Master of Regional and Community Planning / Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning / John W. Keller / In the 2009-2010 academic year at the Kansas City Design Center, four students undertook a design project seeking to transform an underutilized traffic median into a usable urban public space. The space, known as “Triangle Park,” is located at Avenida Cesar E. Chavez (West 23rd Street), West Pennsylvania Avenue, and Southwest Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri. This report describes the existing site conditions and challenges to creating an inviting public space. The report explains how the students arrived at the finalized design using precedent studies, multiple design iterations, and community input from the Westside and Crossroads neighborhood stakeholders. The finalized design focuses on providing connectivity between people, the site, and the city as a whole. Opportunities for connection are offered by improved pedestrian circulation and a comfortable, well-defined outdoor space. Three major structural interventions are proposed: an illuminated overhead canopy beneath the Interstate-35 overpass provides shelter for pedestrians; a raised walking path enhances an already prominent pedestrian route; and a wooden deck provides opportunities for sitting and lingering. The ability of the design to meet the community’s stated needs and to serve as a social public space is evaluated to determine the likelihood of positive and worthwhile project outcomes.

<p>Increasingly wildlife managers and land managers are challenged to maintain the viability and connectivity among large mammal populations. Thus, it is important that effective highway crossings are identified and optimized with respect to construction cost, facilitation of ungulate movements, and ability to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions. The use of exclusion fencing to reduce ungulate-vehicle collisions is commonly installed along Swedish highways. However, exclusion fences may pose a threat to the viability of wildlife populations because they serve as barriers to individual movements and may limit accessibility to resources. Various types of wildlife crossings intended to reduce road-kills and increase habitat connectivity across fenced highways have been constructed throughout the world. Previous studies have evaluated the importance of structure design and size for many ungulate species, but few studies involved moose (Alces alces) which is the target species for most large ungulate mitigations in Sweden. The results of the studies are intended to facilitate the development of wildlife crossings and conventional road passages to meet ungulate demands.</p><p>We monitored moose fitted with GPS radio collars and characterized their space and habitat use patterns in southwestern Sweden. Moose had seasonal differences in habitat selection within their home range, and generally preferred clear-cuts and early successional forest, boreal forest, and glades, but avoided agricultural areas and open water. We used infrared remote cameras, track surveys, and GPS telemetry to monitor the use of wildlife crossings and conventional road passages by moose and roe deer (Capreolus capreolus). The upgrading of a non-fenced road to a fenced highway with three wildlife crossings decreased the moose movements across the highway by 67-89 %. Overpass use by moose and roe deer declined with increased traffic volume on the highway and both species walked during periods of low highway traffic volumes and shifted to trotting as traffic intensity increased. Low rates of human disturbances and proximity to forest edges increased use of highway underpasses by roe deer. Moose used large underpasses to a higher degree than small.</p>

Increasingly wildlife managers and land managers are challenged to maintain the viability and connectivity among large mammal populations. Thus, it is important that effective highway crossings are identified and optimized with respect to construction cost, facilitation of ungulate movements, and ability to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions. The use of exclusion fencing to reduce ungulate-vehicle collisions is commonly installed along Swedish highways. However, exclusion fences may pose a threat to the viability of wildlife populations because they serve as barriers to individual movements and may limit accessibility to resources. Various types of wildlife crossings intended to reduce road-kills and increase habitat connectivity across fenced highways have been constructed throughout the world. Previous studies have evaluated the importance of structure design and size for many ungulate species, but few studies involved moose (Alces alces) which is the target species for most large ungulate mitigations in Sweden. The results of the studies are intended to facilitate the development of wildlife crossings and conventional road passages to meet ungulate demands. We monitored moose fitted with GPS radio collars and characterized their space and habitat use patterns in southwestern Sweden. Moose had seasonal differences in habitat selection within their home range, and generally preferred clear-cuts and early successional forest, boreal forest, and glades, but avoided agricultural areas and open water. We used infrared remote cameras, track surveys, and GPS telemetry to monitor the use of wildlife crossings and conventional road passages by moose and roe deer (Capreolus capreolus). The upgrading of a non-fenced road to a fenced highway with three wildlife crossings decreased the moose movements across the highway by 67-89 %. Overpass use by moose and roe deer declined with increased traffic volume on the highway and both species walked during periods of low highway traffic volumes and shifted to trotting as traffic intensity increased. Low rates of human disturbances and proximity to forest edges increased use of highway underpasses by roe deer. Moose used large underpasses to a higher degree than small.

