A Case Study of Public Facilities through Analysis of Formative Elements

Purpose The purpose of this article is to assist facilities asset managers who are dealing with regulatory environments pertaining to earthquakes and buildings. These professionals can learn a great deal from the successes and short-comings of a case study programme from the Auckland Council Property Department (ACPD), which manages the public facilities portfolio for the largest local administrative region in New Zealand in both population and landmass. Design/methodology/approach ACPD has initiated its response to New Zealand’s earthquake mitigation mandates by identifying buildings most at risk to an earthquake in its large and varied portfolio through the use of a rapid building evaluation programme strategically targeted to vulnerable building types with consequential attributes, including service type, number of occupants, floor area and geographic location. Findings ACPD was able to rapidly cull down its portfolio of approximately 3,500 buildings to just over 100 “high-exposure” buildings in urgent need of evaluation, set priorities for future evaluations, estimate needed operational and capital expenditures for long-term planning and provide useful information to more general facilities management decision-making processes. Originality/value A number of major cities around the world in areas of high seismicity have enacted ordinances mandating seismic retrofitting. However, much of the existing guiding literature regarding earthquake-related portfolio evaluations and costs pertains to specific scenarios involving real or hypothetical earthquakes. This case study, in contrast, details the approach taken by a public portfolio owner responding to legal mandates and attempting to quantify and reduce its life-safety risk exposure across a large portfolio as efficiently as possible using readily available information, a rapid building evaluation programme and best-practice predictive models for consulting and construction work.

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Setting Planning Standards for Public Facilities in a City: A Case Study of Ward 50 of Dhaka City Corporation

Journal of Bangladesh Institute of Planners ◽

10.3329/jbip.v2i0.9577 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 2 ◽

pp. 169-177

Author(s):

Mohammad Atikul Islam

Keyword(s):

School Facilities ◽

Primary Sources ◽

Public Facility ◽

Dhaka City ◽

Open Spaces ◽

Population Number ◽

Secondary Sources ◽

Public Facilities ◽

Made In

Availability of different types of public facilities within an urban area is required to achieve specific objectives in urban planning. Planning standards are necessary in such cases to help achieve the adequacy and quality in services and facilities. To improve the situation in rapid and unplanned growth of Dhaka city both in terms of population and size, it demands a large amount of public facilities such as open spaces, playgrounds, schools, hospitals etc. School is an important public facility that requires setting standards and choosing appropriate locations. Standard of school facilities in an area depends upon factors such as, density of population, number of per family school going children, road network etc. This paper explores the existing facilities of primary and secondary schools for school going children in Ward 50 of Dhaka City Corporation. A series of field survey were conducted in order to collect information from primary sources, and standards on school facilities were collected from secondary sources. Based on the findings, suggestions on future planning of school facilities have been made in this paper. Finally, to justify the standards for schools facilities, DMDP planning standards are followed. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jbip.v2i0.9577Journal of Bangladesh Institute of Planners Vol. 2, December 2009, pp. 169-178

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Identifying Significant Risks and Analyzing Risk Relationship for Construction PPP Projects in China Using Integrated FISM-MICMAC Approach

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su11195206 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (19) ◽

pp. 5206 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Xiaoyan Jiang ◽

Kun Lu ◽

Bo Xia ◽

Yong Liu ◽

Caiyun Cui

Keyword(s):

Assessment Tool ◽

Management Strategies ◽

Construction Engineering ◽

Public Facilities ◽

Sufficient Detail ◽

Risk Management Strategies ◽

The Relationship ◽

Procedural Method ◽

Cross Reference

To meet the growing demand for public facilities and services, many developing countries, including China, have adopted the concept of public–private partnership (PPP). However, there are many risks in PPP projects. Furthermore, these risks affect each other, which may lead to project failure. However, the existing research on the PPP risk relationship has not gone into sufficient detail. Therefore, in order to fill this literature gap, this study proposes a procedural method to analyze the correlation between PPP risks. Firstly, this study, identifies the risks of construction PPP projects in China by combining the literature review with a case study and interviews. Then, fuzzy interpretative structural modeling (FISM) is used to reflect the relationships between these risks and reveal the failure mechanisms of PPP projects. In addition, based on matrix impact cross-reference multiplication applied to a classification (MICMAC) analysis, the risk is divided into four clusters, according to the driving and dependence power, to show the relationship level of the risk. Finally, the paper compares and discusses the research results with other studies and puts forward some suggestions on PPP risks. The FISM-MICMAC method adopted in this study considers the fuzzy of the PPP risk relationship and improves upon previous studies. In addition, the method of FISM-MICMAC can provide a new risk assessment tool for risk management strategies in the field of construction engineering and management.

