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... 3 There has long been a desire by transportation professionals to understand the relationship between the physical conditions at the locations where trips begin and end (the "land use") , and the trip-making process.
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... – The Standard Land Use Coding Manual (SLUCM) ; – The pioneering LBCS developed by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
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... Local Land Use Inventories, Zoning Inventories, and Zoning Maps Making a land use inventory is an initial step for land use planners, using actual observation in a site-specific parcelby-parcel on-the-ground survey (Berke et al.
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... 6Each local jurisdiction has the ability to prescribe what activities are allowed under each zoning designation. In addition, existing uses are often "grandfathered" as nonconforming use while still a functioning business, e.g., a gas station in an area designated as a residential area.
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... 7 • Facilitate data sharing; • Develop a coding system with accompanying metadata (e.g., the source of the data) ; • Facilitate the updating process; • Enable regional agencies to work effectively and efficiently with land use/land-cover data; and • Incorporate the geographic information systems (GIS)
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... 8to a common class" (Jeer 1997, 15)
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... 9 assigned the appropriate code for each of the five fields. The site also provides the color coding standards for application in mapping software (e.g., GIS)
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... 10 sense of all economic activity. The first set of industries to be classified was manufacturing.
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... 11 ity being undertaken by a firm. Table 9 lists NAICS codes associated with freight.
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... 12 Code SIC Title Code SIC Title 01 Agricultural Production-Crops 02 Agricultural Production- Livestock 10 Metal Mining 201 Meat Products 202 Dairy Products 203 Preserved Fruits and Vegetables 204 Grain Mill Products 205 Bakery Products 206 Sugar and Confectionery Products 207 Fats and Oils 208 Beverages 209 Misc. Foods and Kindred Products 22 Textile Mill Products 23 Apparel & Other Textile Products 24 Lumber and Wood Products 25 Furniture and Fixtures 26 Paper and Allied Products 27 Printing and Publishing 28 Chemicals and Allied Products 29 Petroleum and Coal Products 30 Rubber & Misc.
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... 13 Code 2007 NAICS U.S. Title Code 2007 NAICS U.S.
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... 14 • Processing industries that can be identified using remote sensing techniques include: mechanical processing industries; chemical-processing industries; and heat-processing industries. Fabrication industries can be identified as either heavy or light fabrication.
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... 15 Boston, Massachusetts The City of Boston, Massachusetts, has adopted Article 42D (City of Boston [Massachusetts] Redevelopment Authority 1990 as amended through 2006)
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... 16 to provide local truck circulation and access. In this instance, the transportation facilities are well associated with the land use activities.
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... 17 Most important, this information was used to classify the goods movement businesses and industries into tiers. Tier 1 businesses/industries included those where goods movement is very important to operations, e.g., in- and outbound freight trips.
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... 18 and logistics facilities may be rated negatively with respect to form, character, and building shape. The Sacramento Region Blueprint Project, as described in the SACOG Report (The Tioga Group et al.
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... 19 code, traffic analysis zone, or land use planning zone. These codes can provide a direct understanding of what activity is being conducted within a particular structure or on a parcel, often with additional attributes (e.g., number of employees, value of output)
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... 20 egorized into three groups: those using structure type or site descriptor (e.g., ITE Manual or Tax Assessor's codes) ; those using industry sectors at the establishment level (e.g., SIC or NAICS)

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