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Larry Saben - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Transportation Planner s handbook on conversion factors for the use of census data
Transportation Research Record, 1997Co-Authors: Victor Siaurusaitis, Larry SabenAbstract:For the 1990 census data to be useful for Transportation Planners, it must reflect information collected in Transportation surveys, such as home interviews and on board transit surveys. These surveys select a survey day that captures a snapshot of Transportation activity for that day. Inherent in the 1990 census are problems related to biases created by the way in which the journey-to-work questions are asked. Issues related to questions that ask for “typical” or “usual” activity in the previous workweek tend to overestimate certain trip making, while underestimating others. For example, on a usual workday, an individual would drive an automobile to work. But on any given day, he or she may be forced to take public Transportation because the automobile was in for repairs. The analysis looks at the 1990 census and the 1990 Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey and develops factors by urban area size. Factors developed include absenteeism (related to sick time, vacation, personal business, part-time emp...
Victor Siaurusaitis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Transportation Planner s handbook on conversion factors for the use of census data
Transportation Research Record, 1997Co-Authors: Victor Siaurusaitis, Larry SabenAbstract:For the 1990 census data to be useful for Transportation Planners, it must reflect information collected in Transportation surveys, such as home interviews and on board transit surveys. These surveys select a survey day that captures a snapshot of Transportation activity for that day. Inherent in the 1990 census are problems related to biases created by the way in which the journey-to-work questions are asked. Issues related to questions that ask for “typical” or “usual” activity in the previous workweek tend to overestimate certain trip making, while underestimating others. For example, on a usual workday, an individual would drive an automobile to work. But on any given day, he or she may be forced to take public Transportation because the automobile was in for repairs. The analysis looks at the 1990 census and the 1990 Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey and develops factors by urban area size. Factors developed include absenteeism (related to sick time, vacation, personal business, part-time emp...
Zellner Moira - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Wicked Problems, Foolish Decisions: Promoting Sustainability through Urban Governance in a Complex World Symposium: Governing Wicked Problems
Scholarship@Vanderbilt Law, 2020Co-Authors: Campbell, Scott D., Zellner MoiraAbstract:Why do wicked problems often give birth to bad policy choices? Put another way, why do people—in the face of complex social challenges—make misdiagnoses, ineffective decisions, or no decisions at all? Typical answers point to a plethora of suspects: impatience, myopia, political stalemate, narrow-mindedness, fear and risk aversion, hubris, greed, rational self-interest, ignorance, reliance on emotionally appealing but misleading anecdotal stories, misuse of evidence, and misunderstanding of uncertainty. Amid these divergent explanations, two classes emerge: one lies in the shortcomings and mistakes of the problem solvers, and the other lies in the nature of the problem itself. One stance is to fault the ostensible problem solvers: people are not always rational, fair, patient, thoughtful, or deliberative, but instead are myopic, selfish, greedy, power hungry, or out for revenge (among other motivations). The second stance is to point to the nature of the problem. This is the focus of this Article. In particular, we examine how the dynamics of wicked problems undermine traditional problem-solving efforts. This is not to absolve the problem solvers of responsibility for poor policy choices. It is the responsibility of policymakers to diagnose the distinctive challenges and needs of wicked problems and act accordingly. As urban planning scholars, we focus on entrenched urban problems. This focus is not accidental. Horst Rittel (an architect) and Melvin Webber (a planning theorist and Transportation Planner) developed the idea of “wicked problems” at the University of California, Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design in the early 1970s—an era when the optimism of solving complex social issues through technical, scientific solutions was colliding hard with the failure of such efforts to conclusively resolve urban poverty, inequality, deindustrialization, racism, white flight, and the violence of the “Urban Crisis.” In this Article, we build on previous research to demonstrate how complexity thinking can engage urban challenges at three levels: (1) describing “complexity” as a symptom of urban systems; (2) analyzing the dynamics of complex urban systems; and ultimately (3) intervening through appropriate planning strategies that account for complexity. We employ this thinking to engage the politics of sustainability at the same three levels, illustrating this at two geographic scales: the neighborhood (specifically, the challenge of ecogentrification) and the megaregion (and the resulting regional externalities and trade-offs). These scales involve actors, conflicts, and specializations within planning. Yet both represent new, hybrid patterns of urbanization that produce intractable problems of environmental unsustainability and social-spatial inequality—two core planning priorities that too often collide. Both situations also generate novel social policy challenges that conventional planning, thinking, and governance tools are ill-equipped to address. These challenges instead call for interdepartmental or intergovernmental cooperation
