Accessibility and Transit-Oriented Development in European metropolitan areas

A Usability and Accessibility Oriented Development Process*

Usability has become a critical quality factor of software systems. Although it was defined as one attribute of software quality in the first quality decompositions at the end of the 70’s, it has not been really considered and it has been historically relegated in relation to other quality factors such as efficiency, reliability, safety and so one. For this reason, most software development met...

Assessing the Implementation of the Functional Principles of Transit Oriented Development in the Mirdamad Station Complex

Evaluation of Accessibility Measures in Practitioner Policy and Their Effectiveness in Non-Metropolitan Areas

Various accessibility measures exist to explore the performance of transport by quantifying the opportunities available at a particular, discrete location and the available means to travel both to and from these opportunities. In Australia there is currently no consistent performance measure used by regulatory authorities to evaluate accessibility in order to inform land-use planning decisions....

Network design for personal rapid transit under transit-oriented development

This study addresses guideway network design for personal rapid transit (PRT) favoring transit-oriented development. The guideway network design problem seeks to minimize both the guideway construction cost and users’ travel time. In particular, a set of optional points, known as Steiner points, are introduced in the graph to reduce the guideway length. The model is formulated as a combined Ste...

Transit Oriented Development – making it happen

Transit oriented developments (TODs), be they greenfields developments, in-fill or redevelopments of existing sites, have been included as a key component within a number of recent metropolitan strategies within Australia, including the South East Queensland regional plan. Responding to increasingly extended journeys-to-work and other trip movements, TODs are one land use planning intervention ...