
Sharmin AkterBinghamton University | SUNY Binghamton · Department of Geography
Sharmin Akter
Urban Planner; Geographer; Researcher
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January 2015 - February 2021
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Social safety, security, and comfort of school-going children during their trip to school have become a subject of anxiety to the parents. It has become a crucial issue in recent times, specially in developing nations. Community-based transport can significantly address social security issues in travel at a reasonable cost and reduce the burden on...
In the rapid urbanization era, Physical development plan (commonly used as Master Plan) is considered as all sorts of development guidelines for any urban area. Knowledge about current population and proper assumptions about future population are the base of almost all planning decisions. Population projection have a key role in the preliminary sta...
As Bangladesh is a land of river so she cannot but accept the river erosion. But due to many reasons the rate of river erosion is increasing day by day, so it has become a threat to many people. Riverbank erosion causes enormous and long-term socio-economic consequences mostly at riverside administrative area of Bangladesh. But all districts (an ad...
As Bangladesh is a land of river so she cannot but accept the river erosion. But due to many reasons the rate of river erosion is increasing day by day, so it has become a threat to many people. Riverbank erosion causes enormous and long-term socioeconomic consequences mostly at riverside administrative area of Bangladesh. But all districts 1 and U...
Rajshahi, a divisional city of Bangladesh, is located on the bank of the Padma River. Peoples living in the riverbank areas face different types of natural hazards like floods, riverbank erosion, and draught. For the immediate years, riverbank erosion causes severe damages to the Char people who lived beside the city. So, this study focuses on iden...
Urban open spaces can be defined as one of the most critical component of city design that provides recreational, social, and other facilities to the city dwellers. Besides, these places have a great influence on repairing climate change impact and solving other environmental issues. Nevertheless, the concept of integrating the planning and managem...
Safety, security, and comfort of school-going children during the travel time to school has become a subject of anxiety to the parents and is a crucial issue in recent times. In this regard, community-based transport can be a significant way to address social security issues in travel at a reasonable cost and reduce the burden on private mode. In D...
Trip generation is the first stage of the classical 'four-stage' transport model (trip generation, distribution, modal split, and assignment). The trip generation aims at predicting and quantifying the total number of trips generated and attracted to a specific area related to various urban activities without taking into account other trip characte...
Economic potentiality of a country is a key indicator of regional economic and other kinds of development. And economic competitiveness is a measure of economic potentiality of regions. This competitiveness is measured by the productivity that allows a nation to support high wages, a strong currency and attractive returns to capital, and with them...