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Roads, Railroads, and Decentralization of Chinese Cities Open
We investigate how urban railroad and highway configurations have influenced urban form in Chinese cities since 1990. Each radial highway displaces 4% of central city population to surrounding regions, and ring roads displace about an addi…
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High-resolution mapping of vehicle emissions of atmospheric pollutants based on large-scale, real-world traffic datasets Open
On-road vehicle emissions are a major contributor to elevated air pollution levels in populous metropolitan areas. We developed a link-level emissions inventory of vehicular pollutants, called EMBEV-Link (Link-level Emission factor Model f…
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Developing a Coordinated Signal Control System for Urban Ring Road Under the Vehicle-Infrastructure Connected Environment Open
Ring roads have been widely built in many cities, especially in the central districts with excessively heavy traffic demands and frequently generated congestion. In order to improve the operations and reduce traffic delay on urban ring roa…
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How Green Are the Streets Within the Sixth Ring Road of Beijing? An Analysis Based on Tencent Street View Pictures and the Green View Index Open
Street greenery, an important urban landscape component, is closely related to people’s physical and mental health. This study employs the green view index (GVI) as a quantitative indicator to evaluate visual greenery from a pedestrian’s p…
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Urbanization and Its Impacts on Land Surface Temperature in Colombo Metropolitan Area, Sri Lanka, from 1988 to 2016 Open
Urbanization has become one of the most important human activities modifying the Earth’s land surfaces; and its impacts on tropical and subtropical cities (e.g., in South/Southeast Asia) are not fully understood. Colombo; the capital of Sr…
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A Comparative Study of Urban Expansion in Beijing, Tianjin and Tangshan from the 1970s to 2013 Open
Although the mapping of spatiotemporal patterns of urban expansion has been widely studied, relatively little attention has been paid to detailed comparative studies on spatiotemporal patterns of urban growth at the regional level over a r…
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Simulating deployment of connectivity and automation on the Antwerp ring road Open
As connectivity and automation make their way in to transportation systems, they are expected to have a forceful impact, drastically changing road transportation. The introduction of autonomous vehicles (AVs) and connected autonomous vehic…
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Impact Analysis of Land Use on Traffic Congestion Using Real-Time Traffic and POI Open
This paper proposed a new method to describe, compare, and classify the traffic congestion points in Beijing, China, by using the online map data and further revealed the relationship between traffic congestion and land use. The data of th…
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Truck Traffic Speed Prediction Under Non-Recurrent Congestion: Based on Optimized Deep Learning Algorithms and GPS Data Open
Due to the restriction of traffic management measure in large cities, large heavy-haul trucks can only travel on the circuits and expressways around the city, which often causes congestion in these areas. It is necessary to study the trave…
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RING ROAD: BIRMINGHAM AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE MOTOR CITY IDEAL IN 1970s BRITAIN Open
Reconstructing Britain's cities to accommodate the ‘motor revolution’ was an integral part of urban renewal in the post-war decades. This article shows how opposition to urban motorways had a pivotal role in the retreat from urban modernis…
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Effects of odd–even traffic restriction on travel speed and traffic volume: Evidence from Beijing Olympic Games Open
This paper reports the effects of using an "odd and even" traffic restriction policy in Beijing during the 2008 Olympic Games. Based on data from 529 traffic detectors on the expressway network and some main arterials in Beijing, China, a …
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Revealing Spatial-Temporal Characteristics and Patterns of Urban Travel: A Large-Scale Analysis and Visualization Study with Taxi GPS Data Open
Mobility and spatial interaction data have become increasingly available due to the widespread adoption of location-aware technologies. Examples of mobile data include human daily activities, vehicle trajectories, and animal movements. In …
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Exploring Travel Time Distribution and Variability Patterns Using Probe Vehicle Data: Case Study in Beijing Open
Exploring travel time distribution and variability patterns is essential for reliable route choices and sophisticated traffic management and control. State-of-the-art studies tend to treat different types of roads equally, which fails to p…
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Effectiveness of Ring Roads in Reducing Traffic Congestion in Cities for Long Run: Big Almaty Ring Road Case Study Open
It is common to increase road capacity by constructing ring roads to reduce traffic congestion in city areas, although this is often found to be ineffective in the long run. Accordingly, this study investigates various traffic congestion m…
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Spatial Characteristics of Multidimensional Urban Vitality and Its Impact Mechanisms by the Built Environment Open
Urban vitality, intricately connected to urban morphology, has long been a cornerstone of urban planning and design. The accelerated pace of urbanization has created abundant living and working spaces, but it has also brought about a serie…
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Study of Pavement Condition Index (PCI) relationship with International Roughness Index (IRI) on Flexible Pavement. Open
