National Center for Smart Growth

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The National Center for Smart Growth (NCSG) works to advance the notion that research, collaboration, engagement and thoughtful policy development hold the key to a smarter and more sustainable approach to urban and regional development. NCSG is based at the University of Maryland, College Park, housed under the School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, with support from the College of Agriculture & Natural Resources, the A. James Clark School of Engineering, the School of Public Policy, and the Office of the Provost.

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Seeing the Elephant: Multi-disciplinary Measures of Urban Sprawl

Clifton, Kelly; Ewing, Reid; Knaap, Gerrit; Song, Yan (2005)

In this paper we review and discuss multiple approaches of measuring urban sprawl. Our intent is not to propose new measures or methods but to present in a single paper an overview of approaches to measuring sprawl taken ...
Wireless Alerts for Flash Flood Warnings and the Impact on Car Accidents

Ferris, Jeffrey; Newburn, David (2016)

Wireless alerts delivered through mobile phones are a recent innovation in regulatory efforts toward preparation for extreme weather events including flash floods. In this article, we use difference-in-differences models ...
Why We Should Care About Traffic

Ewing, Reid (2006)

Moving traffic efficiently is something transportation planners should know and care about, because our "customers" (the traveling public) find traffic so frustrating and because competent traffic engineers aren't always around.
Tool for Assessing Station Characteristics (TASC): Identifying Service Quality Improvements at Transit Stops and Stations

Iseki, Hiroyuki (2012)

This particular poster presentation describes a web-based analysis tool that is hosted by the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies and is publicly available to transit agencies interested in identifying which service ...
An Evaluation Procedure for Mutually Exclusive Highway Safety Alternatives under Different Policy Objectives

Khasnabis, Snehamay; Mishra, Sabyasachee; Safi, Chirag (2012)

The purpose of evaluating mutually exclusive alternatives is to select the one with the highest benefits for implementation. A number of analytic techniques are available for such evaluation purposes. Four such techniques: ...