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Cave, Kelly A. "Evaluation of the effectiveness of BMP's for urban stormwater management: single-event simulation." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/101316.
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A desk top model has been developed for "user-friendly" application in personal computers to simulate watershed response to a rainfall event in terms of runoff generation and to estimate nonpoint source pollutant loadings associated with the storm event. The algorithms utilize the SCS TR - 55 method for calculating runoff hydrographs for a single storm event. A methodology has been adapted to generate pollutographs which combines the SCS Type II rainfall distribution with the standard pollutant washoff equations. In addition, this model allows for the design, evaluation, and cost effectiveness analysis of various best management practice (BMP) measures as tools to manage stormwater quantity and quality.M.S.
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Zhu, Junlin. "Simulation and design of diversion and detention system for urban stormwater management." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/94495.
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Diversion of the first flush of storm runoff to a detention basin for pollutant removal is an efficient way to control nonpoint source pollutant in urban areas. This can be achieved by a diversion box and detention basin system. To numerically simulate the response of the system to a design rainfall event and the associated pollutant loadings for a given drainage area, a desk top model has been developed for"user-friendly"' application in personal computers. Hydrographs and pollutographs are generated at the inlet and outlet of the diversion box and the detention basin.These hydrographs and pollutographs are examined and the peak outflow and peak pollutant concentrations are compared with allowable outflow and pollutant concentration for urban stormwater quality and quantity management. This model is designed for both the analysis and design of the system.M.S.
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Zhang, Fangli. "A particle-set distributed hydrological model for the dynamic simulation of surface runoff." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2017. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/472.
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1.1\xThis study proposed a particle-set distributed hydrological model for the dynamic simulation of rainfall-runoff process. With the supports of remote sensing, GIS, terrain analysis and distributed computing techniques, a representation-simplified and physically-based high-performance watershed framework has been developed. It simplifies the underlying watershed with a flow path network model, and represents the moving surface flow with independent runoff particles.;1.2\xThe original idea was to investigate a real-time modeling system for the space-time dynamics of increasingly frequent extreme rainfall events. Short-term heavy rains may cause further damages by spawning floods and landslides. It is quite essential to understand how the rainfall water moves across the watershed surface as early as possible. A modelling system with high-performance in simulation efficiency and space-time prediction accuracy would be very desirable.;1.3\xWatershed modeling is the primary way to explore the hydrological cycle at a local scale. Existing models are classified as empirical lumped, conceptual semi-distributed and physically-based distributed models. The first two types of models have focused more on predicting outlet discharges rather than estimating spatiotemporal flow dynamics. The application of physically-based models has always been hampered by some common shortcomings like over-parameterization, inflexibility and computational burden. With the increasing support from terrain analysis and parallel computing techniques, a number of previous studies have made some efforts to improve the performance in dynamic and real-time simulation. However, research gaps still exist in realistic representation, physical description and real-time simulation.;1.4\xThis study, therefore, developed the particle-set modeling system on the basis of flow path network model. This one-dimensional topological structure was created beforehand to represent the three-dimensional watershed, and a series of particle beams were dynamically generated to simulate the surface flow. Under the control of flow velocities, these runoff particles would keep on moving along with the flow paths, which can represent the spatial distributions of surface water in time.;1.5\xTo validate the proposed particle-set framework, a prototype of particle-set system was implemented by programming methods with the assistance of third-party platforms. Three experiments were undertaken to respectively evaluate the performance in prediction accuracy, simulation efficiency and parameter sensitivity. More specifically, a total of 10 rainfall events and up to 128 computer processors were tested. In addition, the influences of underlying spatial scale and source sampling density on hydrological responses were explored with comparative tests.;1.6\xThe accuracy validation comes in two parts, the representation loss in terrain analysis, and the discharge error in hydrological modeling. The experimental results indicate that the TIN-based flow path network has maintained the terrain features at a very high level with much less data storage, and the particle-set framework has achieved quite acceptable predictions of outlet discharges. Besides, the efficiency evaluation concerns with two aspects, parallel portion and parallel efficiency. The speed-up results indicate that about 99% of the computational workloads can be computed in parallel, and the particle-based scheme can achieve almost the ideal parallel efficiency. In addition, the sensitivity test focuses also on two parameters, underlying spatial scale and source sampling density. The preliminary results show that the particle-set model has shown a good reliability and stability as scale gets coarser or density becomes sparser.;1.7\xThis study will contribute to the understanding of short-term rainfall-runoff events at a basin scale. The particle-set distributed hydrological model has been proven to provide real-time spatio-temporal dynamics of surface flow. Further studies would still be required to apply it to real world scenarios.;1.8\xKeywords: terrain analysis, watershed hydrology, rainfall-runoff process, flow path network, particle system, parallel computing
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Gunawardena, E. R. N. "Computer simulation of runoff and soil erosion from small agricultural catchments in Sri Lanka." Thesis, Cranfield University, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.333925.
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Tadayon, M. "Computer simulation of signalized highway intersections." Thesis, University of Bradford, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.372165.
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Mahbub, S. M. Parvez Bin. "Impact of urban traffic and climate change on water quality from road runoff." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2011. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/47139/1/Parvez_Mahbub_Thesis.pdf.
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Urban traffic and climate change are two phenomena that have the potential to degrade urban water quality by influencing the build-up and wash-off of pollutants, respectively. However, limited knowledge has made it difficult to establish any link between pollutant buildup and wash-off under such dynamic conditions. In order to safeguard urban water quality, adaptive water quality mitigation measures are required. In this research, pollutant build-up and wash-off have been investigated from a dynamic point of view which incorporated the impacts of changed urban traffic as well as changes in the rainfall characteristics induced by climate change. The study has developed a dynamic object classification system and thereby, conceptualised the study of pollutant build-up and wash-off under future changes in urban traffic and rainfall characteristics. This study has also characterised the buildup and wash-off processes of traffic generated heavy metals, volatile, semi-volatile and non-volatile hydrocarbons under dynamic conditions which enables the development of adaptive mitigation measures for water quality. Additionally, predictive frameworks for the build-up and wash-off of some pollutants have also been developed.
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Stanley, Christopher. "Flood Visualization for Urban Planning : An exploratory spatiotemporal visualization of storm water runoff in 2D and 3D." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för Industriell utveckling, IT och Samhällsbyggnad, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-21822.
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Modelling hydrologic processes is important for understanding how the water cycle works in different environments. Cities which undergo constant changes are subject to flood hazards resulting from severe rainfall. This paper aims to simulate severe rainfall, visualize the results, incorporating both spatial and temporal dimensions, and to make future recommendations for further studies on flood visualization. Visualizing the results from a rainfall simulation using GIS provides urban planners and others the means to view the dynamics of the surface runoff. At the same time, it makes accessible advanced querying and analytical tools. A hydrological model for the study area in Gävle, Sweden was used to simulate a 100-year rainfall. Through FME, the data was reduced, time-stamped and combined to a shapefile. Both 2D software, ArcGIS, and 3D software, ArcScene, were used for creating an animated flood visualization. This study shows that although 2D tested better by a group of planners and water professionals, the 3D was still considered more intuitive. The heightened sense of realism from 3D outweighs its drawbacks, and further studies are required to test different methods of 3D visualization.
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Deizman, Marcia McCutchan. "A computer simulation model for investigating the effect of land application of sludge on runoff water quality." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/44629.
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CREAMS-NT, a modified version of the field-scale model for Chemicals, Runoff, and Erosion from Agricultural Management Systems (CREAMS) model, was developed to simulate the nitrogen (N) transformations and subsequent nutrient transport processes which occur in the soil following organic waste applications. CREAMS-NT accounts for nutrient addition through fertilization and rainfall and losses of N by volatilization, denitrification, plant uptake, leaching, and overland flow. Data required by CREAMS-NT includes runoff volume, sediment yield, percolation, and soil environmental conditions which is generated by the hydrologic and erosion components of the original CREAMS model. The mineralization, nitrification, denitrification, ar1d volatilization processes are simulated using firstâ order knetic equations adjusted for the effects of soil environmental conditions including temperature, moisture, pH, soil/sludge contact, and soil cation exchange capacity. Prior to a runoff event, soil ammnonium-N (NH4 â N) is partitioned between adsorbed and desorbed phases. CREAMS-NT predicts the transport of organic-N, NH4 â N, and sediment=bound phosphorus (P3b) in runoff using enrichment ratios. The transport of soluble nutrients, nitrate-N (NO3 â N), NH4 â N, and soluble P (PTF), is estimated using extraction coefficients.Master of Science
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TANG, JUN. "Reconstructing The Evolution of Urban Districts: The Use of Computer-Generated Visual Simulation in Urban Design." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1029332263.
