Equal access to social infrastructures is a fundamental prerequisite for sustainable development,but has long been a great challenge worldwide.Previous studies have primarily focused on the accessibility to social inf...Equal access to social infrastructures is a fundamental prerequisite for sustainable development,but has long been a great challenge worldwide.Previous studies have primarily focused on the accessibility to social infras-tructures in urban areas across various scales,with less attention to rural areas,where inequality can be more severe.Particularly,few have investigated the disparities of accessibility to social infrastructures between urban and rural areas.Here,using the Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan urban agglomeration,China,as an example,we investigated the inequality of accessibility in both urban and rural areas,and further compared the urban-rural difference.Accessibility was measured by travel time of residents to infrastructures.We selected four types of social infrastructures including supermarkets,bus stops,primary schools,and health care,which were funda-mentally important to both urban and rural residents.We found large disparities in accessibility between urban and rural areas,ranging from 20 min to 2 h.Rural residents had to spend one to two more hours to bus stops than urban residents,and 20 min more to the other three types of infrastructures.Furthermore,accessibility to multiple infrastructures showed greater urban-rural differences.Rural residents in more than half of the towns had no access to any infrastructure within 15 min,while more than 60%of the urban residents could access to all infrastructures within 15 min.Our results revealed quantitative accessibility gap between urban and rural areas and underscored the necessity of social infrastructures planning to address such disparities.展开更多
Protection of urban critical infrastructures(CIs)from GPS-denied,bomb-carrying kamikaze drones(G-BKDs)is very challenging.Previous approaches based on drone jamming,spoofing,communication interruption and hijacking ca...Protection of urban critical infrastructures(CIs)from GPS-denied,bomb-carrying kamikaze drones(G-BKDs)is very challenging.Previous approaches based on drone jamming,spoofing,communication interruption and hijacking cannot be applied in the case under examination,since G-B-KDs are uncontrolled.On the other hand,drone capturing schemes and electromagnetic pulse(EMP)weapons seem to be effective.However,again,existing approaches present various limitations,while most of them do not examine the case of G-B-KDs.This paper,focuses on the aforementioned under-researched field,where the G-B-KD is confronted by two defensive drones.The first neutralizes and captures the kamikaze drone,while the second captures the bomb.Both defensive drones are equipped with a net-gun and an innovative algorithm,which,among others,estimates the locations of interception,using a real-world trajectory model.Additionally,one of the defensive drones is also equipped with an EMP weapon to damage the electronics equipment of the kamikaze drone and reduce the capturing time and the overall risk.Extensive simulated experiments and comparisons to state-of-art methods,reveal the advantages and limitations of the proposed approach.More specifically,compared to state-of-art,the proposed approach improves:(a)time to neutralize the target by at least 6.89%,(b)maximum number of missions by at least 1.27%and(c)total cost by at least 5.15%.展开更多
Electric vehicle is a kind of new energy vehicle which uses batteries as energy supply unit.A huge gap in charging infrastructures will be created by the expansion of electric vehicles.The effectiveness and rationalit...Electric vehicle is a kind of new energy vehicle which uses batteries as energy supply unit.A huge gap in charging infrastructures will be created by the expansion of electric vehicles.The effectiveness and rationality of charging facilities will directly affect the convenience and economy of the users,as well as the safe operation of the power grid.Three types of charging facilities:charging pile,charging station and battery swap station are introduced in this paper.According to the different methods of charging infrastructure planning,the research status of the method of determining charging demand points is expounded.And the spatial distribution of charging demand points extracted by the current site selection method has a certain deviation.Then the models and algorithms of charging infrastructure optimized layout are reviewed.Currently,many researches focus on three categories optimization objectives:benefit of power company side,investment cost of charging facility and user side cost,and the genetic algorithm and particle swarm optimization are the main solving algorithms.Finally,the relative methods and development trend of the charging infrastructures optimized layout are summarized,and some suggestions on the optimized layout of electric vehicle charging infrastructures are given forward.展开更多
The southern forest ecosystem of Cameroon extends from latitude 2° to 6°N and from 10° to 16°E. In order to investigate about the influence of climate factors on the infrastructures, the main param...The southern forest ecosystem of Cameroon extends from latitude 2° to 6°N and from 10° to 16°E. In order to investigate about the influence of climate factors on the infrastructures, the main parameters of local climate of that ecosystem have been evaluated. The results show that, the factors are stable and have a common trend. But, the abundance of precipitations;the important hydrographic network and the presence of dense forest appear as the majors climatic constraints that may be taken in account to ensure the stability of the infrastructures in forest ecosystem.展开更多
The number of interurban and urban-rural travelers in the city of Yaounde has recently exceeded one hundred thousand per year, yet surprisingly few studies have assessed travelers’ behavior, illness, and risk factors...The number of interurban and urban-rural travelers in the city of Yaounde has recently exceeded one hundred thousand per year, yet surprisingly few studies have assessed travelers’ behavior, illness, and risk factors in a sanitary risks setting. Particularly scarce are surveys of data spanning travel, return, and follow-up of the same cohort in traveling agencies and parks. This study examines behavior and illness among travelers moving from Yaounde to other urban and rural areas of Cameroon and beyond. Patterns of behavior connected to a type of travel and illness are characterized in this study so as to identify risks factors and provide background data for pre-travel advice in our traveling agencies. Assessing the susceptibility that imported cases could pose to the national response to infectious diseases depends both on public health, health services and infrastructures. The six agencies assessed: Nvan, Mokolo, Tongolo, Biyem Assi, Mimbowman and Etoudi reveal that the sanitary infrastructures for faecal and urinary disposal are not sufficient and more so, some agencies do not keep enough cleanliness, let alone provide adequate hand washing material as prescribed by national and international concerns to combat the global health challenges. This could be an impediment to travellers going out or inside of the city, and could be a preponderant mechanism for the spread of infectious disease as presented by the infectious diseases isolated and identified in the health districts around the travelling agencies.展开更多
