PUBLIC ENTRANCE ACCESSIBILITY: ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENT TO SUPPORT PARTICIPATION FOR ALL

Requirements for a Public Participation Support System

Citizens are increasingly looking for more direct involvement in the decisions that affect their collective well-being. Political representatives, official entities and experts are no longer considered to be the only ones responsible to make decisions regarding local policy issues. The challenge is to allow thousands of potential participants (citizens) to engage in the discussion of those issu...

Public Participation in Geocomputation to Support Spatial Decision-making

The extent to which computational modelling has influenced and been a part of decision-making in geography and urban planning has a long and distinguished history, as outlined by Geertman and Stillwell (2009) and Batty and Brail (2008) amongst others. With more recent advances in visualisation techniques and the ability of computers to manipulate, process and analyse increasingly complex and gr...

A Multi-stage Collaborative 3D GIS to Support Public Participation

This paper presents a collaborative 3D GIS to support public participation. Realizing that public-involved decision making is often a multi-stage process, the proposed system is designed to provide coherent support for collaborations in the different stages. We differentiate ubiquitous participation and intensive participation, and identify their suitable application stages. The proposed system...

Public Participation: Methods Matter; A Response to Boaz et al.

Availability and Accessibility Assessment of Public Transit System in Jaipur City

Majority of the million plus cities in India are facing serious problems of traffic congestion and pollution due to the unprecedented and rapid pace of urbanization in last decade. City planners are providing solution to these twin problems by developing Mass Rapid Transit System including Metro and BRT in many Indian Metropolitan cities. The availability of transit network and pedestrian acces...