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Jin, Jing. "INTEGRATING GIS AND HYDROLOGIC MODELING FOR LAND USE BASED FLOOD SIMULATION - A CASE STUDY OF MILL CREEK WATERSHED, SOUTHWEST OHIO." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin987521513.
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Umakhanthan, Kanagaratnam Civil & Environmental Engineering Faculty of Engineering UNSW. "Estimation of the spatio-temporal heterogeneity of rainfall and its importance towards robust catchment simulation, within a hydroinformatic environment." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2002. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/18668.
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Rainfall is a natural process, which has a high degree of variability in both space and time. Information on the spatial and temporal variability of rainfall plays an important role in the process of surface runoff generation. Hence it is important for a variety of applications in hydrology and water resources management. The spatial variability of rainfall can be substantial even for very small catchments and an important factor in the reliability of rainfall-runoff simulations. Catchments in urban areas usually are small, and the management problems often require the numerical simulation of catchment processes and hence the need to consider the spatial and temporal variability of rainfall. A need exists, therefore, to analyse the sensitivity of rainfall-runoff behaviour of catchment modelling systems (CMS) to imperfect knowledge of rainfall input, in order to judge whether or not they are reliable and robust, especially if they are to be used for operational purposes. Development of a methodology for identification of storm events according to the degree of heterogeneity in space and time and thence development of a detailed spatial and temporal rainfall model within a hydroinformatic environment utilising real-time data has been the focus of this project. The improvement in runoff prediction accuracy and hence the importance of the rainfall input model in runoff prediction is then demonstrated through the application of a CMS for differing variability of real storm events to catchments with differing orders of scale. The study identified both spatial and temporal semi-variograms, which were produced by plotting the semi-variance of gauge records in space and time against distance and time respectively. These semi-variograms were utilised in introducing estimators to measure the degree of heterogeneity of each individual storm events in their space and time scale. Also, the proposed estimators use ground based gauge records of the real storm events and do not rely on delicate meteorological interpretations. As the results of the investigation on the developed semi-variogram approach, real storm events were categorised as being High Spatial-High Temporal (HS-HT); High Spatial-Low Temporal; (HS-LT); Low Spatial-High Temporal (LS-HT); and Low Spatial-Low Temporal variability.A comparatively detailed rainfall distribution model in space and time was developed within the Geographical Information Systems (GIS). The enhanced rainfall representation in both space and time scale is made feasible in the study by the aid of the powerful spatial analytic capability of GIS. The basis of this rainfall model is an extension of the rainfall model developed by Luk and Ball (1998) through a temporal discretisation of the storm event. From this model, improved estimates of the spatially distributed with smaller time steps hyetographs suited for especially the urban catchments could be obtained. The importance of the detailed space-time rainfall model in improving the robustness of runoff prediction of CMS was investigated by comparing error parameters for predictions from CMS using alternate rainfall models, for various degrees of spatiotemporal heterogeneity events. Also it is appropriate to investigate whether the degree of this improvement to be dependent on the variability of the storm event which is assessed by the adopted semi-variogram approach. From the investigations made, it was found that the spline surface rainfall model, which considered the spatial and temporal variability of the rainfall in greater detail than the Thiessen rainfall model resulted in predicted hydrographs that more closely duplicated the recorded hydrograph for the same parameter set. The degree of this improvement in the predicted hydrograph was found to be dependent on the spatial and temporal variability of the storm event as measured by the proposed semi-variogram approach for assessing this feature of a storm event. The analysis is based on forty real events recorded from the Centennial Park Catchment (1.3km2) and the Upper Parramatta River Catchment (110km2) in Sydney, Australia. These two case study catchments were selected to ensure that catchment scale effects were incorporated in the conclusions developed during the study.
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Islam, Md Kamrul. "Nutrient removal from urban stormwater using floating treatment wetland system." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4936.
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Despite the technology advancement, degradation of water quality due to stormwater continues to be a significant threat to the water and ecosystems due to the exponential growth of industries and agricultural enterprises that discharge stormwater. These anthropogenic activities are the sources of high nitrogen and phosphorus quantities in stormwater, which is responsible for eutrophication phenomena and deterioration of public health. Floating Treatment Wetlands (FTWs) are a potential solution to this problem. Both microcosm and mesocosm level studies were conducted for the effective removal of nutrients in stormwater wet detention ponds with different sorption media under varying nutrient concentrations and weather conditions. Water depth, percent area coverage of the FTWs and littoral zone emergent plants were varied in order to determine nutrient removal efficiency before implementing in an actual pond. Focus has also been placed on the observations of macrophyte-epiphyte-phytoplankton interactions in order to understand temporal characteristics of ecological phenomena. Water quality parameters included Total Nitrogen, Total Phosphorus, Orthophosphate, Nitrate-Nitrogen, and Ammonia-Nitrogen in addition to in-situ parameters such as pH, Dissolved Oxygen, Temperature and Chlorophyll-a. Results clearly indicate that an FTW filled with sorption media of 80% expanded clay and 20% tire crumb can significantly promote the biomass growth. Different levels of nutrient concentrations did affect the plants' growth and cold temperature in late winter was detrimental to growth. To make the system more viable irrespective of the seasonal weather conditions, the adoption of mixed vegetation is highly recommended in the FTWs implementation.; It is also recommended that, the positioning of the floating wetlands should not be in the vicinity of the outlet of the pond as assimilated nutrient under the mat might increase the nutrient concentration in the discharged water. Finally, One-way ANOVA test is performed to check whether or not these grouped microcosms and mesocosms with differing experimental setup can be deemed statistically significant.ID: 030422696; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Thesis (M.S.Env.E.)--University of Central Florida, 2011.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 70-74).
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Chiu, Yi-chang. "Generalized real-time route guidance strategies in urban networks." Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3077621.
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Tong, C. O. (Chung On) 1945. "A schedule-based transit network model." Monash University, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1986. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/7935.
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Zhou, Yi. "The macroscopic fundamental diagram in urban network: analytical theory and simulation." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/49111.
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The Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram (MFD) is a diagram that presents a relationship between the average flow (production) and the average density in an urban network. Ever since the existence of low scatter MFD in urban road network was verified, significant efforts have been made to describe the MFD quantitatively. Due to the complexity of the traffic environment in urban networks, an accurate and explicit expression for the MFD is not yet developed and many recent research efforts for MFD rely on computer simulations. On a single corridor, an analytical approximation model for the MFD exists. However, this thesis expanded this theory in two directions. First, we specialize the method for models with equal road length on the corridor, which greatly reduces the complexity of the method. We introduce the adoption of seven straight cuts in approximation. Computer simulations are conducted and show a high compatibility with the approximated results. However the analytical approximation can only be applied with the assumption of constant circulating vehicles in the system without turnings and endogenous traffics. Secondly, we show that turnings and endogenous traffic can bring various impact on the shape of the MFD, the capacity, the critical density, the variance in density and cause a phenomenon of clustered traffic status along the MFD curve. Furthermore, the simulation using stochastic variables reveals that the variance in turning rates and endogenous traffic don’t have significant impact on the MFD. This discovery enables studies to focus on scenarios with deterministic parameters for those factors. While traditional objective of engineering for network is to maximize capacity and widen the range for the maximum capacity, our results indicate that traffic stability at the maximum performance is poor if the system does not stay constantly in equilibrium status. This thesis provides insights into the factors that affect the shape of the MFD by analytical approximation and simulation.
