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A proposed risk model and a GIS framework for hazardous materials transportation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This paper presents a Geographical Information System (GIS) based risk assessment model for road transportation of hazardous materials (hazmat). Existing and proposed risk models are applied to truck shipments of hazmat through the road network of ...
Ak, Ronay   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Using location semantics to realize personalized road network location privacy protection

open access: yesEURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2020
With the rapid development of location-based services in the field of mobile network applications, users enjoy the convenience of location-based services on one side, and they are exposed to the risk of privacy disclosure on the other side. Attackers may
Li Kuang   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Rapidly shifting elevational distributions of passerine species parallel vegetation change in the subarctic

open access: yesEcosphere, 2016
Despite predictions of poleward and upslope shifts in the distribution of breeding passerines under climate change, studies often report variable responses with some species shifting opposite of the expected direction and others showing range stability ...
Jeremy D. Mizel   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Qualitative evaluation and optimization of forest road network to minimize total costs and environmental impacts

open access: yesiForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, 2012
An efficient and low-cost transportation network is necessary for sustainable management. Roading and log skidding are the most expensive and destructive operations in forest environment, unless carefully planned and evaluated.
Hayati E, Majnounian B, Abdi E
doaj   +1 more source

Research on Urban Road Network Evaluation Based on Fractal Analysis

open access: yesJournal of Advanced Transportation, 2023
The structure of the urban road network affects the mode of urban development and the position of urban social and economic activities, families, and employment centers.
Wen Wen, Wenhui Zhang, Hongxing Deng
doaj   +1 more source

Resilience of Urban Road Network to Malignant Traffic Accidents

open access: yesJournal of Advanced Transportation, 2022
Malignant traffic accidents are typical devastating events suffered by the urban road network. They cause severe functional loss when loading on the urban road network is high, exerting a significant impact on the operation of the city. The resilience of
Yiding Lu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The air quality impact of cordon and distance based road user charging: an empirical study of Leeds, U.K [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Traffic assignment, pollutant emission and dispersion models were applied to a major UK city so as to assess the air quality impacts of five road pricing schemes.
Milne, D.S., Mitchell, G., Namdeo, A.K.
core   +1 more source

Cities road networks [PDF]

open access: yesComputer Research and Modeling, 2016
Road network infrastructure is the basis of any urban area. This article compares the structural characteristics (meshedness coefficient, clustering coefficient) road networks of Moscow center (Old Moscow), formed as a result of self-organization and roads near Leninsky Prospekt (postwar Moscow), which was result of cetralized planning.
Igor Alexeevich Yevin   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Hierarchical Area Partitioning Method of Urban Road Networks Matching [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Geodesy and Geoinformation Science, 2019
In view of the “Node-Arc” data model of road network in the aspect of structured expressing the deficiencies, the hierarchical area partitioning of road network based on the principle of stroke, which made road network space structure ...
Bohua HUANG,Wei ZHONG,Renjian ZHAI,Qing ZHOU
doaj   +1 more source

Consistency and stability of risk indicators: The case of road infrastructures [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Over the last decade, the World Road Association – PIARC and several European research projects, among which Ecoroads, have encouraged a promising reflection on risk analysis methods, acceptance criteria and safety practices applied to the road system ...
Di Mascio, Paola   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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