The 9th Highway and Urban Environment Symposium (9HUES) was held in Madrid, Spain, from 9-11 June 2008. HUES is run by Chalmers University of Technology within the Alliance for Global Sustainability (The AGS). HUES was initiated by Professor Ron Hamilton at Middlesex Polytechnic (now University) in the early 1980s and had the title "Highway Pollution." The initial aim was to measure and assess challenges in highway pollution, with a strong emphasis on urban photochemical smog, ozone formation and particle release. After the first symposium, the emphasis on air pollution issues continued through to Munich in 1989 where diesel particulate issues and the relevance to health through measurements of PM10 emerged. The focus on air quality issues was also strengthened. In parallel, the symposium started to receive an increasing number of scientific contributions from the area of urban run off, indeed to the extent that the title of the symposium was changed to "Highway and Urban Pollution." Since then the importance of science in support of policy became increasingly important as a key aspect of the symposium. 9HUES was held at TRANSyT- Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain to provide a professional and scientific forum on global examples of the science required to support pathways to a positive and sustainable future in the highway and urban environment."

Explore the Design and Operation of Urban Transport Interchanges Transport planners throughout the world can implement a range of policies to influence travelers' behavior, and encourage a move to public transport to achieve urban sustainability and social inclusion. At the same time population growth and urban sprawl exert their own pressures. Quality, accessible and reliable public transport through intermodal trips provides a solution. More than 20% of current commuting trips in Europe are intermodal, and typically between 20% and 30% of trip time is spent in intermodal transfer. Interchange stations are becoming important parts of city infrastructure where people spend time on social or economic activities. Includes Contributions from Numerous Experts in the Field CITY-HUBs: Sustainable and Efficient Urban Transport Interchanges focuses on urban transport interchanges from more than 20 European researchers demonstrates why transport interchanges are crucial for a seamless public transport system. It is based on a broad consultation process to stakeholders of 26 interchanges in 10 different countries, and on tailored surveys to travelers in five of them. It shows travelers how to reduce the negative aspects of transfer by improving information provision and by delivering convenient services and facilities. The book outlines the required steps from interchange planning to operation, and defines the functions, the design of the space for transfer, stay and services, and assesses the needs for different types of interchange. It introduces the evaluation of urban and economic impacts and the identification of users' perceptions to improve interchange efficiency. The most important factors from the user point of view are safety and security, transfer conditions, information, design, services and facilities, environmental quality and comfort. These define the efficiency of the interchange from two different perspectives: as a transport node and as a place. Packed with relevant data and offering step-by-step instruction, this book: Proposes innovative operating strategies for an intermodal services organization (i.e. innovative business model) Explores pilot and test case studies for defining interchanges good practice, and tests them in validation case studies Sets out urban planning guidelines for urban integration of a transport interchange As an advanced guide CITY-HUBs: Sustainable and Efficient Urban Transport Interchanges caters to transport operators, authorities, end-users' organizations and policy makers who are challenged to implement new urban interchanges or to upgrade them.

Explore the Design and Operation of Urban Transport Interchanges Transport planners throughout the world can implement a range of policies to influence travelers' behavior, and encourage a move to public transport to achieve urban sustainability and social inclusion. At the same time population growth and urban sprawl exert their own pressures. Quality, accessible and reliable public transport through intermodal trips provides a solution. More than 20% of current commuting trips in Europe are intermodal, and typically between 20% and 30% of trip time is spent in intermodal transfer. Interchange stations are becoming important parts of city infrastructure where people spend time on social or economic activities. Includes Contributions from Numerous Experts in the Field CITY-HUBs: Sustainable and Efficient Urban Transport Interchanges focuses on urban transport interchanges from more than 20 European researchers demonstrates why transport interchanges are crucial for a seamless public transport system. It is based on a broad consultation process to stakeholders of 26 interchanges in 10 different countries, and on tailored surveys to travelers in five of them. It shows travelers how to reduce the negative aspects of transfer by improving information provision and by delivering convenient services and facilities. The book outlines the required steps from interchange planning to operation, and defines the functions, the design of the space for transfer, stay and services, and assesses the needs for different types of interchange. It introduces the evaluation of urban and economic impacts and the identification of users' perceptions to improve interchange efficiency. The most important factors from the user point of view are safety and security, transfer conditions, information, design, services and facilities, environmental quality and comfort. These define the efficiency of the interchange from two different perspectives: as a transport node and as a place. Packed with relevant data and offering step-by-step instruction, this book: Proposes innovative operating strategies for an intermodal services organization (i.e. innovative business model) Explores pilot and test case studies for defining interchanges good practice, and tests them in validation case studies Sets out urban planning guidelines for urban integration of a transport interchange As an advanced guide CITY-HUBs: Sustainable and Efficient Urban Transport Interchanges caters to transport operators, authorities, end-users' organizations and policy makers who are challenged to implement new urban interchanges or to upgrade them.

