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Data Driven Approaches For Understanding And Improving Urban Mobility, Yujie Guo

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

With the adoption of advanced information technologies, the transportation system keep innovating. It now offers more travel options, becomes smarter, but meanwhile gets more complicated and imposes more challenges to researchers and practitioners. For example, demand responsive public transit operates according to user demand instead of traditional timetable-based and fixed route services, which brings a lot of convenience to users. These emerging services also reshapes the way people travel. With the popularity of ride sharing services such as Uber and Lyft, people are more accessible to vehicle use without an ownership. Given the increasing popularity of emerging services, it is …

Identifying Significant Factors Affecting The Likelihood And Severity Level Of Shared E-Scooter Crashes, Recep Can Cakici

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

• Objective: To identify significant factors that affect the possibility of shared e-scooter related crashes in Tampa and St. Petersburg, FL, and also to capture determinants contributing to the level of injury of shared e-scooter related crashes in Tampa, FL.
• Background: Over the past few years, shared e-scooters have become a common form of micromobility; however, safety concerns have been raised due to the increased number of injury accidents involving e-scooters.
• Data and data sources: Survey questionnaires were designed to collect data from the general public on e-scooter sharing programs in Tampa and St. Petersburg, FL. The collected data include respondents’ …

Advanced Methods For Railroad Station Operation Decisions: Data Analytics, Optimization, Automation, Yuan Wang

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The continued and substantial growth in railroad transportation in many countries inspires railroad operators to leverage advanced methods into better railroad operation decisions. Among all facilities, significant returns on investment can always be achieved by optimizing the operations of network nodes - junctions and stations, because stations usually form the capacity bottlenecks in the system.

There are thousands of decision-making problems in relation to the station operations and can be classified into different levels to achieve different goals. From top to bottom, high-level business strategies aim to make decisions to achieve long-term strategical benefits, such as optimizing local station functionalities …

Measuring Sustainable Development Through Tax Increment Financed Brownfield Redevelopment Statutes: A Florida Case Study, Jeff Burton

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This research measures the theoretically sustainable development synergy of United States’ redevelopment, tax increment, and brownfield statutes and questions local redevelopment professionals on this combination’s implementation. This policy’s integration and application measurements guide increased knowledge and best practice methods in the path of America’s population migration into urbanized areas, thus managing the economic, environmental, and social impacts for future generations.

This examination used a pragmatic, qualitative, and quantitative mixed-method approach to identify, collect, code, and analyze redevelopment, tax increment, and state brownfields laws. An exhaustive literature review of the laws’ histories explained when and why they exist. In addition, a …

“Fast Policy” And “Rule By Aesthetics”: A Preliminary Study Of Water Street Tampa –The “Worlding” Of An Aspiring “Icon Project”, Nousheen Rahman

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In the age of “global urbanism” (Sheppard et al 2015; Chen and Kanna 2013), we are witnessing a markedly increased preference for mega-gentrification policies and projects by public officials seeking to revitalize deindustrialized and abandoned landscapes within their cities. The goal of this study is to describe how neoliberal public and private actors and institutions in the City of Tampa, specifically along the newly minted “Water Street” near the old Channel District of downtown, have adopted the discourses and practices of “fast policy” (Peck and Theodore 2015), “rule by aesthetics” (Ghertner 2010) and “worlding” (Ong and Roy 2011). To that …