Journal of Urban Planning and Development

Comprehensive Delimitation and Ring Identification on Urban Spatial Radiation of Regional Central Cities: Case Study of Zhengzhou

Kang Wu, Chuanglin Fang, Haibo Huang, and Jing Wang
In China and a number of other countries, recent years have seen a prevailing trend in collective and cooperative urban development transforming individual cities to polycentric metropolis. Such phenomenon, also termed urban agglomeration by some researches in China, has gradually become the main bo ... [Journal of Urban Planning and Development doi:10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000120] posted Mon Feb 13, 2012.

Spatial Pattern Analysis of Urban Sprawl A Case Study of Jiangning, Nanjing, China

Li Feng and Hui Li
Over the past 30 years, land development and consumption, however, have been out of control and have kept expanding blinded, especially to marginal areas of some metropolises in China. The conflict caused by urban sprawl among socio-economic development, resources, ecology and environment becomes mo ... [Journal of Urban Planning and Development doi:10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000119] posted Mon Feb 6, 2012.

Developing Methods for Grading the Accessibility of a Communality's Infrastructure

Tom Seekins, Nancy Arnold, and Catherine Ipsen
For people with disabilities, accessibility is a critical aspect of infrastructure that influences their health, quality of life, and ability to participate in community life. Currently, there are no standard methods for assessing a community's accessibility or for accumulating such data across comm ... [Journal of Urban Planning and Development doi:10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000117] posted Fri Feb 3, 2012.

The Commitment to Light Rail Transit Patronage: Case Study for St. Louis MetroLink, USA

Sungyop Kim and Gudmundur F. Ulfarsson
Retaining current light rail transit riders is often neglected compared to attracting new riders. This paper uses multivariate logit analysis to explore differences between riders stating certainty for continued use of the St. Louis MetroLink system vs. those that express doubt. Data is derived from ... [Journal of Urban Planning and Development doi:10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000115] posted Fri Feb 3, 2012.

The Role of Brownfield Developments in Reducing Household Vehicle Travel

Yeganeh Mashayekh, Chris Hendrickson, and H. Scott Matthews
The transportation sector is the second largest source of GHG emissions in the U.S. Developing underutilized urban industrial sites with certain characteristics (i.e. close proximity to transit, job and services, low remediation cost and high density) can potentially reduce the transportation sector ... [Journal of Urban Planning and Development doi:10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000113] posted Fri Feb 3, 2012.

The Measurement of the Urban Transformation Projects Success via Analytic Hierarchy Process: Sulukule and Tepeustu-Ayazma Case Studies, Istanbul

Hulya Demir and Ahmet Yilmaz
Urban Transformation projects are discussed in terms of the level of realization of the aim targeted by the actors. Neglect of transparency in the project phases and the insufficient participation of all actors give rise to problems which cause resists of the actors, provoke social disturbances and ... [Journal of Urban Planning and Development doi:10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000110] posted Thu Jan 26, 2012.

Review of Policies on Access to Transportation Planning Data and Models: Implications for Transportation Planning Agencies

Stephanie S. Ivey and Daniel A. Badoe
Transportation planning agencies receive requests from both public and private entities to share their transportation planning data, models, and model output. In addition, some agencies receive requests from these entities to undertake special model runs on their behalf. Planning agencies have to re ... [J. Urban Plann. Dev. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000089] published Fri Jan 13, 2012.

New Spatial Strategy in China: Major Function Zoning of Beijing-Tianjin Metropolitan Area with Perspective from Ecological Economics

Jin-Liao He, Yue-Guang Zong, and Hans Gebhardt
Responding to contemporary environmental problems and to unbalanced regional development in China, major function zoning (MFZ) has been considered a new spatial strategy. This study attempts to explore the quantitative approach of MFZ on the basis of views from ecological economics, asserting that a ... [J. Urban Plann. Dev. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000081] published Fri Jan 13, 2012.

Child Streets

Eran Ben-Joseph and Sam Bass Warner
Abstract not available. [J. Urban Plann. Dev. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000082] published Fri Jan 13, 2012.

Parametric Study of Pedestrian Speeds at Midblock Crossings

Rajat Rastogi, Satish Chandra, J. Vamsheedhar, and Vivek R. Das
The speed of pedestrians is a major issue in the design and provision of pedestrian facilities. Pedestrians' speed while crossing a road depends on various characteristics related to pedestrians, traffic, and physical features of the road. A few of these characteristics are age and gender of the ped ... [J. Urban Plann. Dev. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000083] published Fri Jan 13, 2012.

Community Question in Transitional China, a Case Study of State-Led Urbanization in Shanghai

Ying Xu and Edwin H. W. Chan
The community question, referring to the transformation of social networks when rural residents move into urban areas, has been extensively debated by urbanists and sociologists in Western countries. This paper, focusing on the urbanization of rural villages caused by urban expansion and land requis ... [J. Urban Plann. Dev. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000077] published Fri Jan 13, 2012.