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Singh, Ashish C. "Improving the survivability of agents in a first-person shooter urban combat simulation by incorporating military skills." Online access for everyone, 2007. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Fall2007/a_singh_111607.pdf.
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Hernandez, Tatiana X. "Rainfall-Runoff Modeling in Humid Shallow Water Table Environments." Scholar Commons, 2001. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1537.
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Simulating the processes of rainfall and runoff are at the core of hydrologic modeling. Geomorphologic features, rainfall variability, soil types, and water table depths strongly influence hydrological process in Florida ecosystems. Topographic characteristics of the terrain define the stream paths and landscape. Alteration of these characteristics as a result of urban and/or agricultural developments, for example, can highly influence wetlands and river basin response. There are two predominant landforms in Florida: wetlands, where Variable Saturated Areas form near streams causing saturation excess runoff, and uplands where runoff is mainly generated by infiltration excess. The objective of this work is to analyze the impacts of geomorphologic and hydrologic characteristics on runoff mechanisms in humid environments such as Florida. In general, most research at the hillslope scale use hypothetical values of rainfall, sometimes non-realistic values, and single slope forms to explain the geomorphic and hydrologic process on Variable Saturated Areas. In this thesis, the complexity of hillslope processes on actual Florida topography is assessed by coupling a Digital Elevation Model with a two-dimensional variable saturated-unsaturated flow model called HYDRUS-2D. Actual rainfall records and soil parameters from the Characterization Data for Selected Florida Soils, Soil Survey were used to evaluate hydrologic impacts. A commercial software package, River Tools was used to display and extract topographic information from the Digital Elevation Models.
Results show that when inflitration excess runoff is dominant, infiltration and runoff are very sensitive to time resolution, especially for convective storms. When saturation excess occurs, runoff is not affected by rainfall intensity. However, saturated hydraulic conductivity, depth to the water table, slope and curvature highly influence the extent of Variable Saturated Areas. Results indicate runoff in shallow water table environments is produced mainly by subsurface storm runoff, running below the surface, except in hillslopes with concave curvature and mild slopes. Additionally, concave hillslopes generate more saturation excess runoff than straight and convex hillslopes.
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DIXIT, VRUSHALI. "ASSESSING THE APPLICABILITY OF LINKING A HYDROLOGIC MODEL WITH GIS SIMULATION TO PLAN FOR STORM WATER RUNOFF CONTROL IN THE MILL CREEK WATERSHED OF CINCINNATI." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1025639157.
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Holbert, Sally Beth 1962. "Development of a geographic information system based hydrologic model for stormwater management and landuse planning." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/277108.
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The HYDROPAC model was developed to improve the technology transfer from the science of hydrology to environmental planning disciplines by initiating advanced spatial analysis techniques for predicting rainfall-runoff relationships. This model integrates the Soil Conservation Service (SCS) equations for calculating runoff and a Geographic Information System (Map Analysis Package) in a framework that allows the simulation of runoff processes over a digital elevation model. The simulations are done in discrete time steps allowing the generation of a hydrograph at any desired point in the watershed and the overland flow patterns are displayed in maps. This framework addresses some of the current limitations of hydrologic model for stormwater management planning in terms of capabilities for analysis and communication of results. This manuscript describes the methods used to develop the framework of the HYDROPAC model and its usefulness for analyzing potential runoff problems during the planning process.
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Azevedo, Kyle Kellogg. "Modeling sustainability in complex urban transportation systems." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/37289.
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This thesis proposes a framework to design and analyze sustainability within complex urban transportation systems. Urban transit systems have large variability in temporal and spatial resolution, and are common in lifecycle analyses and sustainability studies. Unlike analyses with smaller scope or broader resolution, these systems are composed of numerous interacting layers, each intricate enough to be a complete system on its own. In addition, detailed interaction with the system environment is often not accounted for in lifecycle studies, despite its strong potential effects on the problem domain. To manage such complexity, this thesis suggests a methodology that focuses on integrating existing modeling constructs in a transparent manner, and capturing structural and functional relationships for efficient model reuse. The Systems Modeling Language (OMG SysML ) is used to formally implement the modeling framework. To demonstrate the method, it is applied to a large scale multi-modal transportation network. Analysis of key network parameters such as emissions output, well-to-wheel energy use, and system capacity are presented in a case study of the Atlanta, Georgia metropolitan area.
Results of the case study highlight several areas that differ from more traditional lifecycle analysis research. External influences such as regional electricity generation are found to have extremely large effects on environmental impact of a regional mobility system. The model is used to evaluate various future scenarios and finds that existing policy measures for curbing energy use and emissions are insufficient for reducing impact in a growing urban region.
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Cayré, Florent. "Méthodes volumes finis sur maillages non structurés pour la simulation numérique des écoulements incompressibles monophasiques et diphasiques /." Thèse, Chicoutimi : Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 1999. http://theses.uqac.ca.
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Stein, Christopher Owen Alexander. "Emergency medical service response system performance in an urban South African setting: a computer simulation model." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9523.
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Includes bibliographical references.This study investigated the effects of different response strategies, vehicle location strategies and vehicle numbers on response times in a simulated Emergency Medical Services system. The simulation was a computer model using discrete-event simulation and the model was based on Western Cape Emergency Medical Services operations in Cape Town. The study objectives were to (i) create the simulation model, (ii) determine the best-performing combination of explanatory factors and (iii) determine the effect of increasing vehicle numbers on response time performance. The simulation model took into account incident arrival rates, incident and hospital spatial distributions, vehicle numbers and dispatch practices in the modelled system. Verification and validation of the simulation model utilised a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. The validated simulation model was changed in two ways: (i) the response strategy was changed to either single or two-tier (the response model factor) and (ii) the vehicle location strategy was changed to either dynamic or static (the vehicle location factor). This yielded four individual models each representing one combination of these factors. Each simulation model was run for a simulated period of seven days. Output data were analysed using multivariate analysis of variance in order to identify differences in response time between the factor combinations. A single-tier model using dynamic vehicle locations produced the best response performance. This model was run repeatedly, increasing vehicle numbers incrementally with each run to assess the effect of increased vehicle numbers on response time performance. A doubling of vehicle numbers resulted in an 14% increase in the number of responses meeting the national performance target for high acuity incidents, while a seven-fold increase in vehicle numbers increased this to 15%. No further performance increases were seen beyond this with increased vehicle numbers. A 2% performance increase for lower acuity incidents was seen with the same increase in vehicle numbers. In the system modelled, increasing vehicle numbers should not be expected to realise anything more than small improvements in response time performance, at a high operational cost. Fine-grained dynamic deployment of vehicles in anticipation of system demand appears to be a more important determinant of response performance than vehicle numbers alone.
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Hua, Sean (Sean X. ). "Mobility of the future : typologizing global cities for the simulation of future urban mobility patterns and energy scenarios." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/119524.
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Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2017.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
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The MITEI-sponsored Mobility of the Future project sets out to create a viable framework for analyses and predictions of urban transportation behavior in response to inevitable changes such as improved vehicle technologies, emergence of novel transit services, and policy changes motivated by population growth and emission control. In order to feasibly simulate these scenarios on a global scale, we need to first determine a few prototypical cities that best represent the entire world, each exhibiting qualities that encompass the group to which it belongs. Our methodology for accomplishing this is centered around machine learning. After collecting and pruning relevant, up-to-date data, we perform dimension reduction and clustering to ultimately generate appropriate prototype cities. These cities will be used as test beds for future mobility scenario exploration and analyses.
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Milger, Hannah, and Sara Gillgren. "Simulation of autonomous vehicles in an urban environment : An investigation on how basic models can create a realistic result." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för teknikvetenskap (SCI), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-168310.
