Green Transport Infrastructure

2010 ◽  
pp. 62-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristiane Davidson ◽  
Ned Lukies ◽  
Debbie Lehtonen
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Resource Depletion ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
Positive Health ◽  
Fuel Prices ◽  
The Future ◽  
Bicycle Infrastructure ◽  
State And Local ◽  
The City ◽  
Motorized Transport

In an age when escalating fuel prices, global warming and world resource depletion are of great concern, sustainable transport practices promise to define a new way of mobility into the future. With its comparatively minimal negative environmental impacts, non reliance on fuels and positive health effects, the simple bicycle offers significant benefits to humankind. These benefits are evident worldwide where bicycles are successfully endorsed through improved infrastructure, supporting policies, public education and management. In Australia, the national, state and local governments are introducing measures to improve and support green transport. This is necessary as current bicycle infrastructure is not always sufficient and the longstanding conflict with motorized transport still exists. The aim for the future is to implement sustainable hard and soft bicycle infrastructure globally; the challenges of such a task can be illustrated by the city of Brisbane, Australia.

Green Transport Infrastructure

2011 ◽  
pp. 869-883
Author(s):  
Kristiane Davidson ◽  
Ned Lukies ◽  
Debbie Lehtonen
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Resource Depletion ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
Positive Health ◽  
Fuel Prices ◽  
The Future ◽  
Bicycle Infrastructure ◽  
State And Local ◽  
The City ◽  
Motorized Transport

In an age when escalating fuel prices, global warming and world resource depletion are of great concern, sustainable transport practices promise to define a new way of mobility into the future. With its comparatively minimal negative environmental impacts, non reliance on fuels and positive health effects, the simple bicycle offers significant benefits to humankind. These benefits are evident worldwide where bicycles are successfully endorsed through improved infrastructure, supporting policies, public education and management. In Australia, the national, state and local governments are introducing measures to improve and support green transport. This is necessary as current bicycle infrastructure is not always sufficient and the longstanding conflict with motorized transport still exists. The aim for the future is to implement sustainable hard and soft bicycle infrastructure globally; the challenges of such a task can be illustrated by the city of Brisbane, Australia.

scholarly journals The Impact of Public Capital Investments on the Revenue Growth of Medium Enterprise in Indonesia

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 253
Author(s):  
Darius Tirtosuharto
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Public Capital ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
Capital Investments ◽  
Revenue Growth ◽  
Medium Enterprise ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
The Impact

Public capital investment represents the role of state and local governments in supporting greater capacity of private enterprises to gain success in a market economy measured by revenue growth. Medium enterprises are considered as the catalysts for economic growth and competitiveness particularly in developing countries due to efficiency and flexibility in an adverse economic environment. Using aggregate data of 30 states (provinces) in Indonesia from 1997-2002, the impact of public capital investment on the revenue growth of medium enterprise is examined. The paper finds that only medium enterprises in the industrial and trading sector benefited from public capital investments and the most optimum capital investment is in transport infrastructure.    

Which Local Governments Provide Suitable Promotion of Entrepreneurship?

2020 ◽  
pp. 199-213
Author(s):  
Mª Teresa Nevado Gil ◽  
María Pache Durán ◽  
Inna Sousa Paiva ◽  
Luisa Cagica Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Important Work ◽  
City Councils ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Business Ecosystems ◽  
The Future ◽  
The City ◽  
Final Degree

The main objective of this final degree project is to analyze the information that the city councils of the 50 capitals of Spanish provinces offer to entrepreneurs through their institutional pages, using the content analysis technique. The results obtained corroborate the existence of an implication, although still modest, of the municipalities of the Spanish provincial capitals in relation to the promotion of entrepreneurship and business ecosystems. These results should help the municipalities to reflect on the important work they perform, and in the future these studies will serve to reflect the deficiencies observed in order to improve the information offered.

scholarly journals Transitions in Budapest’s Agglomeration 1990–2005

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 112-125
Author(s):  
Чизмади Адриенн ◽  
Чанади Габор
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
General Process ◽  
Suburban Areas ◽  
Data Survey ◽  
State And Local Government ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
State And Local ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City ◽  
Made In

Since the collapse of socialism in Hungary in 1989, political and economic factors increased residential mobility between Budapest and its agglomeration area. Social disparities have become more pronounced not only among the settlements of the agglomeration, but also within them. This paper identifies the different status-dependent paths within the general process of suburbanization using official statistical data, survey and interview analysis. The empirical research was made in 1992 and was repeated in 2002. We argue that higher status groups used the new opportunities to strengthen their status by choosing to move while the poor were forced to move to less advantageous sectors of the agglomeration. These phenomena are the consequences partly of spontaneous factors and partly of state and local government policies. The effects of market forces can be taken as spontaneous factors and they increased western type suburbanization. Several measures taken by states and local governments increased the impact of these factors, helping higher-status groups to move to favorable areas within and around the cities. The same urban and housing policy measures increased the risk of concentrating poverty in certain areas of cities and they resulted in the not-well-known outmigration of lower-status groups. These groups had to move out of the city because it became too expensive for them to live there. Poverty meant that they were unable to find places in high or middle-status suburban areas around the cities and they had to move to more distant, poorer areas of the country.

