Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons™

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

San Jose State University

2001

Series

Discipline
Keyword
Publication
File Type

Articles 1 - 30 of 39

Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences

Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 28, No. 4, December 2001, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies Dec 2001

Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 28, No. 4, December 2001, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

Noticias de NACCS Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Lessons Learned: A Conference On Transit Referenda And Why They Succeed Or Fail, Mti Report S-01-03, Mineta Transportation Institute Nov 2001

Lessons Learned: A Conference On Transit Referenda And Why They Succeed Or Fail, Mti Report S-01-03, Mineta Transportation Institute

Mineta Transportation Institute Publications

In the summer of 2001, the Mineta Transportation Institute co-sponsored, with the American Public Transportation Association, Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, and the Center for Transportation Excellence, a two-day symposium on July 29 through July 31, entitled “Lessons Learned: A Conference on Transit Referenda and Why They Succeed or Fail.” The purpose of the conference was to discuss the history of successful and unsuccessful transportation measures that have existed in various cities across the United States . Participants represented members from transportation agencies nationwide. Each table was presented with issues to discuss and present to the conference. Short presentations were …

Go to article

Effect Of Online Shopping On Vehicular Traffic, Mti Report 01-20, Joseph Giglierano Oct 2001

Effect Of Online Shopping On Vehicular Traffic, Mti Report 01-20, Joseph Giglierano

Mineta Transportation Institute Publications

The purpose of this research was to assess and project the effects of online shopping on vehicular traffic. It was anticipated that as more people purchased goods and services online. short-distance traffic would be reduced. The method of study was personal interviews following a literature review of this subject. Efforts were focused on consumers’ shopping behaviors and the resulting effects on short-distance traffic. Survey data were combined with forecasts of online shopping volume from eMarketer, and estimates of total trip savings were made for the years 2000 and 2004. The results were not encouraging. We estimated that online shopping reduced …

Go to article

The American Militia And The Origin Of Conscription: A Reassessment, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel Oct 2001

The American Militia And The Origin Of Conscription: A Reassessment, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Chicago Newspaper Theater Critics Of The Early 20th Century, Scott B. Fosdick Oct 2001

Chicago Newspaper Theater Critics Of The Early 20th Century, Scott B. Fosdick

Faculty Publications

In the early years of the twentieth century, when live theater dominated the entertainment world and print media led public discourse, each without competition from electronic forms, the daily newspaper theater critic mediated ideas and values quite differently than today’s critics, whose main function has been reduced to that of a consumer guide. This article examines the corps of theater critics who served ten Chicago newspapers about 100 years ago. At a time when news editors were reluctant to cover new ideas and social movements, such as the push for women’s suffrage, theater critics were encountering radical new social ideas …

Go to article

Protecting Public Surface Transportation Against Terrorism And Serious Crime: Continuing Research On Best Security Practices, Mti Report 01-07, Brian M. Jenkins Oct 2001

Protecting Public Surface Transportation Against Terrorism And Serious Crime: Continuing Research On Best Security Practices, Mti Report 01-07, Brian M. Jenkins

Mineta Transportation Institute Publications

Terrorist attacks on commercial aviation had declined significantly after reaching a high point in the 1970s. The devastating consequences of the four coordinated hijackings and deliberate crashes of three of the planes into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., on September 11, 2001—an event unprecedented in the annals of terrorism—have wiped out all sense of progress and focused national attention on aviation security. Meanwhile, terrorists have continued to attack public surface transportation worldwide with no indication of abatement in these attacks.1 With large-scale indiscriminate violence clearly the reality of contemporary terrorism and growing …

Go to article

Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 28, No. 3, October 2001, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies Oct 2001

Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 28, No. 3, October 2001, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

Noticias de NACCS Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Implementation Of Zurich’S Transit Priority Program, Mti Report 01-13, Andrew Butler Nash Oct 2001

Implementation Of Zurich’S Transit Priority Program, Mti Report 01-13, Andrew Butler Nash

Mineta Transportation Institute Publications

The objective of this research was to describe transit priority techniques in Zürich and understand how the city implemented its program. Most transit priority improvements are relatively simple and inexpensive; however, they have proved to be difficult to implement and sustain. The research effort consisted of a case study with interviews and surveys. We interviewed many persons associated with the development and implementation of Zürich’s transit priority program. A survey to evaluate support of transportation decision-makers in Santa Clara County, California, illustrated transit improvements in a typical U.S. city. The data was compared to a similar survey in Zürich. The …

Go to article

Factors Influencing Voting Results Of Local Transportation Funding Initiatives With A Substantial Transit Component: Case Studies Of Ballot Measures In Eleven Communities, Mti Report 01-17, Richard Werbel, Peter J. Haas Oct 2001