In the design of geotechnical infrastructure,engineers have to deal with naturally occurring soils and rocks which are subjected to spatial variability as well as other uncertainties such as errors in measurement and ...In the design of geotechnical infrastructure,engineers have to deal with naturally occurring soils and rocks which are subjected to spatial variability as well as other uncertainties such as errors in measurement and in modeling methods.Reliability assessment which provides a systematic approach for quantifying the risk of failure has been shown to be a promising tool for solving these challenging geotechnical engineering problems.The method provides a more consistent measure of the level of safety or“structural reliability”through the evaluation of a reliability index and the associated“failure”probability,and is a method that satisfies the need to clearly convey safety issues to the public and regulatory authorities.Various methods for calculating the reliability of geotechnical infrastructures with regard to the assessment of the ultimate and serviceability limit states have been proposed by many researchers and these approaches include:the direct Monte Carlo Simulation,Bayesian and other sampling techniques,the first-order reliability method and the second-order reliability method,the random field method,the response surface method and other surrogate models with the related probabilistic procedures.In this special issue of Geoscience Frontiers,we assemble eleven invited papers which provide insights on the latest developments and challenges in applying probabilistic and reliability methods to geotechnical infrastructure design.展开更多
Magnetorheological (MR) fluid is a kind of smart material whose rheological properties can be rapidly varied in magnetic field. To make full use of the advantages of MR fluid to devices, a model of double ended, shear...Magnetorheological (MR) fluid is a kind of smart material whose rheological properties can be rapidly varied in magnetic field. To make full use of the advantages of MR fluid to devices, a model of double ended, shear combined and valve typed MR damper is designed and manufactured, and the dynamic properties under sinusoidal excitations are experimentally studied. The experiment results show that the maximum damping force of the MR damper at the full magnetic intensity reaches about 20 kN while the maximum power required is less than 50 W, which predicts that the MR damper will be a powerful measurement for semi active vibration control of civil infrastructures.展开更多
This paper introduces the image fusion approach of multi-resolutionanalysis-based intensity modulation (MRAIM) to produce the high-resolution multi-spectral imagesfrom high-resolution panchromatic image and low-resolu...This paper introduces the image fusion approach of multi-resolutionanalysis-based intensity modulation (MRAIM) to produce the high-resolution multi-spectral imagesfrom high-resolution panchromatic image and low-resolution multi-spectral images for navigationinformation infrastructure. The mathematical model of image fusion is derived according to theprinciple of remote sensing image formation. It shows that the pixel values of a high-resolutionmulti-spectral images are determined by the pixel values of the approximation of a high-resolutionpanchromatic image at the resolution level of low-resolution multi-spectral images, and in the pixelvalae computation the M-band wavelet theory and the a trous algorithm are then used. In order toevaluate the MRAIM approach, an experiment has been carried out on the basis of the IKONOS 1 mpanchromatic image and 4 m multi-spectral images. The result demonstrates that MRAIM image fusionapproach gives promising fusion results and it can be used to produce the high-resolution remotesensing images required for navigation information infrastructures.展开更多
Due to the drastic increase in the number of critical infrastructures like nuclear plants,industrial control systems(ICS),transportation,it becomes highly vulnerable to several attacks.They become the major targets of...Due to the drastic increase in the number of critical infrastructures like nuclear plants,industrial control systems(ICS),transportation,it becomes highly vulnerable to several attacks.They become the major targets of cyberattacks due to the increase in number of interconnections with other networks.Several research works have focused on the design of intrusion detection systems(IDS)using machine learning(ML)and deep learning(DL)models.At the same time,Blockchain(BC)technology can be applied to improve the security level.In order to resolve the security issues that exist in the critical infrastructures and ICS,this study designs a novel BC with deep learning empowered cyber-attack detection(BDLE-CAD)in critical infrastructures and ICS.The proposed BDLE-CAD technique aims to identify the existence of intrusions in the network.In addition,the presented enhanced chimp optimization based feature selection(ECOA-FS)technique is applied for the selection of optimal subset of features.Moreover,the optimal deep neural network(DNN)with search and rescue(SAR)optimizer is applied for the detection and classification of intrusions.Furthermore,a BC enabled integrity checking scheme(BEICS)has been presented to defend against the misrouting attacks.The experimental result analysis of the BDLE-CAD technique takes place and the results are inspected under varying aspects.The simulation analysis pointed out the supremacy of the BDLE-CAD technique over the recent state of art techniques with the accuy of 92.63%.展开更多
This paper proposes the environmental burden and benefit assessment method, which contributes to the evaluation of public works, by considering a quantitative environmental impact. The method developed is applied for ...This paper proposes the environmental burden and benefit assessment method, which contributes to the evaluation of public works, by considering a quantitative environmental impact. The method developed is applied for the Bangkok subway construction project, so that the environmental impact following the Bangkok subway construction work is evaluated on the basis of environmental accounting. As a result, it was possible to quantify the burden and benefits to the environment in the life cycle of the Bangkok subway. In addition by converting the burden and benefits of the Bangkok subway construction project into monetary terms and introducing the Economic Internal Rate of Return （EIRR）, it was possible to evaluate the subway construction project from an economic point of view.展开更多
