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GIS Certification Project

GIS certificates call for an independent research capstone project, spanning much of the academic year.

 

  • Acknowledgements (expanded):

    • Talking Heads/David Byrne -- I tried to cram as many puns in as possible but dropped most of them. (The Nouvelle Vague cover of Road to Nowhere is also a thing of beauty.)

    • I'm not so jingoistic as to forget the peers I've interacted with in the other group as well-- you go cohort section A!

    • I would like to thank the other students who did projects on public transportation since bouncing ideas off one another and seeing how differently others approach similar material helped put my own project into perspective. (Richard Ells, Paul Gerhardt, & Erick Hume)

    • I also appreciate the existence of the GIS lounge/workspace and the feedback of various other students. (Tia Harris Dalton for volunteering as lab manager, technical assistance, and our work collaborating in a concurrent course; Alecia Kuhl for sharing design resources rather than hiding the glorious bounty for herself; and Jacob Atzet, Kerri Hairrell, Rachel Lindahl, Shirley Low, and quite probably others for dealing with an incessant number of feedback questions regarding the ultimate poster layout.)

  • Poster infographic generated in Piktochart, using data from 2013 American Community Survey.

  • Data gathered from a combination of WAGDA, King County, city of Seattle, & the federal census.

  • Self-generated data pieced together from existing images of routes.

  • Below is a list of various resources used in the development of this project. (Speaking of which, I deeply love Zotero for citation management.) Bolded ones were particularly mentioned/used in capstone poster/presentations.

 

  1. Balk, Gene. “Seattle-to-Suburb Commuters Prefer Urban Lifestyle.” The Seattle Times. Accessed May 8, 2015. http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/seattle-to-suburb-commuters-prefer-urban-lifestyle/.

  2. Beekman, Daniel. “2 City Council Candidates Pitch Seattle-Only, Neighborhood Rail Plan.” The Seattle Times. Accessed June 9, 2015. http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/two-city-council-candidates-pitch-seattle-only-neighborhood-rail-plan/.

  3. Blanchard, Leslie F. The Street Railway Era in Seattle: A Chronicle of Six Decades. H. E. Cox, 1968.

  4. Bonjukian, Scott. “The Problematic Proposal for a Seattle Gondola.” The Northwest Urbanist. Accessed May 5, 2015. https://northwesturbanist.wordpress.com/2014/05/22/the-problematic-proposal-for-a-seattle-gondola/.

  5. Clowers, Gordon. “Northgate Urban Design Framework Draft.” City of Seattle Department of Planning and Development, December 2013. http://www.seattle.gov/dpd/cs/groups/pan/@pan/documents/web_informational/p2127183.pdf.

  6. Creative Urban Projects. “Seattle Gondola « The Gondola Project,” September 22, 2011. http://gondolaproject.com/category/proposals-concepts/seattle-gondola/.

  7. Dierwechter, Yonn. “Smart City-Regionalism across Seattle: Progressing Transit Nodes in Labor Space?” Geoforum 49 (October 2013): 139–49. doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.06.008.

  8. Djurhuus, Sune, Henning Hansen, Mette Aadahl, and Charlotte Glümer. “The Association between Access to Public Transportation and Self-Reported Active Commuting.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 11, no. 12 (December 5, 2014): 12632–51. doi:10.3390/ijerph111212632.

  9. El-Geneidy, Ahmed, Michael Grimsrud, Rania Wasfi, Paul Tétreault, and Julien Surprenant-Legault. “New Evidence on Walking Distances to Transit Stops: Identifying Redundancies and Gaps Using Variable Service Areas.” Transportation 41, no. 1 (January 2014): 193–210. doi:10.1007/s11116-013-9508-z.

  10. Ewing, Reid, Guang Tian, Allison Spain, and J. P. Goates. “Effects of Light-Rail Transit on Traffic in a Travel Corridor.” Journal of Public Transportation 17, no. 4 (2014): 93.

