The document summarizes a presentation about using digital tools and accessibility metrics to encourage public participation in the planning of incremental bus rapid transit projects. It proposes moving beyond traditional public participation frameworks that focus only on operational tactics by using online tools to get ongoing public input on broader issues like accessibility metrics. This would help build support for accessibility-focused planning and adoption of accessibility metrics to guide transit investments.
What is a network map? What can it tell us? Why is it valuable? These are hypothetical examples that pair network mapping, analysis, and suggested interventions for strengthening a network.
Network mapping inherently illuminates power.
Network mapping and/or analysis inherently seeks to bring to light several kinds of power. Here are several ways it can include power:
* Demonstrates where capacity and resources exist in a group of entities * Visualizes previously invisible patterns, structures, and dynamics that existed but of which we were unaware * Elucidates relationships and pathways for exchange; help understand how things flow through a set of entities (and where they don't flow) * Surfaces gaps like who's not being represented by providing an overview of a set of entities * Supports an understanding of these things as they change over time so we can reflect transparently (rather than anecdotally) on improvements or regression
Main map copyright 2003 Valdis Krebs, http://orgnet.com/contagion.html
Advancing accessibility new measures, tools, and stakeholder engagement strat...BRTCoE
2015-01-13 Advancing Accessibility: New Measures, Tools, and Stakeholder Engagement Strategies for Boston and Beyond by Anson Stewart and Chris Zegras.
A presentation conducted by Mr Brett Williams, Transport Engineer, Shoalhaven City Council. Presented on Thursday the 3rd of October 2013.
Various accessibility metrics exist to explore the performance of transport by quantifying the opportunities available at a particular, discrete location and the available
means to travel both to and from these opportunities. In Australia there is currently no consistent performance measure used by regulatory authorities to evaluate accessibility in order to inform land-use planning decisions. Considering the widespread availability and usage of strategic transport modelling software, a unified accessibility metric would benefit practitioners when planning for future infrastructure needs. Furthermore, the
development of accessibility metrics tends to focus on metropolitan areas without exploring their effectiveness in regional and rural areas, where public transport, walking and cycling opportunities are limited due to lower population densities and wider disaggregation of localities. This paper provides a review of the existing literature on accessibility performance measures, and identifies areas
of potential research on transport accessibility in non-metropolitan areas, with the aim to improve the planning and delivery of future infrastructure needs in an optimised and sustainable manner.
Context awareness in the travel companion of the shift2 rail initiativePolitecnico di Milano
Providing personalized offers, and services in general, for the users of a system requires perceiving the context in which the users' preferences are rooted. In this work, we introduce the use of an already known model and methodology-based on the so-called Context Dimension Tree-along with a conceptual architecture to build a recommender system that offers personalized services for travelers. The research is performed in the frame of the Shift2Rail initiative as part of the Innovation Programme 4 of EU Horizon 2020.
Planning for accessibility in growing citiespeter_kant
How to keep your city/region accessible if there is no such thing as an average day? The transport network is contiously under disruption due to roadworks and events. Inhabitants, visitors and companies are faced with (unexpected) hindrance. The Road Works Optimizer is a planning instrument that helps cities in optimizing their road works and event schedules to minimize hindrance.
What is a network map? What can it tell us? Why is it valuable? These are hypothetical examples that pair network mapping, analysis, and suggested interventions for strengthening a network.
Network mapping inherently illuminates power.
Network mapping and/or analysis inherently seeks to bring to light several kinds of power. Here are several ways it can include power:
* Demonstrates where capacity and resources exist in a group of entities * Visualizes previously invisible patterns, structures, and dynamics that existed but of which we were unaware * Elucidates relationships and pathways for exchange; help understand how things flow through a set of entities (and where they don't flow) * Surfaces gaps like who's not being represented by providing an overview of a set of entities * Supports an understanding of these things as they change over time so we can reflect transparently (rather than anecdotally) on improvements or regression
Main map copyright 2003 Valdis Krebs, http://orgnet.com/contagion.html
Advancing accessibility new measures, tools, and stakeholder engagement strat...BRTCoE
2015-01-13 Advancing Accessibility: New Measures, Tools, and Stakeholder Engagement Strategies for Boston and Beyond by Anson Stewart and Chris Zegras.
