Toronto City Committee wants e-scooters barred from sidewalks

加拿大的共享电动滑板还没启动,多伦多市政厅已经开始讨论不允许这些滑板车停在人行道上了。Barring e-scooters from city sidewalks,recom mendedb yacitycom mitteeon M onday, wouldmake it impossib le to introduce the concept to Toronto,according to the CEO of Bird Canada, an e-scooter company hoping to launch here in the spring of2 0 2 0.

城市道路人行道设计——以长沙人民西路为例(英文)

Contents of urban road landscapes were introduced from 3 perspectives of natural landscape elements,constructed landscape elements and historic landscape elements,and functions of urban road landscapes analyzed.Sidewalk of the West Renmin Road in Changsha City of Hunan Province was taken for example to elaborate design principles of urban sidewalk landscapes.It was proposed that urban cultures and local spirits have various connotations,such as historic traditions,environment background and neighboring objects,which are maintained in the memories of local residents in the form of historic relics,traditions,spirits,concepts and folk customs.These cultures and spirits are passed down from generation to generation and can be found in all corners of streets and lanes,but cannot be simply replaced by sculptures or garden settings.The fever of large-scale artificial sculpture in present construction of urban public spaces in China was criticized.

Investigation and Evaluation of the Pedestrian Space in the Old Town of Nanjing

This paper studied the current situation of the pedestrian space in the old town of Nanjing, analyzed problems of the pedestrian space and reasons causing these problems based on the research results, and proposed main points requiring special attention and solutions to these problems.

几何物语 Sidewalk Labs多伦多办公室及公众活动区

Lebel&Bouliane作为一家综合性的设计公司,善于将建筑文化、景观自然和城市精神整合在建筑和室内空间创作中,通过革命性的设计来推动人们对空间的再认识和再发现。在加拿大多伦多Sidewalk Labs的新总部设计中,他们打破传统办公空间严谨的秩序感和理性的空间围合,将具有解构主义意味的设计元素植入室内空间设计,为这间本身就具有实验性的公司打造了独一无二的办公空间。

Managing sidewalk pavement maintenance:A case study to increase pedestrian safety

Comfort is a major requirement in planning pedestrian facilities. Pedestrians walk where they feel comfortable and when they do not feel at ease, they walk elsewhere. A typical example is that filthy, distressed, or too narrow sidewalks induce pedestrians to walk on carriageways. This behaviour jeopardizes road safety and highly dangerous to most users, leave them vulnerable. Unsuitable pavements can be the result of irregular maintenance operations to restore evenness after shock damage, weather phenomena, installation of equipment （e.g., posts, fences, urban furniture） with a reduction of walkable surface, or substandard repair work on pavements and patches due to emergency operations. These problems can be solved with an appropriate maintenance management system, which optimizes financial resources to make smart decisions about how to intervene with an adequate and lasting maintenance operation. This paper defines an evaluation index for sidewalk conditions as a part of an efficient set-up of a Sidewalk Management System, which is similar to the better known Road Management System. The study relies on sur- veys, as well as the classification and analysis of sidewalk distresses. The authors adapted an index already standardized by ASTM for roads and airports： the Pavement Condition Index （PCI）. PCI has been modified to consider the specific types on the sidewalks studied within this paper. To validate the method, a case study of a residential district in Rome, Italy, was carried out. The chosen area lacks regular maintenance and has therefore resulted in a network of unsafe sidewalks. Frequent detour routes were surveyed and related to the level of distresses within a general assessment of safety. This study con- centrates on sidewalks with flexible pavements because this type of pavement is the only one adopted in the survey areas and, in general, throughout Italy.

Methodology and evidence from a case study in Rome to increase pedestrian safety along home-to-school routes

Home-to-school routes are very sensitive areas: they represent, for children, a learning tool for their everyday activities, but if poorly designed, maintained and equipped they can expose them to traffic risks. Sidewalks' inappropriate level of service and poor maintenance, especially, are main factors contributing to walking unsuitability, thus to poor comfort and safety levels for young pedestrians, and more in general for all the vulnerable non-motorized road users. This paper deals with a methodology specifically developed to highlight the quality of the urban environment where the home-to-school routes are located, according to four main criteria: wellbeing, usage, appearance, and safety and security. Each criterion is associated with a checklist including the most relevant features to assess, with a focus on maintenance as a key parameter to create safe and comfortable routes to school. An application, a case study in Rome, where the lack of regular maintenance results into a network of unsafe sidewalks, is also presented, analyzing three different areas where a number of schools are located. Detours when approaching school premises were surveyed, due to the levels of distresses and linked to the poor comfort and safety levels. As the mutual influence of built environment over road safety and maintenance requirements for home-to-school paths is not largely investigated thus far, the paper's goal is to provide advanced knowledge for studies and applications further afield.

OpenStreetMap data quality enrichment through awareness raising and collective action tools——experiences from a European project

Nowadays,several research projects show interest in employing volunteered geographic information(VGI)to improve their systems through using up-to-date and detailed data.The European project CAP4Access is one of the successful examples of such international-wide research projects that aims to improve the accessibility of people with restricted mobility using crowdsourced data.In this project,OpenStreetMap(OSM)is used to extend OpenRouteService,a well-known routing platform.However,a basic challenge that this project tackled was the incompleteness of OSM data with regards to certain information that is required for wheelchair accessibility(e.g.sidewalk information,kerb data,etc.).In this article,we present the results of initial assessment of sidewalk data in OSM at the beginning of the project as well as our approach in awareness raising and using tools for tagging accessibility data into OSM database for enriching the sidewalk data completeness.Several experiments have been carried out in different European cities,and discussion on the results of the experiments as well as the lessons learned are provided.The lessons learned provide recommendations that help in organizing better mapping party events in the future.We conclude by reporting on how and to what extent the OSM sidewalk data completeness in these study areas have benefited from the mapping parties by the end of the project.