Problem: Explicitly prohibited from regulating the land use planning activities of municipal
and county governments by the Clean Air Act (42 USC 131), the US Environmental …

Among others, one commonly identified negative consequence of urban sprawl is an
increase in the length of the journey to work. However, there has been more discussion of …

Transit-oriented developments (TODs) in the United States have been modeled almost
exclusively with a half-mile radius as a reliable limit for pedestrian walkability from and to a …

A supportive distribution of residential density is perceived to be an essential component of
strategies aimed at increasing the use of public transit. To alter substantially land use …

Issues of growth, especially the spatial nature of recent urban development and its
implications for travel patterns, have received a great deal of attention. In particular …

The paper introduces methods and applications of the mobile positioning-based social
positioning method in geography. The social positioning method (SPM) studies space–time …

This paper explores critical success conditions of collaborative planning projects in the area
of urban transport, evaluating the impact of new collaborative methods, instruments and …

Cities and metropolitan regions face several challenges including rising urban populations,
sprawled land use patterns, and related auto dependence, energy consumption …

This thesis investigates whether Accessibility Planning is a chimera. Is Accessibility
Planning an illusion without reality, or is it a feasible planning Concept? Are accessibility …

This chapter provides an important and often missed first step in developing congestion
management policies–defining and understanding the nature of congestion in urban areas …