Planning

Bounded Rationality in Policy Learning Amongst Cities: Lessons from the Transport Sector

Marsden, Greg
Frick, Karen Trapenberg
May, Anthony D.
Deakin, Elizabeth
2012

The internationalization of policy regimes and the reorganization of the state have provided new opportunities for cities to bypass nation-state structures and work with other cities internationally. This provides greater opportunity for cities to learn from each other and could be an important stimulus to the transfer of policies across the globe. Few studies exist however which focus on the processes that shape the search for policy lessons and how they are affected by the institutional context within which they are conducted. This paper describes research conducted in the field of urban...

Planning Techniques to Estimate Speeds and Service Volumes for Planning Applications

Dowling, R
Kittelson, W
Zegeer, J
Skabardonis, A
Transportation Research Board
Dowling Associates Incorporated
1997

This report recommends methods for transportation planners to estimate speeds and service volumes. Methods are presented for long-range transportation planning and other planning applications such as traffic impact analyses and major investment studies. For this research, planning agencies were surveyed to determine their needs and capabilities, existing methods of estimating speeds and service volumes were reviewed, and improved methods were developed. Recommendations are presented for long-range transportation planning and sketch planning (for which very little data are available and...

No Left or Right, Only Right or Wrong

Trapenberg Frick, Karen
2018

Tea party and conservative activists in the United States emphatically argued this point in conversations with me during my research on the Tea Party movement’s ascendency which occurred after President Barack Obama’s election in 2008 and in the wake of the Great Recession (Trapenberg Frick, Citation2013, Citation2016...

No Permanent Friends, No Permanent Enemies: Agonistic Ethos, Tactical Coalitions, and Sustainable Infrastructure

Trapenberg Frick, Karen
2021

Turbulent debates between divergent actors are part of the fiber of planning. One manifestation of tensions is the emergence of tactical coalitions with citizens finding common ground across the political divide. This article seeks to theorize such coalition formation for which planning scholarship is sparse. Drawing from agonism, other scholarship, and three U.S. cases of sustainable infrastructure, I develop a typology of tactical coalitions based on their level of strategic interaction, duration, and transformation. This research and theorization provides compelling evidence that...

Old Road, New Directions: Plan for Adeline Street in Berkeley, California

Griswold, Julia B.
Malinoff, Aaron
Frick, Karen Trapenberg
Deakin, Elizabeth
2011

This paper presents a plan for transforming a major arterial and a transit station that divide a low-income business and residential district into an economically healthy, context-sensitive, transit-oriented development. Adeline Street is a major point of entry into Berkeley, California, linking the city of Oakland on the south to the central districts of Berkeley. Formerly a major streetcar corridor, Adeline is now the location of a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station and a surface parking lot, for which housing and businesses were removed in the 1960s. The street's 180-ft right-of-way...

Plowshares or Swords? Fostering Common Ground Across Difference | Commentary | Urban Planning

Frick, Karen Trapenberg
2017

With political polarization challenging forward progress on public policy and planning processes, it is critical to examine possibilities for finding common ground across difference between community participants. In my research on contentious planning processes in the United States, I found four areas of convergence between participants over transportation policy and process related to public process and substantive matters. These convergences warrant planners’ attention because they united stakeholders coming from different vantage points.

Improved speed-flow relationships for planning applications

Skabardonis, A
Dowling, R
Transportation Research Board
1997

Improved speed-estimation techniques for planning applications were developed and tested. Comparisons with field data and simulation results indicate that the recommended techniques provide better accuracy and consistency with the procedures contained in the 1994 update of the "Highway Capacity Manual". These speed-estimation techniques will improve the accuracy of long-range transportation planning models for predicting travel time, delay, and air-pollutant emissions.

Impacts Assessment of Dynamic Speed Harmonization with Queue Warning: Task 2 Impact Assessment Plan

Dowling, R
Skabardonis, A
Barrios, J
Jia, A
Nevers, B
Kittelson & Associates Incorporated Kittelson &
Federal Highway Administration
Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center
National Transportation Library
2015

The purpose of the Impact Assessment Plan is to take the results of the test track or field tests of the prototype, make reasonable extrapolations of those results to a theoretical full scale implementation, and answer the following 7 questions related to the prototype: (1) When to Implement SPD-HARM Solo or in Combination with Q-WARN?; (2) Which Communication Method is Best for Nomadic (cell phone) Devices?; (3) What are the Impacts of Near, Mid and Long Term Deployment?; (4) What level of market Penetration of connected vehicles is Required for success?; (5) What are the Effects of...

Impact of Transit Signal Priority on Level of Service at Signalized Intersections

Skabardonis, Alexander
Christofa, Eleni
2011

The assessment of Transit Signal Priority (TSP) impacts at traffic signals is typically based on simulation and field studies. There is a need for macroscopic procedures for analysis of TSP as part of the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) analysis methodology for signalized intersections. This capability will allow prediction of TSP impacts (and related control strategies) at a planning and operations level without the complexity of simulation modeling. The paper presents a technique of estimating the average green times for each lane group, and modifications to the HCM formula for estimating...

Guide for Highway Capacity and Operations Analysis of Active Transportation and Demand Management Strategies

Dowling, Richard
Margiotta, Richard
Cohen, Harry
Skabardonis, Alexander
Cambridge Systematics Incorporated
Federal Highway Administration
2013

This Guide provides a conceptual analysis framework, recommended measures of effectiveness, and an initial recommended methodology for evaluating the impacts of Active Transportation and Demand Management (ATDM) strategies on highway and street system demand, capacity, and performance. The Guide presents practitioners with methods to analyze the varying demand and capacity conditions that facilities operate under and methods to apply a limited but broad set of transportation management actions to respond to those conditions. Thus, the methodology represents, in a macroscopic sense, the...