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A framework for the data-consistent deployment of urban microsimulations

Michel Bierlaire, Gunnar Flötteröd

Microsimulation-based models of urban systems have proven to be powerful tools for prediction and scenario analysis, with a particular yet continuously expanding focus on transportation and land use. They bring along a high level of detail, but they also c ...

2010

ICTs and Participation in Developing Countries

Jean-Claude Bolay, Alexandre Repetti

Developing cities are experiencing substantial gaps in urban planning. They are due to approaches and instruments that do not correspond to the realities of the developing city including the prevalence of informal sector and slums, urban governance problem ...

IGI Global2010

Estimation of urban sensible heat flux using a dense wireless network of observations

Martin Vetterli, Marc Parlange, Guillermo Barrenetxea Kobas, Daniel Nadeau, Olivier Couach, Marc-Olivier Boldi

The determination of the sensible heat flux over urban terrain is challenging due to irregular surface geometry and surface types. To address this, in 2006–07, a major field campaign (LUCE) took place at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne campus, ...

Springer Verlag2009

Training for Task Specific Keypoint Detection

Pascal Fua, Christoph Strecha, Albrecht Johannes Lindner, Karim Ali

In this paper, we show that a better performance can be achieved by training a keypoint detector to only find those points that are suitable to the needs of the given task. We demonstrate our approach in an urban environment, where the keypoint detector sh ...

Springer-Verlag New York, Ms Ingrid Cunningham, 175 Fifth Ave, New York, Ny 10010 Usa2009

Densité et logement collectif

Nicolas Bassand

As a measurement, built density (coefficient of land surface to be built and total floor space) has been the object of numerous researches on urban morphology and architectural forms during the twentieth century. However, for the last ten years, its sensor ...

EPFL2009

Sampling Urban Mobility through On-line Repositories of GPS Tracks

We analyze urban mobility by relying on the short-term mobility traces gathered from a publicly available web-based repository of GPS tracks - the Nokia Sports Tracker service. All mobility traces are obtained from a set of kml files. We show how the data ...

ACM2009

Geneva Lessons

Harry Gugger, Tarramo Broennimann

This book outlines the Development Masterplan work undertaken by the lapa and thier students as a collaboration betweden the EPFL and the CCIG - The Geneva Chamber of Comerce and Industry. The project was a one year study, with urban planning and urban dev ...

Laboratoire de la Production d'Architecture2009

Les étudiants, l'université de masse et la ville durable

Ismail Haddad

In a globalized space where mobility is growing, the capacities of attraction of the city are becoming increasingly decisive. Between the cities, through its attractive quality and attraction capacity, the university will become a decisive factor of locati ...

EPFL2009

Optimisation of Urban Energy Demand Using an Evolutionary Algorithm

Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Darren Robinson

Computer modelling at the urban scale is an increasingly vibrant area of research activity which aims to support designers to optimise the performance of new and existing urban developments. But the parameter space of an urban development is infinitely lar ...

2009

La densification des espaces urbains, une problématique contemporaine interrogée par le logement collectif

Frédéric Frank

The modern and contemporary city has given birth to vast peripheries due to rapid growth. A first glance at these areas reveals that architectural theories and urbanism paradigms encounter each other without fixed rules or regulated planning. Moreover, the ...

EPFL2009