Social and economic geography topic list of research papers
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Developing Encouragement Strategies For Active Mobility
Abstract Promoting active mobility, i.e. walking and cycling, does not only require providing the adequate infrastructure. It is necessary to identify efficient ways to inform people and to arouse interest to actually change mobility behaviour. The...
2016 / Nadine Haufe, Alexandra Millonig, Karin Markvica -
Rail Based Public Transport Facility to Large Indian Airports
Abstract The growth of Indian aviation sector in the past one decade is quite remarkable and between 2000 & 2010 air operations have expanded by 160%, in terms of domestic passenger volume India now ranks 4th after US, China and Japan. Indian...
2016 / D. Srinivasa Reddy, K.V. Ganesh Babu, M.R. Tagore -
Atrium Houses in Poland – Expectations and Reality
Abstract The article discusses the issue connected with the formation and functioning of the atrium housing in the modern urban tissue. Spatial and functional analyses of atrium housing lead to conclusions of the simplicity and diversity of these...
2016 / Anita Orchowska -
Providing the Needed Green Spaces Together with Splendid Architecture Through Development of Public Underground Spaces for City of Tehran
Abstract City of Tehran which was once small city surrounded by gardens and farms; now a days has changed into a huge mass of high rise and unsuitable structures in comparison with other buildings and has almost lost its green identity. More than...
2016 / Mohammad Mahdi Safaee, Marjan Ghafoori -
Autonomous Taxicabs in Berlin – A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Service Performance
Abstract Autonomous taxi (AT) fleets have the potential to take over a significant amount of traffic handled nowadays by conventionally driven vehicles (CDV). In this paper, we simulate a city-wide replacement of private cars with AT fleets of...
2016 / Joschka Bischoff, Michal Maciejewski -
Freeway Travel Time Prediction Based on Seamless Spatio-temporal Data Fusion: Case Study of the Freeway in Taiwan
Abstract Travel time prediction has been the fundamental brick for developing both Advanced Traffic Management Systems (ATMS) and Advanced Traveler Information Systems (ATIS). The problem of travel time prediction is primarily shaped by the data...
2016 / Tang-Hsien Chang, Albert Y. Chen, Yu-Ting Hsu, Chien-Li Yang -
Dilemmas of Identity in Contemporary Cities. The City of Gdansk as an Example
Abstract The article is aimed to answer the question how, depending on the historical heritage, the collective memory, the physical space of the city and their images were shaped, through the politics of memory. All known cultures and languages...
2016 / Małgorzata Dymnicka, Jakub Szczepański -
Constructing a Synthetic Population of Establishments for the Simmobility Microsimulation Platform
Abstract This paper presents a method for building a synthetic population of establishments in Singapore for incorporation into SimMobility platform, an integrated microsimulation model that represents households’ and firms’ short-, medium-, and...
2016 / Diem-Trinh Le, Giulia Cernicchiaro, Chris Zegras, Joseph Ferreira -
Territorial Aspects of Entrepreneurial Activity in Polish Suburban Zones
Abstract Globalization has led to an increased correlation and integration of various fields in modern civilization, including those connected with allocation of entrepreneurial functions. Connection, on a global scale, has shown an increased...
2016 / Justyna Martyniuk-Peczek, Tomasz Parteka, Grzegorz Peczek -
Concepts for Tenant Tickets for Connecting Habitation and Transport
Abstract About 85% of the daily trips start or end at the own home (MID 2008). The decision to go by foot, bicycle, public transport or car is reached at the residence and depends on the residential environment and housing situation. There are...
2016 / Carsten Sommer, Franz Lambrecht -
Modeling Transport Accessibility with Open Data: Case Study of St. Petersburg
Abstract Transport accessibility is an important characteristic of a particular building or territory, associated with the development of urban infrastructure and population density. In big cities, it is usually measured as the time required to get...
2016 / Anastasia A. Lantseva, Sergey V. Ivanov -
‘Ideal Home’ Assertion of Istanbul
Abstract As from 1980's and especially for the last decade, Istanbul seems to be a huge construction site, which is not a coincidence when all the policies related to construction such as housing, urbanization, urban transformation, marketing...
2016 / Pinar Engincan -
A methodological proposal for the construction of a regional input-output matrix using a bottom-up approach and its statistical assessment
Abstract The main purpose of this essay is to develop and implement a methodology for the construction of a regional input-output matrix using a bottom-up approach and compare it to the one made using a top-down approach, using as a case study the...
2016 / Normand Eduardo Asuad Sanén, José Manuel Sánchez Gamboa -
Social Participation in Residential Architecture as an Instrument for Transforming Both the Architecture and the People Who Participate in It
Abstract This paper is an attempt to draw attention to social needs in the residential architecture and to present the idea of participatory design. The concept of participatory design, that is the one that uses the knowledge of the potential users...
2016 / Katarzyna Kosk -
Determination of Attributes Reflecting Household Preferences in Location Choice Models
Abstract Challenges coming along with changing mobility behaviour patterns require planning decisions to mitigating negative effects. Land-use and transport interaction models can provide valuable decision support for this purpose. But they require...
2016 / B. Heldt, K. Gade, D. Heinrichs -
The risk of climate ruin2016 / Oliver D. Bettis, Simon Dietz, Nick G. Silver
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What Culture does to Regional Governance: Collaboration and Negotiation in Public Transport Planning in Two Swedish Regions2016 / Alexander Paulsson, Jens Hylander, Robert Hrelja
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Harmonization of Transport Data Sources According to INSPIRE Data Specification on Transport Networks
Abstract There are numerous sources of data referred to transport from different suppliers, the main one being the Public Administration. According to the objective of each project, datasets are collected and formatted in a particular way. Each...
2016 / Cayetano Ruiz-Alarcon-Quintero -
Modelling the spatial and social dynamics of insurgency2014 / Philippe J Giabbanelli
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Media discourse on the refugee crisis: on what have the Greek, German and British press focused?2016 / Stergios Fotopoulos, Margarita Kaimaklioti