The aim of this study was to geographically analyse the traffic casualties in pedestrians in downtown of Tehran City. Study population consisted of pedestrians who had traffic injury accidents from April 2014 to March 2015 in Tehran City. Data were extracted from the offices of traffic police and municipality. For analysis of environmental factors and site of accidents, Ordinary Least Square (O...

BACKGROUND Evaluation of intra-city roads in terms of environmental factors of motor vehicle injuries can help us to better identify these factors and the share of each of the factors in injuries. Therefore, this study was conducted to determine the high injury areas and the risk factors of motor vehicle crashes resulting in injury and death in Tehran, the capital city of Iran, from November 20...

The aims of the present study were to provide quantitative data on the impact of air pollution on the health of people living in Tehran city, the most populated city of Iran. The approach proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO) was applied using the AirQ 2.2.3 software developed by the WHO European Centre for Environment and Health, Bilthoven Division. Concentrations of ozone, nitrogen ...

It is widely believed that urban ecological landscape regards the city to be an ecosystem built by human activities and supported by natural and man-made functions and processes over time. In the past, human communities have selected their residing places and designed their cities by paying attention to natural environmental resources. The profound influence of technology and industry has broug...

the consideration of tehran metropolis and its soundings areas has been the first one of recent challenges in iran’s spatial planning which made it possible to develop the concepts such metropolitan region and conurbation. however, it is obvious that there appears to be a much more proper structure due to neo-regionalism and globalization in order to understanding of dynamic nature of tehran an...

This paper describes the development of car drive cycle for simulation of vehicles exhaust gas emissions and fuel economy. In this research work, the development of light vehicle drive cycle for city of Tehran has been performed. First, the approach to develop a drive cycle has been described. The necessary measuring tools and software have then been provided, and the car speed has been recorde...