Pedestrian modelling is frequently used for making decisions regarding the planning, design, and management of pedestrian areas. For example, the designer of a new shopping mall would be interested in what locations people are likely to be attracted to, or the operators of a large-scale event might like to know where congested areas are likely to occur so they can develop management plans. The ...

INTRODUCTION AND AIMS Bars, pubs and taverns in cities are often concentrated in entertainment precincts that are associated with higher rates of alcohol-related crime. This study assessed public perception and experiences of such crime in two city entertainment precincts, and support for alcohol-related crime reduction strategies. DESIGN AND METHODS A cross-sectional household telephone surv...

Electric-motored personal mobility devices (PMDs) are appearing on Australian roads. While legal to import and own, their use is typically illegal for adult riders within the road transport system. However, these devices could provide an answer to traffic congestion by getting people out of cars for short trips (“first-and-last mile” travel). City of Ryde council, Macquarie University, and Tran...

There are many sources of error in counting votes: the apparent winner might not be the rightful winner. Hand tallies of the votes in a random sample of precincts can be used to test the hypothesis that a full manual recount would find a different outcome. This paper develops a conservative sequential test based on the vote-counting errors found in a hand tally of a simple or stratified random ...

The New York Police Department (NYPD) is tasked with responding to a wide range of incidents that are reported through the city’s 911 emergency hotline. Currently, response resources are distributed within police precincts on the basis of high-level summary statistics and expert reasoning. In this paper, we describe our first steps towards a better understanding of 911 call activity: temporal b...

Urban and building typologies have a serious impact on the urban climate determine at large magnitude of overheating heat island intensity. The present study aims to analyze various city planning characteristics mitigation island. effect height, street width, aspect ratio, built area orientation, dimensions open spaces distribution ambient surface temperature in is analyzed using Sydney Metropo...

This note proposes a very simple “Rule of Thumb” for determining how many precincts to audit in a postelection audit. This rule says to audit

This short report summarises the proceedings of the international symposium "Precincts, people and places - forging new partnerships", held in Brisbane on 24 and 25 July 2009.