Peatlands in the western boreal plains of Canada are important ecosystems as they store over two percent of global terrestrial carbon. However, in recent decades, many of these peatlands have been fragmented by access roads constructed for resource e...
Given that spatial accessibility to tourist resources is crucial for tourism development, this study analyzes the role of the distance between tourists and archaeological sites in the Dobrogea region of Romania. This study highlights the impact of ro...
Environmental and social factors influencing resource allocation in rural, developing regions are critical social determinants of health that necessitate cross-sector collaboration to improve health opportunities. Thus, we sought to evaluate the spat...
The equitable allocation of healthcare resources reflects social equity. Previous studies of healthcare accessibility have overlooked the impact of inter-city patient mobility on local residents’ and local residents’ multi-mode travel cho...
Handan’s industrial heritage flows from the history of the ancient capital into modern industrial civilization, serving as a vital medium for urban transformation and the preservation of the city’s cultural legacy. However, constrained by...
Within the “15-min community life circle”, spatial accessibility of basic services is critical to ensuring social equity for people with disabilities. However, existing wheelchair accessibility assessments predominantly focus on static &l...
This study aimed to evaluate the spatial accessibility of tourism attractions in the urban destination city. An analytical framework for assessing urban tourism accessibility at different spatial scales was proposed to provide references on the inter...
Sustainable rural road planning in mountainous areas must coordinate existing-road use, hierarchical connectivity, and construction requirements. This study proposes a network generation method integrating existing-road topology with roadless space t...
Road traffic crash valuation is essential for understanding the economic and social impacts of road safety, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where data constraints hinder effective policymaking. This study aims to enhance the un...
Traffic density around the globe is increasing on a day-to-day basis, resulting in more accidents, congestion, and pollution. The dynamic vehicular environment induces challenges in designing an efficient and reliable protocol for communication. Time...
The increasing frequency and severity of wildfires pose growing challenges to ecological security in remote forest regions. In road-sparse primeval forests, wildfire prevention and ground emergency response are constrained not only by fire-prone envi...
Climate change poses an increasing threat to the functionality of forest transportation infrastructure, particularly in northern regions where seasonal access and ground conditions are critical for wood mobilization. The objective of this study was t...
When rockfalls hit and damage linear stakes such as roads or railways, the access to critical infrastructures (hospitals, schools, factories …) might be disturbed or stopped. Rockfall risk management often involves building protective structur...
Road networks are essential for access, resource distribution, and population evacuation during natural events. These challenges are pronounced in rural areas, where network redundancy is limited and communities may have social disparities. While tra...
Extreme weather, such as rainstorms, often triggers faults in the distribution network, and power outages occur. Some serious faults cannot be repaired by one team alone and may require equipment replacement or engineering construction crews to work...
Comprehensive datasets are crucial for developing advanced AI solutions in road infrastructure, yet most existing resources focus narrowly on vehicles or a limited set of object categories. To address this gap, we introduce the Korean Road Infrastruc...
Roads can affect animals as well as their habits at different levels. Avoidance behavior is a common response of animals to this type of perturbation, preventing access to areas rich in resources. The effects of roads on ungulates have not been studi...
Historic urban areas in inland resource-based cities are often reshaped by overlapping changes in roads, public services, industry, housing, and everyday land use. However, these changes are not always clearly connected to differentiated conservation...
Urban park green spaces (PGSs) are crucial social public resources that provide various ecological services and enhance human health and well-being. However, with the acceleration of urbanization, the accessibility and equity of urban PGS resources a...
The question of whether each building of housing estate has equal access to nearby social service resources (e.g., public transportation service, catering, entertainment, etc.) is a major concern of citizens. This paper takes Wuhan as a case to explo...
The exploitation of geoheritage resources depends on their accessibility. The latter is usually established for geosites, whereas reaching the areas where geosites concentrate also deserves attention. Here, a novel, multi-criteria, score-based approa...
This paper proposes a new method for network screening on rural low-volume roads. These roads are important as they provide critical access to agricultural land and tourist attractions. Most low-volume roads belong to the lowest functional class (loc...
Forest roads play an important role in providing access to forest resources. However, they can significantly impact the adjacent soil and vegetation. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of road geometry (RG) on the chemical and biochemical prope...
Road expansion has played a prominent role in the agrarian transition that marked the integration of swidden-based farming systems into the market economy in Southeast Asia. Rural roads deeply altered the landscape and livelihood structures by allowi...
A dataset of Spanish road traffic images taken from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) is presented with the purpose of being used to train artificial vision algorithms, among which those based on convolutional neural networks stand out. This article exp...
