This paper explores the use of weighted space syntax models to contribute to the process of integrated urban planning for Jeddah as part of a major planning project in the Saudi Arabia. The Municipality of Jeddah commissioned the production of an integrated suite of planning documents. These plans coordinate Strategic, Sub-Regional, Structural and Local plans across a citywide region and aim to...

or many companies, transportation planning is one of the final decisions in the logistics process. Deliveries are decided at the very end of the supply chain, both figuratively and literally speaking, usually at the factory or warehouse from where the consignment is to be collected. As a result, transport planners are focused only on transport orders from their own facility and pay no attention...

National governments have responsibility for national transport infrastructure, including roads, railways, ports and airports, but they also provide the regulatory and governance structure within which regional and local governments, private operators and transport users operate. While there is a considerable literature on infrastructure development for the different modes, there has been relat...

The environment in which transport analysis and infrastructure planning takes place has changed dramatically during the last years. The focus is now, to a considerable extent, on how to transform the transport system in a direction that could be sustainable in the long run, rather than on planning for infrastructure investment to meet new demand. At the same time information technology penetrat...

Here, we collect two parts of a research project on the pedestrian flow modeling. Rapid growth in the volume of public transport and the need for its reasonable, efficient planning have made the description and modeling of transport and pedestrian behaviors as important research topics in the past twenty years. First, we present a macroscopic model for the pedestrian flow based on continuum mec...

Safe transport of the critically ill patient requires accurate assessment and stabilisation of the patient before transport. There should be appropriate planning of transport and optimum utilisation of communications. Safe transport requires the deployment of appropriately trained staff with essential equipment, and effective liaison between referring, transporting and receiving staff at a seni...

INTRODUCTION A growing number of individuals with significant medical histories travel for business and holidays. Precise anticipation and stratification of transport-relevant illness severity in the planning stage of an air medical evacuation is crucial for mission success and patient safety. METHODS We developed a staging system (ie, Stratification of Air Medical Transport by Expression of ...

Introduction Large-scale planning must employ many disparate planning and decision-making systems, operating over disparate databases to solve many disparate problems. The problem of coordinating so many systems and so many users over so many different sites is immense. The fundamental conclusion we have arrived at as a result of our research on deployment transport planning is that Case-Based ...

One of the basic problems in strategic planning of public and rail transport is the line planning problem to find a system of lines and its associated frequencies. The objectives of this planning process are usually manifold and often contradicting. The transport operator wants to minimize cost, whereas passengers want to have travel time shortest routes without any or only few changings betwee...