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Recently, much progress has been done towards making vehicles autonomous and to behave in certain ways when interacting with manned and unmanned traffic. Furthermore, autonomous driving is said to be revolutionary and have many benefits. Even though there still are plenty of unsolved issues, several projects have made it possible for groundbreaking steps in the development. This report will cover some of the recently held projects and tools of importance, and describe a conducted simulation of urban driving with autonomous cars. A behavioral steering system and different types of zones is used to implement the simulation in an urban city. The object is to find out how realistic a simulation can be made with models from the gaming industry. With elements such as roundabouts and various crossings, the traffic simulation is evaluated. Some traffic phenomena have been recreated and compared to traffic dynamic models nd real life occurrences. For example, a test ascertains if the simulation can reproduce an expected behavior when stopping at a signalized control. We also try to investigate if the expected performance when driving through a roundabout respectively intersection can be achieved at light and heavy traffic. The results show numerous traffic problems that can behandled by the cars’ behavior system. It is then concluded that it is possible to create a realistic simulation by using models and methods from computer games.Under den senaste tiden har det gjorts många framsteg inom utvecklingen mot att göra fordon förarlösa. Många verktyghar utvecklats för att få dem bete sig på olika sätt vid interagerandet av bemannad och obemannad trafik. Vidare sägs autonom körning komma med många fördelar, så somfärre trafikolyckor. Flertal projekt och initiativ har gjort det möjligt för banbrytande steg, både i hård- och mjukvara. Dock finns det fortfarande många olösta problem inom dessa områden. Denna rapport kommer att innefatta några av de nyligen utförda projekt som har haft stor betydelse. Ytterligare kommer en genomförd simulering av stadskörning med autonoma bilar att beskrivas. Ett styrsystem för bilarnas beteende, och olika typer av zoner används således för att implementera simuleringen. Målet är att ta reda på hur realistisk en simulering baserad på modeller från spelindustrin kan bli. Med bestånds delar så som rondeller och olika sorters korsningar utvärderas trafiksimuleringen. Några trafikfenomenhar rekonstruerats och jämförts med modeller från trafikdynamiken och verkliga företeelser. Till exempel utrönar ett test om simuleringen kan reproducera ett förväntat beteende vid stoppljus. Vi försöker även se om den förväntade prestandan vid rondellkörning samt körning i korsning uppnås vid lätt och tung trafik. Resultatet visar flertalet trafikproblem som kan hanteras av bilarnas beteendesystem. Slutsatsen kan dras att det ärmöjligt att skapa en realistisk simulering med modeller och metoder från datorspel.
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Silva, Érica Vendramini. "Estudo do impacto dos parâmetros construtivos no microclima urbano em bairro residencial de Juiz de Fora - MG." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, 2012. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/1960.
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FAPEMIG - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais
O presente trabalho analisa o microclima urbano e as alterações de parâmetros da legislação edilícia e de uso de ocupação do solo que interferem neste microclima. Sendo assim, estabeleceu-se como objetivo verificar a influência e o impacto das Leis urbanas na condição microclimática local e no conforto dos moradores de uma área tipicamente residencial de um bairro central de Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais. A motivação é contribuir para um planejamento urbano sustentável da região. Os estudos elaborados basearam-se nas análises de três configurações urbanas: a configuração real levantada in loco, o máximo de ocupação permitida pela legislação vigente e o máximo permitido pela proposta de alteração desta Lei. Para os três casos foram realizadas simulações, por meio do software ENVI-met, obtendo resultados para as variáveis ventilação, temperatura e umidade relativa do ar. Os resultados sugerem que a área atual é capaz de, segundo a ocupação máxima permitida para a área, comportar maior densificação urbana, dependendo de soluções arquitetônicas para garantir níveis aceitáveis de conforto térmico.
The present study analyzes the urban microclimate and the changes in urban legislation parameters and in the use of soil spaces that interfere on this microclimate. Therefore, the aim was to verify the influence and the impact of urban Laws on local microclimatic conditions and comfort of the habitants on a typical residential area of the central district of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais. The motivation is to contribute to a sustainable urban planning of the region. The studies were based on the analysis of three urban configurations: the actual built configuration, the maximum occupancy allowed by the current legislation, and the maximum allowed by the proposal amendments to this Law. Simulations using the software ENVI-met were carried out for the three cases cited above obtaining results for the variables ventilation, temperature and relative humidity. The results indicate that, considering the maximum allowed occupancy of the area, the current area is able to hold a higher urban densification, depending on architectural solutions to keep the thermal comfort within an acceptable level.
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Sik, Lingling. "GPU Ray Traced Rendering And Image Fusion Based Visualization Of Urban Terrain For Enhanced Situation Awareness." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/6020.
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Urban activities involving planning, preparing for and responding to time critical situations often demands sound situational awareness of overall settings. Decision makers, who are tasked to respond effectively to emergencies, must be equipped with information on the details of what is happening, and must stay informed with updates as the event unfolds and remain attentive to the extent of impact the dynamics of the surrounding settings might have. Recent increases in the volumes of geo-spatial data such as satellite imageries, elevation maps, street-level photographs and real-time imageries from remote sensory devices affect the way decision makers make assessments in time-critical situations. When terrain related spatial information are presented accurately, timely, and are augmented with terrain analysis such as viewshed computations, enhanced situational understanding could be formed. Painting such enhanced situational pictures, however, demands efficient techniques to process and present volumes of geo-spatial data. Modern Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have opened up a wide field of applications far beyond processing millions of polygons. This dissertation presents approaches that harness graphics rendering techniques and GPU programmability to visualize urban terrain with accuracy, viewshed analysis and real-time imageries. The GPU ray tracing and image fusion visualization techniques presented herein have the potential to aid in achieving enhanced urban situational awareness and understanding.
Current state of the art polygon based terrain representations often use coarse representations for terrain features of less importance to improve rendering rate. This results in reduced geometrical accuracy for selective terrain features that are considered less critical to the visualization or simulation needs. Alternatively, to render highly accurate urban terrain, considerable computational effort is needed. A compromise between achieving real-time rendering rate and accurate terrain representations would have to be made. Likewise, computational tasks involved in terrain-related calculations such as viewshed analysis are highly computational intensive and are traditionally performed at a non-interactive rate. The first contribution of the research involves using GPU ray tracing, a rendering approach, conventionally not employed in the simulation community in favor of rasterization, to achieve accurate visualization and improved understanding of urban terrain. The efficiency of using GPU ray tracing is demonstrated in two areas, namely, in depicting complex, large scale terrain and in visualizing viewshed terrain effects at interactive rate.
Another contribution entails designing a novel approach to create an efficient and real-time mapping system. The solution achieves updating and visualizing terrain textures using 2D geo-referenced imageries for enhanced situational awareness. Fusing myriad of multi-view 2D inputs spatially for a complex 3D urban scene typically involves a large number of computationally demanding tasks such as image registrations, mosaickings and texture mapping. Current state of the art solutions essentially belongs to two groups. Each strives to either provide near real-time situational pictures in 2D or off-line complex 3D reconstructions for subsequent usages. The solution proposed in this research relies on using prior constructed synthetic terrains as backdrops to be updated with real-time geo-referenced images. The solution achieves speed in fusing information in 3D. Mapping geo-referenced images spatially in 3D puts them into context. It aids in conveying spatial relationships among the data. Prototypes to evaluate the effectiveness of the aforementioned techniques are also implemented. The benefits of augmenting situational displays with viewshed analysis and real-time geo-referenced images in relation to enhancing the user's situational awareness are also evaluated. Preliminary results from user evaluation studies demonstrate the usefulness of the techniques in enhancing operators' performances, in relation to situational awareness and understanding.Ph.D.
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Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
Engineering and Computer Science
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Eggers, Patrick. "Parallelization of ray casting for solar irradiance calculations in urban environments." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Samhällsbyggnad, GIS, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-26144.
