Abstract O ne of the main criticisms of location models is simplistic assumptions concerning the consumers’ distribution on the street or city. The location models usually make use of uniform distribution of consumers while it is not true in reality, and mostly the consumers’ accumulation is more in the city centers rather than suburb areas. This study deals with selectio...

CONTEXT Complete Streets policies guide planning in communities by making the transportation system accommodating to all users including vehicle drivers, pedestrians, and bicyclists, as well as those using public transportation. While the number of Complete Streets policies has increased over the past decade, no research has explored the factors attributing to the widespread diffusion of these ...

In the urban design realm careful consideration of connecting architectural form and socioeconomic function is a compelling issue. City planners and architects spend a significant amount of their time on collecting and integrating data from various information sources. Rapid growth of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) made it possible to map and display laboriously collected data, but these ...

In order to evaluate the physical and psychological health effects from automobile air pollution, 99 employees who worked near a main street were given a general health questionnaire, and the prevalence of their subjective complaints was measured. The collected data were classified according to gender, sleep time, degree of regular exercise, self-consciousness of symptoms, length of employment,...

The formulation of the problem - design main streets is problematic because their construction and reconstruction carried out by separate objects, often without taking into account overall composition street, need to organize orientation when moving in transport or create an aesthetic sequence.
 Publications related mainly cover period active as integral objects are limited purely theoreti...

background: the aim of this study was to assess the effects of road deicing salt on the quality of the ground water resources in hamadan province during winter season. methods: water samples were taken monthly from thirty wells located around the hamadan-asadabad highway. the quality of well water was examined by measuring amount of sodium, chloride, total hardness, total dissolved solid, elect...

We consider the problem of a robot inside an unknown polygon that has to nd a path from a starting point s to a target point t. We assume that it is equipped with an on-board vision system through which it can get the visibility map of its surroundings. Furthermore, we assume that the robot is contained in a simple polygon that belongs to the class of generalized streets. We consider three prob...