The present essay set out to investigate the work methodology of closing level crossings and chart the process from the initial need to close the level crossing up to completed closing of level crossing, furthermore; to investigate which factors affect the projects efficiency and progress both in terms of planning and implementation. This essay sets out to answer the following questions: “What is the current way of dealing with closing off level crossings and when would the implementation of a railway plan be useful?” and “How does project-implementation look like when dealing with the project of removal of level crossings in regard to time and cost?”. When it comes to repealing an overpass easement in order to be able to close a level crossing, a railway plan can be established to facilitate such easement measures. Although it does not directly imply "construction of the railway", if it is to be cancelled without support in a railway plan, the conditions of protection in Chapter 5 and Chapter 7 of the FBL must be fully applied. The method used was partly interview and partly study of railway plans and cadastral dossier. Twelve interviews were conducted, of which seven represented the Swedish Transport Agency and five persons who represented the National Land Survey, who were considered to fulfil the response required to answer the questions to an enough extent. There were only a limited number of railway plans which included only the closure of level crossings. However, there were a number of railway plans that dealt with the closure of level crossings, but then in connection with other measures which by law are the construction or rebuilding of railways. The united nations global sustainable objective strive to reach 17 objectives before the year 2030 wereof objective 11 is as follows: “Sustainable cities and societies”, which was considered to be connected with this essays problem formulation. It has emerged from the result that there are both pros and cons of applying railway plan in connection with the closure of level crossings. What can be stated after the implementation of the study is that the Swedish Transport Administration has a desire to implement more railway plans at complicated level crossings and the National Land Survey Office sees certain advantages from a handling perspective to applying a railway plan. / Trafikverket strävar efter att effektivisera, öka kapaciteten och säkra tillgängligheten för landets vägar och järnvägar genom att bland annat ta bort järnvägsövergångar. Ökad kapacitet i form av högre hastigheter ställer högre krav på säkerheten vid järnvägsövergångar och stängning av plankorsningar mellan enskilda vägar och statliga järnvägar är en angelägen åtgärd nationellt. Målet med examensarbetet var att efterforska arbetsmetodiken kring stängning av plankorsningar samt att utreda vilka faktorer som påverkar effektiviteten och framdriften i projekt vid dels planläggningen dels genomförande av åtgärden. De frågeställningar som behandlades i denna uppsats var: ”Hur ser den nuvarande hanteringen ut vid stängning av plankorsningar och i vilka situationer skulle det vara användbart att tillämpa järnvägsplan?” och ”Hur ser projektgenomförandet ut i projekt som berör borttagande av plankorsningar med avseende på tid och kostnader?”. När det gäller upphävande av överfartsservitut i syfte att kunna stänga en plankorsning kan en järnvägsplan upprättas för att underlätta sådana servitutsåtgärder även om det inte direkt innebär "byggande av järnväg". Om det däremot ska upphävas utan stöd i järnvägsplan ska skyddsvillkoren i 5 kap och 7 kap FBL tillämpas fullt ut. Metoderna som användes var intervjuer och studie av järnvägsplaner och förrättningsakter. Det genomfördes tolv intervjuer, där sju personer representerade Trafikverket och fem förrättningslantmätare representerade Lantmäterimyndigheten, vilket bedömdes uppfylla den svarsmättnad som krävdes för att få frågeställningen besvarad med tillräcklig räckvidd. Det fanns ett begränsat antal järnvägsplaner som endast behandlade stängning av en plankorsning. Det fanns däremot ett flertal järnvägsplaner som behandlade stängning av plankorsningar, men då i samband med andra åtgärder som enligt lag är byggande eller ombyggnad av järnväg. Förenta nationernas globala hållbara mål består av 17 mål som syftar till att utrota fattigdom, stoppa klimatförändringar och skapa fredliga och trygga samhällen innan 2030. Varav mål 11 lyder: ”Hållbara städer och samhällen”, vilket ansågs berör denna uppsats problemformulering. Resultaten visade både för- och nackdelar med att tillämpa järnvägsplan vid stängning av plankorsningar. Det som kan konstateras efter den genomföra studien är att Trafikverket har en vilja att genomföra fler järnvägsplaner vid komplicerade plankorsningar och Lantmäterimyndigheten ser vissa fördelar från ett handläggningsperspektiv att tillämpa järnvägsplan.

