Better Integrating Travel Choices into Future Urban Mobility Systems: The Day the Highways Stood Still
This exchange between a scientist and an alien in the 2008 remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still summarizes the dilemma that is facing urban transportation today and that will continue to be a major issue in determining our ability to create a sustainable future. Many engineers and technologists think that they have the answers, while the crux of the matter lies in another popular quote provided by Walt Kelly in his April 1970 Earth Day comic strip Pogo: “We have met the enemy and they is us.”
Travel Times on Changeable Message Signs Volume II – Evaluation of Transit Signs
An automated system, Messaging Infrastructure for Travel Time Estimates to a Network of Signs (MITTENS) has been developed to display travel times on changeable message signs (CMS) in the San Francisco Bay Area. MITTENS 2.0 is flexible in using different data sources other than 511 data to calculate travel time. In addition, MITTENS 2.0 is able to handle smart message display by dynamically generating highway travel times, transit times, and destinations. Furthermore, it is capable of comparing transit travel time and highway travel time, enabling the system to display the transit travel time when there is an advantage in using trains during peak hours. The objective was to provide comparative information for commuters and encourage motorists to use the transit system during rush hours. The evaluation study on the transit signs showed a positive effect on commuter behavior.
Bodies of Evidence: Burial, Memory and the Recovery of Missing Persons in Cyprus
List of Figures and Maps Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Heirs of Antigone: Disappearances and Political Memory Chapter 2. Suppressed Experiences Chapter 3. Testimonies of Fragmentation, Recollections of Unity Chapter 4. The Missing as a Set of Representations Chapter 5. The Martyrdom of the Missing Chapter 6. L'image Juste, or Juste une Image? Chapter 7. Painting Absences, Describing Losses Chapter 8. Antigone's Doubt, Creon's Dilemma Chapter 9. Power, Complicity, and Public Secrecy Bibliography Appendices Index