background: high prevalence and increasing rate of asthmatic patients around the word witnesses the high burden of asthma. we have limited data on asthma burden and economic costs in iran. this study aimed to find direct and indirect economic costs of asthma and their association with some background factors in one of the referral tertiary centers for adult patients with asthma. methods: we sur...

The public transport system plays an important role in a city as it moves people from one place to another efficiently and economically. network must be organized way that will cover many places much of the population possible, support city’s growth. As Australia’s largest capital cities, Melbourne is growing expanding its metropolitan area reflect growth increased number activities. To date, l...

Contemporary urban areas are complex economic and transportation systems having a structured land use pattern. The utility value of land use is a measurement unit of the value of a specific land use zone in relation to the whole economic system. It is the effective economic output value of land use and it is defined according to concepts of accessibility level, economic level and spatial intera...

In this paper, we propose to measure the extent of the influence of transportation systems on land use change. Using a set of high-resolution land use data for the Twin Cities metropolitan region, we estimate logistic regression models of land use change covering a 10-year period from 1990 to 2000. The models account for existing land use types, neighboring land uses, and transportation network...