To promote the utilization of maternal health services and reduce financial barriers, the Laos government introduced its "Free Maternal Health Services Policy" in 2012. This policy provides free maternal health services for pregnant women, which includes costs related to treatment, transportation, food fees, referral and an incentive for four antenatal care appointments. This study aims to asce...

The National Transportation System (NTS), an outgrowth of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA), is proposed in this research as an analytical tool to guide national transportation policy-making. The NTS must be based upon measures of transportation performance that are intermodal, user-oriented,. and suitable for tracking the environmental, social, and economic o...

The Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board is issuing final guidelines to assist the Department of Justice to establish accessibility standards for new construction and alterations in places of public accommodation and commercial facilities, as required by title III the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990. The guidelines will ensure that newly constructed and alter...

The passage of welfare reform renewed a long-standing debate over whether improved public transit would significantly lessen the length of time that people remain on welfare. Language of the act reflects an assumption that it would. On the other hand, the automobile provides such a high level of service and is so widely available even to the poor that it is difficult to comprehend how improved ...

Vehicle Ad-hoc Network (VANET) has recently received a lot of attention as the fundamental technology of Intelligent Transportation System. Among other characteristics of VANET, the rapid mobility particularly causes the problem of time constraint in delivery of data, thereby resulting in the low data accessibility. Therefore, the requested service is likely to suffer from poor performance. Thi...

For offshore wind power generation, accessibility is one of the main factors that has great impact on operation and maintenance due to constraints on weather conditions for marine transportation. This paper presents a framework to explore the accessibility of an offshore site. At first, several maintenance types are defined and taken into account. Next, a data visualization procedure is introdu...

This paper presents OnRoute, a framework for developing and running ubiquitous software that provides information services to passengers of public transportation, including payment systems and on-route guidance services. To achieve a high level of interoperability, accessibility and context awareness, OnRoute uses the ubiquitous computing paradigm. To guarantee the quality of the software produ...

Modern urban regions are highly complex entities. Despite the difficulty of modeling every relevant aspect of an urban region, researchers have produced a rich variety of models dealing with interrelated processes of urban change. The most popular types of models have been those dealing with the relationship between transportation network growth and changes in land use and the location of econo...

Transportation networks are one of the most vulnerable civil infrastructures during an earthquake and estimation traffic impacts in post-earthquake scenario is a crucial aspect context risk assessment evaluation remedial measures. In this paper, methodology presented, combining GIS tools, probabilistic seismic analysis simulation models, which able to assess direct indirect (social) costs: brid...

is one of ten regional units mandated by Congress and estabIished in Fall 1988 to support research, education, and training in surface transportation. The UC Center serves federal Region IX and is supported by matching grants from the l_J. Los Angeles campuses. Faculty and students on other University of California campuses may participate in Center activities. Researchers at other universities...