Active transport to school (ATS) is a convenient way for adolescents to reach their recommended daily physical activity levels. Most previous ATS research examined the factors that promote or hinder ATS, but this research has been of a global (i.e.,...
The majority of the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) localization methods utilize a large number of nodes to achieve high localization accuracy. However, there are many unnecessary data redundancies that contributes to high computation, communication, a...
Most previous studies on urban vitality focused on the analysis and evaluation of the overall vitality of urban agglomerations or single cities, while there are few related studies at the micro scale, such as subdistricts and even blocks. Based on mu...
Some fusion criteria in multisensor and multitarget motion tracking cannot be directly applied to nonlinear motion models, as the fusion accuracy applied in nonlinear systems is relatively low. In response to the above issue, this study proposes a di...
Public availability of geo-coded or geo-referenced road collisions (crashes) makes it possible to perform geovisualisation and spatio-temporal analysis of road collisions across a city. This study aims to detect spatio-temporal clusters of road colli...
The tremendous increase in vehicular navigation often witnessed daily has elicited constant and continuous traffic congestion at signalized road intersections. This study focuses on applying an artificial neural network trained by particle swarm opti...
The development of new energy vehicles and road dust removal technologies presents opportunities for constructing urban ventilation systems based on road patterns. However, the impact of road system layouts on pedestrian-level wind environments remai...
We develop a geometric approach to financial risk based on Crofton’s idea and the tools of the Radon transform. The trajectory of a financial instrument is defined with respect to a frame of reference (money, benchmark). A central role is playe...
One of the world’s challenges is the amount of traffic on the roads. Waiting for the green light is a major cause of traffic congestion. Low throughput rates and eventual congestion come from many traffic signals that are hard coded, irrespecti...
Mid-sized Philippine cities commonly rely on fixed-time traffic signal plans that cannot respond to short-term, demand-driven surges, resulting in measurable idle time at stop lines, increased delay, and unnecessary emissions, while adaptive signal c...
A new crowd evacuation model is established to solve the stagnation problem of traditional social force models in a complex and dense scene. In the proposed model the acting forces between pedestrians, and between pedestrians and obstacles in the tra...
The realization of the “double carbon” goals and the development of green transportation require a focused approach to reducing carbon emissions from private cars. Starting from the perspective of social network analysis, this paper const...
In this paper, a lattice hydrodynamic model of four-way pedestrian traffic considering turning capacity is proposed. The stability conditions are obtained by stability analysis. The mKdV equation is derived using the reductive perturbation method of...
Road Traffic Accidents (RTAs) represent a significant public safety issue in rapidly urbanising nations, resulting in considerable fatalities, injuries, and economic losses. This research investigates the spatio-temporal distribution and hotspot dyna...
In a complex stress field of underground mining or geotechnical practice, tension damage/failure in rock masses is easily triggered and dominant. Unlike metals, rocks are generally bi-modularity materials with different mechanical properties (Young&r...
We examine the effects of the urban built environment on PM2.5 (fine particulate matter with diameters equal or smaller than 2.5 μm) concentrations by using an improved region-wide database, a spatial econometric model, and five built environment...
The accuracy assessment of airborne lidar point cloud typically estimates vertical accuracy by computing RMSEz (root mean square error of the z coordinate) from ground check points (GCPs). Due to the low point density of the airborne lidar point clou...
Understanding how drivers behave at stop-controlled intersection is of critical importance for the control and management of an urban traffic system. It is also a critical element of consideration in the burgeoning field of smart infrastructure and c...
Eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana L.) is increasing in density in the eastern United States and expanding in range to the west, while western Juniperus species also are increasing and expanding, creating the potential for a novel assemblage. I e...
Reducing CO2 emissions is currently a key policy in most developed countries. In this article, we evaluate whether smart traffic lights can have a relevant role in reducing CO2 emissions in small cities, considering their specific traffic profiles. T...
7 December 2020
Travelling to school by car diminishes opportunities for physical activity and contributes to traffic congestion and associated noise and air pollution. This meta-analysis examined sociodemographic characteristics and built environment associates of...
1 September 2021
Bicycling is inexpensive, environmentally friendly, and healthful; however, bicyclist safety is a rising concern. This study investigates bicycle crash-related key variables that might substantially differ in terms of the party at fault and bicycle f...
27 October 2020
Despite growing research supporting the impact of the built environment on active school transport (AST), distance persists as the most powerful predictor of walking and biking to school. There is a need to better understand how environmental feature...
A growing body of scientific literature emphasizes the role of the built environment in shaping commuting behavior among adolescents. However, the comparison of the built environment on adolescents’ route choice remains underexplored. A total o...
The analysis of linear structures on major geological formations plays a crucial role in resource exploration in the Inner Niger Delta. Highlighting and mapping of the large lithological units were carried out using image fusion, spectral bands (RGB...
