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Disaster, Resilience And Security In Global Cities, Tim Prior, Florian Roth Jul 2013

Disaster, Resilience And Security In Global Cities, Tim Prior, Florian Roth

Journal of Strategic Security

Today the majority of the globe’s inhabitants live in urban areas, and according to all prognoses, cities will continue to grow in the coming decades. Global cities are also becoming increasingly connected as a result of economic, political, cultural and demographic globalization. In the context of urban security management, the growing complexity these connections bring may present a double-edged sword: global cities can be both the most secure and the most dangerous places to be when disaster strikes. Developing appropriate mechanisms to prepare for and cope with complex crises in cities will, in the future, be a key aspect of …


Transit Boardings Estimation And Simulation Tool (Tbest) Calibration For Guideway And Brt Modes, Cutr Jun 2013

Transit Boardings Estimation And Simulation Tool (Tbest) Calibration For Guideway And Brt Modes, Cutr

Research Reports

No abstract provided.


Forecasting Paratransit Services Demand – Review And Recommendations, Cutr Jun 2013

Forecasting Paratransit Services Demand – Review And Recommendations, Cutr

Research Reports

No abstract provided.


Definition Of Planned And Unplanned Transfer Of Public Transport Service And User Decisions To Use Routes With Transfers, Subeh Chowdhury, Avishai Ceder Jun 2013

Definition Of Planned And Unplanned Transfer Of Public Transport Service And User Decisions To Use Routes With Transfers, Subeh Chowdhury, Avishai Ceder

Journal of Public Transportation

In the literature, there is a lack of clarity on attributes that classify a planned transfer as being a connection designed by policy makers and public transport network planners. This calls for a proper guideline to be developed to support policy makers and planners in designing “seamless” transfers. The present study has two main objectives. The first is to determine the attributes that define a connection as being planned transfer. The second is to understand the difference in transit users’ perceptions between planned and unplanned transfers and, thus, their decision to use routes with transfers. The proposed definition of planned …


Exploring Comparative Ridership Drivers Of Bus Rapid Transit And Light Rail Transit Routes, Graham Currie, Alexa Delbosc Jun 2013

Exploring Comparative Ridership Drivers Of Bus Rapid Transit And Light Rail Transit Routes, Graham Currie, Alexa Delbosc

Journal of Public Transportation

A major research gap is the relative ridership performance of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), Light Rail Transit (LRT), and streetcar (SC). This paper assesses ridership influences of 101 routes in Australia, Europe, and North America using multiple regression examining the influence of transit mode, vehicle capacity, service level, employment/residential density, car ownership, speed, stop spacing, right-of-way, vehicle accessibility, and integrated fares on ridership (boardings/vehicle km; BVK). Average ridership is higher for LRT/SC routes than for BRT routes, and although service levels vary greatly, they are lower on BRT systems. Residential/employment density is higher for LRT/SC routes compared to BRT. A …


Determinants Of Bicycle-On-Bus Boardings: A Case Study Of The Greater Cleveland Rta, Bradley J. Flamm Jun 2013

Determinants Of Bicycle-On-Bus Boardings: A Case Study Of The Greater Cleveland Rta, Bradley J. Flamm

Journal of Public Transportation

Transit agencies around the country have made significant investments since the late 1990s to provide improved service to cyclist-transit users (CTUs), that is, transit riders who bring bicycles with them by using bicycle racks installed on buses. Use of these bus bicycle racks appears to vary significantly from transit system to transit system. It is unclear, however, what specific factors contribute most to bicycle-onbus boardings (BoBBs). Using multi-variate regression analysis and a detailed data set of 2008–2011 BoBBs for Northeast Ohio’s Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA), this study compared daily BoBBs to general ridership (measured by unlinked passenger trips) …


Women-Only Transportation: How “Pink” Public Transportation Changes Public Perception Of Women’S Mobility, Amy Dunckel-Graglia Jun 2013

Women-Only Transportation: How “Pink” Public Transportation Changes Public Perception Of Women’S Mobility, Amy Dunckel-Graglia

Journal of Public Transportation

It is well documented that women often face sexual harassment and violence during their daily commutes, particularly in countries with extreme levels of gender inequality. A popular reaction to this problem is to issue women-only transit services. Despite this growing trend, we know very little about it. Looking at the case of Mexico City, this study examines, analyzes, and evaluates women-only transportation, focusing on the roles of culture and public opinion. Drawing from both qualitative and quantitative data, it finds that the violence women face in public transit leads them to always opt for women-only services, encouraging local policy makers …


Eliminating Bus Stops: Evaluating Changes In Operations, Emissions And Coverage, Ranjay M. Shrestha, Edmund J. Zolnik Jun 2013

Eliminating Bus Stops: Evaluating Changes In Operations, Emissions And Coverage, Ranjay M. Shrestha, Edmund J. Zolnik

Journal of Public Transportation

Bus systems in the United States are unattractive to many potential riders because of their lack of efficiency, especially with regard to travel time. One of the reasons services are not more efficient has to do with the spacing of bus stops. After using a nearest facility algorithm with an 800 m walking distance threshold to identify eligible bus stops in the current bus system in the city of Fairfax, Virginia, the impacts of their elimination on operations, emissions, and coverage are estimated. Results indicate that eliminating some bus stops (about 40% of current stops) could improve travel times and …


Full Issue 16(2) Jun 2013

Full Issue 16(2)

Journal of Public Transportation

No abstract provided.