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AHP-TOPSIS-Based Evaluation of the Relative Performance of Multiple Neighborhood Renewal Projects: A Case Study in Nanjing, China

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su11174545 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (17) ◽

pp. 4545 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Shiyao Zhu ◽

Dezhi Li ◽

Haibo Feng ◽

Tiantian Gu ◽

Jiawei Zhu

Keyword(s):

Road Traffic ◽

Rapid Development ◽

Building Performance ◽

Public And Private ◽

Community Culture ◽

The Public ◽

Public Facilities ◽

Management Measures ◽

Public And Private Sector

With the rapid development of urbanization worldwide, there is a large volume of neighborhoods that need to be renewed with various problems such as poor building performance, few public facilities, congested road traffic, unequal living standards, disappearing community culture, and deprived environments. Performance evaluations are considered to be useful tools for ensuring the outcomes of sustainable renewal. Although many research works have assessed the performances of urban renewal projects, evaluations, especially for neighborhood renewal projects, are often overlooked. Besides, it is also hard to find a general standard that is suitable for evaluating the performance of any neighborhood renewal project with a lack of related regulations or codes. Thus, this paper intends to build a framework to assess the relative performances of multiple neighborhood renewal projects through a hybrid AHP-TOPSIS method. A case study in Nanjing, China, is used to show how this framework could be applied to decision-making in order to pursue sustainable neighborhood renewal. The results are expected to provide references for sustainable renewal in each neighborhood. Suggestions related to the findings are proposed to further improve the performances of neighborhood renewal projects, such as establishing a multiple principle–agent framework, providing a sustainable funding system from both the public and private sector, and implementing multiprogram management measures.

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Identifying the Temporal Characteristics of Intra-City Movement Using Taxi Geo-Location Data

Enriching Urban Spaces with Ambient Computing, the Internet of Things, and Smart City Design - Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-0827-4.ch004 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 68-88 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Wenbo Zhang ◽

Xinwu Qian ◽

Satish V. Ukkusuri

Keyword(s):

Negative Binomial ◽

Temporal Variations ◽

Transit System ◽

Location Data ◽

Public Facilities ◽

Level Zero ◽

Subway Stations ◽

Average Annual Income ◽

Excessive Number

In this chapter, the authors focus on temporal patterns of urban taxi trips and explore determinant factors in conjunction with geodatabase at aggregate level. Zero-Inflated Negative Binomial model is proposed in light of count data nature and excessive number of O-D pairs with zero trip. Three typical time slots on weekdays, as well as weekends, are introduced as case study to check temporal variations of intra-city movement. The results indicate that trip distance, land use, socioeconomics, and built environment are significant variables that affect the number of taxi trips between two locations. In particular, longer travel and worse economy conditions, such as low employment and average annual income and more population under poverty, may prevent more movements, which have more impacts during peak hours. A better transit system may reduce the taxi trips, except for areas with more subway stations. Develpoed area for instance more commercial or residential area is more likely to attract more visits by taxis, as well as dense public facilities but with more temporal variations.

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Identifying the Temporal Characteristics of Intra-City Movement Using Taxi Geo-Location Data

Intelligent Transportation and Planning ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-5210-9.ch014 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 311-331

Author(s):

Wenbo Zhang ◽

Xinwu Qian ◽

Satish V. Ukkusuri

Keyword(s):

Negative Binomial ◽

Temporal Variations ◽

Transit System ◽

Location Data ◽

Public Facilities ◽

Level Zero ◽

Subway Stations ◽

Average Annual Income ◽

Excessive Number

In this chapter, the authors focus on temporal patterns of urban taxi trips and explore determinant factors in conjunction with geodatabase at aggregate level. Zero-Inflated Negative Binomial model is proposed in light of count data nature and excessive number of O-D pairs with zero trip. Three typical time slots on weekdays, as well as weekends, are introduced as case study to check temporal variations of intra-city movement. The results indicate that trip distance, land use, socioeconomics, and built environment are significant variables that affect the number of taxi trips between two locations. In particular, longer travel and worse economy conditions, such as low employment and average annual income and more population under poverty, may prevent more movements, which have more impacts during peak hours. A better transit system may reduce the taxi trips, except for areas with more subway stations. Develpoed area for instance more commercial or residential area is more likely to attract more visits by taxis, as well as dense public facilities but with more temporal variations.

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Land Price Modelling with Radial Basis Function (Case Study: Utan Kayu Selatan Village, East Jakarta)

Journal of Applied Geospatial Information ◽

10.30871/jagi.v5i1.2637 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 473-479

Author(s):

Sawitri Subiyanto ◽

Hana Sugiastu Firdaus ◽

Nahar Dito Utama Giardi

Keyword(s):

Radial Basis Function ◽

Basis Function ◽

Property Market ◽

Market Prices ◽

Land Prices ◽

Public Facilities ◽

Radial Basis ◽

The Stability ◽

The Relationship

The price of land is an important matter that needs to be assessed by stakeholders. The study of land prices has an important role in seeing the stability of the property market. Several factors affect the property business such as accessibility, public facilities and social facilities. Utan Kayu Selatan is the largest village in Matraman Sub-District with an area of 1,12 kilometers. The potential of the property business is very tempting for investors to property developers. One of the economic sector developments is Utan Kayu Raya Road, which can increase land prices in the surrounding area. The factors that influence land prices can be analyzed through several approaches such as regression, mass appraisal and other. In this study, the method used in estimating land prices is the Radial Basis Function (RBF), by looking at the relationship between the distance of plot to roads, public facilities and social facilities. Modeling is carried out based on samples determined on ZNT and NJOP land prices. Furthermore, the calculation of the distance is done by using network analysis. As a result, the RMSE value for the NJOP RBF model and the ZNT RBF model is IDR 1.179.839 and IDR 2.972.345. Meanwhile, the CoV values for both models were 6.2% and 6%. In the comparison of ZNT price predictions with market prices, the highest difference is IDR 13.119.915 and the lowest difference is IDR 537.009. While on the NJOP price prediction, the highest difference is IDR 15.797.583 and the lowest difference is IDR 291.270.

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