Reid Ewing
Utah
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Urban Arterial Lane Width Versus Speed and Crash Rates: A Comprehensive Study of Road Safety
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Selective State DOT Lane Width Standards and Guidelines to Reduce Speeds and Improve Safety
1. Introduction Reducing vehicle lane widths is frequently employed to reduce vehicle speed, improve road safety, and make room for other design elements such as bike lanes and raised medians.
Selective State DOT Lane Width Standards and Guidelines to Reduce Speeds and Improve Safety
Preprint Article Version 1 This version is not peer-reviewed Version 1 : Received: 23 June 2024 / Approved: 24 June 2024 / Online: 24 June 2024 (13:49:58 CEST) Ewing, R.; Yang, W.; Kaniewska, J.; Tabassum, N.; Promy, A. N. Selective State DOT Lane Width Standards and Guidelines to Reduce Speeds and Improve Safety. Preprints 2024, 2024061659. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202406.1659.v1 Ewing, R.; Yang, W.; Kaniewska, J.; Tabassum, N.; Promy, A. N.
Success or failure depends on multiple factors
Congratulations to Tayler Allen, one of our City and Metropolitan planning master's students at the U., for getting a thoughtful piece on an important issue, affordable housing, published in The Tribune. The op-ed is titled, "If The Point becomes Daybreak 2.0, we have failed." I too have high hopes for The Point development on the former prison site in Draper.
Regional Policies, Practices, Tools, and Strategies to Implement Polycentric Development: Comparative Case Studies of Portland, Seattle, and Denver
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Reid Ewing: There is no such thing as ‘smart sprawl’
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Ongoing development takes shape around Oquirrh Lake at Daybreak on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020. Daybreak, the 4,100-acre master planned community in South Jordan, illustrates the idea of blending higher density housing and walkable community design with ample amounts of open space.
Does Density Aggravate the COVID-19 Pandemic?
The COVID-19 pandemic is a perfect case study to investigate the relationship between density and the spread of highly contagious infectious diseases. This novel coronavirus outbreak was first recorded in Wuhan (China) in December 2019 (Cascella et al., 2020). In less than 4 months, it has spread to more than 212 countries and territories around the world and was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020 (WHO, 2020).
Basic Quantitative Research Methods for Urban Planners
Description In most planning practice and research, planners work with quantitative data. By summarizing, analyzing, and presenting data, planners create stories and narratives that explain various planning issues. Particularly, in the era of big data and data mining, there is a stronger demand in planning practice and research to increase capacity for data-driven storytelling.
Reid Ewing: Questionable donations should not derail Olympia Hills approval
I teach land use and transportation planning in the Department of City and Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah. I have not had any involvement with the Olympia Hills development, but have watched the debate over Olympia Hills from a distance, reading periodic articles in The Salt Lake Tribune. I have not studied this development from a professional standpoint, but have seen it compared to Daybreak (one of the finest examples of master planned communities in the U.S.).
Reid Ewing: Salt Lake City needs some traffic-calming measures
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A man stands in the road as traffic passes on 3300 South near the Road Home's South Salt Lake Men's Resource Center in South Salt Lake on Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2019. On New Year’s Day, The Salt Lake Tribune reported that three homeless men were struck and killed trying to cross streets near South Salt Lake City’s new homeless shelter.
Longitudinal Analysis of Transit's Land Use Multiplier in Portland (OR)
Historically, research examining the role of public transit in reducing vehicle miles traveled (VMT) and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has focused directly on mode shifts from driving to transit occurring as a result of transit investments. Such research typically shows only modest reductions in vehicle travel (Arrington & Cervero, 2008 Arrington, G. B., & Cervero, R. (2008). Effects of TOD on housing, parking, and travel: TCRP Report 128. Washington, DC: Transportation Research Board.
Trip and parking generation rates for different housing types: Effects of compact development
Aditjandra, PT, Cao, X, Mulley, C (2012) Understanding neighbourhood design impact on travel behaviour: An application of structural equations model to a British metropolitan data. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 46(1): 22–32. Google Scholar | ISI Anowar, S, Eluru, N, Miranda-Moreno, LF (2014) Alternative modeling approaches used for examining automobile ownership: A comprehensive review. Transport Reviews 34(4): 441–473.
Commentary: A TUF way to pay for streets at the local level
More than two-thirds of Salt Lake City’s streets — about 400 miles in all — are in poor condition, according to a citywide survey of pavement condition completed last summer. The price tag for fixing these streets and keeping them up tops $20 million a year, seven times more than the $3 million to $3.5 million a year the city currently spends. And delaying maintenance further could add up.
Op-ed: A positive note about UTA and its rail system
George Chapman's op-ed this past Sunday, "What will be the future of mass transit in Utah?," is thoughtful and largely correct (with an exception noted at the end of this piece). However, the op-ed casts the funding of bus and rail service as an "either/or," when in fact the two go together. UTA has expanded its rail system dramatically since I arrived in Salt Lake City nine years ago. Tourists come to Salt Lake City and are amazed that this red state would invest heavily in mass transit.
Accessibility planning in American metropolitan areas: Are we there yet?
Transportation-planning researchers have long argued that the end goal of a transportation system is increasing accessibility, or opportunities for individuals to meet their daily needs, but that US practice tends to focus on increasing mobility, or opportunities to travel farther and faster.
Op-ed: Don't let SLC's northwest quadrant fall victim to sprawl
It is time to speak out about Salt Lake City's Northwest Quadrant master plan adopted in August. I hope it is not too late. What set me off was an article last week in the Tribune titled, "Setback could turn to fortune for SLC." The article speaks of the city's plan for an "economic powerhouse" on 3,670 developable acres north of Interstate 80 and west of the Salt Lake International Airport. The only caveat in the article was a reference to former Mayor Rocky Anderson's concern about commuting.
Does urban sprawl hold down upward mobility?
JavaScript is disabled on your browser. Please enable JavaScript to use all the features on this page. This page uses JavaScript to progressively load the article content as a user scrolls. Click the View full text link to bypass dynamically loaded article content. View full text Contrary to the general perception, the United States has a much more class-bound society than other wealthy countries.
Urban sprawl leads to more fatal crashes, while denser areas experience higher rates of accidents which cause injuries.
Is urban sprawl good for us? Recent years have seen a growing debate over the costs and benefits of urban sprawl compared with denser communities in areas such as public health and environmental sustainability. Using data from nearly 1,000 metropolitan counties across the U.S., Reid Ewing and Shima Hamidi examine the relationship between sprawl and fatal crashes.
Travel and the Built Environment
Acknowledgments The authors wish to acknowledge funding for this study from the Development, Community, and Environment Division of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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