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The growing amount of photovoltaic systems in urban environments creates peaks of energy generation in local energy grids. These peaks can lead to unwanted instability in the electrical grid. By aligning solar panels differently, spikes could be avoided. Planning locations for solar panels in urban environments is very time-intense as they require a high spatial and temporal resolution. The aim of this thesis is to investigate the decrease in runtime of planning applications by parallelizing ray-casting algorithms. This thesis includes a software tool for professionals and laymen, which has been developed in a user centered design process and shows ways to perform those calculations on a graphics processing unit.After creating a computational concept and a concept of the software design, those concepts have been implemented starting with an implementation of the Möller-Trumbore ray-casting algorithm which has been run with Python on the central processing unit (CPU). Further the same test with the same algorithm and the same data has been performed on the graphics processing unit (GPU) by using PyCUDA, a Python wrapper for NVIDIAs Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA). Both results were compared resulting in, that parallelizing, transferring and performing those calculations on the graphics processing unit can decrease the runtime of a software significantly. In the used system setup, the same calculations were 42 times faster on the Graphics Processing Unit than on the Central Processing Unit. It was also found, that other factors such as the time of the year, the location of the tested points in the data model, the test interval length and the algorithm design of the ray-casting algorithm have a major impact on the performance of such. In the test scenario the processing time for the same case, but just during another time of the year, increases by factor 4.The findings of this thesis can be used in a wide range of software as it shows, that computationally intensive calculations can easily be sourced out from the Python code and executed on another platform. By doing so, the runtime can be significantly decreased and the whole software package can get an enormous speed boost.
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Shealey, Stephanie Lynne. "Evaluating developments of regional impact using TRANSIMS." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/33888.
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The thesis develops and documents a workflow for applying TRANSIMS to the analysis of Developments of Regional Impact (DRI). The proposed workflow will consider perspectives of both the transportation agency responsible for the evaluating the DRI and the transportation engineer responsible for performing the analysis.
TRANSIMS offers a comprehensive framework for managing inputs and outputs that follow a transportation planning workflow. Not a single, monolithic software application, TRANSIMS is a suite of 65 small, light-weight, single-task tools for creating and manipulating GIS shape files and SQL data base files, estimating the
elements of a four-step transportation modeling process, and computing link and vehicle delays for a given transportation network. Current analysis techniques for developments of regional impact require that the analyst apply arbitrary or non-repeatible estimates for trip assignments at the regional level. Because of the modular
nature of the TRANSIMS, implementing each DRI as a layer in the GIS data base will permit the mixing and matching of multiple DRI within a local area, permitting a risk-based approach to the evaluation of multiple DRI, any of which may or may not actually happen.
This thesis focuses exclusively on the review of DRI analysis techniques, review of TRANSIMS modules, and development of a proposed DRI workflow within the TRANSIMS framework.
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Al-Anazi, F. K. "Vehicle journey time and delay on major urban highways : Vehicle movement on urban highways is examined by means of a computer simulation model, the effects of signal timing and pedestrian crossings are considered." Thesis, University of Bradford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.234736.
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Muñoz, Pandiella Imanol. "Interactive weathering for realistic image synthesis of urban environments." Thesis, Limoges, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LIMO0089/document.
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Etre capable de capturer et de synthétiser des comportements réalistes est un sujet de recherche important en Informatique Graphique. Mais, pour produire des images réalistes, il ne suffit pas de représenter les matériaux de manière fiable, il faut également prendre en compte leurs évolutions dans le temps. La simulation des effets de vieillissement est le domaine de la recherche qui s’intéresse à la prise en compte de la détérioration des modèles virtuels. Après avoir étudié les travaux précédents dans ce domaine, nous avons constaté qu’il y a un manque d’estimation pour certains paramètres environnementaux importants ainsi qu’un besoin de modèles globaux qui tiennent compte des interactions des facteurs intervenants dans les grandes scènes. De plus, nous avons observées que l’amélioration des techniques actuelles nécessite intégrer les caractéristiques physiques réelles pour éviter la déconnection des processus réels, ce qui doit donc être analysés et compris. Dans cette thèse, nous visons à améliorer la simulation du vieillissement en Informatique Graphique sous les trois angles suivants. Concernant l’estimation des facteurs de vieillissement, nous proposons d’abord de traiter un facteur sous-estimé dans la littérature mais qui est très important dans les processus de vieillissement : le soleil. Plus spécifiquement, nous proposons une technique interactive qui estime l’exposition solaire sur des scènes urbaines détaillées. Compte tenu d’une carte d’exposition directionnelle calculée sur une période donnée, nous estimons le facteur de visibilité du ciel qui sert à évaluer l’exposition finale à chaque point visible. Ceci est fait en utilisant une méthode espace-écran basée sur une approche à deux échelles, qui est indépendante de la géométrie et qui a un coût bas en stockage. Notre méthode aboutit à une technique intéressante non seulement pour les simulations de vieillissement, mais également en architecture, dans la conception de bâtiments durables et dans l’estimation de la performance énergétique des bâtiments. Ensuite, nous introduisons un modèle global permettant de simuler les changements d’apparence des bâtiments liés aux dépôts de pollution. Ce processus est très visible sur les scènes urbaines et, jusqu’à présent, aucune technique n’a été proposée en utilisant une approche globale (sur une ville entière). Nous proposons ici une technique basée sur la physique considérant que les effets de la pollution dépendent de trois facteurs principaux : l’exposition au vent, à la pluie et au soleil. Cette approche prend en compte trois étapes : le dépôt, la réaction et le lavage. Avec un pré-calcul à bas coût, nous évaluons la distribution de la pollution dans la ville. Puis, par le biais d’opérateurs espace-écran, nous proposons une méthode efficace capable de générer des images réalistes en temps interactifs. De plus, le pré-calcul n’exige qu’une quantité réduite de mémoire pour stocker la carte de pollution et, comme la méthode utilisée est indépendante de la complexité de la scène, elle peut s’adapter à des modèles complexes et de grande taille en ajustant la résolution de la carte. Finalement, afin de mieux appréhender les processus de vieillissement, nous présentons une méthode permettant de prendre en compte l’effet d’écaillage sur les monuments en pierre avec très peu d’interaction de l’utilisateurBeing able to capture and synthesize realistic materials is an important research topic in Computer Graphics. In order to render realistic images it is not enough to represent materials reliably, but we also need to represent its temporal component. Simulation of weathering effects is the research area that pursues the incorporation of decay to virtual models. After studying the previous work, we have found that there is a lack of estimation methods for some important environmental parameters and a need of global models that consider the interactions of the environmental factors in big scenes. Moreover, we have observed that the improvement of current techniques need to incorporate real effects characteristics to avoid the current disconnection from the real processes. But, this need to be first analyzed and understood. In this thesis, we aim to improve weathering simulation in Computer Graphics in these three fronts. Concerning weathering factors estimation, we first propose to deal with an undervalued factor in weathering literature which is very important in aging processes: the sun. More specifically, we propose an interactive technique that estimates solar exposure on detailed urban scenes. Given a directional exposure map computed over a given time period, we estimate the sky visibility factor that serves to evaluate the final exposure at each visible point. This is done using a screen-space method based on a two-scale approach, which is geometry independent and has low storage costs. Our method results in an interesting technique not only in weathering simulations, but also in architecture, in sustainable building design and in the estimation of buildings’ energy performance. After that, we introduce a global model to simulate the changes of appearance of buildings due to pollution deposition. This process is very noticeable on urban scenes and, so far, no technique has dealt with it using a global approach. We propose a physically-based technique that considers pollution effects to depend on three main factors: wind, rain and sun exposure, and that takes into account three intervening steps: deposition, reaction and washing. With a low-cost pre-computation step, we evaluate the pollution distribution through the city. Based on this distribution and the use of screen-space operators, our method results in an efficient approach that generate realistic images of polluted surfaces at interactive rates. In addition, the pre-computation demands a reduced amount of memory to store the pollution map and, as it is independent from scene complexity, it can suit large and complex models adapting its resolution. Finally, in order to improve the understanding of weathering processes, we present a method to identify and map “scaling” weathering effects on stone monuments with very little user interaction
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Fridlund, Joakim, and Oliver Wilén. "Parameter Guidelines for Electric Vehicle Route Planning." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-279555.
