Published twice yearly, ACCESS is the official magazine of the University of California Transportation Center.
The Spring 2002 issue has been published, and includes the following stories: The Path to Discrete-Choice Models, by Daniel L. McFadden; Reforming Infrastructure Planning, by David Dowall; In the Dark: Seeing Bikes at Night, by Karen De Valois, Tatsuto Takeuchi, and Michael Disch; Roughly Right or Precisely Wrong, by Donald Shoup; Transforming the Freight Industry: From Regulation to Competition to Decentralization in the Information Age, by Amelia Regan; and, The Access Almanac: The Freeway-Congestion Paradox, by Chao Chen and Pravin Varaiya. In his article, "Roughly Right or Precisely Wrong," Donald Shoup blasts the Institute of Transportation Engineers' parkingguidelines. The ITE manuals are based on statistically insignificantsamples that result in hocus-pocus numbers with low confidence levels.The ITE admits this, but only in cursory notes that the great majority ofengineers ignore. The faulty conclusions are then used to justifyexcessive parking infrastructure which spirals into a feedback loop of increasing sprawl.
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A new Colorado Treaty amendment reduces Mexico’s Colorado River water allocation by 250,000 acre feet.
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NYC cools commuters with city's first rain garden above a bus stop
New York City officials say the plants in the rain garden can absorb 16 gallons of rainwater during heavy storms.
Brightline West’s future may rely on $6 billion federal loan
The company has until Nov. 2 to make a $400 million equity investment into its proposed high-speed rail line.
FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.
Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.
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