A presentation conducted by Mr Brett Williams, Transport Engineer, Shoalhaven City Council. Presented on Thursday the 3rd of October 2013.
Various accessibility metrics exist to explore the performance of transport by quantifying the opportunities available at a particular, discrete location and the available
means to travel both to and from these opportunities. In Australia there is currently no consistent performance measure used by regulatory authorities to evaluate accessibility in order to inform land-use planning decisions. Considering the widespread availability and usage of strategic transport modelling software, a unified accessibility metric would benefit practitioners when planning for future infrastructure needs. Furthermore, the
development of accessibility metrics tends to focus on metropolitan areas without exploring their effectiveness in regional and rural areas, where public transport, walking and cycling opportunities are limited due to lower population densities and wider disaggregation of localities. This paper provides a review of the existing literature on accessibility performance measures, and identifies areas
of potential research on transport accessibility in non-metropolitan areas, with the aim to improve the planning and delivery of future infrastructure needs in an optimised and sustainable manner.
Context awareness in the travel companion of the shift2 rail initiativePolitecnico di Milano
Providing personalized offers, and services in general, for the users of a system requires perceiving the context in which the users' preferences are rooted. In this work, we introduce the use of an already known model and methodology-based on the so-called Context Dimension Tree-along with a conceptual architecture to build a recommender system that offers personalized services for travelers. The research is performed in the frame of the Shift2Rail initiative as part of the Innovation Programme 4 of EU Horizon 2020.
Planning for accessibility in growing citiespeter_kant
How to keep your city/region accessible if there is no such thing as an average day? The transport network is contiously under disruption due to roadworks and events. Inhabitants, visitors and companies are faced with (unexpected) hindrance. The Road Works Optimizer is a planning instrument that helps cities in optimizing their road works and event schedules to minimize hindrance.
By Michael Thatcher, Keystone Accountability. Presented at Crowdsourcing Week Global 2015. Learn more and join us at our next event: www.crowdsourcingweek.com
Why are cities smart? Answering means defining what we mean by a smart city. Do smart cities: Use technology to make the city operate more efficiently? Have centralized control centers to monitor and manage infrastructure and services? Or do they use technology to increase public participation? A really smart city does all three. Since most discussion centers on the first two, this presentation focuses on public participation.
The first thing to realize about public participation is that information technologies, especially social media and applications, have vastly increased the ability of people to participate in all types of activities - including almost everything a city does. Public participation includes: providing input, analyzing data, collaborative planning, educating themselves and others, and taking action.
Public participation is especially good because residents have detailed local knowledge and fresh perspective. They can provide political support and the participation process helps create people willing to take action. Many information technology applications have been developed to support public participation. The presentation describes the main categories of public participation applications and illustrates these categories with examples.
So, another way to look at the question might be: How are cities smart? The answer is: when they actively involve the public in managing the city, provide open data to increase understanding, use applications to harness public energy efficiently, and recognize that if they don’t do it, someone else will.
Urbanage - Embracing New Technologies for Age-Friendly CitiesUnLock EU
Launched in 2021, URBANAGE is an ambitious new project that aims to make new technologies a force multiplier for inclusion and collaboration in designing and delivering inclusive, healthy and happy cities for aging well.
This deck outlines the need for age-friendly cities and introduces the aims of the projects pilots in Flanders, Helsinki and Santander.
https://www.urbanage.eu/
RV 2014: Transit + MPO = Partners for Livable Communities by Todd Hemingson, ...Rail~Volution
Transit + MPO = Partners for Livable Communities
MAP-21 (Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act) implementation has given public transportation a greater role in transportation planning and programming decisions. How can transit, MPOs and cities foster decision-making partnerships to attain the best mix of integrated mobility solutions? What are the most effective strategies (including scenario planning) for advancing livable and sustainable communities?
