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Stakeholder involvement in decision-making process: a test assessment towards transition to autonomous vehicles
No full textDiverse stakeholder participation in transport planning is beneficial but difficult to achieve, as it deals with various levels of government, operators, users, and other interested parties. Furthermore, such planning is confined by issues of geography, economics and human demand, and in the case of transport it must integrate with other territorial constraints.
The authors had an opportunity to carry out an accompanying research while municipalities or regional agencies establish a widened stakeholder involvement framework for municipalities including their surrounding ones, known as Functional Urban Area (FUA).
In this process, aiming at optimizing commuter traffic, participating institutions are trying to set up a coordinating structure among various stakeholder in each FUA. To optimize the commuter traffic, a various new types of mobility services are considered as potential implementations such as ride sharing, car sharing, bike sharing, etc., as well as classical types of transport services such as public transport.
In this paper, we present what kind of role each stakeholder can play for different types of measures towards environment-friendly commuter traffic. Following this, we present an assessment about how it may change along with the penetration of higher-level autonomous vehicles (AVs). It will add some extra roles to public authorities compared to today, especially as regulators and financers. Stakeholder involvement to address questions arising with the penetration of AVs onto the street will have to be carried out in a step-wise manner, starting with those having with endogenous motivation for sustainable mobility, and then being extended to further stakeholders
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Die Förderung des Zu Fuss Gehens als wesentliches Element einer zukunftsfähigen Umwelt- und Verkehrspolitik für die Stadt Wien (ZEUS)
No full textVariations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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