Ways of the World: A History of the World's Roads and of the Vehicles That Used Them

Volti, Rudi; Lay, M G

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“…The concept of parking according to Lay MG [5] is described as motorised vehicles such as cars, buses, tricycles, trucks, and other movable modes of land transport in urban streets and neighbourhoods are considered as the act of stopping and disengaging a vehicle and leaving it unoccupied for some time. This condition ensures that a vehicle is parked and disengaged from moving in a carriageway.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This parking facility is also influenced by the availability of land, technological advancement, economy, and culture of the people in the country and locality. Some countries and localities advocate for parking facilities to be provided in streets, designated open spaces within the neighbourhood, in multi-story buildings, and underground garages as may be found in some developed countries and cities such as Japan (Tokyo), United States of America (New York City, Minnesota, Los Angeles), United Kingdom (London, Manchester, Gloucester), China (Beijing) [5].…”

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Prospects and Sustainability in Car Parking Systems in select Neighbourhoods of Port Harcourt Municipality

Ibama

2024

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Well-organised parking in cities promotes urban environmental sustainability and livability. The study aimed to explore and sustain the prospects of parking systems in neighbourhoods of Port Harcourt Municipality, Nigeria. The objectives were ascertaining the parking systems of neighbourhoods of the study area, identifying prospects of parking systems of neighbourhoods of the study area, and identifying measures to sustain the prospects of parking systems in neighbourhoods of the study area. The study adopted a quantitative approach using a descriptive research design. The study employed stratified and simple random sampling techniques to select sampled neighbourhoods and respondents for the study. A stratified sampling technique was employed to group the neighbourhoods into 3 strata (high, medium and low densities). 3 neighbourhoods were selected to represent each stratum namely: PH Township (high density), Orominike-D/Line (medium density) and Orije Layout- Old GRA (low density) for the study. A total of 397 respondents were determined and interviewed using the Taro Yamane formula at a 5% precision level. The study revealed that there exist on-street and off-street parking systems with various parking types including parallel, perpendicular, echelon angled and double-parking types. These parking systems are both off-street and on-street types. The prospects of the parking systems parking spaces in the building premises, along the carriageway on the street, in front of the building, space in other premises, public places and open spaces within the neighbourhoods. These conditions have promoted orderliness, safety, and security of road users such as residents, businesses, and visitors. The study found measures to sustain the prospects are creating more parking spaces/lots and designate parking area in the neighbourhoods, building a paid-parking facility in the neighbourhoods, marking parking areas clearly, government should enforce provision of parking spaces on premises, avoiding parking in the front of buildings where the space is inadequate, stop using designated parking spaces for other purposes, parkers to stop double parking in the streets, and impound broken-down vehicles in the streets. Therefore, to further sustain and enhance the prospects of parking systems in the neighbourhoods, the study recommended all government agencies should synergise to prepare parking plans for neighbourhoods. identify vacant spaces at strategic locations in the neighbourhoods where off-street parking facilities will be provided, clearly mark out designated parking spaces and parking lots along the streets, introduce a paid-parking system in the neighbourhoods, introduce one-side (parallel or perpendicular) parking along streets that are narrow in width, regulate and enforce the elimination of street trading, indiscriminate parking, removal of bad vehicles and discourage double parking in the neighbourhoods.

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Section: Literature Review Parking As a Conceptmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Literature Review Parking As a Conceptmentioning

confidence: 99%

Prospects and Sustainability in Car Parking Systems in select Neighbourhoods of Port Harcourt Municipality

Ibama

2024

JEESc

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“…In the case studies previously considered, all of them from the Iron Age, the region under study was provided of a single PTTI that embedded the footprint of the relationships between the human communities living in the area. When human societies started building roads (Earle, 1991;Lay, 1992), they created, in each territory, a network made of a combination of artificially adapted natural paths and manufactured ways that served for displacements at all the scalesfrom local to supraregionaland for all means of transport (pedestrian, by wheeled vehicles, with animals). Then, each settlement had to be connected to others by means of this single PTTI, or it would be otherwise isolated.…”

