A gravity model integrating high-speed rail and seismic-hazard mitigation through land-use planning: Application to California development

Wang, Chih-Hao; Chen, Na; Chan, Shih-Liang

doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2017.02.009

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“…The topic has attracted the interest of academics and politicians with regard to local and community development [23], which can be seen from a socio-ecological perspective as involving attributes related to persistence, change, unpredictability, and multiple equilibria [22], in which disturbances to the system have the potential to create opportunities to develop new solutions incorporating the ideas of adaptation, learning, and self-organization [40].…”

Section: Resilience and Vulnerability Conceptsmentioning

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“…The importance of recognizing areas of high vulnerability and improving their resilience by mitigating risks has attracted the interest, regarding local and community development, of academic and political circles [23]. The reason is that resilience not only involves persistence, but also the opportunities that threats bring in terms of the recombination of structures and processes, renovation of systems, and emerging trajectories [40].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Resilience and Vulnerability of Public Transportation Fare Systems: The Case of the City of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

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Resilience is the ability of a system to adapt, persist, and transform as a reaction to threats, which may be external or internal to the system, while vulnerability is the state of being susceptible to harm from exposure to stresses associated with environmental and social change and from the inability to adapt. Based on a study of the threats that can affect urban mobility, we identified a gap regarding the analysis of the levels of resilience and vulnerability in the face of subsidy threats that can severely affect developing countries. This article measures the level of resilience and vulnerability due to the absence of public transport fare subsidies. For this purpose, we developed an approach based on fuzzy logic and applied it in 33 administrative regions (ARs) of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. We obtained four matrices of the levels of vulnerability and resilience of each of the regions as an origin and destination. The results show that areas nearest to the downtown region and those with high-capacity transportation available (commuter train and/or subway, systems with many transfer points) are more resilient, while a high level of vulnerability is associated with low income, negative socioeconomic indicators, and the predominance of road transportation to reach jobs. The contribution of this paper is the method applied to analyse the levels of vulnerability and resilience of public transport, which includes a threat that can cause a rupture that impacts routines and job accessibility in a region.

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Resilience and Vulnerability of Public Transportation Fare Systems: The Case of the City of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

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“…From the perspective of planning, it is extremely important to recognize and to reduce the vulnerability of a city through land-use planning and therefore foster urban resilience by improving the city's resilient abilities. This has increasingly become a focus of research interest in the academic and policy circles (Wang et al, 2017). Table 1 compares the advantages and drawbacks of the two important seismic mitigation approaches: (1) mitigation theory, by enhancing building resistance and applying a stricter building code, and (2) avoidance theory, by locating future growth away from hazardous locations (Fulton and Shigley, 2005).…”

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“…On the other hand, the avoidance theory can be implemented through land-use planning by restricting the allocation of future activities to seismic hazardous locations (Kent, 1964;Wang et al, 2017). To serve this purpose, several land-use planning approaches have been demonstrated in the above-mentioned studies to reduce potential seismic damages.…”

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Does compact development promote a seismic-resistant city? Application of seismic-damage statistical models to Taichung, Taiwan

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2018

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

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This study examines whether compact development promotes a seismic-resistant city. A statistical model is used to simulate seismic damages under four spatial structure scenarios for Taichung, Taiwan. The existing floor areas of various land uses are allowed to be reallocated for reshaping the spatial structure of the city. This provides an opportunity to find an urban structure that would best resist seismic impacts similar to what have occurred during the past 100 years. The results suggest a polycentric compact form for seismic mitigation. This form, derived from the vision of Taichung, would have less seismic damages by shifting floor areas from the city center to three proposed subcenters, far away from most seismic impacts. One weakness is the seismic impacts from the north. The results also reveal that a monocentric compact form would incur more damages because the downtown area is essentially seismic-vulnerable. This paper advocates the application of a stricter building code in the downtown area. The local government should also not render additional building bulk as an incentive for urban renewal.

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“…Moreover, some literature has investigated the balance of HSR and its impact mechanism. The agglomeration and spillover differences in different cities and towns will lead to the imbalance of economic development, resulting in the Matthew effect [ 10 , 23 , 24 , 25 ]. Ureña and Vickerman’s studies have shown that large- and medium-sized cities will benefit more than small cities from HSR operation [ 26 , 27 ].…”

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Evaluation of China’s High-Speed Rail Station Development and Nearby Human Activity Based on Nighttime Light Images

Liu

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High-speed rail (HSR) represents China’s advancing productivity; however, quite a few HSR stations face problems due to inappropriate planning and limited passenger flow. To optimize future planning on HSR lines and stations and facilitate efficient operation, we used brightness as a representative of station development and nearby human activity, analyzing its spatial and temporal distribution, classification categories, and influencing factors of 980 stations using nighttime light images from 2012 to 2019. The following conclusions were drawn: (1) There are 41 stations with high brightness between 80 and 320 nW·cm−2·sr−1, which are concentrated in provincial capitals, large cities, and at line ends. The overall number of these stations increases by 57% in the past eight years. (2) Stations with high brightness but minimal changes that opened in 2013–2019 are mainly concentrated in provincial capitals and large- or medium-sized cities, and those with high brightness and significant changes are mostly new stations nearby. More than 70% of stations that started HSR operation before or in 2012 have high brightness. (3) Brightness positively correlates with the number of daily trains, and it changes faster at stations with more daily trains. It changes most within 0–1 year after HSR operation opening and exhibits a relatively slow but long-term increase over the next 2–6 years.

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A gravity model integrating high-speed rail and seismic-hazard mitigation through land-use planning: Application to California development

Cited by 23 publications

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Resilience and Vulnerability of Public Transportation Fare Systems: The Case of the City of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

Resilience and Vulnerability of Public Transportation Fare Systems: The Case of the City of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

Does compact development promote a seismic-resistant city? Application of seismic-damage statistical models to Taichung, Taiwan

Evaluation of China’s High-Speed Rail Station Development and Nearby Human Activity Based on Nighttime Light Images

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