Factors Influencing Voting Results Of Local Transportation Funding Initiatives With A Substantial Transit Component: Case Studies Of Ballot Measures In Eleven Communities, Mti Report 01-17, Richard Werbel, Peter J. Haas

Mineta Transportation Institute Publications

This publication is a follow-up study to MTI publication 00-01, Why Campaigns for Local Transportation Funding Initiatives Succeed or Fail: An Analysis of Four Communities and National Data. The earlier publication was case studies of four local ballot tax measures for transportation packages. The current study, Factors Influencing Voting Results of Local Transportation Funding Initiatives with a Substantial Rail Transit Component: Case Studies of Ballot Measures in Eleven communities, uses the same case study methodology as the prior study, and is expanded to 11 communities from the past four years. Some of the important conclusions identified by the study are …

Go to article

Terrorism Overview, Mti Report 01-14, Brian M. Jenkins Oct 2001

Terrorism Overview, Mti Report 01-14, Brian M. Jenkins

Mineta Transportation Institute Publications

Recent global events make it clear that the threat of terrorism is one to be taken seriously. For those who are attempting to kill in quantity and kill indiscriminately, surface transportation offers the ideal target. Because of the public nature of mass transit, there is often little security with no checkpoints as is the case with airports. The practice of terrorism has moved in varying directions in recent years, depending upon different forms of transportation systems and venues of operation. On the positive side, terrorist attacks on commercial aviation have declined significantly after reaching a high point in the 1970s, …

Go to article

National Transportation Security Summit, Mti Report S-01-02, Mti Oct 2001

National Transportation Security Summit, Mti Report S-01-02, Mti

Mineta Transportation Institute Publications

This publication is transcript of an event that was held on October 30, 2001. The Mineta Transportation Institute brought together several agency representatives from transportation and labor-related agencies from across the United States to discuss security concerns related to the surface transportation industry. The keynote speaker for the event was Secretary Norman Y. Mineta, and serving as moderators were Rod Diridon, Executive Director of MTI, and Ellen Engelman from the U.S Department of Transportation’s Research and Special Programs Administration. Welcomers included Jeff Morales, Director of Caltrans; Pete Cipolla, General Manager, Valley Transportation Authority; and John Horsley, Executive Director, AASHTO. Panelists …

Go to article

Using Fiber Networks To Stimulate Transit-Oriented Development: Prospects Barrier And Best Practices, Mti Report 01-16, Walter Siembab Oct 2001

Using Fiber Networks To Stimulate Transit-Oriented Development: Prospects Barrier And Best Practices, Mti Report 01-16, Walter Siembab

Mineta Transportation Institute Publications

This study empirically examines a practical aspect of a relationship that is only now being conceptualized––the relationship between rail transit, land development, and telecommunications. It pushes the envelope of knowledge in so far as the interaction between just two of the factors, public transportation and land use (urban form), has been a focus of policy research for only about 30 years, especially the last 10 years. This study is concerned with the feasibility of introducing three telecommunications-based incentives for transit-oriented development. The market for these hypothetical incentives is the developers of transit-oriented projects. California’s Bay Area/Santa Clara Valley and Los …

Go to article

Applying An Integrated Urban Model In The Evaluation Of Travel Demand Management Policies In The Sacramento Region: Year Two, Mti Report 01-08, Robert A. Johnston Sep 2001

Applying An Integrated Urban Model In The Evaluation Of Travel Demand Management Policies In The Sacramento Region: Year Two, Mti Report 01-08, Robert A. Johnston

Mineta Transportation Institute Publications

In this study, the authors apply an integrated land use and transportation model, the Sacramento MEPLAN model, to evaluate transit investment alternatives combines with supportive land use policies and pricing policies in the Sacramento region. The current study builds upon the year-one study (Johnson et. al., 2000) in two important respects. First, the study employs a second version of the Sacramento MEPLAN model that explicitly represents floorspace consumption in the land use component of the model. Second, the transit, land use and pricing policies evaluated in the year-two project as expanded and refined in this study in response to the …

Go to article

Statewide Safety Study Of Bicycles And Pedestrians On Freeways, Expressway, Toll Bridges, And Tunnels, Thomas C. Ferrara Sep 2001

Statewide Safety Study Of Bicycles And Pedestrians On Freeways, Expressway, Toll Bridges, And Tunnels, Thomas C. Ferrara

Mineta Transportation Institute Publications

The purpose of this study is to attempt to clarify some of the issues pertaining to bicycles on freeways. Specifically, the goal of this project is to “develop policy recommendations, guidelines, and policies for bicycle and pedestrian use of freeways, expressways, tunnels, and toll bridges in California.”

