Retrofitting a Landmark
A decade after it was abandoned, a famous sixty year old tire factory has been rehabilitated as part of a $118 million adaptive mixed-reuse commercial-office mall known as the Citadel....
A Microcomputer-Based Model for Identifying Urban and Suburban Roadways with Critical Large Truck Accident Rates
Stormwater Management Policies for Two Urbanizing Communities in Western Suburban Cleveland
The cities of North Ridgeville and Avon Lake, Ohio are two western suburbs of Cleveland. The recent completion of the interstate highway, I-480, the resurgence of Lake Erie as a prime...
Microcomputer Model for Estimating LOS on Urban and Suburban Arterials
In the 1985 Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) [1], level of service (LOS) designation for urban and suburban arterials is predicted on the average travel speed by section and for the entire...
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...
People Movers in Suburban High Activity Centers
Traffic Jams on Main Street
Traffic congestion in suburban areas has become a leading public concern prompting a renewed search for transportation and land use strategies to help relieve congestion. Causes of traffic...
Future Challenges for the Municipal Engineer
This paper acknowledges the role of the municipal engineer as constantly evolving and with even more changes in the future. Factors influencing these changes are the federal deficit, the...
Crunch Time for Airport Engineering
Airlines are attracting more passengers, but few new airports are being built. Existing airports are facing problems caused by this added load. One growing burden is aircraft noise at...
The Impact of Suburbanization on an Urban River
A case study of the impacts of suburbanization on the water quality of an urban river was completed to detail the various impacts of suburbanization on the culture, economy and environment...
Building Constructed Up and Down at Once
The One Westwood Building, now going up in Los Angeles' suburban Westwood, is being built up and down from ground level simultaneously. The key was a slurry wall surrounding...
Public and Private Sector Strategies to Deal with Urban and Suburban Congestion
Urban transportation congestion both in the case of our cities and in many of our suburbs, has exceeded tolerable limits in many parts of the nation. Public agencies operate under very...
Bicycle Access: New Boost for Transit Performance
Bicycle-transit linkage is a highly cost-effective strategy for boosting suburban transit performance and ridership and appears to offer significant potential for reducing transit access...
The WSSC Integrated System Implementation Project
The software development effort conducted for the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission began in October, 1981 and has been in process since that date. The goal of the effort is to produce...
Sewer Force Mains for a Congested Suburban Area
Salvaging Cleveland
Cleveland, Ohio has suffered from shrinking inner-city wealth resulting in reduced budgets for its urban infrastructure. Now, led by the Greater Cleveland Growth Association, the city...
Washington D.C. Suburban I66�Unique Compromise in Expressway Design
A controversial urban Interstate project with more than 40 years of history has reached the final stages of construction. Citizen participation in varying forms has led to the development...
Duluth Sanitary District First in U.S. to Take Charge of Both Sewage and Refuse
The Western Lake Superior Sanitary District, serving Duluth, Minnesota and its suburbs, is the first sanitary district in the U.S. to be responsible for both wastewater and municipal refuse...
Public Works Directors�Why Do Some Stand Out�
William Hennessy, Commissioner of New York State's DOT began as a junior engineering aide, went into real estate acquisitions for the state and later entered the state's...
Using Fiscal Models to Evaluate Land Plans?? The Suburban Montgomery County Maryland Experience
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