The 9th Highway and Urban Environment Symposium (9HUES) was held in Madrid, Spain, from 9-11 June 2008. HUES is run by Chalmers University of Technology within the Alliance for Global Sustainability (The AGS). HUES was initiated by Professor Ron Hamilton at Middlesex Polytechnic (now University) in the early 1980s and had the title "Highway Pollution." The initial aim was to measure and assess challenges in highway pollution, with a strong emphasis on urban photochemical smog, ozone formation and particle release. After the first symposium, the emphasis on air pollution issues continued through to Munich in 1989 where diesel particulate issues and the relevance to health through measurements of PM10 emerged. The focus on air quality issues was also strengthened. In parallel, the symposium started to receive an increasing number of scientific contributions from the area of urban run off, indeed to the extent that the title of the symposium was changed to "Highway and Urban Pollution." Since then the importance of science in support of policy became increasingly important as a key aspect of the symposium. 9HUES was held at TRANSyT- Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain to provide a professional and scientific forum on global examples of the science required to support pathways to a positive and sustainable future in the highway and urban environment. This volume contains papers grouped by topic on ustainable mobility and management; air pollution; trace elements in the environment; urban water contamination, contaminated sites and treatment; urban climate and climate change. "

Uncompromising, hypnotic and darkly humorous, Other Electricities charts a new and strange direction in American fiction. “Like Franklin’s discovery of the electricity we do know, Monson’s luminous, galvanized book represents a paradigm shift. The frequencies of the novel have been scrambled and redefined by this elegant experiment. Other Electricities is a new physics of prose, a lyric string theory of charged and sparkling sentences. What a kite! What a key!”—Michael Martone “Monson is tuned in to our crackling, chaotic, juiced-up times like no other young writer I know. Other Electricities is necessary reading.”—Robert Olen Butler Meet “Yr Protagonist”: radio amateur, sometime vandal and “at times, perhaps the author” of Monson’s category-defying collection: I know about phones. While our dad was upstairs broadcasting something to the world, and we were listening in, or trying to find his frequency and listen to his voice . . . we would give up and go out in the snow with a phone rigged with alligator clips so we could listen in on others’ conversations. There’s something nearly sexual about this, hearing what other people are saying to their lovers, children, cousins, psychics, pastors. . . . The cumulative effect of this stunningly original collection seems to work on the reader in the same way—we follow glimpses of dispossessed lives in the snow-buried reaches of Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, where nearly everyone seems to be slipping away under the ice to disappear forever. Through an unsettling, almost crazed gestalt of sketches, short stories, lists, indices and radio schematics, Monson presents a world where weather, landscape, radio waves and electricity are characters in themselves, affecting a community held together by the memories of those they have lost. Ander Monson is the editor of DIAGRAM and the New Michigan Press. He teaches at Grand Valley State University and lives in Michigan. Tupelo Press recently published his poetry collection, Elegies for Descent and Dreams of Weather.