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There is an urgent need to migrate the vehicle industry from conventional combustion vehicles to electric vehicles due to pressing climate changes caused by the fossil fuel industry. The general public seem to have a prejudice against electric vehicles due to their limited range and the extra planning that may be required from the user. The market for electric vehicles is much more limited than for conventional vehicles, partially because it is a much younger industry. Buying an electric vehicle is also a bigger change than just buying a new car, one has to plan and manage the limited range in a new way. Unfortunately, it is more complicated to create a route planner for electric vehicles than for conventional vehicles and the market for such planners is limited. The complication is because an optimal route is better calculated by lowest energy consumption, rather than the shortest path. This requires more parameters in the routing algorithm to accurately calculate the energy consumption for individual vehicles. The problem attended to in this thesis is that no clear guidelines exist about which parameter affect the energy consumption in an electric vehicle and to what degree. The purpose of this thesis is to provide guidelines that can show which of nine chosen parameters to implement in an electric vehicle route planner. The parameters chosen in this thesis are already implemented in Simulation of Urban Mobility, a road traffic simulator. The simulator is used in this thesis to simulate electric vehicles with different parameter values and analyse the impact they have on the energy consumption when the values are incremented. The thesis shows that although some parameters have a relatively large impact on the energy consumption, it is hard to approximate the correct values for them, and therefore not worth implementing.Det finns ett brådskande behov att migrera bilindustrin från fossildrivna bilar till eldrivna bilar på grund av den rådande klimatpåverkan av fossila bränslen. Allmänheten verkar ha fördomar mot elbilar på grund av deras begränsade räckvidd och den ytterligare planering som krävs av en elbilsanvändare. Marknaden för elbilar är mer begränsad än marknaden för fossildrivna bilar. Delvis för att elbilsmarknaden är en mycket yngre industri men också för att köpa elbil är en större förändring än att köpa en vanlig bil. En elbilsförare måste använda bilen på ett annorlunda sätt på grund av den kortare räckvidden. Dessvärre så är det mer komplicerat att skapa en ruttplanerare för elbilar än för fossildrivna bilar, och marknaden för sådana ruttplanerare är begränsad. Problemet är att en optimal rutt för en elbil är beräknas mer effektivt med hjälp av lägsta energikonsumtionen istället för den kortaste vägen. Detta kräver mer parametrar i algoritmen för ruttplanering för att effektivt beräkna energikonsumtionen för individuella fordon. Problemet som hanteras i denna rapport är att det inte finns några tydliga riktlinjer om vilka parametrar som har störst påverkan på energikonsumtionen i en elbil. Syftet med denna rapport är att förse riktlinjer som visar vilka av nio valda parametrarna som är värda att implementera i en ruttplanerare för elbilar. Parametrarna som valdes är implementerade i trafiksimulatorn Simulation of Urban Mobility. Trafiksimulatorn används för att simulera elbilar och analysera förändringen i energikonsumtionen när parametervärdena stegvis ökas. Rapporten visar att även om vissa parametrar har en relativt stor påverkan på energikonsumtionen så är det svårt att uppskatta de korrekta värdena för dem. Dessa parametrar är därför inte värda att implementera.
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Silva, Priscila Weruska Stark da. "O impacto das fachadas verdes nos microclimas urbanos." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16132/tde-13092018-140952/.
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O uso de vegetação nas superfícies urbanas tem despertado a atenção de pesquisadores, empreendedores e da população em geral, pelos benefícios que pode proporcionar às construções, geralmente como coberturas e fachadas verdes. Comparadas às coberturas, as fachadas verdes podem representar maiores superfícies em edifícios altos de áreas densamente ocupadas, incrementando massa foliar e trocas térmicas úmidas no entorno imediato, contribuindo para o balanço de energia nas áreas urbanas. Neste trabalho realizaram-se levantamentos da inclusão das paredes verdes nas políticas públicas, das diferentes tecnologias de paredes verdes, além de estudos de desempenho microclimático de paredes verdes. Há uma série de trabalhos quantificando o efeito das superfícies verdes no desempenho térmico dos edifícios, sabendo-se pouco sobre seus efeitos microclimáticos urbanos. Nesse contexto, o objetivo deste trabalho é quantificar o impacto das fachadas verdes no microclima urbano no nível do pedestre, considerando as variáveis temperatura e umidade do ar, temperatura de superfície e temperatura média radiante. Em função das restrições e recursos do modelo ENVI-met, adotado neste estudo, a pesquisa incluiu, inicialmente, um método dedutivo, exploratório, através de medições de densidade foliar da vegetação do tipo escaladora e monitoramento de alguns dados microclimáticos em uma fachada verde. Na etapa seguinte o método é indutivo, realizando-se testes de sensibilidade do modelo em cenário hipotético, variando-se índice de área foliar (IAF 0,5m²/m², 1m²/m² e 2m²/m²) e umidade do solo (50% e 60%). As conclusões confirmam o efeito microclimático bastante localizado da parede verde do tipo escaladora e um comportamento distinto nos períodos diurno e noturno, como acontece em outras formas de inserção do verde em áreas urbanas. À noite, na ausência da evapotranspiração, o resfriamento é mais influenciado pela troca convectiva. Durante o dia percebe-se o efeito da evapotranspiração no ligeiro aumento da umidade do ar em 1,0g/kg, à temperatura do ar de 26°C, e na diminuição da temperatura do ar, em ambos os casos quando comparadas ao cenário sem vegetação, em 0,17°C, 0,36°C e 0,68°C com os incrementos sucessivos do IAF, para umidade do solo 50%, às 14h, principalmente a sotavento. Os efeitos da vegetação na temperatura radiante média são bastante localizados, tornando sua influência praticamente imperceptível no microclima exterior sob o efeito da radiação solar, apesar dos incrementos do IAF. O incremento na umidade do solo, de 50% para 60%, resulta em aumento da evapotranspiração provocando redução máxima de cerca de 0,36°C na temperatura do ar a 1,5m do solo, para o mesmo IAF. O sombreamento provocado pela vegetação resulta em variação insignificante na TRM mesmo com o aumento na umidade relativa do solo, para o mesmo IAF. Os testes de sensibilidade mostram que o modelo é adequado para realização de estudos mais aprofundados, justificando o investimento em pesquisas futuras visando à calibração entre dados microclimáticos medidos e simulados para paredes verdes em clima tropical e subtropical e à simulação microclimática de áreas urbanas com o uso dessa tecnologia.The use of greenery on urban surfaces, normally green roofs or green facades has attracted the attention of researchers, entrepreneurs and the population in general for its benefits to buildings. Compared to green roofs, green facades may represent higher surfaces in tall buildings of densely occupied areas, increasing foliage mass and latent heat exchanges for the immediate environment, contributing to energy balance in urban areas. With a focus on green walls, this work carried out investigations about their inclusion in public policies, green walls\' technologies and microclimate performance studies. Despite the existence of numerous papers quantifying the effect of green surfaces on the thermal performance of buildings, there is limited available knowledge regarding their effects on urban microclimate. In this context, the aim of this work is to quantify the impact of green façades on urban microclimate at pedestrian level, considering the variables air temperature, air humidity, surface temperature, and mean radiant temperature. Based on the restrictions and resources of the ENVI-met model, which was adopted in this study, the research initially included a deductive exploratory method through measurements of leaf area density of climbing plants and monitoring of some microclimatic data at a green façade. In the next stage, the method was inductive, with sensitivity tests of the model in a hypothetical scenario, varying the leaf area index (LAI 0.5m²/m², 1m²/m² and 2m²/m²) and soil humidity (50% and 60%). The results confirm the localized microclimatic effects of the climbing green wall and a distinct behaviour between daytime and night time, equivalent to those caused by other forms of greenery in urban areas. At night, with the lack of evapotranspiration, cooling is more influenced by convective exchange. The effect of evapotranspiration is clearly perceived during the day due to a) the slight increase in air humidity by 1.0 g/kg at a temperature of 26°C, and b) the decrease of air temperature, when compared to the scenario without vegetation, of 0.17 °C, 0.36 °C and 0.68 °C (for LAI=0,5m²/m², 1,00m²/m² and 2,0m²/m²), for a 50% soil humidity, mainly in the leeward direction. The effects of greenery on mean radiant temperature, despite the LAI increase, are quite localized, making its influence practically imperceptible on the outdoor microclimate under the effect of solar radiation. The increase of soil humidity from 50% to 60% results in increased evapotranspiration leading to a maximum reduction around 0.36 °C on air temperature, at 1.5 m from ground level, for the same LAI. Vegetation shading results in insignificant variation in mean radiant temperature. Sensitivity tests show that the model is suitable for further studies, justifying an investment in future research aiming at calibration between measured and simulated microclimate data for green walls in tropical and subtropical climates and the microclimatic simulation of urban areas with green walls\' technology.