The Conduit, Volume 13, No. 1, June 2013, Annette Summers Engel Jun 2013

The Conduit, Volume 13, No. 1, June 2013, Annette Summers Engel

The KWI Conduit

Contents: Welcome to The Conduit -- KWI Happenings -- Nicole Ridlen: 2013 Wilson Scholarship Recipient -- Upcoming 2014 Conference – Hypogene Cave Morphologies -- Research Focus: Long-term Instrumentation for Omega Cave -- The 13th Sinkhole Conference Did Not Sink Expectations! -- Carbon and Boundaries in Karst Meeting -- Upcoming Conferences


Evaporite Karst In The Black Hills, South Dakota And Wyoming, And The Oil Play In The Williston Basin, North Dakota And Montana, Jack B. Epstein, Daniel H. Doctor May 2013

Evaporite Karst In The Black Hills, South Dakota And Wyoming, And The Oil Play In The Williston Basin, North Dakota And Montana, Jack B. Epstein, Daniel H. Doctor

Sinkhole Conference 2013

pg(s) 161-175


Delineation And Classification Of Karst Depressions Using Lidar: Fort Hood Military Installation, Texas Nckri Symposium 2: Proceedings Of The Thirteenth Multidisciplinary Conference On Sinkholes And The Engineering And Environmental Impacts Of Karst, Melinda G. Shaw-Faulkner, Kevin W. Stafford, Aaron W. Bryant May 2013

Delineation And Classification Of Karst Depressions Using Lidar: Fort Hood Military Installation, Texas Nckri Symposium 2: Proceedings Of The Thirteenth Multidisciplinary Conference On Sinkholes And The Engineering And Environmental Impacts Of Karst, Melinda G. Shaw-Faulkner, Kevin W. Stafford, Aaron W. Bryant

KIP Talks and Conferences

The Fort Hood Military Installation is a karst landscape characterized by Cretaceous-age limestone plateaus and canyons in Bell and Coryell Counties, Texas. The area is located in the Lampasas Cut Plain region of the Edwards Plateau and is stratigraphically defined by exposures of the Fredericksburg Group. Spatial interpolation of 105 km2 of the Fort Hood Military Installation provided depression data that were delineated and classified using geoanalytical methods. Most of the karst features within the study area are predominantly surficial expressions of collapse features, creating windows into karst conduits with surficial exposures of epikarst spatially limited. The increasing capabilities of …


Delineation And Classification Of Karst Depressions Using Lidar: Fort Hood Military Installation, Texas, Melinda G. Shaw-Faulkner, Kevin W. Stafford, Aaron W. Bryant May 2013

Delineation And Classification Of Karst Depressions Using Lidar: Fort Hood Military Installation, Texas, Melinda G. Shaw-Faulkner, Kevin W. Stafford, Aaron W. Bryant

Sinkhole Conference 2013

pg(s) 459-467


Evaporite Karst In The Black Hills, South Dakota And Wyoming, And The Oil Play In The Williston Basin, North Dakota And Montana Nckri Symposium 2: Proceedings Of The Thirteenth Multidisciplinary Conference On Sinkholes And The Engineering And Environmental Impacts Of Karst, Jack B. Epstein, Daniel H. Doctor May 2013

Evaporite Karst In The Black Hills, South Dakota And Wyoming, And The Oil Play In The Williston Basin, North Dakota And Montana Nckri Symposium 2: Proceedings Of The Thirteenth Multidisciplinary Conference On Sinkholes And The Engineering And Environmental Impacts Of Karst, Jack B. Epstein, Daniel H. Doctor

KIP Talks and Conferences

pg(s) 161-175 Subsurface red beds of the Permo-Triassic age Spearfish Formation in the Williston Basin has recently been touted as "another Bakken Oil Boom for North Dakota". The senior author, totally uninformed about the subsurface geology of North Dakota, was requested by INFOCAST* to discuss petroleum potential in the Spearfish based on his field experience in the outcrop belt of the Black Hills in neighboring Wyoming and South Dakota. That request was extended to a discussion of the surface and subsurface evaporite-karst features in four formations ranging from Pennsylvanian to Jurassic age. Dissolution of these rocks, which has resulted in …


Students Call Experimental Course On Field Research A Big Success, May 10, 2013, Tom Scherberger May 2013

Students Call Experimental Course On Field Research A Big Success, May 10, 2013, Tom Scherberger

USF St. Petersburg Campus News and Press Releases

No abstract provided.


