Aerosol optical properties in a rural environment near the mega-city Guangzhou, China: implications for regional air pollution and radiative forcing R. M. Garland, H. Yang, O. Schmid, D. Rose, A. Nowak, P. Achtert, A. Wiedensohler, N. Takegawa, K. Kita, Y. Miyazaki, Y. Kondo, M. Hu, M. Shao, L. Zeng, Y. Zhang, M. O. Andreae, and U. Pöschl Biogeochemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Che...

Large reduction in emissions of anthropogenic pollutants in a mega city during the week-long holiday gives an opportunity to investigate how the urban air quality reacts to reductions in emission. This study conducted a systematical examination of the “Spring Festival effect” over three consecutive winters in Shenzhen with a population of greater than ten million, and the difference in the conc...

During the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake, many residents living coastal area used car for their evacuation from mega Tsunami. Due to the rapidly increased traffic demand in road network and also trouble of traffic signals, heavy traffic congestions occurred in the road network. At first, this research investigated the condition of car evacuation in Kesennuma city. Secondly, ts...

In an era of intense “entrepreneurial” city marketing, overt attempts to court LGBT consumers and investors have been made not solely through the promotion of lesbian and gay arts festivals, pride celebrations and “specialised” cultural events, but also through “mainstream” mega-events. This paper explores this with reference to London’s 2012 Olympics, an event which welcomed LGBT spectators, v...

IBM Mega Traffic Simulator (Megaffic) is an agent-based simulator of traffic flows with two unique features. First, Megaffic can build its model of simulation by directly estimating some of the parameters of the model from probe-car data. This capability is in contrast to existing agent-based simulators of traffic flows, where the values of their parameters are calibrated with iterative simulat...

Wireless grid can provide consumers ubiquitous broadband wireless services with convenience, robustness and mobility, which is one of the most promising alternatives of fixed wireless access networks. As the deployment of Wide City has accelerated quickly, this study focuses on the key technologies of wireless grid in ubiquitous broadband wireless services, such as antennas, MAC design, channel...

Extensive studies show that mega project has close connections with globalization and civilization, but little articles make social logical analyses of mega project. Traditional conflict management lays stress on projects leading to conflicts while neglecting the fact that conflict can also result in mega project in a social context. This paper studies the relationship between mega project and ...

The ground-breaking ceremony of Istanbul’s Third Bosphorus Bridge took place on 29th May 2013. date chosen by the then Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, to launch construction this urban mega-project transformed inauguration into a commemoration 560th anniversary Ottoman Conquest Istanbul Fatih Sultan Mehmet. After explaining significance 1453 commemorations in Turkey, article, we argue tha...

In a moment of high expectations and accolades about " smart cities " initiatives around the world, the collection of definitions, concepts, studies and methodologies provided by the book entitled " Smart City. How to Create Public and Economic Value with High Technology in Urban Space " is a welcomed effort to clarify a structure of a complex ideal of a mega project like smart city. This edite...

Does it actually make sense to further increase the size of Ultra Large Container Ships from shipping line’s perspective? Is possibly opposite what growth in is supposed achieve experienced with current ship sizes? These questions are followed up on basis some fundamental geometric and physical considerations, whereby focus effects longer port stays ever larger ships. Based proportionalities a ...