scholarly journals Addressing Challenges to Mobility Hub Implementation at Suburban

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus Bowman
Keyword(s):  
Demand Management ◽  
Fine Tuning ◽  
Transit Planning ◽  
New Developments ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
Parking Management ◽  
Transit Connectivity ◽  
Parking Demand ◽  
Office Development

This paper examines the issue of parking demand and station area office development at station area mobility hubs. Metrolinx, the Provincial regional transit-planning agency in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, has identified mobility hubs at locations with high transit connectivity and potential for mixed-use intensification. The Mobility Hub Guidelines provide a vision that emphasizes placemaking and station functionality. Attracting the desired form of development to mobility hubs will require a new approach to parking management and station access. This must address market realities and the double parking burden between the station and new developments. A variety of approaches are considered which could be implemented in various combinations at different mobility hub locations. These approaches include fine-tuning parking standards, reducing parking demand and facilitating a modal split shift in station access. The paper highlights that a number of innovative approaches are available, but will require proactive involvement from interested agencies. Key Words: Mobility Hubs, Parking Demand Management, Office Development

scholarly journals Addressing Challenges to Mobility Hub Implementation at Suburban

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus Bowman
Keyword(s):  
Demand Management ◽  
Fine Tuning ◽  
Transit Planning ◽  
New Developments ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
Parking Management ◽  
Transit Connectivity ◽  
Parking Demand ◽  
Office Development

This paper examines the issue of parking demand and station area office development at station area mobility hubs. Metrolinx, the Provincial regional transit-planning agency in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, has identified mobility hubs at locations with high transit connectivity and potential for mixed-use intensification. The Mobility Hub Guidelines provide a vision that emphasizes placemaking and station functionality. Attracting the desired form of development to mobility hubs will require a new approach to parking management and station access. This must address market realities and the double parking burden between the station and new developments. A variety of approaches are considered which could be implemented in various combinations at different mobility hub locations. These approaches include fine-tuning parking standards, reducing parking demand and facilitating a modal split shift in station access. The paper highlights that a number of innovative approaches are available, but will require proactive involvement from interested agencies. Key Words: Mobility Hubs, Parking Demand Management, Office Development

Comparative Case Studies of Parking Reduction at Transit-Oriented Developments in the U.S.A.

2020 ◽  
pp. 036119812096555
Author(s):  
Reid Ewing ◽  
Keuntae Kim ◽  
Sadegh Sabouri ◽  
Fariba Siddiq ◽  
Rachel Weinberger
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Demand Management ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Parking Management ◽  
Comparative Case Studies ◽  
Residential Parking ◽  
Parking Demand ◽  
Peak Parking

This study addresses the question of parking supply and demand at transit-oriented developments (TODs) through comparative case studies of seven TODs in the U.S.A. As far as the authors can determine, this is one of the first studies to estimate peak parking generation rates for TODs. Developments are often characterized in relation to “D” variables—development density, land use diversity, urban design, destination accessibility and distance to transit. The seven TODs studied in this project are exemplary when it comes to the Ds. At the overall peak hour, just 51.2%–84.0% of parking spaces are filled. Because of limited use of shared parking, even these exemplary developments do not achieve their full potential. At the overall peak hour, parked cars would fill just 19.5%–69.4% of parking spaces if the developments were built to Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) standards. With one exception, peak parking demand is less than 60% of the parking supply guideline in the ITE Parking Generation manual. A sixth D, demand management (parking management), is mixed at the TODs studied. For one thing, there is a dearth of shared parking, though opportunities abound. Another area in which parking policies are not always smart is in bundled residential parking. At some TODs, a parking space/permit comes with each apartment whether the renters want it and use it or not. Such parking is effectively free. A third area in which parking policies are not always smart is in free commercial parking, the counterpart of bundled residential parking.

scholarly journals Tuning the flexibility in MOFs by SBU functionalization

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (10) ◽  
pp. 4407-4415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Volodymyr Bon ◽  
Negar Kavoosi ◽  
Irena Senkovska ◽  
Philipp Müller ◽  
Jana Schaber ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fine Tuning ◽  
Secondary Building Unit ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Building Unit

