Location And Transportation Flashcards
What are the 3 factors in determining a Location?
- Natural context
- Social context
- Infrastructural context
What is the natural context of Location?
Climate, soils, sun, wind, vegetation, and rain
What are categories in Location and Transportation?
- Location
- Transportation
- Neighborhood pattern and design
What is the infrastructural context in determining Location?
Utilities and roadway access
What is the social context of determining Location?
Historical value, location regulation, zoning, connection to the community
FAR
Floor-to-Area ratio
The proportion of the total floor area of a building to the total area the building can occupy
Strategies for sustainable Location selection (6)
- Increase density
- Choose redevelopment and infill development
- Locate near existing infrastructure
- Protect habitat
- Increase diversity of use
- Encourage multiple modes of transportation
How to increase density (Location strategy)?
Maximize square footage and minimize impacts on land
What are redevelopment and infill development?
Renovation of existing buildings or develop sites between existing buildings, develop Brownfield sites
What 4 factors impact Transportation?
- Land use - length and frequency of trips
- Vehicle technology - quantity & types of energy and support system required to move people and goods
- Fuel - environmental impacts of vehicle operation
- Human behavior - daily transportation decison
What is Brownfield?
Real property, expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, and contaminant
What are the 3 strategies to tackle Transportation issue during design and planning?
- Choose a site adjacent to mass transit
- Limit parking capacity
- Encourage bicycling
What are the 4 strategies to tackle Transportation issue during Operations and Maintenance?
- Encourage carpooling
- Encourage or provide alternative fuel vehicle
- Incentive building user/employees - parking discount for multi-occupancy vehicles
- Support alternative vehicles
How to calculate Walking and Bicycling distance?
Shortest path analysis, including safety, convenience, and obstruction to movement
What are included in total vehicle parking capacity?
Off-street parking available for the project occupants and visitors
What should be documented in Transportation strategies?
- Walking and bicycling distance
- Total vehicle parking capacity
- Preferred parking
What are included as Pedestrian Infrastructure?
Sidewalk, crosswalk, weather surface footpaths or equivalent pedestrian facilities
What are included as bicycle infrastructures?
On-street bike lanes, off-street bike paths and trails, streets with low speed limits
What are the 8 strategies for Neighborhood Pattern and Design?
- Design walkable streets
- Include pedestrian amenities
- Use compact development strategies
- Promote connectivity
- Provide a diverse community
- Provide diverse land use
- Support access to sustainable food
- Ensure all residents have easy access to grocery stores
How to design walkable streets?
Make it appealing to pedestrians by:
Limiting speed limit, design building facing to wide sidewalks, building height-to-street-width ratio
What are pedestrian amenities
Shade, benches, trees
What does it mean by compact development strategies?
Increase the number of residential units and commercial square footage by acre
How to promote neighborhood connectivity?
Limit culs-de-sac and gates communities
