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Case type: Project Story
East Frederick Monocacy Boulevard City-owned Property Development
This course is part of the PALS program at UMD. PALS (Partnership for Action Learning in Sustainability) is a campus-wide action learning initiative that blends customized coursework, faculty expertise and student ingenuity to tackle challenges facing Maryland communities. ARCH 407 is a collaboration studio – that is, a studio that joins graduate students from Architecture […]
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Consolidating Public Services in Anne Arundel County and the City of Annapolis: Impacts and Expenses
This report is a collection of papers completed by students in the ECON454, Public Finance and Public Policy, who applied their students to a real world question as part of the PALS program. The class’s goal is understand the field of public finance and the relationship between economic theory and real world government policies. The […]
The Future of Tipton Airport in Anne Arundel County
Tipton Airport is located in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. It is a General (GA) airport, classified as a reliever airport by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). It is the reliever airport to the Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI), which is located less than 13 miles from Tipton. The airport plans to extend their runway […]
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Odenton Town Center Park Design
The Odenton Town Center (OTC) project develops a 3.5-acre site in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. The new Odenton Town Center is the result of collaboration between the Anne Arundel County Chamber of Commerce and a team of undergraduate Landscape Architecture students at the University of Maryland, made possible by the Partnership for Action Learning in […]
EMS Hot Spot Analysis: 2014-2016
This report attempts to identify the locations of the most life-threatening EMS incidents, patterns indicated by data analysis by time of day/day of the week, and potential underlying causes of EMS incidents. We found that the highest concentrations of dispatch calls were in the north-central part of the county, in and around Annapolis, and in […]
Penn Station Flats
Developing Innovation Village, Baltimore
We researched the Innovation Village in Baltimore City to better understand which areas are most suitable for development, how accessible public transportation is within the area, the extent of community resources available, and the current employment environment. We used housing vacancy, property values, and access to rail transit to develop a suitability analysis for development. […]
Analysis of Potential for County/City Shared Service Delivery: Board of Elections
As a group, we concentrated our efforts into setting an optimal resolution by merging the Board of Supervisors of Elections of Annapolis with the Board of Elections of Anne Arundel County. The objective of this department will be to provide efficiency for the tasks of providing and maintaining a properly administration for all federal, state […]
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Analysis of Potential for County/City Shared Service Delivery: Mass Transit
The public transit systems in Annapolis and Anne Arundel County can operate more efficiently and effectively as a combined entity. With fewer routes, increased route coverage, and a smaller payroll, the efficiency of the new organization will be greater than that of each of the current organizations independently. […]
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