DIAGRAM.4 is the fourth print installment of the journal DIAGRAM . These texts are selected from years 7 to 9 of the journal, and are joined here by a great many found & recovered diagrams. Contributors: Marcia Aldrich, Steve Barbaro, Douglas Basford, Lindsay Bell, Samantha Bell, Elisabeth Benjamin, Ash Bowen, Jason Bredle, Nickole Brown, Stephen Burt, Blake Butler, Edmond Caldwell, Kate Hill Cantrill, Jimmy Chen, Nolan Chessman, Adam Clay, Juliet Cook, J. P. Dancing Bear, Lightsey Darst, Kirk Lee Davis, Nicole Cartwright Denison, Adam Fell, Matthew Gavin Frank, Emily Kendal Frey, Matthew Glenwood, Brent Goodman, Loren Goodman, Idris Goodwin, Amelia Gray, Marj Hahne, John Harper, Luis Felipe Hernandez, trans. Toshiya Kamei, Sean Hill, Eunsong Kim, Gareth Lee, Matt Leibel, Genine Lentine, Carlo Matos, Kyle McCord, Marc McKee, Ben Mirov, Trey Moody, Mark Neely, Amy Newman, JoAnna Novak, Brian Oliu, Kim Parko, Adam Peterson, Cecilia Pinto, Lia Purpura, Catie Rosemurgy, A. K. Scipioni, Glenn Shaheen, Nate Slawson, B. J. Soloy, Terese Svoboda, August Tarrier, J. Townsend, Michael Walsh, Kellie Wells, Cori A. Winrock, Joshua Jennings Wood, and Bill Yarrow.

DIAGRAM III, the latest baby in the print collection from the magazine DIAGRAM, brings you our own cabinet of wonders: prose, poem, and image. Included here are favorite pieces from 2004 and 2005 by the following: Gina Abelkop, Corinn Adams, Nick Admussen, Forrest Aguirre, Neil Aitken, Stephanie Anderson, Arlene Ang, Danielle Aquiline, Jennifer Ashton, Craig Beaven, Deborah Bogen, Jenny Boully, Kristy Bowen, Joseph Bradshaw, Jason Bredle, Pack Bringley, Marcel Brouwers, S. Burgess, Traci Oberg Connor, Matthew Cooperman, Nancy Vieira Couto, Kirk Lee Davis, Angie DeCola. Stephanie DeHaven, DJ Dolack, Melanie Dusseau, Tim Earley, Jeff Encke, Adam Fell, Ian Finch, Ryan Flaherty, Jason Fraley, Anne Germanacos, Andrew C. Gottlieb, Miriam Greenberg, Kelle Groom, Roger W. Hecht, Derek Henderson, Janis Butler Holm, Erika Howsare, Carrie Jerrell, Melanie Jordan, Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis, Becca Klaver, David Koehn, Jason Koo, Sean Lovelace, Dawn Cunningham Luebke, Amanda Magnuson, Courtney Mandryk, Farah Marklevits, Michael Martone, Clay Matthews, Paul McCormick, Mark McKain, Marc McKee, Peter Mishler, Carol Novack, Kevin Oberlin, Anne Pepper, Simon Perchik, Dan Pinkerton, Derek Pollard, Frances Justine Post, Sima Rabinowitz, Billy Reynolds, Claudia Ryan, F. Daniel Rzicznek, Shya Scanlon, Morgan Lucas Schuldt, M. B. Seigel, Mike Smith, Jen Tynes, Matthew Vadnais, Gautam Verma, Caroline Wilkinson, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Caleb Wilson, Kevin Wilson, and Terry Wright. Plus many new schematics. Find us online at thediagram.com Or make this fine artifact your own only $14.

DIAGRAM.2, the second print anthology from the popular online magazine of text, art, and schematic, DIAGRAM, includes selections from its third and fourth years of publication. Includes a wide array of strange, never-before-seen schematics from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, chosen for their strangeness and beauty. Like the first print anthology, (SOME FROM) DIAGRAM: SELECTIONS FROM THE MAGAZINE AND MORE, this is an often bizarre, sometimes funny, often profound, and always intense collection. Edited by Ander Monson, author of OTHER ELECTRICITIES and VACATIONLAND.