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Goolsby, Matthew Allen. "Viability study of a residential integrated stormwater, graywater, and wastewater treatment system at Florida's Showcase Green Envirohome." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4767.
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The subject of water scarcity and the rate of water consumption have become popular over the last few decades. Within the topic of water consumption, there are two separate issues from a residential standpoint. The first concern is the steadily increasing need for viable alternative water sources to be utilized for non-potable applications in an effort to reduce potable water demands. The second concern is the need to significantly reduce of nutrient-laden wastewater effluent discharge from septic systems in order to sustain groundwater quality and prevent adverse ecological impacts. This study addresses both issues with two separate systems integrated into one environmentally functional home that emphasizes low impact development (LID) practices. The first objective of the study is to quantify the performance of the passive treatment Bold & GoldTM reactive filter bed (FDOH classified “innovative system”) for nutrient removal. The second objective is to monitor the water quality of the combined graywater/stormwater cistern for non-potable use and asses all components (green roof, gutters, graywater treatment, AC condensate, well water, stormwater contribution). The performance of the passive innovative system is compared to past studies and regulatory standards. Also, a bench scale model of the OSTDS is constructed at the University of Central Florida (UCF) Stormwater Management Academy Research and Testing Lab (SMART Lab) and tested to provide effluent data at two different residence times. Complex physical, biological, and chemical theories are applied to the analysis of wastewater treatment performance. The data from the OSTDS and stormwater/graywater cistern both systems are also assessed using statistical analysis. The results of the OSTDS are compared to FDOH regulatory requirements for “Secondary Treatment Standards”, and “Advanced Secondary Treatment Standards” with positive results. The bench scale results verify that both biological nutrient removal and physiochemical sorption are occurring within the filter media and quantified the relationship between removal rates and hydraulic residence time (HRT). The combined graywater/stormwater cistern contains acceptable water quality and operates efficiently. The demand on the cistern results in about 50% capacity utilization of the cistern and there is a consistent dependency on the artesian well. The salinity content and high sodium adsorption ratio (SAR) of the cistern water did not produce any noticeable adverse impacts on the home other than scale formation in the toilet. The results of the research determined that the implementation of the integrated system is a viable option at the residential level.ID: 030646271; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Thesis (M.S.Env.E.)--University of Central Florida, 2011.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 124-129).
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Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering
Engineering and Computer Science
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Pietsch, Susan Mary. "The effective use of three dimensional visualisation modelling in the routine development control of urban environments : a thesis submitted to Adelaide University in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09php626.pdf.
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"June 2001." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 346-352) Investigates technical and cultural issues in using three dimensional computer visualisation modelling in a busy Australian city planning office, the local Council of the City of Adelaide, taking two directions: a modelling approach that emphasizes abstract, quick to create 3D models; and, by examining the social and organizational issues. This dual view paints a broader picture of the potential of 3D modelling within planning practice including the impediments and possible solutions to them.
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Araújo, Iuri ávila Lins de. "Influência da luz natural refletida pelo entorno na iluminação de edifícios no trópico úmido." Universidade Federal de Alagoas, 2006. http://repositorio.ufal.br/handle/riufal/684.
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The development of the urban space has a great impact on daylight availability. Urban design can improve the use of daylight in buildings. Climatic conditions influence the availability of daylight considerably and should be taken into account by Urban Codes. In the humid tropic, the sky factor may decrease due to the use of the solar protection. That has been the main parameter to control the influence of obstructions on daylighting of buildings. This loss can be compensated by the considerable availability of reflect light. The present work aims to analyse the influence of the reflect light on luminous performance of buildings in the humid tropic. It was evaluated the efficacy of the sky factor parameter, the influence of opening orientation and the contribution of the reflect light on ground and obstructions. The methodology is a comparative study for different urban space models by computer simulation with TropLux. The simulations were done for Maceió-AL with partly cloudy sky. Results showed a great contribution of the reflect light for tropical daylighting. The use of sky factor parameter showed more effective when used together with opening orientation. More appropriate approach for Daylighting Code in the humid tropic should pay more attention to reflected light on the ground and obstructions as well as to opening orientation. This work aims to contribute in some way to create urban design guidelines that help designers and planners to develop urban models that allow a proper use of daylight in the humid tropic.Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
A construção do espaço urbano é uma atividade de grande impacto sobre a disponibilidade de luz natural. O desenho urbano pode conduzir a cidade a um maior aproveitamento da luz natural pelas edificações. Por outro lado as condições climáticas influenciam a disponibilidade dessa luz, devendo ser levadas em consideração pelos instrumentos normativos que condicionam o desenho da cidade. No trópico úmido, as proteções solares utilizadas para sombrear as aberturas podem reduzir consideravelmente o fator de céu, que tem sido o principal parâmetro para controlar a influência do entorno construído na iluminação natural. Esse efeito pode ser compensado pela disponibilidade considerável de luz refletida. O presente trabalho tem por objetivo analisar a influência do entorno construído e da luz refletida para a iluminação natural de edificações no trópico úmido, avaliando a eficácia do parâmetro fator de céu, a influência da orientação da abertura e a contribuição percentual da luz refletida pelo entorno. A metodologia adotada consiste em um estudo comparativo de diferentes modelos de entorno, através de simulações computacionais com o programa TropLux. As simulações adotaram a localização da cidade de Maceió-AL e o céu parcialmente nublado. Os resultados mostraram uma grande contribuição da luz refletida para a iluminação das edificações. O uso do parâmetro fator de céu para estimar o desempenho dos modelos mostrou-se mais eficaz quando utilizado em conjunto com a orientação da abertura. A partir dos resultados concluiu-se que uma abordagem mais adequada ao trópico úmido, para a definição de instrumentos normativos, deve dar atenção especial às refletâncias do entorno e à orientação das aberturas. Espera-se com isso contribuir para formar diretrizes de desenho urbano que orientem projetistas e planejadores no desenvolvimento de modelos urbanos que propiciem um aproveitamento adequado da luz natural no trópico úmido.
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Grazziotin, Pablo Colossi. "Técnicas de incorporação de controle de acesso à luz solar em modelos computacionais de edificações." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/7843.
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Os benefícios obtidos com a disponibilidade de radiação solar dentro ou ao redor dos edifícios são fundamentais no planejamento urbano e provocam significativo impacto sobre o uso do solo, densidade de construção, valorização do solo urbano, conforto térmico e economia de energia. CityZoom é um ambiente computacional de apoio à decisão em projetos de arquitetura e urbanismo onde modelos de desempenho podem ser utilizados de forma integrada e associados automaticamente a Normativas Urbanísticas. Este trabalho utiliza técnicas de computação gráfica pare aferir o acesso de edifícios à luz solar a partir de um modelo de simulação de potencial construtivo de lotes urbanos já existente no ambiente CityZoom. O modelo, denominado BlockMagic, foi estendido com uma técnica de cálculo de envelope solar, recurso que permite simular se a geometria dos edifícios interferirá, positiva ou negativamente, na vizinhança imediata. Ulteriormente, foram desenvolvidas ferramentas para visualização 2D e 3D dos resultados das simulações.The benefits obtained from the available solar radiation in and around buildings are essential to urban planning. The inclusion of such features in the planning process has an expressive impact over land use, building density, land value, thermal comfort and energy saving. CityZoom is a computational decision support system for architecture and urbanism. The software provides an environment where performance models can be used in an integrated way, and automatically associated to Building Regulations. This work uses computer graphics techniques to assess the building access the sunlight availability to simulated buildings in the CityZoom environment. The performance model used to simulate the Building Regulations, BlockMagic, was extended to use a solar envelope calculation technique, allowing it to measure the effect of a simulated buildings on its immediate neighboring buildings. Tools for 2D and 3D visualization of the simulation results were also developed.
