For the significance of road information to the city management, urban roads are subjects of great concern to be extracted from remotely sensed images. With the availability of high spatial resolution images from new generation commercial sensors, how to extract roads quickly, accurately and automatically has been a cutting-edge problem in remote sensing related fields. Present main approaches ...

This paper describes investigations that have been undertaken on the effect of heavy vehicle traffic on residents. The study focused on sixteen roads in four North Island communities. The roads selected were predominantly regional arterial roads and had heavy vehicle volumes ranging from 2.1% to 32% of total traffic volume. The study had two main components, a residents' survey and an environme...

In this research, the centers involved in relief operations in Tehran traffic area districts have been compared and the supply-demand ratio has been specified through a relation presented separately for each district. The supply has been evaluated based on three parameters: 1) No of relief centers, 2) congestion of the main road (the ratio of the length of the main road to the area of the distr...

We sought to synthesize evidence of the health effects of construction of new roads by systematically reviewing observational studies of such effects. We included and critically appraised 32 studies. The review suggested that out-of-town bypasses decrease injuries on main roads through or around towns, although more robust evidence is needed on effects on secondary roads. New major urban roads ...

Automatic extraction of roads is a present research topic. Many applications like topographic mapping, navigation applications, or image registration could profit from such algorithms. This paper is concerned with automatic road extraction from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery. An approach originally developed for the extraction of roads in rural areas from optical imagery with a ground p...

Automatic extraction of linear topographic objects, such as, roads, rivers, or power lines, is an important topic for topographic mapping. In case of roads, an automatic extraction from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery is rather difficult, due to the speckle effect and the limited spatial resolution in relation to the road width. In this paper we investigate the additional use of multifre...