Case Studies for Data-Oriented Emergency Management/Planning in Complex Urban Systems

Streamlining the planning approval process for a sustainable urban development: A case study for unwinding man-made complexities

The urban development process displays regressive tacit-dominant knowledge areas and their tacit level would impede their movements during multi-level knowledge transfers among stakeholders. The accuracy of a knowledge may be distorted when recipient stakeholders fail to understand a specific knowledge for its purpose. Earlier studies by the authors had highlighted complex yet dynamic environme...

High Performance, Federated and Service-Oriented Geographic Information Systems

General purpose of GIS is extracting information/knowledge from the raw geo-data. The rawdata is collected from sensors, satellites or any other ways and stored in databases or file systems. The data goes through the filtering and rendering services and, presented to the endusers in human recognizable formats such as images, graphs, charts etc. A well-known example of GIS is map viewers which p...

Assessing the Implementation of the Functional Principles of Transit Oriented Development in the Mirdamad Station Complex

Context-oriented Lighting Strategy in Urban Spaces (Using Space Syntax Method) Case study: Historical Fabric of Isfahan

Lighting plays a key role in night escapes of urban spaces, in a way that it can be effective in giving identity to them. By considering this importance and inexistence of a process for composing urban Lighting strategy made this study to be conducted by the objective of providing process for compilation of context-oriented lighting strategy in urban spaces. Reaching a suitable solution for Li...

Site Selection of Emergency Medical Centers (EMCs) Using Environmental Hazard Management Approach: A Case Study of Ardabil

Introduction: Many people call emergency medical centers (EMCs) during a day due to accidents or various diseases and they need to receive first aid. In order to provide first aid, it is necessary to send emergency workers and vehicles from the emergency medical services centers to the location of the accidents. Therefore, the accessibility of the EMCs and their being located in an appropriate ...