  11. Fellesson, Markus, and Margareta Friman. “Perceived Satisfaction with Public Transport Service in Nine European Cities.” In Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, Vol. 47, 2012. http://journals.oregondigital.org/trforum/article/view/2126.

  12. Finkbeiner, Bill. “Light Rail Is Our Best Option to Meet Population Boom.” The Seattle Times. Accessed May 27, 2015. http://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/light-rail-is-our-best-option-to-meet-population-boom/.

  13. Folds, Ben. Battle of Who Could Care Less. CD. Whatever and Ever Amen. 550, 1997.

  14. Grover, Sami. “Seattle’s Streetcar: Modern, Efficient, Mass Transit (Video).” TreeHugger, March 11, 2009. http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/seattles-streetcar-modern-efficient-mass-transit-video.html.

  15. Gutierrez, Scott, and Seattlepi com Staff. “Light Rail to South King Co.? Fuggedaboutit.” Seattlepi.com, May 8, 2011. http://www.seattlepi.com/local/transportation/article/Light-rail-to-south-King-Co-Fuggedaboutit-1369503.php.

  16. HistoryLink. “HistoryLink.org- the Free Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History,” September 19, 2002. http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3961&utm_content=buffer79298&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer.

  17. Houston, D., M. G. Boarnet, G. Ferguson, and S. Spears. “Can Compact Rail Transit Corridors Transform the Automobile City? Planning for More Sustainable Travel in Los Angeles.” Urban Studies 52, no. 5 (April 1, 2015): 938–59. doi:10.1177/0042098014529344.

  18. Inrix. “Traffic Scorecard.” INRIX. Accessed June 5, 2015. http://inrix.com/scorecard/.

  19. Jay-Z, and Alicia Keys. Empire State of Mind. Single. New York, NY: Roc Nation, 2009.

  20. Johnson, Kirk. “Targeting Inequality, This Time on Public Transit.” The New York Times, February 28, 2015. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/us/targeting-inequality-this-time-on-public-transit.html.

  21. Jou, R.-C., D. A. Hensher, Y.-H. Liu, and C.-S. Chiu. “Urban Commuters’ Mode-Switching Behaviour in Taipai, with an Application of the Bounded Rationality Principle.” Urban Studies 47, no. 3 (March 1, 2010): 650–65. doi:10.1177/0042098009351939.

  22. jseattle. “Would You Ride the Capitol Hill Gondola?” CHS Capitol Hill Seattle, February 23, 2012. http://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2012/02/would-you-ride-the-capitol-hill-aerial-cable-lift/.

  23. Kennedy, Steve, SoundTransit, and US DoT Federal Transit Administration. “Lynnwood Link Draft EIS,” July 26, 2013. http://www.soundtransit.org/Documents/pdf/projects/North_hct/Lynnwood%20DEIS/201307_DraftEIS_01_FactSheetTOC.pdf.

    Khan, Mobashwir, Kara M. Kockelman, and Xiaoxia Xiong. “Models for Anticipating Non-Motorized Travel Choices, and the Role of the Built Environment.” Transport Policy 35 (September 2014): 117–26. doi:10.1016/j.tranpol.2014.05.008.

  24. Klingle, Matthew W. “Changing Spaces: Nature, Property, and Power in Seattle, 1880-1945.” Journal of Urban History 32, no. 2 (January 1, 2006): 197–230. doi:10.1177/0096144205281613.

  25. ———. Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle. The Lamar Series in Western History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.

  26. Lai, Wen-Tai, and Ching-Fu Chen. “Behavioral Intentions of Public Transit passengers—The Roles of Service Quality, Perceived Value, Satisfaction and Involvement.” Transport Policy 18, no. 2 (March 2011): 318–25. doi:10.1016/j.tranpol.2010.09.003.

  27. Le, Phuong. “Brake for Salmon? Copper Ban Does.” Msnbc.com. Accessed April 10, 2015. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/36432714/ns/us_news-environment/t/brake-salmon-copper-ban-does/.