Road is an infrastructure that built to support the movement of the vehicle from one place to another for different purposes. Today, it is often found damage to road infrastructure, both local roads, and arterial roads. Therefore, to keep …
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The association between spatial attributes and neighborhood characteristics based on Meituan take-out data: Evidence from shanghai business circles Open
The success of a city increasingly depends on its role as a consumer centre. The new form of consumption is increasingly playing the leading role in urban consumption growth. Based on Meituan take-out data, this paper investigates quantita…
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Assessing the tsunami mitigation effectiveness of the planned Banda Aceh Outer Ring Road (BORR), Indonesia Open
This research aimed to assess the tsunami flow velocity and height reduction produced by a planned elevated road parallel to the coast of Banda Aceh, called the Banda Aceh Outer Ring Road (BORR). The road will transect several lagoons, set…
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Measuring time accessibility and its spatial characteristics in the urban areas of Beijing Open
Construction of road infrastructure is fundamental to city operation and development, as well as an important pathway and focus in physical urban-rural integration. The long-term implementation of a system of ring roads plus radiating road…
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Simulation of Land Use/Land Cover Dynamics Using Google Earth Data and QGIS: A Case Study on Outer Ring Road, Southern India Open
The land use and land cover change dynamics is in par with the increasing growth of urban developments and associated sprawl. The objective of the study is to quantify such land cover changes caused due to the urban expansion along the out…
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Research on Traffic Situation Analysis for Urban Road Network Through Spatiotemporal Data Mining: A Case Study of Xi’an, China Open
Severe traffic congestion has promoted the development of the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS). Accurately analyzing and predicting the traffic states of the urban road networks has important theoretical significance and practical v…
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Dynamic Noise Mapping in the Suburban Area of Rome (Italy) Open
A “real-time” noise mapping project, named DYNAMAP, has been developed in the framework of a Life+ 2013 program and cofunded by the European Commission. The project aims at giving a real picture of the noise generated by vehicular traffic.…
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Exploring Spatial Distribution of Urban Park Service Areas in Shanghai Based on Travel Time Estimation: A Method Combining Multi-Source Data Open
Due to a growing appreciation for the ecological and recreational benefits of public green spaces, the evaluation of urban parks’ service efficiency, as well as citizens’ behavioral preferences for daily recreation, have become an increasi…
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Using Lidar technology to assess regional air pollution and improve estimates of PM<sub>2.5</sub> transport in the North China Plain Open
Air pollutants seriously impact climate change and human health. In this study, the gridpoint statistical interpolation (GSI) three-dimensional variational data assimilation system was extended from ground data to vertical profile data, wh…
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Revealing Urban Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Emission Characteristics and Influencing Mechanisms from the Perspective of Commuting Open
Commuting to and from work is one of the most important and regular routines using urban transport, being a major source for an increase in transport-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. In this study, we explore the characteristics of …
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The Impact of the Ring Roads on the Location Pattern of Shops in Town and City Centres. A Space Syntax Approach Open
This contribution demonstrates how inner ring roads change the location pattern of shops in urban areas with the application of the space syntax method. A market rational behaviour persists, in that shop owners always search for an optimal…
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A Spatial Analysis of Urban Streets under Deep Learning Based on Street View Imagery: Quantifying Perceptual and Elemental Perceptual Relationships Open
Measuring the human perception of urban street space and exploring the street space elements that influence this perception have always interested geographic information and urban planning fields. However, most traditional efforts to inves…
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Correlation Analysis between Urban Green Space and Land Surface Temperature from the Perspective of Spatial Heterogeneity: A Case Study within the Sixth Ring Road of Beijing Open
Urban greening has been widely regarded as the most effective, lasting, and economical strategy for alleviating the effects of urban heat islands (UHIs). Previous studies on the cooling effect of urban green spaces (UGSs) tend to analyze t…
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Mixed Land Use Evaluation and Its Impact on Housing Prices in Beijing Based on Multi-Source Big Data Open
The tense relationship between the supply and demand of land resources and the past spatial expansion of urban development in Beijing have brought many urban problems. Mixed land use is considered to be able to solve these urban problems a…
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Monitoring Spatiotemporal Changes of Impervious Surfaces in Beijing City Using Random Forest Algorithm and Textural Features Open
As the capital city of China, Beijing has experienced unprecedented economic and population growth and dramatic impervious surface changes during the last few decades. An application of the classification method combining the spectral and …