Urban Air Mobility: Safety Challenges

Singapore- Challenges and Improvements in Urban Mobility

Outdoor-indoor air pollution in urban environment: challenges and opportunity

*Correspondence: Dennis Y. C. Leung, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong e-mail: [email protected] With the continual improvement in our quality of life, indoor air quality has become an important area of concern in the twenty-first century. Indoor air quality is affected by many factors including the type and running conditions of indoor polluti...

Fire Safety Challenges in Hospital Safety Index (HSI)

Hospitals are a symbol of social welfare and the last refuge of patients, which is the most important issue of the health system. Patient safety is the first and most important issue for the health system.  Before COVID-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) defined the Hospital Safety Index (HSI) to measure hospital preparedness for disasters. During the COVID-19 crisis, hospitals faced many ...

Indigenization of Urban Mobility

Uncovering urban mobility patterns is crucial for further predicting and controlling spatially embedded events. In this article, we analyze millions of geographical check-ins crawled from a Chinese leading location-based social networking service, Jiepang.com, which contains demographical information and thus allows the group-specific studies. We found distinguishable mobility patterns of nativ...

SMART – Future Urban Mobility

This paper presents an overview of the Future Urban Mobility programme of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART). Through this programme, MIT is establishing a research centre in Singapore with the mission to support sustainability and improve transportation system performance through innovations in infrastructure, technology, operations and policy. Two key areas of rese...