Ay 2012/2013 Sec Meeting Minutes, 2013-05-08, Faculty Senate May 2013

Ay 2012/2013 Sec Meeting Minutes, 2013-05-08, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Archives

No abstract provided.


Commencement Convocation Program, St. Petersburg Campus, May 5, 2013, University Of South Florida May 2013

Commencement Convocation Program, St. Petersburg Campus, May 5, 2013, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

King O'Neal Scholar - Sean D. Ericson; Outstanding Graduate - Aaron G. Kawaja


Commencement Convocation Program, Sarasota - Manatee Campus, May 5, 2013, University Of South Florida May 2013

Commencement Convocation Program, Sarasota - Manatee Campus, May 5, 2013, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

Outstanding Professor Award - Richard Reich; Golden Bull Service & Outstanding Leadership Award - Ryan Page; Outstanding Graduate - Dat Vu; King O'Neal Scholar - Michaela Cerce


Commencement Convocation Program, Usf, Graduate, May 4, 2013, University Of South Florida May 2013

Commencement Convocation Program, Usf, Graduate, May 4, 2013, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

No abstract provided.


Commencement Convocation Program, Usf, Baccalaureates, May 3, 2013, University Of South Florida May 2013

Commencement Convocation Program, Usf, Baccalaureates, May 3, 2013, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

Honorary Doctor of Science - Jerry L. Atwood


Missing Immortality: The Case Of Melesina Trench (A Neglected, Celebrated, Dismissed And Rediscovered Woman Poet Of The Long Eighteenth Century), Katharine Kittredge May 2013

Missing Immortality: The Case Of Melesina Trench (A Neglected, Celebrated, Dismissed And Rediscovered Woman Poet Of The Long Eighteenth Century), Katharine Kittredge

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

No abstract provided.


Cutr Connections [May 2013], Cutr May 2013

Cutr Connections [May 2013], Cutr

CUTR Newsletters

No abstract provided.


Effectively Managing Consumer Fuel Price Driven Transit Demand, Cutr May 2013

Effectively Managing Consumer Fuel Price Driven Transit Demand, Cutr

Research Reports

No abstract provided.


Environmental Science Professor Invited To China Climate Change Conference, April 26, 2013, Tom Scherberger Apr 2013

Environmental Science Professor Invited To China Climate Change Conference, April 26, 2013, Tom Scherberger

USF St. Petersburg Campus News and Press Releases

No abstract provided.


Consuming Places: A Bioregional Comparison Of Voluntary Simplicity Lifestyles, Lauren Drakopulos Apr 2013

Consuming Places: A Bioregional Comparison Of Voluntary Simplicity Lifestyles, Lauren Drakopulos

USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)

Many have argued that in the developed world, consumption has reached unsustainable levels, precipitating social, economic, and environmental decline. Voluntary simplicity is an anti-consumption lifestyle in which practitioners are seeking out an authentic connection to the external world with fulfillment garnered from relationships rather than through the accumulation of material goods. Under the framework of political ecology, this research examined how bioregional characteristics impacted the way in which simplifiers think about and practice simplicity. Using focus groups, in-depth interviews and participant observation, the author did a bioregional comparison of voluntary simplifiers living in the Greater Everglades Bioregion and the Sonoran …


Agenda And Minutes, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg General Education Committee Meeting, April 26, 2013, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Faculty Senate. General Education Committee Apr 2013

Agenda And Minutes, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg General Education Committee Meeting, April 26, 2013, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Faculty Senate. General Education Committee

USF St. Petersburg General Education Committee Meetings

Agenda and minutes from the April 26, 2013, meeting of the General Education Committee of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's Faculty Senate.


Trading Places: Mary Shelley’S Argument With Domestic Space, Eve M. Lynch Apr 2013

Trading Places: Mary Shelley’S Argument With Domestic Space, Eve M. Lynch

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

When Mary Shelley began writing The Last Man in 1824 in the wake of her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley’s untimely death, she drew from her close circle of family and friends as models for her main characters. Although it is tempting to view this novel as an autobiographical expiation of the profound sorrow that overwhelmed Shelley at her husband’s death, to do so is to underestimate her prescient political insight and to risk overlooking the complex implications of class and rank that suffuse the position of the narrator, Lionel Verney. While Shelley’s emotions give a passionate appeal to this novel, …


Ay 2012/2013 Fs Meeting Minutes, 2013-04-17, Faculty Senate Apr 2013

Ay 2012/2013 Fs Meeting Minutes, 2013-04-17, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Archives

No abstract provided.


Place And Contemplative Pedagogy, Laura Runge Apr 2013

Place And Contemplative Pedagogy, Laura Runge

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

No abstract provided.


Minutes, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg Undergraduate Council Meeting, April 10, 2013, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Faculty Senate. Undergraduate Council Apr 2013

Minutes, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg Undergraduate Council Meeting, April 10, 2013, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Faculty Senate. Undergraduate Council

USF St. Petersburg Undergraduate Council

Minutes from the April 10, 2013, meeting of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's Undergraduate Council.