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The effect of variability of urban systems characteristics in the network capacity

Recent experimental analysis has shown that some types of urban networks exhibit a low scatter reproducible relationship between average network flow and density, known as the macroscopic fundamental diagram (MFD). It has also been shown that heterogeneity ...

Elsevier2012

IDEAS - Integrated Design, Architecture and Sustainability

Marilyne Andersen, Sophie Lufkin, Maria Gracia Riera Perez, Émilie Nault

The axis "Integrated Design Architecture and Sustainability" (IDEAS) is a joint initiative of both the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Performance-Integrated Design (LIPID) and Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST) of the School of ...

2012

Estimating Pedestrian Destinations using Traces from WiFi Infrastructures

Michel Bierlaire, Bilal Farooq, Antonin Danalet

Urban growth and its pressure on infrastructure causes congestion in pedestrian facilities and asks for tools to design and optimize infrastructure. Our goal consists in estimating and forecasting pedestrian demand using data at the scale of pedestrian inf ...

2012

Estimating Pedestrian Destinations using Traces from WiFi Infrastructures

Michel Bierlaire, Bilal Farooq, Antonin Danalet

2012

Integrated Transportation and Urban Infrastructure Systems: Planning and Design

Bilal Farooq

Planning and design of urban infrastructure systems in general and transportation systems in particular, require a multidisciplinary effort that is heavily embedded in a system-of-systems perspective. The envisioned research direction is a bottom-up approa ...

2012

Highly Skilled Expatriates' Networks in the Cosmopolitan City: Constructing Post-migration Patterns of Belonging in Geneva (forthcoming)

Hossam Adly El Shentenawy

Within the field of migration studies, the construction of transnational networks and multilocal belongings has been widely described (Beck 2000, Glick-Schiller et al. 1995). However, much of this literature focuses on the construction of networks based on ...

2012

Sustainable Lighting: An Introduction to the Environmental Impacts of Lighting

Marilyne Andersen

The intent of this Design Guide is to introduce the topic of sustainability, present its elements, and explain how it affects the design of lighting in process and product. This document is structured into two major sections. Section 1.0 introduces sustain ...

IES - Illuminating Engineering Society2012

Energy potential and interactive design in the urban context

Émilie Nault

Despite the numerous existing design tools developed to support practitioners achieve energy performing buildings, practical use of those tools remains limited, in particular due to their restricted integration into the design process. This project is moti ...

2012

Spatial Dependence of Body Mass Index: Geneva, Switzerland

Stéphane Joost, Idris Guessous, Joël Chételat

Urban health (UH) is an emerging field, which explores the effect of urban environment and urbanization on health. Evidence suggests that urban environment can either positively influence health behaviors or be a health stressor. One key approach in UH is ...

2012

A new approach for co-operative bus priority at traffic signals

Bus priority at traffic signals is a growing area of co-operative transport system applications. Interest in bus priority continues to grow as the Cities pay more attention to the needs of buses to provide fast, frequent and reliable services thus contribu ...

2012

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