Moderator: James D. Parsons, AICP, Vice President, US West Transit Rail Market Sector Lead, AECOM, Seattle, Washington
Sean Libberton, Principal, PB Strategic Consulting, Washington, DC
Ted Knowlton, AICP, Deputy Director, Wasatch Front Regional Council, Salt Lake City, Utah
Matthew Welbes, Executive Director, Federal Transit Administration, Washington, DC
Matt Sibul, PE, Chief Planning Officer, Utah Transit Administration, Salt Lake City, Utah
Todd Hemingson, AICP, Vice President of Strategic Planning & Development, Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Austin, Texas
Tom Williams, program managers for TTI's Travel Forecasting Group, gave this presentation on a current research project at the 2016 Smart Transport Symposium held in Austin, Texas. This research explores the transportation planning implications of automated and connected vehicles (AV/CV) on Texas highways and includes an in-depth study of how travel modeling can assist in planning for AV/CV. The research team assessed how these potentially transformative technologies can be included in transportation planning to assist in the decision making process. The research team also defined AV/CV implementation along various scales of vehicle technology advancement, public acceptance and adoption, and infrastructure implementation. For more information on TxDOT project 0-6848 visit: http://library.ctr.utexas.edu/Presto/content/Detail.aspx?q=MC02ODQ4&ctID=M2UxNzg5YmEtYzMyZS00ZjBlLWIyODctYzljMzQ3ZmVmOWFl&rID=MzQ4&qcf=&ph=VHJ1ZQ==&bckToL=VHJ1ZQ==&
Smart Proximity: Annotating the Proximity of Entities In A Smart City OntologyCSCJournals
The smart city concept contributes a new research area that will continue to be the focus of research for a long time. Different works have modelled and presented ontologies for smart cities, especially for data integration processes. In this context, obtaining a model in which the full functionalities of a DL reasoner are employed to generate new knowledge that would be available to the different devices in a smart city. This information can represent a useful picture of the environment around transports, hubs and people, enabling the smart devices in a city to make decisions according to this environment. We present a model of a smart city ontology with different axioms for generating new knowledge from available knowledge using a DL reasoner. This model considers the location and state of proximity between two entities in the environment. To implement our approach, we develop a tool referred to as smart proximity for generating and querying our smart city ontology. We expect the generated knowledge to be useful to many single working devices, especially devices that are available to transportation, and improve several functionalities such as motion, stop, waiting time and connections between two different means of transport.
Every month in the Webinar series a member of our team or invited expert, presents either recent research results or a city case study. The presentations are done online allowing people anywhere to participate and ask questions in real-time. The series address issues relevant to researchers and practitioners and is open to everyone using our news website. About 800 subscribers get the announcement directly, you can also sign up for free here.
By Michael Thatcher, Keystone Accountability. Presented at Crowdsourcing Week Global 2015. Learn more and join us at our next event: www.crowdsourcingweek.com
Why are cities smart? Answering means defining what we mean by a smart city. Do smart cities: Use technology to make the city operate more efficiently? Have centralized control centers to monitor and manage infrastructure and services? Or do they use technology to increase public participation? A really smart city does all three. Since most discussion centers on the first two, this presentation focuses on public participation.
The first thing to realize about public participation is that information technologies, especially social media and applications, have vastly increased the ability of people to participate in all types of activities - including almost everything a city does. Public participation includes: providing input, analyzing data, collaborative planning, educating themselves and others, and taking action.
Public participation is especially good because residents have detailed local knowledge and fresh perspective. They can provide political support and the participation process helps create people willing to take action. Many information technology applications have been developed to support public participation. The presentation describes the main categories of public participation applications and illustrates these categories with examples.
So, another way to look at the question might be: How are cities smart? The answer is: when they actively involve the public in managing the city, provide open data to increase understanding, use applications to harness public energy efficiently, and recognize that if they don’t do it, someone else will.