Spatial data is a key resource for national development. There is a lot of potential locked in spatial data and this potential may be realized by making spatial data readily available for various applications. SD1 （S...Spatial data is a key resource for national development. There is a lot of potential locked in spatial data and this potential may be realized by making spatial data readily available for various applications. SD1 （Spatial Data Infrastructures） provides a platform for the data users, producers and so on to generate and share spatial data effectively. Though efforts to develop spatial data infrastructures started worldwide in the late 1970s, SDIs are still perceived by many institutions as new innovation; as such, they have not penetrated to all institutions to bring about effective management and development changes. This paper is reporting on a study conducted to assess SDI Readiness Index for Tanzania. The study aimed at identifying problems undermining SD1 implementation in Tanzania, despite its potential in bringing fast socio-economic development elsewhere in the world. This paper is based on a research based on views from stakeholders of geospatial technology industry in Municipal Councils, Private Companies and Government Departments in Tanzania. Results indicated that Private Companies are more inspired than Government institutions towards implementation of SDIs. And those problems affecting implementation of SDIs are lack of National SDI Policy, lack of awareness and knowledge about SDIs, limited funding to operationalise SDI, lack of institutional leadership to coordinate SDI development activities, lack of political commitment from the Government. It is recommended that delibate efforts be devised to raise awareness of SDI amongst the Tanzanian community.展开更多
A transport infrastructure is not only a trip provision system but a public facility that generates value for companies and for the society through expanding markets or developing cities, creating another perspective ...A transport infrastructure is not only a trip provision system but a public facility that generates value for companies and for the society through expanding markets or developing cities, creating another perspective for new investments, as well as its own financing. According to this perspective, the financial earnings resulting from the implementation of transport infrastructure can be captured for its own investment. Given the restrictions of society indebtedness, due to social inequalities, scarcity of resources and insufficient fare collection, with the current financial model for public transport infrastructures, the value capture configures as a strategy to be explored to obtain resources. This paper presents the concept of value capture and its connection and relevance with transport infrastructure financing strategies. Applied to the evaluation of the impacts on the surrounding regions of one of the most significant Brazilian transport projects, the improvement and expansion of Belo Horizonte＇s metro, the provided value capture outcomes open more realistic perspectives for greater engagement of the Public Sector in such projects.展开更多
This paper describes the process of designing models and tools for an automated way of creating 3D city model based on a raw point cloud.Also,making and forming 3D models of buildings.Models and tools for creating too...This paper describes the process of designing models and tools for an automated way of creating 3D city model based on a raw point cloud.Also,making and forming 3D models of buildings.Models and tools for creating tools made in the model builder application within the ArcGIS Pro software.An unclassified point cloud obtained by the LiDAR system was used for the model input data.The point cloud,collected by the airborne laser scanning system(ALS),is classified into several classes:ground,high and low noise,and buildings.Based on the created DEMs,points classified as buildings and formed prints of buildings,realistic 3D city models were created.Created 3D models of cities can be used as a basis for monitoring the infrastructure of settlements and other analyzes that are important for further development and architecture of cities.展开更多
Despite the recent development of many worldwide initiatives, there is still a need for the development of observation frameworks that will provide a comprehensive view of SDI’s use. Amongst the many challenges left,...Despite the recent development of many worldwide initiatives, there is still a need for the development of observation frameworks that will provide a comprehensive view of SDI’s use. Amongst the many challenges left, a thorough analysis of the information flows between existing SDIs as well as their respective uses and the way that those evolve over time is an important issue to explore. The research presented in this paper introduces a methodological framework oriented to the study of the SDIs use from a diachronic perspective. The approach is based on a Social Network Analysis (SNA) and questionnaires collected by online surveys. We develop a structural and diachronic analysis based on a series of graph-based measures identifying the main patterns that appear over time. The methodological framework is applied to a series of French SDIs and users involved in environmental management. The study identifies a series of structural differences in the data flows that emerge between the users and SDIs. Last, the diachronic network analysis provides an overall understanding on how data flows evolve over time at different institutional levels.展开更多
Urban underground infrastructures(UUIs)are a vital component of built capital for urban sustainability.However,many cities are now home to a multitude of disused or underutilized UUIs,not least aged purpose-built unde...Urban underground infrastructures(UUIs)are a vital component of built capital for urban sustainability.However,many cities are now home to a multitude of disused or underutilized UUIs,not least aged purpose-built underground facilities,causing a waste of valuable underground space resource assets.In the process of urban renewal,adaptive reuse can be an attractive solution to breathe new life into underutilized UUIs,while addressing some of the modern problems of the built environment by an economically feasible means.Nevertheless,there is a prevalent absence in the current literature of the overarching planning and decision-making approaches for an adaptive reuse development of underutilized UUIs.With the intention of addressing this shortfall,this paper first lays out development strategies,then sets the generic patterns for adaptive reuse of disused or underutilized UUIs.Taking the city of Qingdao,China as a case study,detailed planning and decision-making approaches with the aid of multi-source data and spatial analysis tools are presented.It is anticipated that the findings of this research will assist the adaptive reuse development of UUIs in providing theoretical guidance and empirical evidence,thereby enhancing the role of urban underground space use in contributing to urban revitalization and urban sustainability.展开更多
