Detailed real-time road data are an important prerequisite for navigation and intelligent
transportation systems. As accident-prone areas, road intersections play a critical role in …

Environmental impact studies are strongly related to road traffic noise, especially in urban
areas. A long term exposure to road traffic noise, in fact, can lead to relevant effects, both …

The authors present the unsolved issue of the contextual design of urban intersections (UI)
from the point of view of traffic noise emissions around residential buildings in the Slovak …

Older residents of high-deprivation areas walk less than those of low-deprivation areas.
Previous research has shown that neighborhood built environment may support and …

Many studies of the environmental impact in urban areas are related to road traffic noise.
The noise generated by road traffic is more disturbing near junctions, where multiple flows …

Traffic Noise predictive Models (TNMs) are often used in order to predict and/or monitor road
traffic noise impact on environment. Usually a statistical approach is followed in the most …

The modeling of fire spread in a flammable area is an interesting and challenging issue,
widely studied in literature. Some of the models used for fire front evolution prediction are …

Acoustical noise produced by vehicular traffic depends on many parameters, including the
geometry and the general features of the road. The presence of a conflicting point, ie an …

Industrial settlements are often source of disturbance for the surrounding area. In particular,
from an acoustical point of view, the noise emitted by machineries operating in the …

(EU) is the reduction of energy consumption and the elimination of energy wastage. These
two issues are extremely important, especially in large energy demanding areas, such as …