Urbanage - Embracing New Technologies for Age-Friendly CitiesUnLock EU
Launched in 2021, URBANAGE is an ambitious new project that aims to make new technologies a force multiplier for inclusion and collaboration in designing and delivering inclusive, healthy and happy cities for aging well.
This deck outlines the need for age-friendly cities and introduces the aims of the projects pilots in Flanders, Helsinki and Santander.
https://www.urbanage.eu/
RV 2014: Transit + MPO = Partners for Livable Communities by Todd Hemingson, ...Rail~Volution
Transit + MPO = Partners for Livable Communities
MAP-21 (Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act) implementation has given public transportation a greater role in transportation planning and programming decisions. How can transit, MPOs and cities foster decision-making partnerships to attain the best mix of integrated mobility solutions? What are the most effective strategies (including scenario planning) for advancing livable and sustainable communities?
Moderator: James D. Parsons, AICP, Vice President, US West Transit Rail Market Sector Lead, AECOM, Seattle, Washington
Sean Libberton, Principal, PB Strategic Consulting, Washington, DC
Ted Knowlton, AICP, Deputy Director, Wasatch Front Regional Council, Salt Lake City, Utah
Matthew Welbes, Executive Director, Federal Transit Administration, Washington, DC
Matt Sibul, PE, Chief Planning Officer, Utah Transit Administration, Salt Lake City, Utah
Todd Hemingson, AICP, Vice President of Strategic Planning & Development, Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Austin, Texas
Tom Williams, program managers for TTI's Travel Forecasting Group, gave this presentation on a current research project at the 2016 Smart Transport Symposium held in Austin, Texas. This research explores the transportation planning implications of automated and connected vehicles (AV/CV) on Texas highways and includes an in-depth study of how travel modeling can assist in planning for AV/CV. The research team assessed how these potentially transformative technologies can be included in transportation planning to assist in the decision making process. The research team also defined AV/CV implementation along various scales of vehicle technology advancement, public acceptance and adoption, and infrastructure implementation. For more information on TxDOT project 0-6848 visit: http://library.ctr.utexas.edu/Presto/content/Detail.aspx?q=MC02ODQ4&ctID=M2UxNzg5YmEtYzMyZS00ZjBlLWIyODctYzljMzQ3ZmVmOWFl&rID=MzQ4&qcf=&ph=VHJ1ZQ==&bckToL=VHJ1ZQ==&
Smart Proximity: Annotating the Proximity of Entities In A Smart City OntologyCSCJournals
The smart city concept contributes a new research area that will continue to be the focus of research for a long time. Different works have modelled and presented ontologies for smart cities, especially for data integration processes. In this context, obtaining a model in which the full functionalities of a DL reasoner are employed to generate new knowledge that would be available to the different devices in a smart city. This information can represent a useful picture of the environment around transports, hubs and people, enabling the smart devices in a city to make decisions according to this environment. We present a model of a smart city ontology with different axioms for generating new knowledge from available knowledge using a DL reasoner. This model considers the location and state of proximity between two entities in the environment. To implement our approach, we develop a tool referred to as smart proximity for generating and querying our smart city ontology. We expect the generated knowledge to be useful to many single working devices, especially devices that are available to transportation, and improve several functionalities such as motion, stop, waiting time and connections between two different means of transport.
Every month in the Webinar series a member of our team or invited expert, presents either recent research results or a city case study. The presentations are done online allowing people anywhere to participate and ask questions in real-time. The series address issues relevant to researchers and practitioners and is open to everyone using our news website. About 800 subscribers get the announcement directly, you can also sign up for free here.
Summary of social media techniques and applications that can be used to improve the public involvement process in urban and transport planning. Including reporting applications, serious games, collaboration tools, educational applications and supporting tools.
Talk given to the Smart City course students at CEPT University. Oct 19, 2014.
