With the advent of advanced battery technology, EVs are gradually gaining momentum. An appropriate decision-making method for the number of charging piles is in need to meet charging needs, and concurrently, to avoid the waste of infrastructure inves...
3 November 2020
As the population is aging rapidly, the irrationality of residential care facility (RCF) configuration has impacted the efficiency and quality of the aged care services so significantly that the optimization of RCF configuration is urgently required....
Objectively assessing the impact of various basic public service facilities on social–spatial differentiation has become a prerequisite for promoting urban social integration and development. However, in practice, the configuration of basic pub...
Global demographic shifts and rising population mobility have created a profound decoupling between dynamic population distributions and static public service facility configurations. This socio-spatial mismatch is particularly acute in less-develope...
As a result of China’s rapid urbanization, new urban districts are characterized by a superblock development paradigm that contrasts sharply with core urban areas, where service facilities remain largely congruent with the population distributi...
The first step in reintroducing plastic waste into the recycling cycle is to use material recovery facilities (MRFs). However, while the composition and types of plastic waste are changing over time, the layout of MRFs does not always adapt to this c...
This paper describes the Experimental Power Grid Centre (EPGC) microgrid test facility, which was developed to enable research, development and testing for a wide range of distributed generation and microgrid technologies. The EPGC microgrid facility...
This paper addresses the optimization of electric vehicle (EV) charging facility configuration on highways by proposing a collaborative planning method that integrates driver anxiety psychology, mixed traffic flow dynamics, and service area queuing c...
The evaluation of housing conditions is a crucial aspect of determining the well-being of residents and the sustainable development of settlements. Assessing housing conditions at a macro-level is imperative to understand the differences in well-bein...
This study assesses the configuration potential of embedded outdoor sports facilities in high-density urban areas in response to persistent challenges related to supply–demand imbalance, limited accessibility, and low spatial efficiency under s...
The unavailability of a constant power supply has been a major problem in remote communities in Africa as it impedes the proper operation of healthcare facilities in these locations. This has deprived inhabitants of free access to good healthcare ser...
Environmental conditions in Laboratory Animal Resource Centers (LARCs), including ammonia, air quality, temperature, humidity, light intensity, and sound level, directly affect animal welfare and experimental reproducibility. Most LARC facilities rel...
The increasing demand for ion beams heavier than protons—particularly carbon and helium ions—for cancer therapy has driven the development of advanced accelerator technologies. Although proton therapy is well established, its physical pro...
The ion beam facility at the Takasaki Advanced Radiation Research Institute, the National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, consists of a cyclotron and three electrostatic accelerators, and they are dedicated to studies...
Global aging is getting worse, especially in China, a country with a large population. It is urgently needed to plan the site of new urban elderly care facilities for an aging society. Based on point of interest data and machine learning algorithms,...
This paper aims to improve transfer utility between bike-sharing and subway. For this paper, the transfer costs of three combined travel modes were analyzed, including “Bike-sharing + Subway”, “Walking + Subway” and “Bus + Subway”, and a transfer cos...
Urban parks play an increasingly important role in supporting social interaction, ecological services, and everyday well-being in rapidly urbanizing cities, yet prevailing planning practices still rely on equal-provision logics and linear modeling fr...
The reduction in energy use in buildings remains a major challenge. In the European Union, buildings account for approximately 40% of the total energy consumption, with sports facilities alone responsible for around 10% of annual use. These facilitie...
Since the importance and effects of national energy policies, plans, and roadmaps were presented in South Korea, the role of renewable energy resources has received great attention. Moreover, as there is significant reasoning for reducing and minimiz...
Based on the concept of integrated communities, this study focuses on improving public service facilities and perfecting convenient service facilities within integrated communities. Taking the central area of Nanchang’s old city as the research...
In emergency medical facilities location, the hierarchical diagnosis and treatment system plays an obvious role in the rational allocation of medical resources and improving the use efficiency of medical resources. However, few studies have investiga...
While environmental and energy concerns have become global issues, the government of South Korea has made notable efforts and formulated plans for the diffusion of renewable energy generation facilities for the nation’s public and governmental instit...
Urban road networks (URNs) underpin critical urban functions ranging from public service provision to emergency response. However, URN resilience is commonly assessed using aggregate performance metrics or critical-element identification, which offer...
The SORGENTINA-RF (SRF) project, dedicated to the production of medical radioisotopes, requires a tritium facility to process the exhaust gas of the vacuum chamber, containing a percentage of impurities of around 1%, and to allow for the recirculatio...
Considering the trade-off between profit maximization and adaptability to supply chain disruptions, we examine herein the decision-making for configuration and distribution plans in a supply chain. Supply chain disruptions are caused by facility acci...