During natural disasters such as earthquakes, fires, or landslides, the timely passage of special vehicles (primarily oversized vehicles) is crucial for successful emergency rescue operations. Efficient route planning algorithms capable of handling l...
The COVID-19 pandemic affected how people interact with the built environment and ways of human habitation are facing significant challenges. However, the existing literature has not adequately addressed how the built environment affected the early p...
In order to improve the efficiency of transportation networks, it is critical to forecast traffic congestion. Large-scale traffic congestion data have become available and accessible, yet they need to be properly represented in order to avoid overfit...
China’s high-speed rail was inaugurated in 2008; it has greatly improved accessibility, and reduced the time required to travel between cities, but at the same time, has caused an unfair distribution of accessibility levels. Therefore, this paper ana...
This paper presents the findings of a study on the impact of the transformation of a road transport corridor on the form of a functio-spatial structure, as determined by the placement of significant economic activity sites within this corridor. The i...
Rural communities in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) remain isolated from reliable access to critical sites and social services due to inadequate transport connectivity. Formal planning approaches to improve rural networked transport in...
Road freight transport involves many adversities, along with the growing effect of carbon dioxide transmitted by vehicles on the natural environment, greenhouse gas emissions, or extensive energy use. Within the smart mobility concept, the acknowledg...
With the deepening trend of aging, the issue of elderly care for the aging population has become a matter of concern for all sectors of society. Elderly-care services have become increasingly vital. Elderly-care institutions, a major component of the...
21 May 2018
Urban residents’ need to be in control of their home environment can be constrained by perceived uncontrollability of exposure to road traffic noise. Noise annoyance may indicate a psychological stress reaction due to this uncontrollability per...
Identifying areas for further wind energy investigation requires information on wind resources, accessibility, and land availability. Yet national screening may select similar areas of land while identifying different locations as assumptions change....
The rapid development of wireless technology has accelerated the development of Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) to support accident prevention and the safety of a vehicle driver. VANET is a form of Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET), and it differs fro...
Emergency management services, such as firefighting, rescue teams and ambulances, are all heavily reliant on road networks. However, even for highly industrialised countries such as Germany, and even for large cities, spatial planning tools are lacki...
14 December 2021
Primary health care has been emphasized as a pillar of China’s current round of health reforms throughout the previous decade. The purpose of this study is to analyze the accessibility of primary health care services in Beijing and to identify...
1 August 2022
The accessibility of medical service facilities is a vital influence on elderly people choosing medical treatment. Encouraging residents to seek nearby medical treatment can facilitate the rational layout and diversion of urban medical facilities and...
28 February 2024
Accessibility to care is a major public health issue. Various tools to assess it are available, but they do not solve the problem of scale. Moreover, accessibility is a multidimensional concept that is not taken into account with current tools. The S...
Rural roads are important for the communities in the hilly areas of Nepal as they introduce livelihood opportunities at the local level, and provide better access to the healthcare, education, and resources. Yet, most of the rural roads in Nepal are...
Bus lanes with intermittent priority (BLIP) are designed to optimize road resource allocation. The advent of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) promotes the implementation of BLIP. However, it is crucial to find an effective method to intermitte...
Acacia mearnsii, an invasive alien species, is the main resource identified for the energy transition initiated on Reunion Island. It is, therefore, critical to identify the existent forest stands within the island’s large tropical forest area...
Inaccurate cost and schedule estimations in road infrastructure projects continue to be a critical source of contractual disputes and financial inefficiencies, particularly in developing countries. While quantitative risk analysis (QRA) methods such...
The increase in demand for mineral resources, the depletion of the resources (deposits) and numerous environmental and social limitations concerning their utilization led to research on the assessment of environmental and the social availability of c...
Ensuring equitable access to basic education is a core issue for promoting balanced regional development and sustainable educational outcomes. As a vast and sparsely populated region with relatively slow development, the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau f...
Urban fire emergency response depends on the coordinated functioning of road access, firefighting water supply, and command systems. This study develops an 18-node Bayesian network to assess Response Resilience in interdependent road–water&ndas...
Coupled with rapid urbanization and urban expansion, the spatial relationship between transportation development and land use has gained growing interest among researchers and policy makers. In this paper, a complex network model and land use intensi...
In much of the commercial boreal forest, dense road networks and energy corridors have been developed to access natural resources with unintended and poorly understood effects on surrounding forest structure. In this study, we compare the effects of...
The aspirations of public administrations to meet quality parameters and standards in urban spaces have fostered new strategies and tools that allow users to give safety and well-being. The participation and interaction of different actors during dec...
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