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.
Thanks to The Practice of New Urbanism
FULL STORY: ACCESS No. 20
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