The Gaussian Mixture Probability Hypothesis Density (GM-PHD) filter can effectively track multiple targets in a single scenario. However, for GM-PHD, unknown target behavior, e.g., target birth or target intersection, produces difficulties in terms o...
Sunlight conditions can reduce drivers’ visibility, which is a safety concern on road networks. This research introduces a method to study sun glare incidence in road environments. Sun glare areas during daylight hours are automatically detecte...
There are three main problems for classical kernel density estimation in its application: boundary problem, over-smoothing problem of high (low)-density region and low-efficiency problem of large samples. A new improved model of multivariate adaptive...
7 April 2021
There is limited data concerning the built environment and physical activity (PA) in a country with a history of sociopolitically motivated, spatial and economic disparities. We explored the extent to which objectively measured attributes of the buil...
Ensuring that commuting distance remains within a certain range has important effect of residents’ quality of life. Although many studies have investigated the relationship between the built environment and residents’ commuting distance,...
In recent years, the number of vehicles in cities has visibly increased, leading to continuous modifications in general mobility. Pollution levels and congestion cases are reaching higher numbers as well, pointing to a need for better optimization so...
Well-being is an important goal pursued by humans, and the living environment has a profound impact on various aspects of human health. The objective of this study is to explore the mechanism by which the built environment affects the well-being of r...
The proliferation of gambling infrastructure within the urban environment has emerged as a significant public health concern, particularly in contexts where commercial interests intersect with the socio-economic vulnerability of resident populations....
The evolution of traffic-related accidents caused by long, short, and medium trucks at signalized road intersections have been underemphasized in the last few years. Far, little attention has been paid to the modelling of trucks traffic flow using an...
Ship collision risk is a critical issue in maritime traffic safety regulation, as it directly affects the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of maritime transportation. It depends not only on the current encounter geometry among ships, but is als...
Building extraction from LiDAR data has been an active research area, but it is difficult to discriminate between buildings and vegetation in complex urban scenes. A building extraction method from LiDAR data based on minimum cut (min-cut) and improv...
This paper aims to develop a theoretical model for a viscoelastic hard-magnetic elastomer membrane (HMEM) actuated by pressure and uniform magnetic field. The HMEM is initially a flat, circular film with a fixed boundary. The HMEM undergoes nonlinear...
The exponential increase in vehicles, quick urbanization, and rising demand for transportation are straining the world’s road infrastructure today. To have a sustainable transportation system with dynamic traffic volume, an Adaptive Traffic Sig...
The alkylation of benzene with methanol can effectively generate high-value-added toluene and xylene out of surplus benzene, which is now achieved primarily using solid acids like H-ZSM-5 zeolites as catalysts. In this work, two H-ZSM-5 samples with...
Node localization is a fundamental service in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), and range-free schemes such as the Voronoi diagram-based grouping test localization (VTL) achieve good accuracy without distance measurements. However, VTL repeatedly cons...
Weeds are one of the main factors affecting the yield and quality of agricultural products. Accurate evaluation of weed density is of great significance for field management, especially precision weeding. In this paper, a weed density calculating and...
Over the past decades, China has built a large number of superblocks and gated residential areas, which have contributed to increased congestion on urban road traffic. Although some studies have found a correlation between residential environments an...
This paper introduces a two-stage adaptive Kalman filter algorithm to estimate and predict traffic states required for real-time traffic signal control. Leveraging probe vehicle trajectory and upstream detector data, turning movement (TM) counts in t...
The macroscopic fundamental diagram (MFD) provides a method to evaluate macro traffic operation through micro traffic parameters, which can be applied to traffic control to prevent traffic congestion transfer and improve road network efficiency. Howe...
Negative stereotypes of older people can have detrimental impacts on their mental health, hence better understanding of ageism is needed to combat ageism more effectively. Nevertheless, existing studies on ageism largely focus on the workplace, while...
Recent dissection studies resulted in the introduction of the term “chiasma antebrachii”, which represents an intersection of the flexor digitorum superficialis (FDS) tendons for digits 2 and 3 in the distal third of the forearm. This ret...
Air-induced separation of flexible rod-like particle mixtures in a specific separator is numerically investigated using a coupled Discrete Element Method (DEM) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) approach. In the separator, the mixture of flexible...
For a pure SU(2) Yang–Mills theory in 4D, we revisit the spatial (3D), ball-like region of radius
Traffic emission is one of the most severe issues in our modern societies. A large part of emissions occurs in cities and especially at intersections due to the high interactions between vehicles. In this paper, we proposed a cellular automata model...
Understanding the fluid pattern is of special significance for estimating the hydraulic conductivity of fractured rock masses. The nonlinearity of fluid flow in discrete fracture networks (DFNs) originates from inertial effects and is enhanced by com...
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