Abstract: Urban public spaces, especially in big cities, are the spaces most prone to criminal activities. Parks are among the most important public spaces designed for walking, sport, and other recreational activities of an urban ...

Abstract: Evacuations have long been studied within disciplinary boundaries, most frequently in the social sciences and in transportation engineering. Despite the common object of study, previous works integrating these fields’ ...

Abstract: AbstractNegative impacts of climate change on ecosystems have been increasing, and both the intensification and the mitigation of these impacts are strongly linked with human activities. Management and reduction of ...

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect on flow hydrodynamics of grading of the bed and the mining of sand from the river bed around a bridge pier group. In total, 22 experiments with two different bed ...

Abstract: Train-mounted vertical track deflection (VTD) measurements offer new opportunities for estimating rail bending stresses over long distances. The estimations are possible because of mathematical correlations among rail ...