Location And Transportation

Question 1

What are the 3 factors in determining a Location?

Answer 1

1. Natural context
2. Social context
3. Infrastructural context

Question 2

What is the natural context of Location?

Answer 2

Climate, soils, sun, wind, vegetation, and rain

Question 3

What are categories in Location and Transportation?

Answer 3

1. Location
2. Transportation
3. Neighborhood pattern and design

Question 4

What is the infrastructural context in determining Location?

Answer 4

Utilities and roadway access

Question 5

What is the social context of determining Location?

Answer 5

Historical value, location regulation, zoning, connection to the community

Question 6

FAR

Answer 6

Floor-to-Area ratio

The proportion of the total floor area of a building to the total area the building can occupy

Question 7

Strategies for sustainable Location selection (6)

Answer 7

1. Increase density
2. Choose redevelopment and infill development
3. Locate near existing infrastructure
4. Protect habitat
5. Increase diversity of use
6. Encourage multiple modes of transportation

Question 8

How to increase density (Location strategy)?

Answer 8

Maximize square footage and minimize impacts on land

Question 9

What are redevelopment and infill development?

Answer 9

Renovation of existing buildings or develop sites between existing buildings, develop Brownfield sites

Question 10

What 4 factors impact Transportation?

Answer 10

1. Land use - length and frequency of trips
2. Vehicle technology - quantity & types of energy and support system required to move people and goods
3. Fuel - environmental impacts of vehicle operation
4. Human behavior - daily transportation decison

Question 11

What is Brownfield?

Answer 11

Real property, expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, and contaminant

Question 12

What are the 3 strategies to tackle Transportation issue during design and planning?

Answer 12

1. Choose a site adjacent to mass transit
2. Limit parking capacity
3. Encourage bicycling

Question 13

What are the 4 strategies to tackle Transportation issue during Operations and Maintenance?

Answer 13

1. Encourage carpooling
2. Encourage or provide alternative fuel vehicle
3. Incentive building user/employees - parking discount for multi-occupancy vehicles
4. Support alternative vehicles

Question 14

How to calculate Walking and Bicycling distance?

Answer 14

Shortest path analysis, including safety, convenience, and obstruction to movement

Question 15

What are included in total vehicle parking capacity?

Answer 15

Off-street parking available for the project occupants and visitors

Question 16

What should be documented in Transportation strategies?

Answer 16

1. Walking and bicycling distance
2. Total vehicle parking capacity
3. Preferred parking

Question 17

What are included as Pedestrian Infrastructure?

Answer 17

Sidewalk, crosswalk, weather surface footpaths or equivalent pedestrian facilities

Question 18

What are included as bicycle infrastructures?

Answer 18

On-street bike lanes, off-street bike paths and trails, streets with low speed limits

Question 19

What are the 8 strategies for Neighborhood Pattern and Design?

Answer 19

1. Design walkable streets
2. Include pedestrian amenities
3. Use compact development strategies
4. Promote connectivity
5. Provide a diverse community
6. Provide diverse land use
7. Support access to sustainable food
8. Ensure all residents have easy access to grocery stores

Question 20

How to design walkable streets?

Answer 20

Make it appealing to pedestrians by:

Limiting speed limit, design building facing to wide sidewalks, building height-to-street-width ratio

Question 21

What are pedestrian amenities

Answer 21

Shade, benches, trees

Question 22

What does it mean by compact development strategies?

Answer 22

Increase the number of residential units and commercial square footage by acre

Question 23

How to promote neighborhood connectivity?

Answer 23

Limit culs-de-sac and gates communities