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Space-time correlations in urban sprawl

Understanding demographic and migrational patterns constitutes a great challenge. Millions of individual decisions, motivated by economic, political, demographic, rational and/or emotional reasons underlie the high complexity of demographic dynamics. Signi ...

Royal Soc2014

Analysing and modelling the growth and efficiency of urban transportation infrastructures

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Nahid Mohajeri Pour Rayeni

The total population of the United Kingdom is expected to increase from 63 million in 2011 to 73 million people in 2037. This is an increase by 16% in 26 years, which puts the urban infrastructure, particularly the transportation infrastructure, under grea ...

2014

GREEN DENSITY

Sophie Lufkin

The research and teaching project GREEN DENSITY focuses on the sector of Waldstadt, a strip of forest bordering the city of Bern and separated from the Bremgarten forest by the highway. This field of investigation is particularly adapted to explore the abo ...

2014

Architecture Without Content 8: Places Of Accumulation: Temporary Residence

Dries Rodet, Giovanni Alessandro Piovene Porto Godi, Andrea Zanderigo, Jelena Pancevac

Another Short History of Architecture without Content The second iteration of Architecture without Content at EPFL is the eighth incarnation of a studio that started three years ago at Columbia University. Back then it was intended as a study of the Big Bo ...

2014

A multi-class framework for a pedestrian cell transmission model accounting for population heterogeneity

Guy Alexander Cooper

This work is an extension of PedCTM, an aggregate and transient cell transmission model for multidirectional pedestrian flows in which pedestrian characteristics are assumed to be homogeneous across the population considered. Critically, one fundamental di ...

2014

A multi-criteria approach to compare urban renewal scenarios for an existing neighborhood. Case study in Lausanne (Switzerland)

Maria Gracia Riera Perez

The post-industrial European city is characterized by dispersed urbanization, resulting in increased travel, substantial use of land, social disparities and costs that are unsustainable in the long term. Consequently, most European countries have set the g ...

2013

A Bayesian Approach to Detect Pedestrian Destination-Sequences from WiFi Signatures

Michel Bierlaire, Bilal Farooq, Antonin Danalet

In recent years, interest in crowd dynamics and pedestrian modeling is reviving due to urban growth and its pressure on urban infrastructure. Crowd and pedestrian simulation is emerging as a tool for designing new infrastructures and optimizing the use of ...

2013

Estimated reduction of energy consumption related to mobility in urban renewal projects

Maria Gracia Riera Perez

The urban sprawl that characterizes most European cities relies highly on the use of private motor vehicle. As a result, there is a prominent increase in the energy consumption of the built environment. Therefore, the densification of existing urban areas ...

2013

Protecting growth options in dynamic markets: The role of strategic disclosure in integrated intellectual property strategies

Christopher Tucci, Jana Thiel, Tilo Peters

Given recent developments in information technology and intellectual property (IP) legislation, technology firms may benefit from an integrated IP strategy that combines patenting with strategic disclosure. This article presents a series of cases that intr ...

Univ Calif2013

Sensors for human-machine-interfaces in smart medical systems – Integration challenges and solutions

Thomas Maeder, Caroline Jacq

Increasing situational awareness at human-machine interface level is a key success factor for high efficiency therapies and surgical procedures. On a technical level, cost-effective, reliable sensor integration becomes the most critical element where multi ...

2013

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