This paper focuses on research e-infrastructures in the open science era.We analyze some of the challenges and opportunities of cloud-based science and introduce an example of a national solution in the China Science ...This paper focuses on research e-infrastructures in the open science era.We analyze some of the challenges and opportunities of cloud-based science and introduce an example of a national solution in the China Science and Technology Cloud(CSTCloud).We selected three CSTCloud use cases in deploying open science modules,including scalable engineering in astronomical data management,integrated Earth-science resources for SDG-13 decision making,and the coupling of citizen science and artificial intelligence(AI)techniques in biodiversity.We conclude with a forecast on the future development of research e-infrastructures and introduce the idea of the Global Open Science Cloud(GOSC).We hope this analysis can provide some insights into the future development of research e-infrastructures in support of open science.展开更多
The cities of desert climates are anticipated to recognize a synergy of urban heat island(UHI)and severe heat waves during summertime.To improve the urban thermal environment,the present study aims quantitatively expl...The cities of desert climates are anticipated to recognize a synergy of urban heat island(UHI)and severe heat waves during summertime.To improve the urban thermal environment,the present study aims quantitatively explore a strategically designed network of vegetation patches called green infrastructure(GI)in subtropical desert cities such as Dubai.To achieve a more comfortable temperature environment,we built and simulated four GI situations with higher GI fractions,GI25,GI50,GI75,and GI100.Using a mesoscale urban model,the mosaic approach is utilized to test potential thermal improvement and urban climate impact,and a portion of each urban grid cell in the model domain is altered with various species of urban vegetation patches by 25%,50%,75%,and 100%.The daily peak reduction in ambient temperature at 17:00LT is similar to 0.0168℃ per unit of GI increase when compared to the untreated scenario;however,the maximum anticipated daytime summer temperature decline for GI25,GI50,GI75,and GI100 is 0.6℃,1.1℃,1.4℃,and 1.7℃,respectively.The associated reduction in nighttime ambient temperature per unit increase in the GI is 0.0432℃,with a maximum temperature drop of around 2.4℃ for the GI100 scenario.Increased GI reduces the height of the planetary boundary layer(PBL)by up to 468 m,which might lead to greater pollution concentrations.While GI-based cooling has a significant influence on delayed sea breeze and humidity,it may raise the risk of heat discomfort in the indoor building environment.This study adds to our understanding of the potential for GI mitigation as well as the seasonal impact of developing GIs on the desert urban boundary layer.展开更多
Global and international security cannot be provided from a single point or a set of separate points whatever powerful these might be(even with quantum supercomputers!).It should rather be deeply embedded and integrat...Global and international security cannot be provided from a single point or a set of separate points whatever powerful these might be(even with quantum supercomputers!).It should rather be deeply embedded and integrated with bodies of real systems wherever in physical,virtual,or combined spaces they may exist.So global security capabilities should not only be distributed,but rather be really spatial,self-organized,and dynamic,also exhibiting overall integrity,awareness,and consciousness features.The paper describes applicability of the patented and revealed in 10 books Spatial Grasp Model and Technology(SGT)and its basic Spatial Grasp Language(SGL)which conceptually and functionally match security problems of large distributed and heterogeneous systems.It investigates very practical security solutions for finding and tracing distribution of forbidden items,world roaming criminals,recovery from natural and human-made disasters,tracing and elimination of moving dangerous objects in terrestrial and celestial spaces,as well as analysis and restoration of damaged transport networks.It advises how different security infrastructures can be organized and managed,and how to cooperate and integrate within global security systems with higher awareness and consciousness levels over them.The provided security-oriented version of SGL can be quickly implemented and integrated with existing distributed management and security systems.展开更多
Compared with the extensive research on logistics network infrastructures(LNIs)in the developed world,empirical research is still scarce in China.In this paper the theory of LNIs is firstly overviewed.Then a new evalu...Compared with the extensive research on logistics network infrastructures(LNIs)in the developed world,empirical research is still scarce in China.In this paper the theory of LNIs is firstly overviewed.Then a new evaluation index system for LNIs is set up which contains factors that reflect the economic development level,transportation accessibility and turnover volume of freight traffc.An empirical study is carried out by using data envelopment analysis(DEA)and principal component analysis(PCA)approach to classify LNIs into 4 clusters for 25 cities in the Yangtze River Delta Region of China.According to the characteristics of the 4 clusters,suggestions are proposed for improving their LNIs.Finally,after comparing different LNIs of 25 cities in the Yangtze River Delta Region of China,this paper proposes that different LNIs including hub,central distribution center or cross docking center,regional distribution center or distribution center should be built reasonably in order to meet the customer's requirement in the four different cluster cities.展开更多
Security has recently become a major concern in distributed geo-infrastructures for spatial data provision.Thus,a lightweight approach for securing distributed low-power environments such as geo-sensor networks is nee...Security has recently become a major concern in distributed geo-infrastructures for spatial data provision.Thus,a lightweight approach for securing distributed low-power environments such as geo-sensor networks is needed.The first part of this article presents a survey of current security mechanisms for authentication and authorisation.Based on this survey,a lightweight and scalable token-based security infrastructure was developed,which is tailored for use in distributed geo-web service infrastructures.The developed security framework comprises dedicated components for authentication,rule-based authorisation and optimised storage and administration of access rules.For validation purposes,a prototypical implementation of the approach has been created.展开更多
基金supported by funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.U21A2010)the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars(Grant No.42225104)the National Key Research and Development Program(Grant No.2022YFF130110O).