  28. Lindblom, Mike. “Gondolas Could Help Seattle Rise above Traffic Mess, Some Say | Seattle Times Newspaper,” February 18, 2013. http://old.seattletimes.com/text/2020384060.html.

  29. McLellan, Andrew, and Damian Collins. “‘If You’re Just a Bus Community … You’re Second Tier’: Motivations for Rapid Mass Transit (RMT) Development in Two Mid-Sized Cities.” Urban Policy and Research 32, no. 2 (April 3, 2014): 203–17. doi:10.1080/08111146.2014.882255.

    Minard, Anne. “Is It Gondola Time in Seattle?” The Stranger, March 4, 2014. http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2014/03/04/is-it-gondola-time-in-seattle.

  30. Page, Stephen B. “Theories of Governance: Comparative Perspectives on Seattle’s Light Rail Project.” Policy Studies Journal 41, no. 4 (2013): 583–607.

  31. Pickford, Owen. “Downtown Seattle Transit Capacity Is At The Breaking Point | The Urbanist,” April 28, 2015. http://www.theurbanist.org/2015/04/28/downtown-seattle-transit-capacity-is-at-the-breaking-point/.

  32. Raymond, A. “Denny Regrade, 1893-2008: A Case Study in Historical GIS.” Social Science History 35, no. 4 (December 1, 2011): 571–97. doi:10.1215/01455532-1381850.

  33. Roewe, Matt. “A Gondola with a Cherry on Top.” Citytank, February 21, 2012. http://citytank.org/2012/02/21/a-gondola-with-a-cherry-on-top/.

  34. “S05_Conversion_of_Tacoma_Link_to_Central_Link_Tech_v2.pdf.” Accessed February 20, 2015. http://www.soundtransit.org/documents/pdf/st2/potential_projects_05_06/S05_Conversion_of_Tacoma_Link_to_Central_Link_Tech_v2.pdf.

  35. Sivakumaran, Karthik, Yuwei Li, Michael Cassidy, and Samer Madanat. “Access and the Choice of Transit Technology.” Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 59 (January 2014): 204–21. doi:10.1016/j.tra.2013.09.006.

  36. Smith, Charles Martin. “Welcome to the Hellmouth.” TV broadcast. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. WB, March 10, 1997.

  37. Staff, Seattle Times. “Seattle’s Streetcar History.” The Seattle Times. Accessed June 3, 2015. http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattles-streetcar-history/.

  38. Talton, Jon. “The Mass-Transit System Seattle Might Have Had.” The Seattle Times, May 20, 2015. http://www.seattletimes.com/business/economy/the-mass-transit-system-seattle-might-have-had-jon-talton/.

  39. “TheaFoss_FEIS_1995.pdf.” Accessed March 20, 2015. http://cms.cityoftacoma.org/planning/Dome-Brewery%20Subarea/TheaFoss_FEIS_1995.pdf.

  40. Thrush, Coll-Peter. Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-over Place. Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007.

  41. Tim, The. “Kiss Single-Family Homes Goodbye If Seattle Keeps Growing.” Seattle Bubble. Accessed April 29, 2015. http://seattlebubble.com/blog/2015/04/24/kiss-single-family-homes-goodbye-if-seattle-keeps-growing/.

  42. Tomer, Adie, Elizabeth Kneebone, Robert Puentes, and Alan Berube. “Missed Opportunity: Transit and Jobs in Metropolitan America.” Brookings, May 12, 2011. http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2011/05/12-jobs-and-transit.

  43. USEIA. “How Much Oil Is Consumed in the United States? - FAQ - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA),” March 12, 2015. http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=33&t=6.

  44. Warren, James R. King County and Its Emerald City, Seattle: An Illustrated History. Tarzana, Calif.: American Historical Press, 1997.

    Worldwatch Institute. “State of the World 2004: Richer, Fatter, and Not Much Happier,” March 11, 2009. http://www.worldwatch.org/node/1785.

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