Network-Level Implementation of URMS: A Graphical Urban Roadway Management System

1996 ◽  
Vol 1524 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-47
Author(s):  
Farrukh Sohail ◽  
W. R. Hudson
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Management System ◽  
Pavement Management ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Metropolitan Planning Organizations ◽  
Major Activity ◽  
Planning Organizations ◽  
State And Local ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

The preservation of existing roads and streets has become a major activity for all levels of government. Deteriorating urban roads and reduced funding are major problems for local governments. Funds designated for pavements therefore must be used as effectively as possible. For the most efficient management of urban roadway networks, regulations calling for the involvement of metropolitan planning organizations in the development and implementation of pavement management systems (PMSs) were established by the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991. Considerable effort is now under way at state and local government levels for developing and implementing PMSs. The Urban Roadway Management System (URMS) was developed at the University of Texas at Austin. URMS provides small to medium-sized cities with a simple, flexible, and user-friendly PMS. Implementation of such a system can save money for both the agency and the user and improve not only the efficiency, but also the effectiveness of decision making involved in managing pavements. A research study was conducted at the University of Texas to demonstrate the use of URMS through its implementation in small to medium-sized cities. The implementation was carried out at two levels. At the first level, the city of Lampasas, Texas, was directly assisted in the implementation. At the second level, the city of Terrell, Texas, was assisted over the telephone. The strategy and process of URMS implementation are documented.

scholarly journals Spatial Integration of Non-Motorized Transport and Urban Public Transport Infrastructure: A Case of Johannesburg

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (20) ◽  
pp. 11461
Author(s):  
Brightnes Risimati ◽  
Trynos Gumbo ◽  
James Chakwizira
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Data ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
Spatial Data Analysis ◽  
Spatial Integration ◽  
Transit Planning ◽  
Urban Public Transport ◽  
The City ◽  
Motorized Transport

Sustainability of transport infrastructure integration begins with involving an all-inclusive transportation chain instead of only focusing on one part of the journey. This is achieved by facilitating spatial integration between diverse transport modalities to allow for a multiplicity of travel opportunities. This paper unpacks the extent of the spatial integration of non-motorized transport and urban public transport infrastructure within the city of Johannesburg in South Africa. Cycling activity datasets derived from Strava Metro and the spatial data of urban public transport infrastructures were collected to demonstrate existing spatial patterns and infrastructure connectivity. Exploratory spatial data analysis and focal statistics analysis were central in the data processing. The findings reveal that cycling activities are separated from urban public transport infrastructure, and the city of Johannesburg’s transport system is characterized by spatially fragmented commuting and cycling operations, with limited to no sharing of infrastructure. Most public transport stations are not easily accessible for non-motorized transport and are characterized by inadequate cycling facilities. In conclusion, the identification of an urban public transportation catchment area becomes essential for developing cities such as Johannesburg. This can be used as tool for planning infrastructural upgrades and forecasting potential public transport ridership while also assessing the impacts of investments in transit planning. There is thus a need to integrate motorized urban public transport and cycling infrastructural developments toward promoting multi-mobility and infrastructure sharing.

Back to the City Region? The Future of Strategic Transport Planning in Scotland

2003 ◽  
Vol 45 (First Serie (1) ◽  
pp. 128-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iain Docherty ◽  
David Begg
Keyword(s):  
City Region ◽  
Transport Planning ◽  
The Future ◽  
The City

Bringing the Real World of Science to Children: A Partnership of the American Museum of Natural History and the City University of New York

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony G Picciano ◽  
Robert V. Steiner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Development Program ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Museum ◽  
The World ◽  
The City

Every child has a right to an education. In the United States, the issue is not necessarily about access to a school but access to a quality education. With strict compulsory education laws, more than 50 million students enrolled in primary and secondary schools, and billions of dollars spent annually on public and private education, American children surely have access to buildings and classrooms. However, because of a complex and competitive system of shared policymaking among national, state, and local governments, not all schools are created equal nor are equal education opportunities available for the poor, minorities, and underprivileged. One manifestation of this inequity is the lack of qualified teachers in many urban and rural schools to teach certain subjects such as science, mathematics, and technology. The purpose of this article is to describe a partnership model between two major institutions (The American Museum of Natural History and The City University of New York) and the program designed to improve the way teachers are trained and children are taught and introduced to the world of science. These two institutions have partnered on various projects over the years to expand educational opportunity especially in the teaching of science. One of the more successful projects is Seminars on Science (SoS), an online teacher education and professional development program, that connects teachers across the United States and around the world to cutting-edge research and provides them with powerful classroom resources. This article provides the institutional perspectives, the challenges and the strategies that fostered this partnership.

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