This thesis addresses the topic of real-time decision making by driverless (autonomous) city vehicles, i.e. their ability to make appropriate driving decisions in non-simplified urban traffic conditions. After addressing the state of research, and explaining the research question, the thesis presents solutions for the subcomponents which are relevant for decision making with respect to informat...

As comfort systems, the existing Adaptive Cruise Control systems (ACC-systems) function well on motorways and well-structured highways, but there are a lot of challenges for machine-supported driving in urban environments. This paper is aimed to introduce an innovative way to extension of the existing ACC-system for driving in the urban environments (so-called CityACC), where the secondary opti...

The experience of health impact assessment (HIA) in NSW has shown that it is possible to incorporate considerations of health impacts into decision-making concerning urban planning. In NSW, the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 is the regulatory framework governing urban planning. This legislative system provides opportunities for HIA and the consideration of health impacts as part...

During a time of budget challenges, the Washington, D.C. government has needed to increase appropriations to the public safety and justice title while reducing appropriations to other municipal services. The need to increase policing costs by $1 million to $469.7 million in fiscal year 2012 diverges from the city’s efforts to improve underserved neighborhoods through urban renewal. Although the...

Urban planning at local level is one of the important professions to affectively mange local issues like housing affordability, traffic congestion, crimes as well as global issues like pollution, global warming, environmental degradation etc. Being a multi disciplinary profession, urban planners and concerned decision makers relies heavily on appropriate and up to date information from differen...

Scholars at home and abroad always focus on the low-carbon urban development. This paper described the basic theory of low-carbon city, analyzed the main factors effect the urban carbon emissions based on principal components analysis method, and established evaluation model to adapt to the development of low-carbon city. Finally, reasonable proposals have been proposed to provide scientific an...