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Mathematics of Parking: Varying Parking Rate [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Statistical Physics, 2021
In the classical parking problem, unit intervals ("car lengths") are placed uniformly at random without overlapping. The process terminates at saturation, i.e. until no more unit intervals can be stowed. In this paper, we present a generalization of this problem in which the unit intervals are placed with an exponential distribution with rate parameter
Pavel B. Dubovski, Michael Tamarov
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People or Parking

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
Abstract Car-based transportation networks (as in Phoenix) necessitate parking at origin and destination in order to establish a link—but the space devoted to parking lowers its ability to provide housing and consumer amenities. Walking and transit networks (as in Manhattan) have no such tradeoff, and a city reliant on them will be able to make ...
Bunten, Devin Michelle   +1 more
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Residential parking permits and parking supply [PDF]

open access: yesRegional Science and Urban Economics, 2014
We estimate welfare losses of policies that provide on-street parking permits to residents almost free of charge in Dutch shopping districts that are predominantly downtown. Our empirical results indicate that parking supply is far from perfectly price elastic, implying that there are substantial welfare losses related to underpriced parking permits ...
Jos van Ommeren   +2 more
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THE EFFECTS OF PARK IMPROVEMENT ON PARK USE AND PARK-BASED PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

open access: yesJOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM, 2021
Park is considered as one of the necessary settings in the urban area to promote physical activity and a healthy lifestyle. It provides opportunities to engage in park-based physical activity to a wide range of users. Studies have found that park improvement is a sustainable way to increase the urban population’s physical activity levels.
Sigit D. Arifwidodo, Orana Chandrasiri
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Livelihood Security and Perceived Prevalence of Illegal Activities Threatening Mountain Gorilla Conservation in East Africa’s Virunga Landscape

open access: yesLand, 2022
Illegal activities pose challenges to the conservation of mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) across the Virunga Landscape (VL). This paper investigates the relationship between household livelihood security (HLS) and the perceived prevalence ...
Edwin Sabuhoro   +5 more
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What Makes Green Cities Unique? Examining the Economic and Political Characteristics of the Grey-to-Green Continuum

open access: yesLand, 2014
In the United States, urbanization processes have resulted in a large variety—or “continuum”—of urban landscapes. One entry point for understanding the variety of landscape characteristics associated with different forms of urbanization is through a ...
Daniel Miller Runfola, Sara Hughes
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Evaluation of the reality of public open areas in Mosul [PDF]

open access: yesآداب الرافدين, 1988
Public open areas are places for outdoor recreational activities in the open air, and they are based on an biological need that enables a person to maintain some relationship between the natural environment within an urban setting, and that these ...
Dawood ِAjaj
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Distribution of urban green spaces: Comparative analysis between cities in different countries

open access: yesOrnamental Horticulture, 2020
The presence of urban green spaces (UGS) increases the human’s contact with nature and provides numerous benefits to the society and the local environment.
Cecília Souza Gontijo Garcia   +3 more
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Pungent parks: smell’s growing relevance in park tourism [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Tourism Futures, 2020
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to present the growing relevance of natural smells – both pleasant and unpleasant – to park and protected area tourism and the need for more consideration of their role in the visitor experience.
William L. Rice   +2 more
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An algorithm of parking planning for smart parking system [PDF]

open access: yesProceeding of the 11th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, 2014
Proceeding of the 11th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA)
Xuejian Zhao, Kui Zhao, Feng Ha
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