* Overview on Physical (IoT/Sensor), Cyber (OpenGov) and Social (citizen Sensing) data
* Relevance to City Departments
* Three smart city applications (from India, Europe and US)
More on the course: http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/cept-launches-first-ever-course-on-smart-cities/
RV 2014: Community Engagement and Corridor Development InitiativeRail~Volution
Community Engagement + Corridor Development Initiative = Results
After a difficult development project review process, have you ever wished there was a better way? Now there is. Learn about the Corridor Development Initiative (CDI) in this interactive workshop. Discover how neighbors can guide redevelopment to reflect their community vision -- how developers can reduce the amount of time between submitting a proposal and breaking ground. Join LISC Twin Cities to see how CDI's hands-on, win-win approach moves potential TOD opportunity sites into actual projects. CDI has been replicated by the Chicago Metropolitan Planning Council and is being considered by the Denver Regional Council of Governments. Hear why CDI has become a best practice in the Twin Cities and whether it might be right for your organization.
Gretchen Nicholls, Program Officer, Local Initiatives Support Corporation, St. Paul, Minnesota
Barbara Raye, Director, Center for Planning, Policy and Performance, St. Paul, Minnesota
Yonah Freemark, Project Manager, Metropolitan Planning Council, Chicago, Illinois
Ashley Kaade, AICP, Planner II, Stakeholder Engagement, Denver Regional Council of Governments, Denver, Colorado
Procurement stage reviewStudent needs to identify a project proc.docxstilliegeorgiana
Procurement stage review
Student needs to identify a project procurement stage, process, or critical success factor as his/her topic for the term project. The topic should be used for all three submissions. A list of potential topics include the following.
· Plan, Specification and Estimate (PS&E)
Student is required to select one topic and perform a comprehensive review. A good review paper is expected to be 7000-9000 words plus figures and tables. A student can either conduct an in-depth review of 3-5 journal papers with calculation and analysis or a broad general review of more than 15 articles on a specific topic.
Optimizing Public Transport Schedules to Minimize Energy Use and Wait Times
Public transport system plays an important role in any city to travel through it seamlessly with reduced individual effort and it also improves several other factors like congestion and the environment. The authorities of the public transport company must strive to improve policymaking by using tools to attain effective utilization of energy while increasing their capabilities of serving more individuals. E-participation is one of the categories that can be used to collect feedback and improve the schedules by simply enabling a click of the button for a more suitable schedule by everyone. For instance, by enabling a new option to “choose my schedule” can be included in the already existing “Ventra App” in Chicago to group the individuals and have a definitive schedule that would serve the maximum people and eliminating the less effective schedules thereby minimizing energy use.
Coming to the passenger wait times, again e-participation can be an effective tool wherein an app that runs on web 2.0 and is build using android/ iOS can be used to record the arrivals of the passengers and align the schedules. Also, the opinion mining tools like RapidMiner can be used to collect the opinions of the users and classify them based on their intents/ opinions on the currents timings and then modifying the policies to reduce the wait times. These tools can collect data from all the variety of sources and then use machine learning approaches to derive an optimized schedule that improves the efficiency and thereby reducing the wait times.
Importance of tools in policymaking
In an organization, the development of the business always lies with the implementation of some techniques in the system that is actually related to making the policy in the system. The technologies that are seen to be used in the system certainly have some importance when defining the process in the system and identifying the process during the time of communication-related to the information is always important for making the policy. The techniques that are seen to be used by the organization in the system certainly have some important steps to follow during the time of developing a policy in the system (Furlan, Torresan, Ronco, Critto, Breil, Kontogianni & Marcomini, 20 ...
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
From Siloed Products to Connected Ecosystem: Building a Sustainable and Scala...
Visualizing Urban Accessibility Metrics for Incremental Bus Rapid Transit
1. Visualizing Urban Accessibility Metrics for Incremental Bus Rapid Transit
A Framework for Participation!
! Presented at Transforming Transportation 2014!
! Anson Stewart!
! Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)!
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