Green infrastructure consists of ecosystems that provide valuable services to urban areas. Constructed ecosystems, including green roofs, bioretention systems, constructed wetlands and bioreactors are artificial, custom-built components of green infrastructure that are becoming more common in cities. Small size, strong spatial boundaries, ecological novelty and the role of human design characte...

The urban transit routing problem (UTRP) consists of finding satisfying routes for public transportation within a city or region. Urban scenarios get bigger and more complex every day, making the design of routes an overwhelming task whose results are often unsatisfactory, with high costs and travel times. We develop an exact MIP formulation and a multi-objective genetic algorithm to solve this...

The delimitation of urban space is conceptually elusive and fuzzy. Commonly, urban areas are delimited through administrative boundaries. These artificial, fixed boundaries, however, do not necessarily represent the actual built-up extent, the urban catchment, or the economic linkage within and across neighboring metropolitan regions. For an approach to spatially delimit an urban corridor—a gen...

Sustainable urban development is a focus of regional policy makers; therefore, how to measure and understand urban growth is an important research topic. This paper quantified the amount of urban growth on land use maps that were derived from multi-temporal Landsat images of Jiaxing City as a rapidly-growing city in Zhejiang Province from 2000–2015. Furthermore, a new approach coupled the heuri...

This paper describes a prototype for centralised urban traffic control utilising techniques from the field of Artificial Intelligence. The focus of this presentation is on the prototype as a novel architecture for knowledge based traffic control. The prototype is called the Intelligent Urban Traffic Control System (IUTCS), and was developed under DRIVE 1. The IUTCS is now receiving further deve...

Floating treatment wetlands (FTW) are artificial structures used for water quality improvement through the hydroponic growth of certain macrophytes and their rhizospheric bacteria, with capacity pollutant removal. Through application face-to-face questionnaires, our study aimed to analyze visitors’ perception structure, functionality, benefits FTW installed in two ponds one green space Xalapa, ...

By the year 2003, 47% of the world’s 6.3 billion inhabitants were living in urban areas, while in more developed countries, 75% of the population (1.2 billion) lived in urban areas (Population Reference Bureau, 2003). As more and more people make their residencies in the heart of the industrial and commercial world, urbanisation will continue to grow. Alterations to the natural environment due ...