Financing Urban Transportation
New ways to finance urban transportation are needed. User fees are discussed, but in many cases users of urban transportation are the poor, including the elderly poor, who cannot afford...
Facilitation of Goods Movement in the New York City Area
One of the most significant developments on the urban goods movement (VGM) scene in the New York/New Jersey bi-state region is the broadening recognition that the resolution of UGM problems...
Assessing the Role of Regulation in Urban Goods Movement
While economic regulation per se is becoming virtually non-existant, other forms of regulations which result in finite and measurable economic impacts continue on -- and indeed are proliferating....
Dallas Urban Goods Movement Changes-The Decade After
In the 1970's, the City of Dallas undertook an urban goods movement (UGM) planning project that resulted by the end of the decade in far reaching changes in the process, particularly...
Economic Impact of Alternative Downtown UGM Strategies
In downtown Dallas, four strategies have been tested: consolidated public truck terminals; provision of off-street loading space in individual buildings, under ordinance; curb space management...
Land Use Implication of Urban Intermodal Operations
In order to efficiently handle freight in an urban/suburban environment requires a working combination of roads and facilities, both of which consume land. Land in turn is one of the most...
Moving Intermodal Containers Over Urban/Suburban Highways
Due to standardization, to date most containers basically fit the U.S. highway environment, which was the entire original intent of intermodal transport. The paper presentes the results...
The Truck Commodity Survey in the New York-New Jersey Metropolitan Area
The Truck Commodity Survey was designed to gather information on the characteristics of truck traffic at toll barriers with minimal disruption to traffic flows. It was developed by the...
Information Needs for Policy, Planning and Design
This resource paper was presented specifically as a focus of discussion for probe group II, Information Needs for Policy, Planning and Design. The paper represents the freight planning...
Truck Involvement in Fatal Urban Road Accidents in Australia
Trucks are over-represented (relative to vehicle numbers and vehicle-kilometers of travel) in fatal accidents. Those most at risk are occupants of other vehicles and pedestrians. Articulated...
Buying Tomorrow's Water
Cities are finding that selling future access rights to sewer and water treatment plants can get them needed expansion capital. Although the access rights system is similar to development...
Goods Transportation in Urban Areas
The conference on Goods Transportation in Urban Areas (GTUA V) held in Santa Barbara, California, during March 6-11, 1988, focused on three major themes?truck accommodation in urban areas;...
Pile Foundation Construction Practice in Stiff Clays with Dense Granular Layers
A survey was conducted recently in conjunction with a project located in the San Francisco Bay Area to ascertain the general pile driving practice in stiff overconsolidated clays interbedded...
Barrier Islands: Dynamic Coastal Landforms Requiring Complex Management Decisions
Barrier islands and spits are found along ten to twenty percent of the world's coastline, and are the predominant coastal landforms composing about eighty-five percent of...
Coastal Barrier Resources Act Report to Congress
The Coastal Barrier Resources Act (CBRA) of 1982 established a system of 186 coastal barriers along the U.S. coasts of the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, and prohibited within this...
Hydrobiological Characterization of Guanabara Bay
Guanabara Bay forms an ecological unity with serious environmental problems derived from an accelerated and unorganized process of urbanization without the necessary support. The UFRJ/Institute...
Management of Fisheries in the State of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
To improve the interdisciplinary knowledge and to subdivide the problem in bio-ecological sectors, international committees recommend the development of integrated evaluation groups. On...
Importance, Establishment and Management Plan of the Parque Nacional Marinhos Dos Abrolhos, Brazil
On April 6th, 1983, the 'Parque Nacional Marinho dos Abrolhos' (PARNA) was created by a decree of the Brazilian Presidency. The PARNA was established with two...
An Analytical Synoptic-Dynamic Study About the Severe Weather Event Over the City of Rio De Janeiro on January 2, 1987
The paper reviews the synoptic parameters that lead to the severe weather occurred on January 2, 1987 over the city of Rio de Janeiro. The pattern of this weather was reported on the newspapers...
Impact on a Primitive Fishing Community in Maric? County, Caused by Urbanization
The fishing communities studied in this paper, although influenced by the more important urban growth movement of the metropolis of Rio de Janeiro, have reacted in a different manner to...
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