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Item Complete Streets in Delaware: A Guide for Local Governments(2012-01-31) Scott, Marcia; Beck, Claire; Rabidou, BrandonThis resource, Complete Streets in Delaware: A Guide for Local Governments, is intended to help Delaware towns, cities, and counties achieve complete streets in order to provide more balance transportation systems and to create healthy, livable environments for pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit riders of all ages and abilities.Item Healthy Communities: The Comprehensive Plan Assessment Tool(2010-12-22) Beck, ClaireThe Healthy Communities Comprehensive Plan Assessment Tool is a checklist‐based document designed to aid Delaware municipalities in the process of writing comprehensive plans that emphasize planning for and building healthier communities. This tool is intended for use by local government officials, planning commissions, or other individuals involved in writing or updating their community’s comprehensive plan. By focusing on policy initiatives and urban design guidelines that can increase physical activity and encourage healthier lifestyles, the Comprehensive Plan Assessment Tool will ultimately result in comprehensive plans that set the stage for a new era of health‐focused community planning. One goal of this Assessment Tool is to stress that planning for healthy communities is about more than just walkability. There are several elements of community planning and design that contribute to whether or not a particular community fosters healthy lifestyles. Many of these elements are included in the focal item of this document, the Comprehensive Plan Healthy‐ Community Checklist. This checklist provides a user‐friendly format for guidance and review during the comprehensive‐planning process.Item Multimodal level of service for suburban areas: measurement methodology and case studies(University of Delaware, 2011) Beck, ClaireLevel of service is a way of measuring how well a transportation facility serves its users. For the driver of a motor vehicle, level of service is most dependent on the congestion and delay characteristics of a roadway. However, for other transportation users—such as pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit riders—factors outside of congestion are often more important to the level of service that a facility provides. Multimodal level of service measurement methodologies, which focus largely on non-automobile modes, have garnered increased attention and research efforts within the past few decades, and a number of qualitative and quantitative methodologies are now available. These multimodal level of service projects and methodologies are part of a larger movement in transportation planning and engineering to build a more multimodal, less car-dependent transportation system, particularly in the United States. This thesis expands on recent multimodal level of service research by developing and testing a new multimodal level of service methodology specifically tailored to suburban areas. Through literature research, public participation, and field and remote data collection, the new multimodal LOS methodology was tested in two cases studies conducted in Newark, Delaware and Elkton, Maryland. The methodology resulting from this project presents a valid and detail-level measurement tool for multimodal level of service.