School Siting

Children’s Health: School Siting Poses Particulate Problem

A Strong Case for Prudent School Siting: The West Fertilizer Company Explosion

At 7:51 p.m. on 17 April 2013, an explosion rocked the town of West, Texas, when fertilizer-grade ammonium nitrate stored at the West Fertilizer Company blew up with the explosive force of 12.5 tons of TNT. Fifteen people died, and 260 were injured. More than 150 offsite buildings were destroyed by the blast and subsequent fire, among them a middle school, a high school, a nursing home, and an ...

Siting Observers on Terrain

This paper presents an experimental study of a new algorithm that synthesizes separate programs, for fast viewshed, and for fast approximate visibility index determination, into a working testbed for siting multiple observers jointly to cover terrain from a full level-1 DEM, and to do it so quickly that multiple experiments are easily possible. Both the observer and target may be at a given fix...

Facility Siting: Issues and Perspectives

The siting of an increasing range of facilities has become a major policy problem for all nations alike. Developers often face significant resistance from community interests in seeking to site socially desirable facilities. Siting is inherently political. While in some cases, developers are unable to get community agreement for projects, in others, they have had more success. This overview pap...

Siting Difficulty and Transmission Investment

Efforts to find locations for new energy facilities are often associated with the now familiar term NIMBY (not in my backyard) and even more extreme phrases like BANANA (build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything). These acronyms capture some of the problems associated with siting new power plants and power lines, but the issue as a whole is more complex than these expressions suggest. The...