With the rapid development of urban traffics, recently many big cities have established lots of modern traffic networks extended in all directions, but there are still some severe problems caused by traffic congestions and traffic accidents. So for improving these unsatisfactory states in the urban traffic, inspired by the immune cooperative phenomenon from the biologics, firstly the regional t...

The recent urban growth of Florence was mainly oriented northward, thus determining the urbanization of the flatland and the inclusion within a unique conurbation of a number of pre-existing urban nuclei. Over time, the congestion of the inner core has caused more and more prominent activities to shift towards this developing area, which is today one of the most attractive parts of the whole se...

Urban traffic congestion is one of the most severe problems of everyday life in Metropolitan areas. In an effort to deal with this problem, intelligent transportation systems (ITS) technologies have concentrated in recent years on dealing with urban congestion. One of the most critical aspects of ITS success is the provision of accurate real-time information and short-term predictions of traffi...

This paper proposes to visualize acoustic comfort along tourist routes. Route-based tourism is crucial to the sustainability of tourism development in historic areas. Applying the concept of route-based tourism to guide tourists rambling along cultural and heritage routes can relieve overcrowded condition at hot scenic spots and increase the overall carrying capacity of the city. However, acous...

In order to control urban traffic with model-based control methods, a proper traffic model is very important. This traffic control model needs to have enough descriptive power to reproduce relevant traffic phenomena, and it also has to be fast enough to be used in practice. Therefore, macroscopic urban traffic flow models are usually applied as control models. These models are normally sampled ...

BACKGROUND Data pertaining to head injuries in adolescents in Taiwan are scarce. The purpose of this study was to investigate the trend and pattern of head injuries in adolescents in both urban and rural areas in Taiwan. METHODS We collected data from major hospitals in the urban (20) and in the rural (4) areas of Taiwan for a period of 3 years. Data were obtained from the Head Injury Registr...

The city of Rome is characterized by high ozone, NO2 and PM10 levels claiming for the implementation of emission control strategies to improve the air quality and to decrease the risks of health effects on inhabitants. In this perspective an atmospheric modelling system based on the chemical transport model FARM has been applied for the year 2005 over a nested domain including the metropolitan ...

Heavy traffic is a major source of noise pollution in the urban centers. Higher noise levels are observed in the residential area near highway passing through Jalgaon city. The exposure of population to the higher noise levels affects on the hearing capability. In the present study hearing impairment was observed in the population exposed to higher noise levels.