A new approach for the fine tuning of flexibility in MOFs, involving functionalization of the secondary building unit, is presented.

scholarly journals The Hygiene Hypothesis and New Perspectives—Current Challenges Meeting an Old Postulate

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holger Garn ◽  
Daniel Piotr Potaczek ◽  
Petra Ina Pfefferle
Keyword(s):  
Immune Cells ◽  
Hygiene Hypothesis ◽  
Fine Tuning ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Asthma Phenotypes ◽  
Adaptive Immune ◽  
Adaptive Immune Cells

During its 30 years history, the Hygiene Hypothesis has shown itself to be adaptable whenever it has been challenged by new scientific developments and this is a still a continuously ongoing process. In this regard, the mini review aims to discuss some selected new developments in relation to their impact on further fine-tuning and expansion of the Hygiene Hypothesis. This will include the role of recently discovered classes of innate and adaptive immune cells that challenges the old Th1/Th2 paradigm, the applicability of the Hygiene Hypothesis to newly identified allergy/asthma phenotypes with diverse underlying pathomechanistic endotypes, and the increasing knowledge derived from epigenetic studies that leads to better understanding of mechanisms involved in the translation of environmental impacts on biological systems. Further, we discuss in brief the expansion of the Hygiene Hypothesis to other disease areas like psychiatric disorders and cancer and conclude that the continuously developing Hygiene Hypothesis may provide a more generalized explanation for health burden in highly industrialized countries also relation to global changes.

The End of Suburbia?

Suburb ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Royce Hanson
Keyword(s):  
Political Resistance ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
Property Owners ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Major Property ◽  
Oriented Activity ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Financing Infrastructure ◽  
Commercial Strip

This chapter focuses on White Flint, a 400-acre obsolete commercial strip on Montgomery County's most congested roadway, and some of the important lessons it offers with respect to successful planning politics. The most recent of Montgomery's efforts in planning for mixed-use, transit-oriented activity centers, White Flint was envisioned as the best place to create a model for a new generation of land use policy. The chapter discusses the plan for White Flint, the key issues that needed to be resolved before it could move forward, and the project planners' new approach to zoning. White Flint illustrates the value of careful economic analysis; engagement of major property owners and community groups in making plans; and willingness to abandon old ideas in favor of new ones that fit the circumstances at hand. The case of White Flint also highlights the problems of bureaucratic and political resistance to new ways of financing infrastructure.

Learning by Doing in 3D Environments

2017 ◽  
pp. 317-347
Author(s):  
Barbara McQueen ◽  
Anabel Nowak ◽  
Jens Kjaer Olsen
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
New Developments ◽  
New Approach ◽  
University Courses ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
3D Environments

Learning by doing using 3D worlds is a relatively new approach for teachers and students. To date, a limited number of teachers have had the time or money to take university courses on this or otherwise develop in-world teaching that fully takes advantage of the unique opportunities virtual worlds offer. In this chapter, the authors will review the various virtual worlds teachers have been collaborating on to teach different subjects to different people in different languages. The authors will also detail the twists and turns they've encountered in their own attempts to teach together in-world. Finally, the authors will look at new developments on the horizon and how they might impact what is already happening.

scholarly journals Multiscale Mask R-CNN–Based Lung Tumor Detection Using PET Imaging

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 153601211986353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui Zhang ◽  
Chao Cheng ◽  
Xuehua Zhao ◽  
Xuechen Li
Keyword(s):  
Pet Imaging ◽  
Lung Tumor ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Fine Tuning ◽  
Weighted Voting ◽  
Data Set ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Positron Emission ◽  
Voting Strategy ◽  
Aided Diagnosis

Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging serves as one of the most competent methods for the diagnosis of various malignancies, such as lung tumor. However, with an elevation in the utilization of PET scan, radiologists are overburdened considerably. Consequently, a new approach of “computer-aided diagnosis” is being contemplated to curtail the heavy workloads. In this article, we propose a multiscale Mask Region–Based Convolutional Neural Network (Mask R-CNN)–based method that uses PET imaging for the detection of lung tumor. First, we produced 3 models of Mask R-CNN for lung tumor candidate detection. These 3 models were generated by fine-tuning the Mask R-CNN using certain training data that consisted of images from 3 different scales. Each of the training data set included 594 slices with lung tumor. These 3 models of Mask R-CNN models were then integrated using weighted voting strategy to diminish the false-positive outcomes. A total of 134 PET slices were employed as test set in this experiment. The precision, recall, and F score values of our proposed method were 0.90, 1, and 0.95, respectively. Experimental results exhibited strong conviction about the effectiveness of this method in detecting lung tumors, along with the capability of identifying a healthy chest pattern and reducing incorrect identification of tumors to a large extent.

scholarly journals Impact Analysis of Parking Price Adjustment on the Quality of Service of Airport Parking Lots for Light Vehicles

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Cheng Cheng ◽  
Peng Qi
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Impact Analysis ◽  
Demand Management ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Daily Maximum ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Parking Lot ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Parking Demand

Pricing is a common measure for parking demand management that has been implemented worldwide. However, the impact of parking price on a parking lot’s quality of service is seldom discussed. This study investigated the impacts of a ladder daily maximum fee charging strategy on the quality of service of the Hongqiao International Airport parking lot based on automatic transaction data before and after the strategy was implemented. An evaluation framework considering managers’ and users’ perspectives was designed. The estimation results show that the new price regulation method largely discouraged long-term parking demand and improved the availability of airport parking facilities, especially during long holidays. As a consequence, throughput and income largely increased in the airport, and there were extra time costs during vehicle departures. The price elasticity of parkers with different parking durations was further estimated. The results showed that price sensitivity is relatively inelastic but varies based on parking duration.

Methodology of parking analysis

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 281-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdoulaye Diallo ◽  
Jean-Simon Bourdeau ◽  
Catherine Morency ◽  
Nicolas Saunier
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Geographical Information Systems ◽  
Travel Behaviour ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Field Surveys ◽  
Parking Management ◽  
Account Regulation ◽  
Parking Demand ◽  
Area Data

Cities are facing many challenges, in particular in relation to the mobility of people and the structure of land use. Parking management, which makes the link between land use and transportation, is one of the crucial ways to meet these challenges. In the Greater Montreal Area, data from origin–destination (OD) surveys is helpful in understanding typical travel behaviour. This study processes car driver trips from travel surveys to develop vehicle accumulation profiles and derive theoretical parking supplies from the observed parking demand, defined as the maximal number of cars parked in an area at a given time. This research also provides an assessment of the quality of the estimation by comparing the parking supplies derived from an OD survey to parking supplies estimated from public geographical information systems and field surveys. The paper shows that parking supply is subject to high variability and highlights that its assessment must take into account regulation data (obtained from on-street regulation parking signs data) that modulates the availability of the raw parking supply according to different days and hours of the day.

The effect of tariff on water demand management: implications for Bahrain

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 119-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Smith ◽  
H. Al-Maskati
Keyword(s):  
Water Demand ◽  
Demand Management ◽  
Water Demand Management ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Elasticity Of Demand ◽  
Tariff Structures ◽  
Essential Resource ◽  
Traditional Approaches ◽  
Economic Measure

Water is now considered a scarce but essential resource that should be managed in an integrated manner. The traditional approaches of resource development are now considered as unsustainable. Water demand management (WDM) is a new approach that aims at influencing demand & thus improving distribution efficiency. Economic measure through water tariff is one of the WDM tools. Water tariffs are recognized to be one way of curbing growth in water demand, and encouraging more efficient use of water. It is essential for the effective and equitable allocation of water resources. This paper investigates different water tariff structures & seeks to identify the factors affecting WDM through tariffs. The paper pays particular attention to the situation in Bahrain through preliminary exploration of price elasticity of demand for water and its comparison with figures from other countries.

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