scholarly journals Understanding complete streets at the ground level: a look into how a complete street project is defined and influenced within the Greater Golden Horseshoe

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Winters
Keyword(s):  
Transportation Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Ground Level ◽  
Complete Streets ◽  
The Public ◽  
Telephone Interviews ◽  
Road Users ◽  
Planning Experts ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Project Level

The Complete Streets movement has become popular throughout North America as street renewal projects have begun to re-prioritize road users within the public right-of-way (ROW). Although the concepts and overall objectives of a Complete Street are becoming increasingly recognized in the transportation-planning field, a level of ambiguity exists when defining such projects through the existing built infrastructure. This major research paper has collected and presented data gathered from local transportation planning experts through the means of telephone interviews and a focus group, to understand how a Complete Street can be defined at the project level, and what factors might influence this definition. The findings of this paper show that the definition of a Complete Street can be largely dependent on surrounding context, as well as various considerations taken during the Complete Street's planning process.

scholarly journals Understanding complete streets at the ground level: a look into how a complete street project is defined and influenced within the Greater Golden Horseshoe

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Winters
Keyword(s):  
Transportation Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Ground Level ◽  
Complete Streets ◽  
The Public ◽  
Telephone Interviews ◽  
Road Users ◽  
Planning Experts ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Project Level

The Complete Streets movement has become popular throughout North America as street renewal projects have begun to re-prioritize road users within the public right-of-way (ROW). Although the concepts and overall objectives of a Complete Street are becoming increasingly recognized in the transportation-planning field, a level of ambiguity exists when defining such projects through the existing built infrastructure. This major research paper has collected and presented data gathered from local transportation planning experts through the means of telephone interviews and a focus group, to understand how a Complete Street can be defined at the project level, and what factors might influence this definition. The findings of this paper show that the definition of a Complete Street can be largely dependent on surrounding context, as well as various considerations taken during the Complete Street's planning process.

scholarly journals Complete Street Maintenance and Road Safety Improvement (Canada and USA Practices)

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 34-40
Author(s):  
Нарбеков ◽  
M. Narbekov
Keyword(s):  
Road Safety ◽  
Complete Streets ◽  
Preventative Measures ◽  
Road Users ◽  
Operating Environments ◽  
Safety Improvement ◽  
Transportation Modes ◽  
User Expectations ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Transit Use

The article represents North American practices of sustanable transportation modes prevalence, including pedestrian and bycicle travel choices. This publication also adduces the definition of “Complete Streets”, describes the structure of Multimodal Transportation Corridors, discloses the streetscaping advantages and environmental improuvements, subject to economy, soicial and ecology сomponents, safety enhancement of community residences of all ages and abilities. Maximizing the safety and security of all road users and mode-shifters is a fundamental objective of the urban planners and enironmental designers. While transportation facilities are initially built to optimize safety, operating environments and user expectations can change over time. Without additional preventative measures, undesirable conditions and behaviours can lead to property damages, injuries and fatalities. These risks can be mitigated through multidisciplinary road safety strategies that use infrastructure, operations and services to address road users, road environments and vehicles. Facilities and services for walking, cycling and transit can also be made safer and more secure for users. Outreach can help travellers reduce their exposure to risk by shifting to a safer mode, or by adopting safer behaviour. Perceptions related to safety can influence individuals’ choice of travel modes, and safety initiatives can help the cities achieve its objectives for walking, cycling and transit use.

scholarly journals SEA: Comparing Open Perspectives on Planning Sustainability in Sardinia (Italy) and Torbay (Devon,UK)

2012 ◽  
pp. 134-149
Author(s):  
Corrado Zoppi
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
The Public ◽  
Eu Directive ◽  
Monitoring Process ◽  
Transport Plan ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Assessment Procedures

If Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) to be effective and fulfil in the spirit of its governing EU Directive 2001/42/EC, cooperative and inclusive attitudes are essential. Cooperation should involve institutions, planning authorities and agencies which are involved in environmental assessment procedures. Inclusion implies favouring and catalysing local communities’ participation, that is participation of the public, in the planning/ assessment process.This paper discusses crucial aspects of SEA through a comparison of two case studies: the SEA of the Torbay Local Transport Plan 2006-2011 (LTPT) published by Torbay Council, and the Masterplan of the Port of the City of Cagliari, 2010 (MPPC) published by the Autorità Portuale di Cagliari in Sardinia, Italy, to provide evidence and lessons of good practice for both the UK and Italy. These include the assessment of:i. the endogeneity of the SEA process’ with respect to the planning process;ii. the sustainability and participation approaches;iii. the way available alternative planning options are compared;iv. the definition of the monitoring process.

