Browsing by Subject "Urban areas"

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Political decision processes, transportation investment, and changes in urban land use: a selective bibliography with particular reference to airports and highways
(Council for Advanced Transportation Studies, 1974-03) Chipman, William D.; Wolfe, Harry P.; Burnett, Pat
The purpose of this Bibliography is to assist with the revision and extension of intra-urban location theory, so as to explain and predict how decision making by different persons and groups affects change in intra-urban land use. Special attention is paid to the generation and resolution of conflicts over urban land in the vicinity of new transportation facilities. In particular the Bibliography focuses on new airports on rural-urban fringes and the conflicts generat.ed between politicians, citizens' and business groups, and planners over land use in their vicinity. Existing literature is sparse on this topic
Political decision processes, transportation investment, and changes in urban land use: a selective bibliography with particular reference to airports and highways
(Council for Advanced Transportation Studies, 1974-03) Chipman, William D.; Wolfe, Harry P.; Burnett, Pat
The purpose of this Bibliography is to assist with the revision and extension of intra-urban location theory, so as to explain and predict how decision making by different persons and groups affects change in intra-urban land use. Special attention is paid to the generation and resolution of conflicts over urban land in the vicinity of new transportation facilities. In particular the Bibliography focuses on new airports on rural-urban fringes and the conflicts generat.ed between politicians, citizens' and business groups, and planners over land use in their vicinity. Existing literature is sparse on this topic.
Pupil transportation: a cost analysis and predictive model
(Council for Advanced Transportation Studies, 1975-04) Briggs, Ronald; Venhuizen, David
"School bus transportation is the only type of mass transit operating in all parts of the United States today. In many rural areas it is the only form of transportation available apart from the private automobile. In many urban areas the school transportation system rivals the municipal transit system in capacity, scope and budget. Despite the importance of the systems themselves, and the hints they might provide for the organization of transportation alternatives to the automobile in areas, particularly rural regions, where alternatives do not presently operate, there is a relative paucity of research on pupil transportation systems. This paper presents a study of such systems in Texas." -- Introduction
Transportation-Related Constructs of Activity Spaces of Small Town Residents
(Council for Advanced Transportation Studies, 1974-12) Burnett, Pat; Betak, John; Chang, David; Enders, Wayne T.; Montemayor, Jose
This paper first discusses the nature of the space which people in small urban areas use for recurrent activities. It is postulated that most work on the individual's activity space is founded on a classical geometric conception of place. An alternative cognitive definition is proposed. Places which are used for such purposes as shopping or recreation are described by learned bundles of meanings (constructs), given a transportation system permitting movement within space. Recent modifications of Kelly's Personal Construct Theory and elicitation procedures are used to demonstrate the richness of the cognitive definition of place, with data from a small sample of 31 University students. In conclusion, it is suggested how elicited transportation-related constructs of places can be utilized to develop improved models of behavior within urban activity spaces.