Planner's Puzzle: New Approach for Calculating Site Development Coverage

Howard Hahn
Abstract not available. [J. Urban Plann. Dev. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000087] published Fri Jan 13, 2012.

Neighborhood Walkability in a City within a Developing Country

Sedigheh Lotfi and Mohammad Javad Koohsari
Walking has an important role in improving public health. In the last decade, there has been a growing body of literature in public health, transportation, and urban design, which has analyzed the role of the built environment on physical activity, typically walking. Although these issues have recei ... [J. Urban Plann. Dev. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000085] published Fri Jan 13, 2012.

Getting Drivers to Switch: Transit Price and Service Quality among Commuters

Jiangping Zhou and Lisa Schweitzer
This manuscript examines employees' participation in a free and discounted try-transit program called Dump the Pump (DtP) in Los Angeles, California. DtP offered eligible employee drivers a 12-week free transit pass and a discounted transit pass after the free trial as long as the employee drivers c ... [J. Urban Plann. Dev. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000079] published Fri Jan 13, 2012.

Integrated Urban Land-Use Planning Based on Improving Ecosystem Service: Panyu Case, in a Typical Developed Area of China

Deyong Yu, Yuan Jiang, Muyi Kang, Yuhong Tian, and Jin Duan
In urban areas, the requirements of social, economic, and ecological sustainable development are usually intertwined with the problems of land-use intransigence, fragmentation, and deterioration of quality of natural systems. This study aims at the application of ecological principles to develop an ... [J. Urban Plann. Dev. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000074] published Fri Jan 13, 2012.

Risk Factors of Public-Private Partnership Projects in China: Comparison between the Water, Power, and Transportation Sectors

Esther Cheung and Albert P. C. Chan
With the growing economic development experienced in China, there is an urge for more and better public infrastructure. Public-private partnership (PPP) is an innovative method for delivering these facilities and services. However, along with this method there are certain risk factors that exist or ... [J. Urban Plann. Dev. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000086] published Fri Jan 13, 2012.

Quantitative Analysis of Urban Expansion Using RS and GIS, A Case Study in Lanzhou

Xiaoying Li, Lichen Liu, and Xiaofeng Dong
Urbanization has changed the pattern of urban landscapes and the natural landscape. Evaluations of the spatial and temporal changes of the urban landscape pattern could support the urban expansion analysis commendably. This study has two objectives: (1) to present methods to characterize the spatial ... [J. Urban Plann. Dev. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000078] published Fri Jan 13, 2012.

Inexact Fuzzy Full-Infinite Mixed-Integer Programming Method for an Integrated Air and Waste Management System

Jing Su, Beidou Xi, Bo Yao, Guohe Huang, H. W. Lu et al.
Inexact fuzzy full-infinite mixed-integer programming (IFFMIP) was proposed as an extension of inexact full-infinite programming. It can deal with the uncertainties that exist in most of the parameters as intervals, economic data as functional intervals, fuzzy set in capacity constraint, and discret ... [J. Urban Plann. Dev. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000088] published Fri Jan 13, 2012.

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Abstract not available. [J. Urban Plann. Dev. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000103] published Fri Jan 13, 2012.

Estimating the Impacts of Urban Expansion on Landscape Ecology: Forestland Perspective in the Greater Seoul Metropolitan Area

Dongkun Lee and Hyeyeong Choe
Being able to predict the potential impacts of urban growth on the environment is a critical requirement for both urban developers and policymakers. The Korean national government recently announced a long-term urban plan, called the Metropolitan Plan for the Greater Seoul Area 2020. The fundamental ... [J. Urban Plann. Dev. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000090] published Fri Jan 13, 2012.

Relationship between Immigrant Settlement Patterns and Transit Use in the Greater Toronto Area

L. Lo, A. Shalaby, and B. Alshalalfah
Much of the research on immigrants has centered on their economic assimilation or integration. Few scholarly articles have examined the impact that immigrants have on the transportation system, especially those immigrants who have bypassed central city locations and settled in suburban areas where t ... [J. Urban Plann. Dev. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000080] published Fri Jan 13, 2012.

Exploring Reciprocal Influence between Individual Shopping Travel and Urban Form: Agent-Based Modeling Approach

Jing Du and Qi Wang
A large and still growing body of literature links urban form and individual travel behavior. It is claimed that certain urban forms, such as mixed land use, can reduce transportation needs for both work and nonwork trips. Despite the contribution of previous research efforts, two limitations remain ... [J. Urban Plann. Dev. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000084] published Fri Jan 13, 2012.

Estimation of Urban Transportation Network Capacity Considering Traveler Road Preferences

Zhenke Luo, Yue Liu, and Jie Yu
Network capacity is one of the most important measurements to weigh the transportation system's capacity to accommodate traffic demand. This paper presents an approach to estimate the capacity of urban transportation network considering more realistic traveler route choice behaviors. Different from ... [Journal of Urban Planning and Development doi:10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000109] posted Thu Nov 24, 2011.