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Infrastructures connecting people: A mechanistic model for terrestrial transportation networks

Prignano

Lluc

Morer

et al. 2023

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

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Terrestrial Transportation Infrastructures (TTIs) are shaped by both socio-political and geographical factors, hence encoding crucial information about how resources and power are distributed through a territory. Therefore, analysing the structure of pathway, railway or road networks allows us to gain a better understanding of the political and social organization of the communities that created and maintained them. Network science can provide extremely useful tools to address quantitatively this issue. Here, focussing on passengers transport, we propose a methodology to shed light on the processes and forces that moulded transportation infrastructures into their current configuration, without having to rely on any additional information besides the topology of the network and the distribution of the population. Our approach is based on a simple mechanistic model that implements a wide spectrum of decision-making mechanisms (representing different power distributions) which could have driven the growth of a TTI. Thus, by adjusting a few model parameters, it is possible to generate several synthetic transportation networks, and compare across them and against the empirical system under study. An illustrative case study (i.e. the railway system in Catalonia, a region in Spain) is also provided to showcase the application of the proposed methodology. Our preliminary results highlight the potential of our approach, thus calling for further research.

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“…Dating back to 10,000 B.C., human-driven infrastructure has been integral to some of the earliest human constructions, contributing significantly to the growth of human economies and societies [1]. Since then, wherever humans have ventured, roads have inevitably followed, and where roads have been established, human settlements have emerged.…”

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Spatiotemporal Patterns of Reptile and Amphibian Road Fatalities in a Natura 2000 Area: A 12-Year Monitoring of the Lake Karla Mediterranean Wetland

Kouris,

Christopoulos,

Vlachopoulos

et al. 2024

Animals

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The pervasive expansion of human-engineered infrastructure, particularly roads, has fundamentally reshaped landscapes, profoundly affecting wildlife interactions. Wildlife-vehicle collisions, a common consequence of this intricate interplay, frequently result in fatalities, extending their detrimental impact within Protected Areas (PAs). Among the faunal groups most susceptible to road mortality, reptiles and amphibians stand at the forefront, highlighting the urgent need for global comprehensive mitigation strategies. In Greece, where road infrastructure expansion has encroached upon a significant portion of the nation’s PAs, the plight of these road-vulnerable species demands immediate attention. To address this critical issue, we present a multifaceted and holistic approach to investigating and assessing the complex phenomenon of herpetofauna road mortality within the unique ecological context of the Lake Karla plain, a rehabilitated wetland complex within a PA. To unravel the intricacies of herpetofauna road mortality in the Lake Karla plain, we conducted a comprehensive 12-year investigation from 2008 to 2019. Employing a combination of statistical modeling and spatial analysis techniques, we aimed to identify the species most susceptible to these encounters, their temporal and seasonal variations, and the ecological determinants of their roadkill patterns. We documented a total of 340 roadkill incidents involving 14 herpetofauna species in the Lake Karla’s plain, with reptiles, particularly snakes, being more susceptible, accounting for over 60% of roadkill occurrences. Moreover, we found that environmental and road-related factors play a crucial role in influencing roadkill incidents, while spatial analysis techniques, including Kernel Density Estimation, the Getis-Ord Gi*, and the Kernel Density Estimation plus methods revealed critical areas, particularly in the south-eastern region of Lake Karla’s plain, offering guidance for targeted interventions to address both individual and collective risks associated with roadkill incidents.

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Ways of the World: A History of the World's Roads and of the Vehicles That Used Them

Cited by 23 publications

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Prospects and Sustainability in Car Parking Systems in select Neighbourhoods of Port Harcourt Municipality

Prospects and Sustainability in Car Parking Systems in select Neighbourhoods of Port Harcourt Municipality

Infrastructures connecting people: A mechanistic model for terrestrial transportation networks

Spatiotemporal Patterns of Reptile and Amphibian Road Fatalities in a Natura 2000 Area: A 12-Year Monitoring of the Lake Karla Mediterranean Wetland

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