Large cities can contain populations that move rapidly from one section to another in an efficient transportation network. An emerging air-borne or contact based pathogen could use these transportation routes to rapidly spread an infection throughout an entire population in a short time. Further, in many developed countries, the aging population is increasing. The family structure in these soci...

In the era of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the public and private sectors are increasingly committed to the growth of transport-oriented infrastructure, including ports, highways, bridges, and rail facilities. In particular there has been much interest in international bridges spanning the Rio Grande, the roads and rail lines leading to these bridges, and the port facilities...

This study presents an effort to track and model land use change in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Region. To that end, we make use of a unique, high-resolution, cell-level set of land use data for the Twin Cities. The data represent 75 meter by 75 meter land use cells, observed at several points in time during the period from 1958 to 2005. These data are used to validate three different types of...

Smart environments support the activities of individuals by enabling context-aware access to pervasive information and services. This article presents the iTransIT framework for building such context-aware pervasive services in Smart Cities. The iTransIT framework provides an architecture for conceptually integrating the independent systems underlying Smart Cities and a data model for capturing...

Urban traffic control of modern cities, especially at intersections, has always been a crucial aspect of human civilization. In fact, the phenomenon of traffic congestion has become predominant due to the rapid increase in the number of vehicles and in the transportation demand. Especially over the last decade, traffic congestions have attracted great attention because of the worldwide energy c...

Background Currently, it has increased people who practice horse riding, maintaining direct contact with horses. In some cities, horses are within the city as a form of transportation or tourism. Horses have allergens sources, like their dander and saliva. Allergy to horse is a frequent cause of rhinitis, asthma or contact urticaria.The prevalence of sensitization to horse allergens is not well...

This research explores how Australian urban transport programs and policies are responding to changes in technology, travel patterns environmental impacts so as identify potential policy directions.

From our experiences in the past, we have seen that the growth of cities is very much dependent on the transportation networks. In mega cities, transportation networks determine to a significant extent as to where the people will move and houses will be built. Hence, transportation network data is crucial to an urban growth prediction system. Existing works have used manually derived distance b...