Exploring Gender Disparities in Accessibility Levels: A Comprehensive Analysis of Transportation Modes, Activity Types and Personal Characteristics

Accessibility is a fundamental concept concerning urban and transport planning as it is the elementary basis for socio-economic development in cities. It can be described as the potential to reach spatially distributed opportunities. Recent research has identified that excluding person-based features from this analysis might cause inaccurate...

Transport Poverty in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area: Relationships with Socioeconomics and the Built Environment at the Neighborhood Level

Limiting transport poverty is consequential in improving well-being and employment levels, which play meaningful roles in deciding public policy. We analyze how different socioeconomic and built environment factors are related to the transport poverty environment for car and public transport in terms of strength, significance, and direction for...

Agroforestry as an approach to reduce the water footprint in a profitable way in the Maule Region, Chile: Study from an agroforestry case study to measure the potential for water savings in the watersheds of the Maule Region

The food system is strongly related to the pressure of our planetary boundaries, being responsible for a significant amount of greenhouse gas emissions, land use change, biodiversity loss, biochemical flows, and freshwater use. The dominant system in food production is monoculture, using agrochemicals and motorized equipment. However,...

The Development of Technology Cluster Innovation Performance: Health and Sustainable Energy

Motivation. The sustainability technology sectors, encompassing health and sustainable energy technology, play a critically important role in addressing global challenges such as climate change and ageing populations, which require a transition to a low or zero-carbon energy system, and sustainable and affordable healthcare. While these problems...

Understanding headwater baseflow contributions to the overall water supply of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

The Kathmandu Valley in Nepal is facing the combined effects of population growth, rapid urbanization, economic development, and climate change. This results in serious water management challenges: growing freshwater demands, declining water tables, drying of streams, and deteriorating water quality. Insufficient surface water supplies have led...

Systematic Analysis of Functionalities for the Israeli 3D Cadastre

Following public demand to improve the efficiency and transparency of government administrations, together with the existence of mature technologies and modern urban planning necessities, it is now essential to establish more advanced and comprehensive land management (cadastre) systems. Cadastre systems available today are mostly based on...

Aspects of Representing LiDAR Data Used for Updating

Performing environmental spatial analysis requires the collection of base data and special data, subject to the type of analysis in hand, among this data of course LiDAR data can be of much usefulness, in our particular case mobile network data were collected to assess the usefulness of using it for updating some features of the base map that...