Considering the significance of physical activities in maintaining and mental well-being, several nations made exceptions during COVID-19 lockdowns allowed residents to walk outdoors, but with time distance restrictions that varied across countries. This study aimed identify if such regulations provided equal access public open spaces (POS) engage activity lockdown. Using a mixed research metho...

Low-income communities often have fewer quality community-level physical activity places (PAPs) or resources (e.g., parks, playgrounds). When present, barriers like traffic, distance, and crime prevent access. Creative solutions better understanding of current potential realistic PAPs are necessary for children families to be active. Streets rarely considered despite their ubiquity accessibilit...

one of the most important issues in today&rsquos; urban world is increasing use of cars and its noise pollution, which is now one of the most important affecting pollutants on health and quality of lives of residents in urban areas. noise pollution effects on various aspects of human and the community health as well as the high cost of treatment, thus more studies in this field is needed. hence...

Environmental noise management is an important part of the policy across the European Union policy context, because transportation and industrial noise is a significant local environmental problem for most of the urban population. Increasing number of vehicles is associated with growing noise level from road transport in urban areas and rising public health problems. Motor transport is consider...

One hundred and fifty-six homeless adolescents and 319 homeless adults interviewed directly on the streets and in shelters were compared for backgrounds of abuse, adaptations to life on the streets, and rates of criminal victimization when on the streets. Homeless adolescents were more likely to be from abusive family backgrounds, more likely to rely on deviant survival strategies, and more lik...

Vehicles parked on streets make traffic problems in urban areas worse. We propose a method to detect those street-parking vehicles, using epipolar plane images (EPIs) acquired by a line scan camera, for traffic census. Our method is based on calculating the distance between the vehicles and the camera from the slope of the feature paths in an EPI. The feature paths are extracted in an EPI by th...

In this paper a bimodal discrete urban road network design problem with bus and car modes is investigated. The problem consists of decision making for lane addition to the existing streets, new street constructions, converting some two-way streets to one-way streets, lane allocation for two-way streets, and the allocation of some street lanes for exclusive bus lanes. Two objectives are consider...

To date, most studies on building environments and walking behavior have utilized top-down approaches (e.g., big data or social media data) yet lack bottom-up to verify their findings. Therefore, this study divided urban streets into three main settings (community streets, waterfront paths, greenways) collected from a sample of 411 residents in Chengdu via an online questionnaire examine the im...

This paper presents the results obtained in a study of environmental noise pollution in Alexandria city. Alexandria is a coastal city. It is the second largest city in Egypt. Thirty seven sampling sites were selected to measure the noise level at three main streets in the city (Elgish Street, Horreya Avenue and Circular Highway). The minimum noise levels recoded at Elgish Street, Horreya Avenue...

ABSTRACT Broadcasting is the process of disseminating a message from a node of a communication network to all other nodes as quickly as possible. In this paper we consider Manhattan Street Networks (MSNs) which are mesh-structured, toroidal, directed, regular networks such that locally they resemble the geographical topology of the avenues and streets of Manhattan. Previous work on these networ...