文摘Equal access to social infrastructures is a fundamental prerequisite for sustainable development,but has long been a great challenge worldwide.Previous studies have primarily focused on the accessibility to social infras-tructures in urban areas across various scales,with less attention to rural areas,where inequality can be more severe.Particularly,few have investigated the disparities of accessibility to social infrastructures between urban and rural areas.Here,using the Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan urban agglomeration,China,as an example,we investigated the inequality of accessibility in both urban and rural areas,and further compared the urban-rural difference.Accessibility was measured by travel time of residents to infrastructures.We selected four types of social infrastructures including supermarkets,bus stops,primary schools,and health care,which were funda-mentally important to both urban and rural residents.We found large disparities in accessibility between urban and rural areas,ranging from 20 min to 2 h.Rural residents had to spend one to two more hours to bus stops than urban residents,and 20 min more to the other three types of infrastructures.Furthermore,accessibility to multiple infrastructures showed greater urban-rural differences.Rural residents in more than half of the towns had no access to any infrastructure within 15 min,while more than 60%of the urban residents could access to all infrastructures within 15 min.Our results revealed quantitative accessibility gap between urban and rural areas and underscored the necessity of social infrastructures planning to address such disparities.
基金supported in part by Interbit Research and in part by the European Union under(Grant No.2021-1-EL01-KA220-VET-000028082).
文摘Protection of urban critical infrastructures(CIs)from GPS-denied,bomb-carrying kamikaze drones(G-BKDs)is very challenging.Previous approaches based on drone jamming,spoofing,communication interruption and hijacking cannot be applied in the case under examination,since G-B-KDs are uncontrolled.On the other hand,drone capturing schemes and electromagnetic pulse(EMP)weapons seem to be effective.However,again,existing approaches present various limitations,while most of them do not examine the case of G-B-KDs.This paper,focuses on the aforementioned under-researched field,where the G-B-KD is confronted by two defensive drones.The first neutralizes and captures the kamikaze drone,while the second captures the bomb.Both defensive drones are equipped with a net-gun and an innovative algorithm,which,among others,estimates the locations of interception,using a real-world trajectory model.Additionally,one of the defensive drones is also equipped with an EMP weapon to damage the electronics equipment of the kamikaze drone and reduce the capturing time and the overall risk.Extensive simulated experiments and comparisons to state-of-art methods,reveal the advantages and limitations of the proposed approach.More specifically,compared to state-of-art,the proposed approach improves:(a)time to neutralize the target by at least 6.89%,(b)maximum number of missions by at least 1.27%and(c)total cost by at least 5.15%.
基金Project(21805217)supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaProject(2015BAG08B02)supported by the National Key Technologies Research and Development Program of ChinaProject(2019IVB014)supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,China。
文摘Electric vehicle is a kind of new energy vehicle which uses batteries as energy supply unit.A huge gap in charging infrastructures will be created by the expansion of electric vehicles.The effectiveness and rationality of charging facilities will directly affect the convenience and economy of the users,as well as the safe operation of the power grid.Three types of charging facilities:charging pile,charging station and battery swap station are introduced in this paper.According to the different methods of charging infrastructure planning,the research status of the method of determining charging demand points is expounded.And the spatial distribution of charging demand points extracted by the current site selection method has a certain deviation.Then the models and algorithms of charging infrastructure optimized layout are reviewed.Currently,many researches focus on three categories optimization objectives:benefit of power company side,investment cost of charging facility and user side cost,and the genetic algorithm and particle swarm optimization are the main solving algorithms.Finally,the relative methods and development trend of the charging infrastructures optimized layout are summarized,and some suggestions on the optimized layout of electric vehicle charging infrastructures are given forward.
文摘The southern forest ecosystem of Cameroon extends from latitude 2° to 6°N and from 10° to 16°E. In order to investigate about the influence of climate factors on the infrastructures, the main parameters of local climate of that ecosystem have been evaluated. The results show that, the factors are stable and have a common trend. But, the abundance of precipitations;the important hydrographic network and the presence of dense forest appear as the majors climatic constraints that may be taken in account to ensure the stability of the infrastructures in forest ecosystem.