Review of Long-Range Transportation Plans of Florida’s Metropolitan Planning Organizations

1998 ◽  
Vol 1617 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward A. Mierzejewski ◽  
Margaret A. Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Long Range ◽  
Transportation Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Advisory Council ◽  
Metropolitan Regions ◽  
Telephone Interviews ◽  
Metropolitan Planning ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Planning Models ◽  
Transportation Research

On behalf of the Florida Department of Transportation and the Florida Metropolitan Planning Organization Advisory Council, the Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR) conducted a review of each of the state’s 25 metropolitan planning organization (MPO) long-range transportation plans and the state’s 2020 Florida Transportation Plan (FTP), to compare the policy directions of the documents and suggest areas for consideration and inclusion in future plan updates. To gain a comprehensive understanding of the issues and concerns facing MPOs in Florida, each of the state’s 25 MPO long-range transportation plans was reviewed, and telephone interviews were conducted with each of the MPO executive directors or designated staff members. Following the telephone interviews, the plans were reexamined to determine the extent to which the issues or problems stated in the interviews were described in the plans. CUTR identified the concerns common to the majority of metropolitan regions, including funding shortfalls, determination of innovative financing strategies, involvement of the public, maintenance of a mobility/livability balance, and air quality conformance. Many of the metropolitan regions also identified the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act’s planning factors, the consideration of alternative land use scenarios, differences in project selection criteria, and intergovernmental coordination as other areas of importance during plan development. The study offered suggestions to improve integration of the various MPO plans with the FTP, and to suggest improvements to the MPO long-range plans. Items for future consideration include placing greater emphasis on policy trade-offs and less reliance on transportation planning models; applying the principles of strategic planning to the transportation planning process; and incorporating a strong visioning process. Additional recommendations include incorporating current issues and problems into the long-range plans; streamlining the reporting of performance measures; standardizing when plans are updated, as well as how costs and revenues are reported; and reporting financial information by responsible agency and facility type.

How Transportation Planners and Decision Makers Address Risk and Uncertainty

2000 ◽  
Vol 1706 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shomik Raj Mehndiratta ◽  
Daniel Brand ◽  
Thomas E. Parody
Keyword(s):  
Cross Section ◽  
Transportation Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Risk And Uncertainty ◽  
The Public ◽  
Real Options Approach ◽  
Transportation Projects ◽  
Metropolitan Planning

A wide cross section of transportation planners was interviewed to understand how issues related to risk and uncertainty are presently addressed in the metropolitan transportation planning process. The results and insights from these interviews are reported. It was found that many of the current responses to risks in making decisions on transportation investments could usefully be explained and improved upon by the new options approach. The examples and the analyses of the interviews show that metropolitan planning organization planners and more senior transportation executives and decision makers are certainly aware of the risks they face in investing in major transportation projects. Furthermore, they already are capable of responding to those risks in ways that can be better appreciated and explained by the options approach. What is missing in metropolitan transportation planning, and in the public-sector investment community at large, is an appreciation that there are advantages to identifying and analyzing risks early in the planning process, and that investments involving risk can be systematically analyzed in a risk management plan that uses the real-options approach. This may result in (much) higher value investments to accomplish the stated investment goals, while avoiding serious mistakes in investing in projects that may fall far short of the investment goals.

scholarly journals Long-stay views from the hospital bed: patient perspectives of organisation of care and impact of hospitalisation

2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Johnson ◽  
Bev Gaughwin ◽  
Natasha Moore ◽  
Rita Crane
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Health Workforce ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Workforce Planning ◽  
Public Health Workforce ◽  
The Public ◽  
Organisation Of Care ◽  
On Line ◽  
Definition Of

This paper presents a snapshot of job vacancies in the public health workforce labour market. The analysis is based on 404 advertised public health jobs appearing in the press, and on-line job alerts over a 2-month period in mid 2003. The analysis reveals who was seeking employees, what formal qualifications and competencies were required, what salary and other conditions of employment were offered and where the vacant jobs were located. The study demonstrates the heterogeneity of the public health workforce, which limits definition of clear practice boundaries and complicates workforce planning. The findings further demonstrate the benefit of reviewing both the demand and the supply side of the labour market, and point to the value of repeated surveys of advertised jobs as part of an ongoing public health workforce monitoring and planning process.

The Reporting Entity in Private-Public Accounting Harmonisation. Is Control Enough for the Local Government Consolidated Financial Statements?

