Automatic incident detection is becoming one of the core tools of urban traffic management, enabling more rapid identification and response to traffic incidents and congestion. The existing traffic detection infrastructure within many urban areas (often installed for traffic signal optimisation) provides urban traffic control systems with a near continuous stream of data on the state of traffic...

Due to the inherent discrete nature of sensing, interpolation is a key activity in sensing. Interpolation in urban computing faces an unprecedented inference issue that was not present in large scale traditional sensing environments. Obstacles such as buildings and walls are prevalent in urban sensing, and it is important to consider them in urban sensing interpolation. This paper introduces an...

In Essex, EssexITS (a joint partnership of Essex County Council, Atkins and Siemens), has taken a hands-on approach to assist the County Council in carrying out its responsibility under TMA2004. EssexITS has developed a number of Integrated Urban Traffic Management and Control (UTMC) strategies to manage Essex’s road network, tackle congestion and proactively prevent or reduce the effect of con...

INTRODUCTION Although sexually active US adults wanting to prevent pregnancy have a wide variety of birth control methods readily available, there is little research that documents the contraceptive choices of rural adults in comparison to urban adults. This study compared the contraceptive choices of rural with urban adults. The comparative analysis joins the recent dialog in population health...

The research examines several aspects of urban design in order to build on its integrative potential for sustainable regeneration. It will discuss the concept and definition support claim that process-oriented can foster creative integration, despite opposing development paradigms fourth-order design. Sustainable regeneration be studied via perspective aesthetics communication as primary instru...

Revisit several existing traffic control algorithms and analyze their efficiency. Simplify the traffic model for better understanding of efficiency. Every vehicle travels eastward or southward only. Result: Efficiency largely depends on the length of a longest route and the number of cars.

This paper presents a study investigating the potential use of human motion intensities as input for parametric urban design. Through a computer vision analysis of thermal images, motion intensity maps are generated and utilized as design drivers for urban design patterns; and, through a case study of a town square, human occupancy and motion intensities are used to generate situated flow topol...