文摘The number of interurban and urban-rural travelers in the city of Yaounde has recently exceeded one hundred thousand per year, yet surprisingly few studies have assessed travelers’ behavior, illness, and risk factors in a sanitary risks setting. Particularly scarce are surveys of data spanning travel, return, and follow-up of the same cohort in traveling agencies and parks. This study examines behavior and illness among travelers moving from Yaounde to other urban and rural areas of Cameroon and beyond. Patterns of behavior connected to a type of travel and illness are characterized in this study so as to identify risks factors and provide background data for pre-travel advice in our traveling agencies. Assessing the susceptibility that imported cases could pose to the national response to infectious diseases depends both on public health, health services and infrastructures. The six agencies assessed: Nvan, Mokolo, Tongolo, Biyem Assi, Mimbowman and Etoudi reveal that the sanitary infrastructures for faecal and urinary disposal are not sufficient and more so, some agencies do not keep enough cleanliness, let alone provide adequate hand washing material as prescribed by national and international concerns to combat the global health challenges. This could be an impediment to travellers going out or inside of the city, and could be a preponderant mechanism for the spread of infectious disease as presented by the infectious diseases isolated and identified in the health districts around the travelling agencies.
文摘In the design of geotechnical infrastructure,engineers have to deal with naturally occurring soils and rocks which are subjected to spatial variability as well as other uncertainties such as errors in measurement and in modeling methods.Reliability assessment which provides a systematic approach for quantifying the risk of failure has been shown to be a promising tool for solving these challenging geotechnical engineering problems.The method provides a more consistent measure of the level of safety or“structural reliability”through the evaluation of a reliability index and the associated“failure”probability,and is a method that satisfies the need to clearly convey safety issues to the public and regulatory authorities.Various methods for calculating the reliability of geotechnical infrastructures with regard to the assessment of the ultimate and serviceability limit states have been proposed by many researchers and these approaches include:the direct Monte Carlo Simulation,Bayesian and other sampling techniques,the first-order reliability method and the second-order reliability method,the random field method,the response surface method and other surrogate models with the related probabilistic procedures.In this special issue of Geoscience Frontiers,we assemble eleven invited papers which provide insights on the latest developments and challenges in applying probabilistic and reliability methods to geotechnical infrastructure design.
文摘Magnetorheological (MR) fluid is a kind of smart material whose rheological properties can be rapidly varied in magnetic field. To make full use of the advantages of MR fluid to devices, a model of double ended, shear combined and valve typed MR damper is designed and manufactured, and the dynamic properties under sinusoidal excitations are experimentally studied. The experiment results show that the maximum damping force of the MR damper at the full magnetic intensity reaches about 20 kN while the maximum power required is less than 50 W, which predicts that the MR damper will be a powerful measurement for semi active vibration control of civil infrastructures.
文摘This paper introduces the image fusion approach of multi-resolutionanalysis-based intensity modulation (MRAIM) to produce the high-resolution multi-spectral imagesfrom high-resolution panchromatic image and low-resolution multi-spectral images for navigationinformation infrastructure. The mathematical model of image fusion is derived according to theprinciple of remote sensing image formation. It shows that the pixel values of a high-resolutionmulti-spectral images are determined by the pixel values of the approximation of a high-resolutionpanchromatic image at the resolution level of low-resolution multi-spectral images, and in the pixelvalae computation the M-band wavelet theory and the a trous algorithm are then used. In order toevaluate the MRAIM approach, an experiment has been carried out on the basis of the IKONOS 1 mpanchromatic image and 4 m multi-spectral images. The result demonstrates that MRAIM image fusionapproach gives promising fusion results and it can be used to produce the high-resolution remotesensing images required for navigation information infrastructures.
基金supported financially by Institution Fund projects under Grant No.(IFPIP-145-351-1442).
文摘Due to the drastic increase in the number of critical infrastructures like nuclear plants,industrial control systems(ICS),transportation,it becomes highly vulnerable to several attacks.They become the major targets of cyberattacks due to the increase in number of interconnections with other networks.Several research works have focused on the design of intrusion detection systems(IDS)using machine learning(ML)and deep learning(DL)models.At the same time,Blockchain(BC)technology can be applied to improve the security level.In order to resolve the security issues that exist in the critical infrastructures and ICS,this study designs a novel BC with deep learning empowered cyber-attack detection(BDLE-CAD)in critical infrastructures and ICS.The proposed BDLE-CAD technique aims to identify the existence of intrusions in the network.In addition,the presented enhanced chimp optimization based feature selection(ECOA-FS)technique is applied for the selection of optimal subset of features.Moreover,the optimal deep neural network(DNN)with search and rescue(SAR)optimizer is applied for the detection and classification of intrusions.Furthermore,a BC enabled integrity checking scheme(BEICS)has been presented to defend against the misrouting attacks.The experimental result analysis of the BDLE-CAD technique takes place and the results are inspected under varying aspects.The simulation analysis pointed out the supremacy of the BDLE-CAD technique over the recent state of art techniques with the accuy of 92.63%.
