Πλοήγηση ανά Θέμα "Urban environments"
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Anti-noise barriers for trams and trains in urban environment.: Results of a measurement campaign at athens tram network
(2006)Athens Tram has performed during last years an extended Noise & Vibration Abatement Program including both airborne & ground borne noise & vibration levels calculations. The relevant N&V studies suggested the implementation ... -
Back to design fundamentals: The step and the eye
(2019)Space Syntax has often been associated with techniques and computer methods. Its basic concept though lays beyond the techniques: it’s a way of understanding space. The fundamental idea is that space is been perceived, ... -
Clustering in Urban environments: Virtual forces applied to vehicles
(2013)Clustering of Vanets is a technique for grouping nodes in geographical vicinity together, making the network more robust and scalable. Clustering of vehicles that is based on virtual forces has been recently introduced for ... -
Cyberpark, a New Medium of Human Associations, a Component of Urban Resilience
(2019)The centre point of this chapter is how to increase the resilience of the urban environment by integrating the cyberpark in its spatial planning and policies. Disaster prevention and preparedness are a priority in resilience, ... -
Database and baseline system for detecting degraded traffic signs in urban environments
(2015)We present a small database of 'noisy' traffic signs in cluttered urban environments that exhibit various forms of degradation, including vandalism and fading (discoloration). The database contains five types of international ... -
Environmental effects from vibration emitted from the operation of urban highways: A measurement campaign at athens ring motorway network
(2007)In order to record and evaluate the vibration and ground noise levels emitted from road traffic during operation of "Attiki Odos" (Athens Ring Motorway) in the most unfavourable road section (as far as the traffic flows ... -
Environmental noise as an important legal factor in the rehabilitation of the acoustic urban environment
(2009)Noise is an important environmental factor affecting all problems related to the degradation of the urban environment and the quality of life. In Greece, quality of life has been established as a legal conception protected ... -
Examining gender differences of social media use for activity planning and travel choices
(2020)Background: The explosive growth of social media has rendered them powerful communication channels. User generated content is an important source of inspiration and influence among web friends, it generates new activities ... -
Investigating the Travel Information-Seeking Behavior for Daily Trips in a Greek Medium Sized City
(2021)The deployment of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have created new options for travel information seeking. Dissemination of travel information to travelers could have immediate benefits such as reduction ... -
Long term environmental & transportation noise monitoring in the cities of Veria & Ioannina in northern greece according to the 2002/49/EC directive
(2006)The requirements resulting from the application of the EU directive 2002/49/EC are very important for each city. For this reason the authorities of Veria & Ioannina in Northern Greece in collaboration with the Aristotle ... -
A methodology for synthetic household water consumption data generation
(2018)In the smart cities context, real-time knowledge of residential water consumption has become increasingly important, especially given the fast evolution of sensors, ICT and the production of big, high-resolution data coming ... -
Recognition of urban sound events using deep context-aware feature extractors and handcrafted features
(2019)This paper proposes a method for recognizing audio events in urban environments that combines handcrafted audio features with a deep learning architectural scheme (Convolutional Neural Networks, CNNs), which has been trained ... -
Stochastic optimization of electric vehicle charging stations
(2019)With range anxiety becoming the every day problem for Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) owners, even more research is being conducted in the field of BEV charging and Charging Stations (CSs) scheduling optimization. In this ... -
Strategic noise mapping in Greece & Cyprus - Some considerations regarding delays and particularities in south European countries from the implementation of the directive 2002/49/EC
(2013)The Strategic Mapping of Environmental Noise, (SMEN) as per the European Directive 2002/49/EC, aims at the determination of a common approach for the avoidance, prevention or reduction, on a prioritized basis of the harmful ... -
Survey on Routing Services for Smart Delivery in Urban Environments
(2020)The problems of routing in cities are examined in this survey and highlight key points that need to be considered for smart delivery, which is time-restricted and cost-effective. Smart cities require smart services and ... -
Towards sustainable planning in the era of climate change: Spatial policies for built-up areas in Greece
(2011)This paper is a critical approach of the institutional framework and the related policies to environmental planning in contemporary Greek towns. Specifically, the paper investigates the achievements as well as the malfunctions ... -
Tracing the sources of bioaccessible metal(loid)s in urban environments: A multidisciplinary approach
(2021)Understanding the links between sources of magnetic particles and bioaccessibility of metal(loids) in environmental sampling media is crucial for better evaluating human health risks, although relevant information in the ...