Tag: Complete Streets
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Enabling Strategic Growth in Cudahy, California
After decades of sprawl, state and regional governments are now focused on encouraging compact, infill and transit-oriented growth as a key strategy to reduce vehicle travel and greenhouse gas emissions. According to this logic, growth in already-developed areas that are more central and better-served by transit will result in less driving and fewer emissions. Cudahy…
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Placemaking for an Aging Population: Guidelines for Senior-Friendly Parks
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Performance Measures for the City of Los Angeles
This project, conducted in partnership with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and Ryan Snyder Associates, seeks to measure the performance of the transportation system through a series of livability measures. The scope is not entirely limited to the transportation system, but the consequences therein and other measures of livability such as access…
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Exploration and Implications of Multimodal Street Performance Metrics: What’s a Passing Grade?
Watch the webinar This project analyzes new multimodal street performance metrics for transportation projects. Scholars and practitioners have developed these new performance metrics in recent years in an attempt to replace traditional automobile-based level of service (LOS) indicators. Many scholars and practitioners feel traditional LOS overemphasizes the free flow of automobile traffic while neglecting other…
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Seniors and Parks: Identifying and Responding to the Elders’ Needs for Open Space
Two reports now available: Placemaking for an Aging Population: Guidelines for Senior-Friendly Parks Parks for Seniors: Identifying Opportunity Sites in Los Angeles Project Description Senior citizens remain a highly underserved group in regards to parks. This despite the fact that studies find a positive relation between physical and emotional well-being and spending time in a…
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Seniors and Parks: Identifying Places to Build Parks for Community Elders
This project is a supplemental project to the Seniors and Parks: Identifying and Responding to the Elders’ Needs for Open Spaces. This effort is a spatial analysis focused project which uses GIS techniques to identify and map the need for open spaces for the elderly as well as opportunities for the development of such spaces. This…
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SCAG Bicycle Clearinghouse
Visit the clearinghouse website at www.bikecounts.luskin.ucla.edu Bike Clearinghouse Training Webinar – August 21, 2015 What is the Bicycle Data Clearinghouse Project? This project seeks to compile, organize, make accessible, and create a data standard for bicycle count data collected in Los Angeles County. The project will collect existing data and create an interface for collecting…