Year: 2004
Type: dissertation
Abstract: In the last three decades the global population has been growing at an essentially constant rate, at around 1.5 per cent per year, to about 6.026 billion in 2000 when it was estimated that 47% of that population live in an urban environment.Further, a United Nations' projection indicates that 60% of the total global population may be living in an urban settlement by the year 2025.This increasing urbanisation brings with it increased employment, that delivers affluence, which then continues the cycle of migration and movement to these growing metropolitan areas in both developed and developing countries.As cities increase in population and expand their urban area, there is a consequential expansion of urban transportation and accompanying service infrastructure.People travel daily, irrespective of their vast differences in culture, economic conditions and means of transportation.This daily mobility is sought for its own sake as well as to bridge the spatial distance that separates their homes from the work place, to accomplish their household's domestic needs and to undertake social journeys, such as visiting friends and taking holidays.viii Appendix 1.6This Appendix contains the independent primary data for 1995 -1996 for 47 international cities taken from Kenworthy and Laube (2001).This Appendix forms part two of the independent data set used to verify the model equations and contains the new cities not used Appendices 1.1 to 1.4.It also shows the Buckingham (1914) dimensionless Pi group ratios developed by application of Stull's (1988) procedure. Appendix 1.7This Appendix contains the combined 1960/61 to 1990/91 primary data used to develop the private motorised urban mobility model equation, Equation 4.10 and Equation 4.11. Appendix 1.8This Appendix contains the combined 1960/61 to 1990/91 primary data set used to develop the public transport mobility model equation, Equation 5.8. Appendix 1.9This Appendix contains the independent data Kenworthy and Laube (2001) set used to validate the private motorised mobility model equation, Equation 4.11. Appendix 1.10This Appendix contains the independent data Kenworthy and Laube (2001) set used to validate the public transport model equation, Equation 5.8. Appendix 1.11This Appendix contains the independent data Kenworthy and Laube (2001) set used to establish and validate the non-motorised transport model equation Equation 5.17. Appendix 1A -Sherrod model runsThis Appendix contains the Sherrod (1995) Nonlinear Regression Analysis Program (NLREG©®) mobility model runs for Equation 4.8, Equation 4.9, Equation 4.10, Equation 4.11, Equation 5.8 and Equation 5.17.Print outs are shown in Appendix 14.1, 14.2 and 14.3.Sherrod's computer program is protected by a License Agreement.To run, a test version of Sherrod's software may be accessed from www.sandh.com
Author: Iain Cameron
Language: English
Subfield: Transportation
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funders: Strong, Murdoch University
OpenAlex ID: W1508654999