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The purpose of this creative project is an inquiry into the design of environmentally responsive and human sensitive surface parking environments for dry temperate climate and results of the inquiry are applied to an existing parking lot for the 8th Street Market Place, Boise, Idaho. Major issues explored are the physical design and the relationship between surface parking lots as a place for both vehicles and pedestrians. The main focus is the provision of an appropriate number of parking stalls, incorporation of plants and harvest of stormwater. A key premise of the inquiry is that adequate parking is more than supplying all of the spaces physically possible, but examining different components of site use to better estimate the demand for parking. Incorporating plants, especially shade trees, can significantly modify the microclimate of a parking lot for the comfort of people within the space. Having trees fulfill their role in the landscape is largely dependent on providing sufficient below ground space. The majority of trees and other plants used in Boise originate from climates that receive more rain, which results in the need for supplemental irrigation to compensate their hydraulic requirements. Rather than viewing stormwater as a waste by product, stormwater can be used as a resource to irrigate these plants. Runoff can be used directly to irrigate plants, and/or be stored for later use. While this creative project examined a particular site, many of the concepts and techniques can be extended to other sites. / Department of Landscape Architecture

Thesis (doctoral)--Friedrich-Wilhelm-Universität Bonn.

Thesis (M. Hous. M.)--University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.Hous.M.)--University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.

Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1983. / Also available in print.

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<p> Although remote sensing has been used in certain aspects of transportation studies, it appears that little attention has been given to its application in parking assessment. For this reason, a study has been undertaken to demonstrate that oblique aerial photographs can be effectively used to investigate.parking characteristices in shopping plazas, in particular to determine the rates of occupancy and turnover that occur in the available parking stalls. From a light aircraft and a helicopter, panchromatic prints and colour slides of two shopping plazas in Dundas and Hamilton, Ontario, were taken with hand-held 35 mm cameras. Photographs were taken every 15 minutes over a period of 1 hour. A comparison of the films used indicates that the presence of colour in the slides permits easier differentiation between vehicles and hence easier identification of the changes that occur at each parking stall. Procedures for extracting and recording data from the photographs and analysing the results were described. In addition to obtaining information on occupancy and turnover, it is demonstrated that the aerial view permits on excellent assessment of the effectiveness of the vehicular system. The ease of vehicle movement, the effectiveness of signing, parking stall preferences, the occurrence of illegal parking and the separation of delivery vehicles and passenger cars can all be deduced from the photography. </p> / Thesis / Candidate in Philosophy

A disproportionate number of Americans drive to work alone – at the individual state level, the figure ranges from a low of 58% in New York to 85% in Alabama. What factors explain this travel behavior and what sort of policy responses are required to effect changes? In responding to this question, we used multiple test beds and made the case for a demand side management approach to remedy parking problems particularly observed in cities central business districts. To this end, we provide an overview of travel behavior and information on policy levers by generating detailed profiles that capture the travel behavior of commuters in the Pacific states of the continental United States. Building off the result that revealed San Francisco as an outlier, we examine the efficacy of modifying parking rates, via elasticity measures, to influence the demand for parking by developing a two-stage panel data regression optimization model for managing parking in the City of San Francisco. A key contribution of the research is deriving these price elasticities of parking demand estimates using panel data methods. Coefficient estimates from the panel data regression are used to fit a linear prediction model that is the primary input to the optimization model. The balance of the thesis focuses on parking information by discussing the design and implementation of ParkPGH, a novel smart parking application that provides real time and predictive information on garage parking availability in downtown Pittsburgh. At its core is a predictive model that uses as input historical parking, weather and event data to provide estimates of available parking spaces. We provide an example of the model implementation using data from the Theater Square garage where we utilize neural network-based predictors and multiple net searches to generate both continuous and binary estimates of parking availability. Provision was made for the binary classifier given the need to reduce the possibility of Type II errors.

<p>Today, millions of purchased domain sites names are sitting unused with no real web designs or concrete purpose coupled with them. Why would not owners engage a web-hosting domain-parking hotel so they can earn money through eyeballs advertising or click revenue while their sites sits unused? Parking hotels claim access to passive domain monetization through advertising programs tailored to generate revenue via automatic web page generations containing tailored advertisement. When visitors access these web sites, revenue is generated for domain owners. This study sought to investigate if parking hotels’ advertising claim, that you can make money through them, carries substance. Hence, is it possible to generate sufficient revenue using a parking hotel’s advertising revenue model to pay for the cost of domain ownership and, if possible, generate excess revenue? The study’s epistemological approach, trying to distinguish the truth about the hotels’ claims, stems from a ontological discussion around web hosting hotels’ advertising vehicle existence and its ability to generates revenue. The study challenged a parking hotel’s claim through an inductive quantitative approach by watching advertising revenue for 59 domain names over 105 days. Quantitative data concluded, through a statistical approach, that there were insufficient advertising income, approximately a nickel, to cover the annual cost of approximately $6 USD. Therefore, the study concluded that the advertising claims were misleading and recommends that sites are not purchased, or renew, for the purpose of making money through web hotels’ advertising models.</p>