In this article, we provide a model to study urban transport network by means of optimal transport paths recently studied by the author. Under this model, we can set up an optimal urban transport network of finite total cost which provide access to all residents from their home to their destinations. The quality of the road depends on the traffic density it carries, which make it necessary to b...

The aim of this work is to identify a set of fundamental rules that govern the interactions within urban systems at the metropolitan scale. For that, we developed an USM (Urban Simulation Model) specifically designed to study the evolution and dynamics of systems of cities. Our model is innovative in its structure: it is a superposition of cellular automata and agent based modeling approaches (...

tehran city has been subject of critical environmental challenges during the course of 20th. century namely: massive population growth, broad expansion, reduction in urban open/green spaces, increasing in energy consumption and waste production. releasing industrial wastewater into river valleys have led to considerable changes in structure of city's natural landscape. the natural structur...

Urban traffic analysis is crucial for traffic forecasting systems, urban planning and, more recently, various mobile and network applications. In this paper, we analyse urban traffic with network and statistical methods. Our analysis is based on one big bus dataset containing 45 million bus arrival samples in Helsinki. We mainly address following questions: 1. How can we identify the areas that...

With the rapid progress of China’s urbanization, research on the automatic detection of land-use patterns in Chinese cities is of substantial importance. Deep learning is an effective method to extract image features. To take advantage of the deep-learning method in detecting urban land-use patterns, we applied a transfer-learning-based remote-sensing image approach to extract and classify feat...

There is a relatively small amount of research covering urban freight movements. Most research dealing with the subject of urban mobility focuses on passenger vehicles, not commercial vehicles hauling freight. However, in many ways, urban freight transport contributes to congestion, air pollution, noise , accident and more fuel consumption which raises logistic costs, and hence the price of pro...

Inefficient urban freight transport has a negative impact on both livability and profit margins in the supply chain. Urban logistics schemes, consisting of one or multiple governmental policies and company initiatives, attempt to address these problems. However, successful schemes are difficult to realize due to the divergent objectives of the agents involved in urban logistics. Traditional opt...

A common way of dealing with large urban transport infrastructures is by using Urban Traffic Management and Control (UTMC) systems [1][2]. The UK Department for Transport led Urban Traffic Management and Control initiative recognizes the following common UTMC components: strategic network management, comprehensive performance monitoring, traveller information, congestion monitoring, streamlined...