The purpose of this study was to describe the presence and quality of active transportation safety features in Canadian school environments that relate to pedestrian and bicycle safety. Variations in these features and associated traffic concerns as perceived by school administrators were examined by geographic status and school type. The study was based on schools that participated in 2009/201...

Rapid urban growth has brought with it an inevitable problem of municipal solid waste management. A major portion of total expenditure on solid waste management (SWM) is spent on collection and transportation of waste. Optimization of route is always a challenging task for city planners. Geographical Information System (GIS) is an important tool to solve the problems of waste transportation fro...

following rapid and explosive population growth in urban settlements that was result of immigration, urban servicing as an important issue in urban planning has been studied equality in services distribution in urban areas causes equality and social justice. this paper investigates urban services distribution pattern ( educational, health, cultural, religious and sport) in 5th region of tehran ...

Search, Migration, and Urban Land Use: The Case of Transportation Policies We develop a search-matching model with rural-urban migration and an explicit land market. Wages, job creation, urban housing prices are endogenous and we characterize the steadystate equilibrium. We then consider three different policies: a transportation policy that improves the public transport system in the city, an ...

We consider the dynamics between population and spatial distribution networks for the 200 largest urban agglomerations. Population dynamics are considered from 1950 to 2010 and distribution networks are analyzed in terms of vehicular transportation infrastructure. We observe that the growth of large urban agglomerations, in terms of population density, has slowed down in the second half of the ...

“Incentivized Sustainable Mobility” is a conceptual business model which involves four stakeholders: citizens, municipalities, commerce and mobility services. A platform named “ISUMO” (Incentivized Sustainable Mobility) provides technological support to this business model, integrating a set of metaservices that unifies the existing ICTs of transportation plus a unique patented QR-based (Quick ...

Multilane roads in high level-of-detail (LoD) datasets normally represent the constructed high-level roads of urban road network, which have large capacity of transportation and form the pattern of urban movement flows. They are crucial elements for many modern applications such as traffic planning, location-based services (LBS) and emergency evacuation. Nowadays, more and more Volunteered Geog...

recognized as a core element of urban development. They play an increasingly important role in alleviating problems such as road congestion and air pollution and new plans for high-speed intercity railway links are being initiated around the world. Progress is also being made on incorporating advanced information systems into stations and other parts of the railway network as a core aspect of t...

With the constant increasing of vehicular traffic around the world, especially in urban areas, existing traffic management solutions become inefficient. This can be clearly seen in our life through persistent traffic jam and rising number of accidents. Wireless sensor networks (WSN) based intelligent transportation systems (ITS) have emerged as a cost effective technology that bear a pivotal po...