Essays about: "Rapid Transit"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 42 essays containing the words Rapid Transit.

  1. 11. THE ISLAND IN BETWEEN Creating a Sustainable District by using its local green qualities as backbone for the development

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö

    Author : Teresa Arana Aristi; [2019]
    Keywords : Sustainable Urban Design Landscape Nature Green qualities Mobility Cultural Heritage Densification Integration of functions Aalborg Municipality Denmark; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : From a reputation of an industrial and trading city, Aalborg has changed into a contemporary university city, with a strong development of creative clusters in knowledge-based industries. Nowadays the Vækstaksen, an urban growth axis set by the municipality, has become the driving force in the city’s development to avoid further sprawl. READ MORE

  3. 12. Property Crime in The City and County of San Francisco 2016 - 2017 : Applying GIS to Crime Pattern Theory

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för geografi

    Author : Emma Edholm; [2019]
    Keywords : GIS; crime pattern theory; environmental criminology; hot spots of crime;

    Abstract : This study’s aim is to reveal statistically significant hot spots and temporal patterns of property crime in the City and County of San Francisco and to also analyse the relationship between property crimes and the environment in which these crimes occur by using Geographic Information System (GIS). Crime pattern theory was used as the framework for the analysis of environmental surroundings and occurrence of crime. READ MORE

  4. 13. Corridors to Opportunity: A Case Study of Johannesburg, South Africa

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Merve Demirel; Roshni Nandwani; [2019]
    Keywords : urban economics; gender; transport intervention; race; synthetic controls;

    Abstract : Transport equity is a powerful tool in the alleviation of transport poverty and has been gaining traction in policy discussion. Transport equity refers to the distribution of the costs and benefits of transport and the degree to which that distribution is fair or appropriate. READ MORE

  5. 14. Retrofitting Accessibility in a Rapidly Expanding City : The Case of Bus Rapid Transit and Transit-Oriented Development in Dar es Salaam

    University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studier

    Author : James Fenske; [2019]
    Keywords : BRT; TOD; Accessibility; Integration; Stations;

    Abstract : Urbanisation is a global trend, but in recent decades it has been occurring at particularly high rates in the Global South. Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are facing a number of challenges as their populations grow, and among these, urban accessibility stands out as one of the most difficult to contend with. READ MORE

  6. 15. Social hållbarhet i kollektivtrafikplanering : planeringsaktörers förhållningssätt och inkludering av sociala perspektiv. En studie av Metrobussystemet i storstadsområdet Göteborg

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Sofia Haase; Emilia Donalds; [2019]
    Keywords : social hållbarhet; mobilitet; kollektivtrafik; kollektivtrafikplanering;

    Abstract : The social sustainability sphere is often described as overshadowed by the economic and ecological sustainability spheres, but has recently gained increasingly more attention both in research and the practicality of planning. Transport and public transportation is an essential component in people’s abilities to appropriate their rights of participation in society and therefore in the process towards a social sustainable development. READ MORE