Showing papers on "Occupancy published in 1985"

Trends and fluctuations in visitor flows to Yorkshire and Humberside hotels: an analysis of daily bed occupancy rates, 1982-1984.

Abstract: Jeffrey D (1985) Trends and fluctuations in visitor flows to Yorkshire and Humberside hotels; an analysis of daily bed occupancy rates, 1982–4, Reg Studies 19, 509–522 It is argued that the formulation of planning policy for tourism requires detailed information on the temporal characteristics of tourist flows Through an analysis of daily bed occupancy rates in seventy-nine hotels in Yorkshire and Humberside over the time period April 1982 to March 1984, temporal patterns of visitor flows are identified Hotels are differentiated with respect to their overall occupancy levels, the nature and intensity of their seasonal and weekly occupancy patterns, and their changing occupancy performance over the time period The simplicity and clarity of the spatial and temporal patterns identified prompt the search for the causal factors involved and the policy implications to be derived

Large office buildings and their changing occupancy, King Street, Toronto, 1880-1950

Abstract: Between 1880 and 1931 the silhouette of Toronto's King Street changed dramatically from a relatively uniform commercial artery to a jagged canyon with office buildings of vastly different size, the tallest of which were seven, fourteen, twenty and then thirty-four storeys high. Although other important office buildings were constructed in the downtown district, the transformation of two blocks of King Street around Y onge symbolized the emergence of a new phase of Toronto's economy and the growth of clerical work as an important segment of the city's employment mix. This paper examines these new office buildings not as isolated structures with specific technological and aesthetic pedigrees' but as a landscape ensemble that contained a complex and dynamic set of establishments. In so doing it argues that the demand for office space, which fueled pressure for newer and larger buildings, has been an underrated element in the understanding of the emergence of the tall office building.'

Guidelines for estimating the cost effectiveness of high occupancy vehicle lanes

Abstract: District offices of the Texas State Department of Highways and Public Transportation have sponsored research into high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane cost effectiveness in Houston, Dallas and San Antonio. Many of these projects have utilized the freeway operations simulation capabilities of the FREQ7 computer model as a tool to assist in the cost effectiveness assessment. This report documents the process used to derive guidelines for estimation of HOV lane project benefit/cost ratios. An extensive radial freeway FREQ7 model data base was combined with an economic analysis of benefits and costs for barrier-separated HOV lane facilities. The data are intended to provide information to highway and transit planners concerning the potential viability of HOV lanes. The guidelines developed offer a means of initially screening freeways to determine whether more detailed and costly HOV feasibility studies are warranted.

Evaluation of Available Data, for, *Probabilistic Risk Assessments (PRA) of Fire Events at Nuclear Power Plants

Abstract: Several crucial parameters are needed in the assessment of fire risk in nuclear power plants. Among those that need to be developed from a data base are: (1) fire frequency, (2) fire detection time, and (3) fire suppression time. Currently, the data base for nuclear power plants is not large enough to develop these parameters, considering fuel location, fuel geometry, combustion properties, enclosure geometry, etc. This study attempts to augment the nuclear data base by investigating the usefulness of other nonnuclear data bases which contain fire incident loss experience of occupancy classes having somewhat similar physical features and fire protection engineering systems normally found in nuclear power plants. This study has found that indeed some useful information can be gleaned from nonnuclear sources; in particular, detection and suppression times. However, other fire-risk data needs such as fire frequency and fire size would require other forms of data searches and data analyses that at this stage can only be conceptualized.