文摘This paper proposes the environmental burden and benefit assessment method, which contributes to the evaluation of public works, by considering a quantitative environmental impact. The method developed is applied for the Bangkok subway construction project, so that the environmental impact following the Bangkok subway construction work is evaluated on the basis of environmental accounting. As a result, it was possible to quantify the burden and benefits to the environment in the life cycle of the Bangkok subway. In addition by converting the burden and benefits of the Bangkok subway construction project into monetary terms and introducing the Economic Internal Rate of Return （EIRR）, it was possible to evaluate the subway construction project from an economic point of view.
文摘Spatial data is a key resource for national development. There is a lot of potential locked in spatial data and this potential may be realized by making spatial data readily available for various applications. SD1 （Spatial Data Infrastructures） provides a platform for the data users, producers and so on to generate and share spatial data effectively. Though efforts to develop spatial data infrastructures started worldwide in the late 1970s, SDIs are still perceived by many institutions as new innovation; as such, they have not penetrated to all institutions to bring about effective management and development changes. This paper is reporting on a study conducted to assess SDI Readiness Index for Tanzania. The study aimed at identifying problems undermining SD1 implementation in Tanzania, despite its potential in bringing fast socio-economic development elsewhere in the world. This paper is based on a research based on views from stakeholders of geospatial technology industry in Municipal Councils, Private Companies and Government Departments in Tanzania. Results indicated that Private Companies are more inspired than Government institutions towards implementation of SDIs. And those problems affecting implementation of SDIs are lack of National SDI Policy, lack of awareness and knowledge about SDIs, limited funding to operationalise SDI, lack of institutional leadership to coordinate SDI development activities, lack of political commitment from the Government. It is recommended that delibate efforts be devised to raise awareness of SDI amongst the Tanzanian community.
文摘A transport infrastructure is not only a trip provision system but a public facility that generates value for companies and for the society through expanding markets or developing cities, creating another perspective for new investments, as well as its own financing. According to this perspective, the financial earnings resulting from the implementation of transport infrastructure can be captured for its own investment. Given the restrictions of society indebtedness, due to social inequalities, scarcity of resources and insufficient fare collection, with the current financial model for public transport infrastructures, the value capture configures as a strategy to be explored to obtain resources. This paper presents the concept of value capture and its connection and relevance with transport infrastructure financing strategies. Applied to the evaluation of the impacts on the surrounding regions of one of the most significant Brazilian transport projects, the improvement and expansion of Belo Horizonte＇s metro, the provided value capture outcomes open more realistic perspectives for greater engagement of the Public Sector in such projects.
文摘This paper describes the process of designing models and tools for an automated way of creating 3D city model based on a raw point cloud.Also,making and forming 3D models of buildings.Models and tools for creating tools made in the model builder application within the ArcGIS Pro software.An unclassified point cloud obtained by the LiDAR system was used for the model input data.The point cloud,collected by the airborne laser scanning system(ALS),is classified into several classes:ground,high and low noise,and buildings.Based on the created DEMs,points classified as buildings and formed prints of buildings,realistic 3D city models were created.Created 3D models of cities can be used as a basis for monitoring the infrastructure of settlements and other analyzes that are important for further development and architecture of cities.
文摘Despite the recent development of many worldwide initiatives, there is still a need for the development of observation frameworks that will provide a comprehensive view of SDI’s use. Amongst the many challenges left, a thorough analysis of the information flows between existing SDIs as well as their respective uses and the way that those evolve over time is an important issue to explore. The research presented in this paper introduces a methodological framework oriented to the study of the SDIs use from a diachronic perspective. The approach is based on a Social Network Analysis (SNA) and questionnaires collected by online surveys. We develop a structural and diachronic analysis based on a series of graph-based measures identifying the main patterns that appear over time. The methodological framework is applied to a series of French SDIs and users involved in environmental management. The study identifies a series of structural differences in the data flows that emerge between the users and SDIs. Last, the diachronic network analysis provides an overall understanding on how data flows evolve over time at different institutional levels.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.42201284)the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(Grant No.BX2021220).
文摘Urban underground infrastructures(UUIs)are a vital component of built capital for urban sustainability.However,many cities are now home to a multitude of disused or underutilized UUIs,not least aged purpose-built underground facilities,causing a waste of valuable underground space resource assets.In the process of urban renewal,adaptive reuse can be an attractive solution to breathe new life into underutilized UUIs,while addressing some of the modern problems of the built environment by an economically feasible means.Nevertheless,there is a prevalent absence in the current literature of the overarching planning and decision-making approaches for an adaptive reuse development of underutilized UUIs.With the intention of addressing this shortfall,this paper first lays out development strategies,then sets the generic patterns for adaptive reuse of disused or underutilized UUIs.Taking the city of Qingdao,China as a case study,detailed planning and decision-making approaches with the aid of multi-source data and spatial analysis tools are presented.It is anticipated that the findings of this research will assist the adaptive reuse development of UUIs in providing theoretical guidance and empirical evidence,thereby enhancing the role of urban underground space use in contributing to urban revitalization and urban sustainability.
基金supported by funding from the National Key R&D Program of China(No.2021YFE0111500)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.72104229)+1 种基金the CAS Program for fostering international mega-science(No.241711KYSB20200023)the CAS President's International Fellowship Initiative(No.2021VTA0006).