Go to article

Best Practices In Developing Regional Transportation Plans, Mti Report 01-10, Donald N. Rothblatt Sep 2001

Best Practices In Developing Regional Transportation Plans, Mti Report 01-10, Donald N. Rothblatt

Mineta Transportation Institute Publications

AltAlthough Regional Transportation Plans (RTPs) have been prepared for many decades, there has been little effort to comprehensively compare and evaluate the different features of these documents. Most Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPO) typically do this on an ad hoc basis, thus resulting in duplication of efforts. Furthermore, there is a need to evaluate how the many changes in federal transportation policy during the 1990s have affected the planning of major new transportation facilities. The purpose of this study is to compare Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) Regional Transportation Plans (RTP) and planning processes in California with selected regions. Seventeen MPOs were …

Go to article

Transit Labor Relations Guide, Mti Report 01-02, Herbert H. Oestreich Sep 2001

Transit Labor Relations Guide, Mti Report 01-02, Herbert H. Oestreich

Mineta Transportation Institute Publications

Transit organizations, both public and private, are under great internal and external pressures today to improve their organizational effectiveness. Studies have shown that the collective bargaining relationship between union and management, particularly the collective bargaining agreement, has a direct, measurable effect on organizational effectiveness. Both transit management and transit unions have begun to recognize that it is in their mutual interest to improve organizational effectiveness by turning toward a more cooperative collective bargaining relationship. In particular, they have experimented with a negotiating style called “interest-based bargaining” and with a problem solving approach through joint labor-management committees. There is a great …

Go to article

Non-Pricing Methods To Optimize High Occupancy Vehicle Lane Usage, Mti Report 01-11, George E. Gray Sep 2001

Non-Pricing Methods To Optimize High Occupancy Vehicle Lane Usage, Mti Report 01-11, George E. Gray

Mineta Transportation Institute Publications

The Mineta Transportation Institute) at San José State University conducted this study to review the issues and implications involved in the project in question. Twenty-four potential HOV facility user groups were identified. Through a ranking process, seven of these groups were selected for further study in phase one. The project team made the following preliminary conclusions as to the suitability of each group to use HOV facilities and recommended whether each group should be included in the phase two study to refine these findings and develop implementation strategies. 1. As the result of 1998 legislation, which includes sunset provisions, electric …

Go to article

Gis For Livable Communities: Examination Of Community Perceptions Of Assets, Liabilities And Transportation Improvements, Mti Report 01-09, Thomas A. Horan Sep 2001

Gis For Livable Communities: Examination Of Community Perceptions Of Assets, Liabilities And Transportation Improvements, Mti Report 01-09, Thomas A. Horan

Mineta Transportation Institute Publications

Urban dwellers navigate everyday journeys through a variety of transportation connections. Transportation planning can play an instrumental part in shaping livable community goals, as it is part of the built environment that citizens’ encounter on a daily basis. This report examines the role that the built environment plays in the shaping of an individual’s sense of community. Geographical Information Systems (GIS), can generate spatial maps of a citizens’s interaction with the transportation environment. Combined with survey data, these maps offer information to community members and leaders that can help guide decision making about livable community goals. Riverside, California serves as …

Go to article

A Planning Template For Nonwork Travel And Transit Oriented Development, Mti Report 01-12, Dick Nelson, John Niles, Aharon Hibshoosh Sep 2001

A Planning Template For Nonwork Travel And Transit Oriented Development, Mti Report 01-12, Dick Nelson, John Niles, Aharon Hibshoosh

Mineta Transportation Institute Publications

The Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI) at San José State University assigned a project team to design a planning template for transit-oriented development (TOD) that incorporates an understanding of nonwork travel, that is, trips for shopping, eating out, and engaging in recreational and cultural activities. Nonwork trips are growing in signifigance and now account for four of every five trips. At the same time, TOD has become a popular planning response to the impacts of metropolitan growth. Some planners believe that TOD will induce more pedestrian and transit trips and will reduce the average length and frequency of household auto travel. …

Go to article

How Best To Serve Seniors On Existing Transit Services, Mti Report 01-04, David Koffman Sep 2001

How Best To Serve Seniors On Existing Transit Services, Mti Report 01-04, David Koffman

Mineta Transportation Institute Publications

Increases in the size of the elderly population and changes in travel patterns are expected to create significant new mobility expectations. The research documented here is intended to provide tools for transit providers and public policy makers to make the greatest use of existing transit resources to serve mobility needs of the growing senior population. The research demonstrates how customer satisfaction surveys can be used to set priorities for improving existing fixed route services. The primary analysis technique used is the impact score technique. This method determines the relative impact of various improvements on overall customer satisfaction. It does this …