2017 ◽  
pp. 5-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristian Carini ◽  
Laura Rocca ◽  
Claudio Teodori ◽  
Monica Veneziani
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Accounting Standards ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Consolidated Financial Statements ◽  
The Public ◽  
Financial Accountability ◽  
Public Sector Accounting ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Reporting Entity

The European Commission initiated a discussion on the expediency of using the International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS), based on the IAS/IFRS, as a common base for harmonizing the public sector accounting systems of the member states. However, literature suggests that accounting is not neutral with respect to the economic, social and political dimensions. In the perspective of evolution of the accounting regulation outlined, balanced between accountability, with the need to represent phenomena for reporting pur-poses, and decisionmaking issues, which concentrates on the quantitative importance of the values, the paper aims to analyse the effects of the application of different criteria for the definition of the reporting entity of the local government consolidated financial statements (CFS). The Italian PCA 4/4, the test of control and the financial accountability approaches are examined. The evidence that emerged from the case studies examined identifies several criticalities in the Italian PCA 4/4 and support the thesis that the financial accountability approach is more effective in providing a complete representation of the public resources entrusted to and managed by the group, whereas the control approach better approximates quantification of the group results in terms of central government surveillance. The analysis highlights the importance of the post implementation review period and the opportunity to contextualize the adoption of the consolidated financial statement in the broader spectrum of the accounting harmonization process, participating in the process of definition of the European Public Sector Accounting Standards (EPSAS).

The Noise Abatement Campaign in Industrializing Japan, 1923–37

Resonance ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 298-327
Author(s):  
Shuhei Hosokawa
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Political Responsibility ◽  
Noise Abatement ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Causal Responsibility ◽  
Kanto Earthquake ◽  
Definition Of

Drawing on Karin Bijsterveld’s triple definition of noise as ownership, political responsibility, and causal responsibility, this article traces how modern Japan problematized noise, and how noise represented both the aspirational discourse of Western civilization and the experiential nuisance accompanying rapid changes in living conditions in 1920s Japan. Primarily based on newspaper archives, the analysis will approach the problematic of noise as it was manifested in different ways in the public and private realms. In the public realm, the mid-1920s marked a turning point due to the reconstruction work after the Great Kantô Earthquake (1923) and the spread of the use of radios, phonographs, and loudspeakers. Within a few years, public opinion against noise had been formed by a coalition of journalists, police, the judiciary, engineers, academics, and municipal officials. This section will also address the legal regulation of noise and its failure; because public opinion was “owned” by middle-class (sub)urbanites, factory noises in downtown areas were hardly included in noise abatement discourse. Around 1930, the sounds of radios became a social problem, but the police and the courts hesitated to intervene in a “private” conflict, partly because they valued radio as a tool for encouraging nationalist mobilization and transmitting announcements from above. In sum, this article investigates the diverse contexts in which noise was perceived and interpreted as such, as noise became an integral part of modern life in early 20th-century Japan.

Comparing The Principalship of Madrasah and Sekolah in The Decentralization Era

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 24-35
Author(s):  
Saefudin A Safi'i
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
School Leadership ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Ground Level ◽  
New Order ◽  
The Public ◽  
Centralized Management ◽  
Decentralization Policy

The downfall of the New Order Regime in 1998 brought about significant change to Indonesia’s public sector.  Law number 22 of 1999, further refined by Law 32 of 2004, provide legal bases for district governments to administer the public sector. The central government also introduces the notion of good governance through the promulgation of various regulations. For Madrasah however, decentralization policy failed to provide clear legal bases as to how it relates to district government. Law 32 of 2004 verse 10 article 3 retains the centralized management by the Ministry of Religious Affairs. This however does not exclude Madrasah from public demand of implementing the principle of good governance. This study analyses the dynamics of principal-ship both in the Sekolah and the Madrasah in the era of decentralization. By comparing two research sites, this study sought to create better understanding about the context by which the organization climate of two different schools are shaped, and how principals and teachers perceives the notion of school leadership in the light of most recent policy development. To do this, interviews were undertaken and questionnaire-based data collection was also conducted. The study found that in the ground level implementation of decentralization policy, Sekolah developed more rigorous leadership compared to that in the Madrasah. This research recommends the adoption of stronger regulation regarding principal-ship of Madrasahs in order to create an environment that is more in tune with the spirit of public service reforms.

Feminist Interpretations of Action and the Public in Hannah Arendt’s Theory

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (Special Issue) ◽  
pp. 87-103
Author(s):  
Noémi Bíró
Keyword(s):  
Human Activity ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Feminism ◽  
Definition Of

"Feminist Interpretations of Action and the Public in Hannah Arendt’s Theory. Arendt’s typology of human activity and her arguments on the precondition of politics allow for a variety in interpretations for contemporary political thought. The feminist reception of Arendt’s work ranges from critical to conciliatory readings that attempt to find the points in which Arendt’s theory might inspire a feminist political project. In this paper I explore the ways in which feminist thought has responded to Arendt’s definition of action, freedom and politics, and whether her theoretical framework can be useful in a feminist rethinking of politics, power and the public realm. Keywords: Hannah Arendt, political action, the Public, the Social, feminism "

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