Insufficient public service facilities in rural areas, which leads to failures in meeting the needs of villagers, has become a significant barrier to the high-quality development of rural regions. This issue is particularly acute in the Loess Plateau...
Bio-jet fuels produced from biomass-derived feedstocks represent a promising pathway for reducing the carbon intensity of aviation energy systems. However, designing supply chain networks for bio-jet fuel production requires solving large-scale mixed...
Leisure space configuration has been recognized as a spatial approach to reducing carbon emissions from recreational travel, but the role of perceptual factors in linking inter-facility distance to travel behavior is not fully clear. This paper adopt...
Facility layout problems (FLPs) are concerned with the non-overlapping arrangement of facilities. The objective of many FLP-based studies is to minimize the total material handling cost between facilities, which are considered as rectangular blocks o...
The senior life circle is the basic unit space for building a high quality of senior living in the city, and the service level of the community senior facilities within it is directly related to the daily quality of life of the elderly residents. Fro...
Disease outbreaks impose substantial economic impacts on livestock production systems due to mortality, mandatory depopulation, reduced productivity, and additional costs associated with disease mitigation and biosecurity strategies. The introduction...
China is about to enter the stage of deep aging, and the number of disabled elderly is growing continuously. Although the government continues to increase its investment in elderly care institutions and facilities, there is still an unreasonable and...
Stretchable nano-fibers have attracted dramatic attention for the utility in wearable and flexible electronics. In the present case, Ag nanowires (AgNWs)-intertwined thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPU) unwoven nano-membrane is fabricated by an electros...
Public sports facilities have the potential to improve their functions as active living infrastructures (ALIs) in combination with bicycle lanes and green spaces. A favorable sequence of exercise intensities in different scenes is important for indiv...
This study presents a mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) framework to optimize the allocation of electric vehicle charging stations (EVCSs) in existing indoor parking facilities. The model minimizes total life-cycle cost by jointly determini...
This paper is to explore how the neighborhood-unit concept, which had been initially promoted by North America and the United Kingdom, was adopted and utilized in the Asian cities of high-density developments, such as Seoul and Singapore from a walka...
Services provided by public facilities are essential to people’s lives and are closely associated with human mobility. Traditionally, public facility access characteristics, such as accessibility, equity issues and service areas, are investigated mai...
The rapid development of metropolitan areas means that their spatial patterns must be reconstructed and brings a series of urban problems such as traffic congestion and imbalance among transportation facilities. As the skeleton of the comprehensive t...
As urban demand for healthcare continues to rise, the issue of equity in medical services has become increasingly prominent. This necessitates rational spatial planning of medical facilities, particularly the establishment of spatial equalization amo...
Reducing carbon emissions from daily travel has become an important goal of 15-minute living-circle planning, yet it remains unclear which facility configurations are most supportive of green travel. Using 634 living circles and 20 million mobile-pho...
This investigation studies desalination powered by wind and solar energy, including a study of a configuration using PVT solar panels. First, a water treatment was developed to estimate the power requirement for brackish groundwater reverse-osmosis (...
The ability to successfully navigate in healthcare facilities is an important goal for patients, visitors, and staff. Despite the fundamental nature of such behavior, it is not infrequent for planners to consider wayfinding only after the fact, once...
21 April 2020
Community home-based care has become China’s main mode of care for the elderly, and the aging of the community public environment has become the focus of attention of all of society. This study uses a questionnaire survey and the fuzzy analytic...
High-fidelity replication of compressor exit flow fields is critical for combustor design, yet current simulation facilities lack effective, decoupled control of flow parameters. This study proposes a coordinated optimization strategy combining segme...
11 January 2022
Cyclists occupying motorized vehicle lanes disrupt road traffic order and increase collisions. Exploring the contributing factors could help develop countermeasures to regulate such behaviors. The purpose of this study is to explore the intrinsic fea...
This paper addresses the critical issue of selecting the optimal solar tracking configuration for maximum energy generation, given the increasing demand for sustainable energy solutions in information and communication technology (ICT) facilities. Th...
The round-arch solar greenhouse (RASG) is widely used in the alpine and high latitude areas of China for its excellent performance. Common high temperature and high humidity environments have adverse effects on plants. It is extremely important to ex...
Changsha’s historic district, a key part of China’s Historic and Cultural Cities, faces the challenge of balancing spatial constraints and historical preservation while optimizing its existing infrastructure. The public service facilities...
The classical location models implicitly assume that the facilities, once built, will always operate as planned. However, some of the facilities may become unavailable from time to time due to disruptions which highlight the urgent need to effectivel...
A complex hydraulic facility is modelled in EPANET. The system consists in an underground high head Hydro Power Plant (HPP) and a Pumping Station (PS), operating in a pumped-storage hydropower scheme with three reservoirs. The complexity of the syste...
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