Modelling urban dynamics is mostly pronounced in metropolitan areas, where spatial information science could contribute to efforts of understanding the pattern and future characteristics. This paper discusses the past, current and future trend of land-use dynamics of European part of the Istanbul Metropolitan. Studies on urban growth modelling state that, there is no consensus on the selection ...

The rapid growth rate in urban population and flow of technologies has fastened the magnitudes and patterns of urban transportation network. The number of vehicles has increased tremendously in the metropolitan areas of the city. Whereas the traffic control involves the attempts to make the movements as fast, efficient and safe as possible with minimum damage to the local or regional environmen...

Canopy layer heat islands (CLHIs) in urban areas are a growing problem. In recent decades, the key issues have been how to monitor CLHIs at a large scale, and how to optimize the urban landscape to mitigate CLHIs. Taking the city of Wuhan as a case study, we examine the spatiotemporal trends of the CLHI along urban-rural gradients, including the intensity and footprint, based on satellite obser...

India is the second largest country in the category of population. With the increasing population the consumption of the vehicles also increases, leading to critical burden on traffic management in the metropolitan cities and towns of the country. In 2011-12 alone, 20.4 million motorized vehicles were sold in India leading to congestion and accidents on the roads. For controlling the traffic on...

The present paper focuses on determining the most important factors affecting urban growth in large cities of Iran through modeling and comparing the common and diverse points of urban growth obtained from other studies. For this purpose, by reviewing the theoretical concepts associated with urban growth, quantities and measurable variables are developed as proper frameworks to study the influe...

Private road associations (PRAs) manage two thirds of the road network in Sweden. They manage the roads at less cost and with better results than the Government road agencies. In fact, the PRAs perform so well that some urban municipalities request the associations to manage the municipal roads which connect to the private roads. There are also PRAs that are responsible for ferry services, for ...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to report the distribution of procedures provided to Virginia Medicaid children by 3 types of dental providers in rural and urban areas. METHODS Medicaid claims filed for dental patients less than 21 years old were obtained and analyzed for fiscal years 1994-1995. Dental providers were categorized according to their practice type: (1) general practice (GP...

The Internet offers cities new opportunities to communicate with their constituents at a time when metropolitan areas struggle with their community identity and cohesion. This study examined how official websites of the core cities in the 50 largest (by population) United States metropolitan areas represented their cities to the public as a whole, as well as how the cities communicated with the...