文摘This paper focuses on research e-infrastructures in the open science era.We analyze some of the challenges and opportunities of cloud-based science and introduce an example of a national solution in the China Science and Technology Cloud(CSTCloud).We selected three CSTCloud use cases in deploying open science modules,including scalable engineering in astronomical data management,integrated Earth-science resources for SDG-13 decision making,and the coupling of citizen science and artificial intelligence(AI)techniques in biodiversity.We conclude with a forecast on the future development of research e-infrastructures and introduce the idea of the Global Open Science Cloud(GOSC).We hope this analysis can provide some insights into the future development of research e-infrastructures in support of open science.
文摘The cities of desert climates are anticipated to recognize a synergy of urban heat island(UHI)and severe heat waves during summertime.To improve the urban thermal environment,the present study aims quantitatively explore a strategically designed network of vegetation patches called green infrastructure(GI)in subtropical desert cities such as Dubai.To achieve a more comfortable temperature environment,we built and simulated four GI situations with higher GI fractions,GI25,GI50,GI75,and GI100.Using a mesoscale urban model,the mosaic approach is utilized to test potential thermal improvement and urban climate impact,and a portion of each urban grid cell in the model domain is altered with various species of urban vegetation patches by 25%,50%,75%,and 100%.The daily peak reduction in ambient temperature at 17:00LT is similar to 0.0168℃ per unit of GI increase when compared to the untreated scenario;however,the maximum anticipated daytime summer temperature decline for GI25,GI50,GI75,and GI100 is 0.6℃,1.1℃,1.4℃,and 1.7℃,respectively.The associated reduction in nighttime ambient temperature per unit increase in the GI is 0.0432℃,with a maximum temperature drop of around 2.4℃ for the GI100 scenario.Increased GI reduces the height of the planetary boundary layer(PBL)by up to 468 m,which might lead to greater pollution concentrations.While GI-based cooling has a significant influence on delayed sea breeze and humidity,it may raise the risk of heat discomfort in the indoor building environment.This study adds to our understanding of the potential for GI mitigation as well as the seasonal impact of developing GIs on the desert urban boundary layer.
文摘Global and international security cannot be provided from a single point or a set of separate points whatever powerful these might be(even with quantum supercomputers!).It should rather be deeply embedded and integrated with bodies of real systems wherever in physical,virtual,or combined spaces they may exist.So global security capabilities should not only be distributed,but rather be really spatial,self-organized,and dynamic,also exhibiting overall integrity,awareness,and consciousness features.The paper describes applicability of the patented and revealed in 10 books Spatial Grasp Model and Technology(SGT)and its basic Spatial Grasp Language(SGL)which conceptually and functionally match security problems of large distributed and heterogeneous systems.It investigates very practical security solutions for finding and tracing distribution of forbidden items,world roaming criminals,recovery from natural and human-made disasters,tracing and elimination of moving dangerous objects in terrestrial and celestial spaces,as well as analysis and restoration of damaged transport networks.It advises how different security infrastructures can be organized and managed,and how to cooperate and integrate within global security systems with higher awareness and consciousness levels over them.The provided security-oriented version of SGL can be quickly implemented and integrated with existing distributed management and security systems.
基金the Science Foundation of Ministry of Education of China(No.11YJC630081)the Foundation of Philosophy and Social Science of Zhejiang Province(No.11YD22YB)+3 种基金the Zhejiang Natural Science Foundation(Nos.Y6090015 and Z1091224)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.71071141)the Doctoral Fund of Ministry of Education of China(No.20103326110001)the Foundation of Key Research Insitute of Social Sciences and Humanities of Ministry of Education in Zhejiang Gongshang University(Nos.11JDSM02Z and 2011ZS-DSM208)
文摘Compared with the extensive research on logistics network infrastructures(LNIs)in the developed world,empirical research is still scarce in China.In this paper the theory of LNIs is firstly overviewed.Then a new evaluation index system for LNIs is set up which contains factors that reflect the economic development level,transportation accessibility and turnover volume of freight traffc.An empirical study is carried out by using data envelopment analysis(DEA)and principal component analysis(PCA)approach to classify LNIs into 4 clusters for 25 cities in the Yangtze River Delta Region of China.According to the characteristics of the 4 clusters,suggestions are proposed for improving their LNIs.Finally,after comparing different LNIs of 25 cities in the Yangtze River Delta Region of China,this paper proposes that different LNIs including hub,central distribution center or cross docking center,regional distribution center or distribution center should be built reasonably in order to meet the customer's requirement in the four different cluster cities.
基金This work has been funded by the European Commission(FP7 project GENESIS,reference No.223996)the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and ResearchThe au。
文摘Security has recently become a major concern in distributed geo-infrastructures for spatial data provision.Thus,a lightweight approach for securing distributed low-power environments such as geo-sensor networks is needed.The first part of this article presents a survey of current security mechanisms for authentication and authorisation.Based on this survey,a lightweight and scalable token-based security infrastructure was developed,which is tailored for use in distributed geo-web service infrastructures.The developed security framework comprises dedicated components for authentication,rule-based authorisation and optimised storage and administration of access rules.For validation purposes,a prototypical implementation of the approach has been created.