Campbell, Scott D. - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Wicked Problems, Foolish Decisions: Promoting Sustainability through Urban Governance in a Complex World Symposium: Governing Wicked Problems
Scholarship@Vanderbilt Law, 2020Co-Authors: Campbell, Scott D., Zellner MoiraAbstract:Why do wicked problems often give birth to bad policy choices? Put another way, why do people—in the face of complex social challenges—make misdiagnoses, ineffective decisions, or no decisions at all? Typical answers point to a plethora of suspects: impatience, myopia, political stalemate, narrow-mindedness, fear and risk aversion, hubris, greed, rational self-interest, ignorance, reliance on emotionally appealing but misleading anecdotal stories, misuse of evidence, and misunderstanding of uncertainty. Amid these divergent explanations, two classes emerge: one lies in the shortcomings and mistakes of the problem solvers, and the other lies in the nature of the problem itself. One stance is to fault the ostensible problem solvers: people are not always rational, fair, patient, thoughtful, or deliberative, but instead are myopic, selfish, greedy, power hungry, or out for revenge (among other motivations). The second stance is to point to the nature of the problem. This is the focus of this Article. In particular, we examine how the dynamics of wicked problems undermine traditional problem-solving efforts. This is not to absolve the problem solvers of responsibility for poor policy choices. It is the responsibility of policymakers to diagnose the distinctive challenges and needs of wicked problems and act accordingly. As urban planning scholars, we focus on entrenched urban problems. This focus is not accidental. Horst Rittel (an architect) and Melvin Webber (a planning theorist and Transportation Planner) developed the idea of “wicked problems” at the University of California, Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design in the early 1970s—an era when the optimism of solving complex social issues through technical, scientific solutions was colliding hard with the failure of such efforts to conclusively resolve urban poverty, inequality, deindustrialization, racism, white flight, and the violence of the “Urban Crisis.” In this Article, we build on previous research to demonstrate how complexity thinking can engage urban challenges at three levels: (1) describing “complexity” as a symptom of urban systems; (2) analyzing the dynamics of complex urban systems; and ultimately (3) intervening through appropriate planning strategies that account for complexity. We employ this thinking to engage the politics of sustainability at the same three levels, illustrating this at two geographic scales: the neighborhood (specifically, the challenge of ecogentrification) and the megaregion (and the resulting regional externalities and trade-offs). These scales involve actors, conflicts, and specializations within planning. Yet both represent new, hybrid patterns of urbanization that produce intractable problems of environmental unsustainability and social-spatial inequality—two core planning priorities that too often collide. Both situations also generate novel social policy challenges that conventional planning, thinking, and governance tools are ill-equipped to address. These challenges instead call for interdepartmental or intergovernmental cooperation
Guruh Aryotejo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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design an online tourism information system with ground Transportation Planner for tourism department in indonesian economic and trade office ieto to taipei
亞洲大學資訊工程學系碩士班學位論文, 2007Co-Authors: Guruh AryotejoAbstract:Today's Tourism is an competitive industry increasingly determined by the ability to develop and assimilate innovative ways to respond to the dynamic nature of the tourism environment and its new paradigms to provide value-added tourist services. The current system in Tourism Department in Indonesian Economic and Trade Office (IETO) to Taipei only provide basic information for tourist candidate, and it is not interactive enough as the user could only download the article. The current system also create an extra job for IETO's staff. The study aims to bring about the changes, development and better improvement to the current IETO's tourism information system to be more interactive through the effective use of computer technology in terms of information management, to provide both value and service to attract more tourists to visit Indonesia. The study also introducing a Transportation Planner as a value-added service which is enabled the tourist candidates to generate their own information. Based on a use-case driven object-oriented system development methodology, we design multiple steps in system development i.e. Identify Implementation Environment, Design Business Process,Identify Actor, Design Use Case, Design Class, Design Object, Design Database,Design Module, Design User Interface, Coding, and Testing. The model we built using UML language, and through all these steps a system is built. After we built and tested this new tourism system, we found that the system improved the information management and the interactivity in Tourism Department in IETO. The improvement in information management offered by categorization of informations, i.e. News, Lodgings, Attractions, and Foods and Drinks. The improvement in interactivity offered by installing the Transportation Planner as the added value for the potential tourist who visit the site. We suggest the study could be continued further in order to realize the potential of the new system offered that could bring benefit to the tourism industry of Indonesia. The system could be expanded to cover all the province in Indonesia and each one have their own looks and contents but share the same design. It could be extended to have a level of multiple Administrator that responsible for each province but only have single Super Administrator that watching all the province contents in general.