Go to article

California Border Zone Land Transportation Issues: Nafta Ii, Mti Report 01-06, George E. Gray Sep 2001

California Border Zone Land Transportation Issues: Nafta Ii, Mti Report 01-06, George E. Gray

Mineta Transportation Institute Publications

The Mineta Transportation Institute at San José State University conducted this study to review the issues, impacts, implications, and opportunities for improved California-Baja California border area land transportation. The study reviews current conditions, previously identified issues, and, in consultation with Caltrans District 11 officials and others, developed an ultimate listing of seven issues for detailed study as follows: (1) public transportation at the border; (2) cross-broder Americans with Disabilities Act interface; (3) California highway access to Tijuana International Airport; (4) Clean Air Act compliance; (5) General Services Administration off-site authority; (6) southbound inspection requirement; and (7) pipelines or other stationary …

Go to article

Applying An Integrated Model To The Evaluation Of Travel Demand Management Policies In The Sacramento Region, Mti Report 01-03, Robert A. Johnston Sep 2001

Applying An Integrated Model To The Evaluation Of Travel Demand Management Policies In The Sacramento Region, Mti Report 01-03, Robert A. Johnston

Mineta Transportation Institute Publications

The Mineta Transportation Institute at San José State University conducted this study to review the issues and implications involved in the project in question. The primary objective of this study was to use an advanced integrated land use and transportation model to evaluate transit and supportive land use and pricing policies; the Sacramento MEPLAN model was used to simulate these policies. The model represents the effect of changes in the transportation system on land use. If the land use and transportation interaction is not represented, then the analysis of transit and highway alternatives may be biased. For example, if the …

Go to article

Construction Of Transit-Based Developments: New Policy Initiatives For Governments, Mti Report 01-05, Scott Lefaver Sep 2001

Construction Of Transit-Based Developments: New Policy Initiatives For Governments, Mti Report 01-05, Scott Lefaver

Mineta Transportation Institute Publications

This project reviews policies and legislative programs that can be adopted at all levels of government to encourage transit-based development. The study focuses on local government implementation since it is cities and counties that have the land use responsibility for planning and zoning. The study also investigates how higher levels of government (state and federal) can encourage development through legislative and policy incentives. The study recommends some land use, legislative, and fiscal powers that are needed by local jurisdictions to carry out these incentives. The chapter entitled “Elements of Success” explains each of the recommendations in detail.

Go to article

The Birth Of A New Library In A Silicon Valley Community, Yuhfen Diana H. Wu Jun 2001

The Birth Of A New Library In A Silicon Valley Community, Yuhfen Diana H. Wu

Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Academic Librarianship: Changing Roles In The Digital Age, Yuhfen Diana H. Wu Jun 2001

Academic Librarianship: Changing Roles In The Digital Age, Yuhfen Diana H. Wu

Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 28, No. 2, June 2001, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies Jun 2001

Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 28, No. 2, June 2001, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

Noticias de NACCS Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Internet-Based Content Management In Academic Libraries, Yuhfen Diana H. Wu May 2001

Internet-Based Content Management In Academic Libraries, Yuhfen Diana H. Wu

Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Silicon Missionaries And Identity Evangelists, Jan English-Lueck, A. Saveri Apr 2001

Silicon Missionaries And Identity Evangelists, Jan English-Lueck, A. Saveri

Faculty Publications, Anthropology

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Bart To Silicon Valley, How Now? Mti Report F-01-01, Mineta Transportation Institute Apr 2001

Bart To Silicon Valley, How Now? Mti Report F-01-01, Mineta Transportation Institute

Mineta Transportation Institute Publications

In April 2001, the Mineta Transportation Institute co-sponsored with the Commonwealth Club of California a symposium designed to deliver information to the public about the proposed BART extension from Alameda County to the Silicon Valley. While the recent success of ballot measures go far in ensuring that a BART extension will unite San Jose to Alameda County, the logistics and the plans are not as simple and straightforward as many citizens believe. What is the best specific route? How can BART and the Santa Clara Valley Transit Authority interface into a seamless, fully-integrated system which will best meet the needs …

Go to article

An Online Competency Test For Information Literacy: Development, Implementation, And Results, Lynn Cameron, Rebecca Feind Mar 2001

An Online Competency Test For Information Literacy: Development, Implementation, And Results, Lynn Cameron, Rebecca Feind

Faculty and Staff Publications

Librarians, faculty, and assessment specialists at James Madison University (JMU) collaborated to develop an online Information-Seeking Skills Test (ISST) to measure competencies relating to information literacy. In this paper we will report on how we developed and implemented the test as a required competency for all first-year students in General Education. We will also report on test results, challenges in implementing a competency test for all freshmen, our training program for faculty, and our remediation program.

Go to article

Next Last