My master's thesis aims to design a bridge construction spanning road III/443 over road I/44. Three versions were created one of which has been developed further. It is a three span bridge with a total spread of 77.5 meters. Proposal and evaluation of bridge construction is done unassisted. Static analysis is done using Scia Engineer program. Construcion evaluation is done by valid EU norms ČSN EN 1992-1-1. Mechanical drawing, building procedure and visualisation is also included.

In my diploma thesis, I applied IT model by Aimsun software on the traffic situation in the city of Blansko. I created my own model showing positives and negatives of planned bridge project across the river Svitava and the railroad corridor applying available information and documents regarding the project and my own data in this specific area. This overpass shall improve the traffic situation in the city of Blansko because mentioned bridge project shall be the second connection of two parts of the city of Blansko that is split by the river of Svitava. In this thesis, I apply the bridge project on the current traffic situation assuming that the bridge project will be implemented in 3 years. I deal with the situation in the city of Blansko with and without implementation of the bridge project.

This thesis deals with design of III/0462 road overpass over D46 highway near Brodek u Prostějova. There are 2 preliminary variants. First variant is a right bridge, whose main beams are tied archs. Second variant is a skew bridge with truss superstructure. In case of second variant there are three subvariants differing with truss design. Design and calculation is done according to valid standarts and other regulations for designing bridges.

This essay is a bachelor thesis written for the Degree Program in Constructional Engineering and Design at The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). This thesis was an assignment given by WSP Sweden and their bridge and water department. The purpose of this report is to conduct an examination on the Life Cycle Cost (LCC) on a prestressed glulam deck bridge and a composite bridge in the early stages of the design phase. This report illuminates the factors that are most crucial in a LCC-calculation for the selected overpasses, and provides an overview regarding which overpass is most efficient from an economic standpoint. The LCC has been calculated based on an 80-year lifespan for the prestressed glulam deck bridge and a 120-year lifespan for the composite bridge. The cost of investment, operating, maintaining and finally the demolition cost was all considered as well. The bridge works that were examined are real life projects in an early stage of the design phase with plans to be built. In the results, the LCC-analysis shows a clear difference in life cycle costs between the prestressed glulam deck bridge and the composite bridge and show that the cost of investment is the most decisive cost during the bridges’ lifespans. The LCC-calculations show that the total life cycle cost for a prestressed glulam deck bridge is higher than the composite bridges’ total life cycle cost.

The objective of the diploma thesis is to design the layout of the railway station on the planned high-speed track Brno – Breclav. The thesis focuses on the station layout including the junction with a branch of high-speed track to Znojmo. New service road to railway station, connected to existing roads, is designed. The station layout design includes a carpark, bus stops, car rental, parking for the disabled, bikers, taxi services and cyclists.

This diploma thesis poses the question of the legal status of partners in a private limited liability company compared to the legal status of partners (shareholders) in a joint stock company. Although both companies are in a theory of Czech business law classified as capital corporations, which means that they have much in common, the legal enactments which are regulating the area of the partner's legal status in both legal forms contain many significant differences. Some of them may well be considered as slight, unimportant details, whereas the others represent fundamental differences, which, for the partner's legal status, are more than crucial. The partner's participation in the company's activities and in its management could be mentioned as one of the examples. Meanwhile, the partners in a private limited liability company typically participate in the whole life of their corporation, the shareholders in a joint stock company only influence the life of their corporation implicitly, through their influence over the personal structure of the executive body (called board of directors), which is entrusted with the power of the company's management. The members of this executive body are usually represented by people outside of the company; the theory talks about professional, hired management, which is leading to a phenomenon called corporate governance. This diploma thesis not only contains chapters on the legal status of partners in the given types of corporations, it also includes a general interpretation of the terms private limited liability company and joint stock company. Only a correct representation of these terms can lead to an accurate understanding of the partner's legal status. Finally, there are also several comparative thoughts and tables, including some decisions of the business courts added at the end of the paper. Through the means of the above mentioned business court's decisions the author is attempting to demonstrate how the partner's rights and obligations are being performed in practice.