Transport modelling and in particular transport assignment is a wellknown bottleneck in computation cost and time for urban system models. The use of Transport Analysis Zones (TAZ) implies a trade-off between computation time and accuracy: practical computational constraints can lead to concessions to zone size with severe repercussions for the quality of the transport representation in urban m...

In the last decade, dozens of local governments have enacted zoning ordinances designed to limit the concentration of payday lenders and other alternative financial services providers (AFSPs), such as check-cashing businesses and auto title loan shops, in their communities. The main impetus for these ordinances is to shield economically vulnerable residents from the industry's lending practices...

Unlike for the instrument of hazard zone maps for surface waters, there is no common approach for the calculation of inundation risk caused by spontaneous overland runoff. For being able to assess the associated potential damage, the maximum inundation depth is being calculated via an extended 2D flow model, based on a rain event with an 100-year return period and a duration of 60 minutes. The ...

Flood risk throughout Europe has increased in the last few decades, and is projected to increase further owing to continued development in flood-prone areas and climate change. In recent years, studies have shown that adequate undertaking of semi-structural and non-structural measures can considerably decrease the costs of floods for households. However, there is little insight into how such me...

This paper concerns the problem of matching incompatible zonal geographies, for example in the context of comparing census outputs over time. The automated zoning procedure (AZP) proposed by Openshaw (1977) is reviewed and extended to permit its application to the intersection of two zonal systems. A population stress statistic is proposed which may be used in the extended AZP algorithm in orde...

We present an automated approach to classify sentences of scholarly work with respect to their rhetorical function. While previous work that achieves this task of argumentative zoning requires richly annotated input, our approach is robust to noise and can process raw text. Even in cases where the input has noise (as is obtained from optical character recognition or text extraction from PDF fil...

In order to evaluate the zoning and risk of debris flow gully based on numerical simulation, a set theoretical system technical process quantitative analysis suitable for mountainous towns in southwest China was constructed, taking buildings roads as research objects, view particularity disaster-bearing body types disaster modes. It is mainly divided into three steps: (1) Using FLO-2D model, ex...