numerous business operators, which results in the increase of the quantity of goods entering the city center, causing additional traffic congestion, higher levels of noise and emissions of harmful gases. In the long term, this leads to major dissatisfaction with the quality of life among city residents. Therefore, the planning of goods delivery must be in line with the sustainable development of city logistics, while at the same time considering the interests of relevant stakeholders. However, in the existing literature the criteria for evaluating delivery flows have not been comprehensively identified or evaluated by the stakeholders of city centers. In order to fill the research gap, the authors have defined four groups of criteria: technical-technological, economic-financial, organizational and social criteria. To determine the relevance of these criteria, it was necessary to use the questionnaire method to collect data from the stakeholder groups defined by the literature review. Regarding the relevant stakeholders (carriers, delivery recipients, residents and urban policy makers), the results have pointed out that the technical-technological and organizational criteria groups are considered the most relevant by the stakeholders regarding the inflow of goods in city centers.

scholarly journals Key Mistakes in Development of Transport Planning Documents

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 108-119
Author(s):  
I. Yu. Kozelsky
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Traffic Management ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
Transport Planning ◽  
Transportation Services ◽  
Regulatory Documents ◽  
Management Schemes ◽  
Universal Nature

Sustainable development of any of the systems is impossible without long-term planning. The mechanism for implementing long-term planning in terms of providing transportation services to the population is development of relevant transport planning documents, namely: programs for integrated development of transport infrastructure, integrated traffic management schemes, integrated schemes for organizing public transportation services for the population.This article is devoted to the analysis of typical mistakes that can be made by developers of relevant documents. The objective of the article is to highlight key errors, to reduce their number, and to improve, accordingly, quality of the documents being developed.In preparing the article, the author used the comparative analysis of transport planning documents developed and approved by the authorities of large and largest cities, as well as the requirements regarding their content established by regulatory documents.The article, referring to Russian practices, provides a breakdown of transport planning documents by key mandatory sections. Typical mistakes in development of each of them are highlighted. The article ends with description of key areas capable to reduce risks in development and further approval of transport planning documents.General approaches revealed in the research are to great extent of universal nature, so the results can be applied to development of other transport documents besides those mentioned in the article, as well as in other countries.

Big Data Analytics and Internet of Things for Urban Transportation

2019 ◽  
pp. 244-277
Author(s):  
Jyoti Chandiramani ◽  
Sushma Nayak
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Traffic Management ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Big Data Analytics ◽  
Considerable Impact ◽  
The Government

The idea of smart city has assumed popularity in numerous countries across the globe. In 2015, the Government of India embarked on a mission of creating 100 smart cities to sustain the burgeoning urban population. While a wide-ranging set of fundamentals has a key role in enhancing the quality of life of citizens, the chapter revolves around transportation issues and traffic management concerns in one of India's smart cities, Pune. Transport is one of the few areas where Pune lags behind compared to its urban counterparts in the country. Public transportation in the city has been ineffectual, and auto rickshaws have been unyielding and pricey, thus making it imperative to possess personal vehicles or resort to app-based cab services. A palpable outcome of this has been traffic congestion that leads to slower travelling speeds, extended trip times, and amplified vehicular queuing. Big data and IoT can make a considerable impact in realizing the smart city objectives for efficient transportation in Pune by serving as complementary measures to supply-side policies.

scholarly journals Transient Two-Way Molecular-Continuum Coupling with OpenFOAM and MaMiCo: A Sensitivity Study

Computation ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 128
Author(s):  
Helene Wittenberg ◽  
Philipp Neumann
Keyword(s):  
Domain Size ◽  
Sensitivity Study ◽  
Computational Effort ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Computational Domain ◽  
Time Step ◽  
Coupling Algorithm ◽  
Long Term Behavior

Molecular-continuum methods, as considered in this work, decompose the computational domain into continuum and molecular dynamics (MD) sub-domains. Compared to plain MD simulations, they greatly reduce computational effort. However, the quality of a fully two-way coupled simulation result strongly depends on a variety of system-specific parameters, and the corresponding sensitivity is only rarely addressed in the literature. Using a state-flux molecular-continuum coupling algorithm, we investigated the influences of various parameters, such as the size of the overlapping region, the coupling time step and the quality of ensemble-based sampling of flow velocities, in a Couette flow scenario. In particular, we considered a big setup in terms of domain size and number of time steps, which allowed us to investigate the long-term behavior of the coupling algorithm close to the incompressible regime. While mostly good agreement was reached on short time scales, it was the long-term behavior which differed even with slightly differently parametrized simulations. We demonstrated our findings by measuring the error in velocity, and we summarize our main observations with a few lessons learned.

scholarly journals Shaping compact cities for liveability, affordability and sustainability

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felicia Atmadja ◽  
◽  
Dushko Bogunovich ◽  
◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Transit Oriented Development ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Spatial Form ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Compact City ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
The World

Rapid urban population and territorial growth is becoming a general trend across the world, driving planning policies to promote a more compact city. As an alternative to sprawling patterns of urban development, the compact city emerges as a spatial form characterized by three key elements: densification, connectivity and accessibility. All three are articulated by transit-oriented development (TOD) strategies in today’s urban context. TOD aims to encourage densification, mixed land uses, walkability and public transportation, as well as vertical housing typologies. There are now many examples around the world in which TOD has influenced the verticalization of the city, and we can expect further translations into other contexts. Auckland and Jakarta have too chosen the TOD strategy, incorporating vertical housing, to slow down the sprawl. But citizens are concerned about the quality of life in high-rise, higher density housing, as well as its price. We make a comparative assessment of TOD’s ability to achieve liveability, sustainability and affordability in two cities – Jakarta and Auckland – while using Singapore as a benchmark for both. Two case studies have shown that some of the residents’ complaints are justified. In the conclusion of the study we suggest improvements in planning and design strategies and produce further recommendations for an effective city transformation.

Lessons Learned: Career Challenges in Training the Next Generation of Interdisciplinary Health Scientists

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 234-238
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Reingle Gonzalez
Keyword(s):  
Professional Training ◽  
Training And Development ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Training And Research ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
And Training ◽  
Society Today

Interdisciplinary science, defined by the National Academies as “a mode of research by teams of individuals that integrates information, data, techniques, tools, perspectives, concepts, and/or theories from two or more disciplines . . . to advance fundamental understanding or to solve problems whose solutions are beyond the scope of a single discipline,” has come to the forefront as necessary to solve the complex social problems, such as obesity, violence, and addiction, facing our society today. Interdisciplinary training and research is a novel idea in theory, although execution is inconsistent. Because there are no structured curricula, professional training and development occur differently for every emerging scientist. My goal in writing this article is to continue the dialogue to improve the consistency and quality of interdisciplinary research and training for future cohorts of health scientists. The purpose of this article is to describe challenges I encountered, including short- and long-term practical approaches for career development from the perspective of an early career, interdisciplinary researcher.

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