Boost resilience of small and mid-sized cities

Adapting ITIL to Small- and Mid-Sized Enterprises

Impacts of Bicycle Infrastructure in Mid-Sized Cities (IBIMS): protocol for a natural experiment study in three Canadian cities

INTRODUCTION Bicycling is promoted as a transportation and population health strategy globally. Yet bicycling has low uptake in North America (1%-2% of trips) compared with European bicycling cities (15%-40% of trips) and shows marked sex and age trends. Safety concerns due to collisions with motor vehicles are primary barriers.To attract the broader population to bicycling, many cities are mak...

Terrorism and the Resilience of Cities

from land and housing prices, and interpret transport costs broadly to include the costs of consuming a wide variety of goods. For goods that are available only in the city (such as fine restaurants and unique entertainment), their cost for those outside the city includes airfare and hotel bills. 14. There is one other equilibrium between and where the real wage gap is zero, but it is unstable....

[Mental Healthcare in small and medium-sized cities: resonance of the psychiatric reform].

From the analysis of the national Mental Health policy, formulated in the past years, and from the experiences developed after 1987, it is sought to: understand how Brazilian Health System has contributed to the development of the psychiatric reform in towns; verify how the assistance offered in those towns is making the psychiatric reform principles feasible as well as improving the users livi...

Planning and Deploying Transit Signal Priority in Small and Medium-Sized Cities: Burlington, Vermont, Case Study

Innovations in traffic signal systems have generated a great deal of interest in the provision of preferential traffic signal strategies and treatments for transit buses and other vehicles at signalized intersections in cities of all sizes. The primary objective of this paper is three fold: 1) to synthesize the literature of the lessons learned associated with planning and deploying transit sig...