{"id":133,"date":"2015-07-27T11:18:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T11:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=133"},"modified":"2015-07-26T11:18:42","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T11:18:42","slug":"sfde-in-urban-transport-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/?p=133","title":{"rendered":"SFDE in urban transport planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"name\">Here are some ideas about how software can help in urban transport planning, gaining from reading a few chapters of this book &#8220;Urban Transport without the hot air&#8221;. http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B00UQYS1MO<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"name\">An underlying theme of the book is that urban transport planning is extremely difficult &#8211; but there are large bodies of data which can help guide just about every decision.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"name\">For example, what happens if you build houses in cities with no car parking? Does &#8220;naked&#8221; street architecture (building roads with no barriers between the road and the pavement) improve safety? Is it practical to get traffic to slow down?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"name\">Planning public transport is actually extremely difficult. Making a service which people actually use will require that it is more convenient than a car, which can (usually) take them from their house to their destination in comfort any time they like at low cost. For a bus to do this, they might need their own private bus. This kills off the bus economics. But how do you get good bus economics with the convenience of a car?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"name\">And plenty more. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"name\">Dense cities can solve many environmental problems. If we&#8217;re expecting a future with high energy prices and carbon emission constraints, we&#8217;ll need to keep transportation short distances, preferably shared, with as many walking trips as possible. But making a dense city without streets clogged up with motor cars requires public transport which works well.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"name\">Back to Software for Domain Experts &#8211; imagine an urban transport planner with software which could provide &#8211; at her fingertips &#8211; all the data about past transport projects in cities around the world &#8211; all the data about her current city &#8211; and advice and stories from other transport planners about how they would work in any situation. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"name\">Then imagine if she could gather and manage data about everything she&#8217;d built to see how well it works &#8211; and possibly make adjustments (over short term &#8211; traffic signal timings for example, over long term, in policy for building new housing estates) &#8211; and see how well that works too?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some ideas about how software can help in urban transport planning, gaining from reading a few chapters of this book &#8220;Urban Transport without the hot air&#8221;. http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B00UQYS1MO An underlying theme of the book is that urban transport planning is extremely difficult &#8211; but there are large bodies of data which can help guide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}