Municipal adaptation to changing curbside demands: Exploratory findings from semi-structured interviews with ten U.S. cities

Butrina, Polina; Vine, Scott Le; Henao, Alejandro; Sperling, Joshua; Young, Stanley

doi:10.1016/j.tranpol.2020.03.005

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“…They also found that as cities shift to the framework model, they reimagine their curb management governance structures and workforce distribution (6). Butrina et al (7) interviewed staff at 10 municipalities, finding that eight had restructured departments and increased staff to deal with new curbspace management pressures. They also reported significant challenges with interpreting curb data, enforcing regulations, and coordinating various agencies responsible for the curb.…”

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Curbspace Management Challenges and Opportunities from Public and Private Sector Perspectives

Diehl

Ranjbari

Goodchild

2021

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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With rapid growth in on-demand delivery, ridehailing, and shared mobility use, cities are observing dramatic increases in demand for curbspace. In response, cities and private companies have proposed a diverse range of structural, policy and technology solutions to manage the curb lane more efficiently. Through structured interviews with public agency and private company staff and a review of existing pilot project evaluations and curb management guidelines, this study surveys contemporary approaches to curbspace management in 14 U.S. cities and documents the challenges and opportunities associated with them. A total of 17 public agencies (including public works departments, transportation agencies, and metropolitan planning organizations) in every census region of the U.S.A., and 10 technology companies were interviewed. The results show that the top curb management concerns among public officials are enforcement and communication, data collection and management, and interagency coordination. Interviewees reported success with policies such as allocating zones for passenger pick-ups and drop-offs, incentives for off-peak delivery, and requiring data sharing in exchange for reservable or additional curb spaces. Technology company representatives discussed new tools and technologies for curb management, including smart parking reservation systems, occupancy sensors and cameras, and automated enforcement. Both public and private sector staff expressed a desire for citywide policy goals around curb management, more consistent curb regulations across jurisdictions, and a common data standard for encoding curb information.

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Curbspace Management Challenges and Opportunities from Public and Private Sector Perspectives

Diehl

Ranjbari

Goodchild

2021

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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“…The interview protocol design for this study was based on these best practices as well as others: asking open-ended questions, pursuing depth in relevant topics, and building trust and rapport ( 49 ). Protocol approaches used in other qualitative transportation research were also reviewed to include discipline-specific practices ( 8 , 50 ). The interview protocol included other questions that were not focused specifically on equity approaches, but an equity subsection was explicitly designed to ask questions focused on participants’ background, general experiences in their daily roles as transportation professionals, and their specific experiences related to the three research questions.…”

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Approaches and Barriers to Addressing Equity in Transportation: Experiences of Transportation Practitioners

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Daly

Reed

et al. 2021

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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The importance of advancing transportation equity has become more visible as other structural inequities in our society have received increasing attention. Articulating approaches that practitioners use to address equity in their work, including experience-based strategies and research-developed equity metrics, contribute to supporting the achievement of transportation equity goals. However, a gap exists between knowing these approaches and integrating them into regular professional practice, in part because of barriers that span across different transportation-related contexts. To investigate practitioners’ approaches to transportation equity, as well as barriers they encounter in trying to achieve improved equity, interviews were conducted with 59 transportation practitioners from the public, private, non-profit, and academic sectors. Findings revealed that a majority of the transportation practitioners in the study engaged in addressing equity in their work, including through collaborating with other organizations and sectors, integrating non-transportation-related data, and considering the contextual needs of vulnerable communities. They identified key barriers to their implementation of transportation equity approaches, including the lack of sufficient and quality equity-related data, challenges with accessing and collecting data, and a lack of standards and metrics for measuring equity-related outcomes. These findings can guide work that supports the explicit integration of transportation equity approaches into practitioners’ practices.

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“…The semistructured interview was selected since it enables researchers to collect the information from individuals (e.g. their practices, beliefs, or opinions) (Cohen, 2006;Harrel and Bradley, 2012;Butrina, Le Vine, Henao, Sperling & Young, 2020).…”

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Portfolio-Based Assessment in English Language Learning: Highlighting the Students’ Perceptions

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Portfolio-based Assessment (hereafter, PBA) plays an indispensable role in language assessment. PBA represents the development of the students’ learning process outcomes, trains autonomous learning, and stimulates metacognitive awareness. Conversely, a few investigative attempts, addressed the students’ perceptions of PBA in the Indonesian EFL Context. Therefore, this study aimed to decipher the perceptions of EFL students in Indonesia on PBA use in the English subject. Empirically speaking, two female students were involved as the participants in this study. The data were collected through a semi-structured interview and analyzed with Thematic Analysis (TA) (Braun & Clarke, 2006). The findings revealed that students articulated their perceptions in three major themes, namely developing self-monitoring from the students’ learning processes, generating discipline, responsible and autonomous language learning attitudes, and mitigating perceptual mismatches among teachers and students. Pedagogically speaking, this study indicates that PBA employment can provide opportunities for students to monitor their learning progress, and enhance their self-confidence and learning motivation.

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Municipal adaptation to changing curbside demands: Exploratory findings from semi-structured interviews with ten U.S. cities

Cited by 23 publications

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Curbspace Management Challenges and Opportunities from Public and Private Sector Perspectives

Curbspace Management Challenges and Opportunities from Public and Private Sector Perspectives

Approaches and Barriers to Addressing Equity in Transportation: Experiences of Transportation Practitioners

Portfolio-Based Assessment in English Language Learning: Highlighting the Students’ Perceptions

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