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González, Ramírez Humberto. "Study of the choice behaviour of travellers in a transport network via a “simulation game” Travel time and bounded rationality in travellers’ route choice behaviour : a computer route choice experiment Unravelling travellers’ route choice behaviour at full-scale urban network by focusing on representative OD pairs in computer experiments." Thesis, Lyon, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020LYSET008.
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L'objectif de cette thèse est de trouver des modèles de choix d'itinéraire qui évoluent au niveau du réseau, c'est-à-dire des modèles qui rapprochent les choix des voyageurs sur la diversité des situations rencontrées dans un réseau de transport. L'approche de cette thèse pour étudier le comportement des voyageurs dans les réseaux de transport passe par des expériences informatiques à grande échelle, pour lesquelles une plateforme nommée Mobility Decision Game (MDG) a été développée. Le MDG permet d'observer les choix des participants sur un ensemble diversifié de scénarios (paires OD et itinéraires) avec des conditions de circulation et des informations de temps de trajet variables. Dans cette thèse, les expériences se concentrent sur les choix d'itinéraire des trajets en voiture qui sont basés sur la carte de la ville de Lyon, France. Pour atteindre l'objectif de cette thèse, une méthodologie de recherche de couples OD représentatifs du réseau est tout d'abord proposée. Les paires OD représentatives sont utilisées dans les expériences de choix de route pour obtenir des modèles de choix qui se généralisent aux différentes configurations OD dans le réseau. Deuxièmement, les choix des participants aux expériences sont analysés du point de vue du comportement rationnel et borné, afin d'établir le principe qui décrit le mieux leurs choix. Enfin, les modèles de choix sont évalués en fonction de leur précision prédictive. Cette thèse fait partie d'un projet européen ERC intitulé MAGnUM: Approche de modélisation du trafic multi-échelle et multimodale pour la gestion durable de la mobilité urbaineThe objective of this thesis is to find route choice models that scale-up at network level, i.e., models that predict the choices of travellers over the diversity of situations found in a transport network. The approach in this thesis to investigate travellers' behaviour in transportation networks is through computer-based experiments at large scale, for which a platform named the Mobility Decision Game (MDG), has been developed. The MDG permits to observe the choices of the participants on a diverse set of scenarios (OD pairs and routes) with varying traffic conditions and travel time information. In this thesis, the experiments focus on the route choices of uni-modal car trips that are based on the map of the city of Lyon, France. To attain the objective of this thesis, firstly a methodology to find OD pairs that are representative of the network is proposed. The representative OD pairs are used in route choice experiments to obtain choice models that generalise to the various OD configurations in the network. Secondly, the choices of participants in the experiments are analysed from the rational and boundedly rational behaviour perspectives, in order to establish the principle that best describe their choices. Finally, the choice models are assessed in terms of their predictive accuracy. This thesis is part of a European ERC project entitled MAGnUM: Multiscale and Multimodal Traffic Modeling Approach for Sustainable Management of Urban Mobility
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Araujo, Pablo Andrey Arruda de. "Análise da mobilidade urbana através de dados da rede de telefonia móvel celular." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2014. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/6115.
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With the economic growth experienced in recent years, many brazilian cities have also encountered problems such as population growth, congestion of vehicles and violence. At the same time, the purchasing power of the population has grown, allowing many of them to purchase new equipment, such as mobile phones, with Brazil surpassed the barrier of a cell phone per inhabitant. This study aimed to examine the feasibility of using computer simulation systems, using data from the mobile telephone network, aiming a system of urban monitoring usig vehicles. The results showed that the higher was the number of vehicles on public streets, most will hit rate with the data from the cellular network using the methodology of Erlang.
Com o crescimento econômico vivido nos últimos anos, muitas cidades brasileiras têm também se deparado com problemas como o aumento populacional, congestionamento de veículos e a violência. Ao mesmo tempo, o poder aquisitivo dos habitantes tem crescido, permitindo que muitos pudessem adquirir novos equipamentos, como os telefones celulares, tendo o Brasil ultrapassado a barreira de um telefone celular por habitante. Esse trabalho objetivou a analise de viabilidade do uso de sistemas de simulação computacional, utilizando dados da rede de telefonia móvel celular, visando um sistema de monitoramento urbano com veículos. Os resultados mostraram que, quanto maior foi o número de veículos em circulação nas vias públicas, maior será a taxa de acerto com os dados oriundos da rede de telefonia celular utilizando a metodologia de Erlang.
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Nogueira, Aline Maria Pereira. "Configuração urbana e microclimas : estudo em loteamento horizontal de Maceió - Alagoas." Universidade Federal de Alagoas, 2011. http://repositorio.ufal.br/handle/riufal/725.
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The interaction between climate and urban configuration can significantily affects the environmental comfort conditions, determining the urban microclimate. The research evaluates the microclimatic quality of a fraction of a horizontal residential settlement allotment, in the urban context of Maceió-AL, through the analysis of climatic variables, considering the attributes of existing urban configuration (present scenario), but also a future situation considering maximum occupancy (future scenario), in accordance to the local urban planning requirements. The methodological procedures were based on a qualitative perspective in the form of features diagnostic of the urban area, analysis of the solar exposure built arrangement, and quantitatively by mobile microclimatic measuring, and computer simulations of the thermal performance and dynamic, using the software ENVI-met 3.1 version. The area analysis confirmed the existence of different microclimates, according to land use, building orientation and thermal characteristics. The results of computer simulations have shown a difference of up to 6,6°C in air temperature and up to 0,44 m/s in reducing of average wind speed between the two scenarios analyzed, confirming the influence of some urban form attributes in microclimatic behavior, as the: density built, the thermodynamic characterized by lack of urban greening. From the results, highlights the importance of climate approach as a tool for urban planning, and how this can guide urban design decisions in order to minimize uncomfortable climatic situations in urban spaces.Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Alagoas
A interação do clima com a configuração e o uso do espaço urbano pode afetar de forma significativa as condições de conforto ambiental, determinando o microclima urbano. A pesquisa de mestrado avalia a qualidade microclimática de uma fração de um loteamento horizontal, no contexto urbano de Maceió-AL, através da análise das variáveis climáticas, considerando os atributos da configuração urbana existente (cenário atual), como também uma situação futura, quando da ocupação máxima edificada do loteamento (cenário futuro), de acordo com as prescrições urbanísticas atuais para o local. Os procedimentos metodológicos fundamentaram-se em uma ótica qualitativa através do diagnóstico das características da forma urbana da área estudada e análise da insolação do arranjo construtivo, e quantitativa, através de medições microclimáticas móveis, além de simulações computacionais do desempenho térmico e dinâmico, com o uso do programa ENVI-met versão 3.1. A análise da área confirmou a existência de microclimas diferenciados na malha urbana do loteamento estudado, de acordo com a ocupação do solo, orientação do arranjo construtivo e características térmicas das superfícies. Os resultados das simulações computacionais comprovaram uma diferença de até 6,6 °C na temperatura do ar e de até 0,44 m/s na redução da velocidade média do vento entre os dois cenários analisados, confirmando-se a influência de alguns atributos da forma urbana no comportamento microclimático, como: a densidade construída, as características termodinâmicas dos materiais de revestimento do solo, além da ausência de sombreamento caracterizada pela carência de arborização urbana. A partir dos resultados obtidos, evidencia-se a importância da avaliação climática como ferramenta para o planejamento urbano, e como esta pode orientar decisões projetuais para amenizar possíveis situações de desconforto em espaços urbanos.
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Gogo-Abite, Ikiensinma. "Effluent Water Quality Improvement Using Silt Fences and Stormwater Harvesting." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5226.
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Construction sites are among the most common areas to experience soil erosion and sediment transport due to the mandatory foundation tasks such as excavation and land grubbing. Thus, temporary sediment barriers are installed along the perimeter to prevent sediment transport from the site. Erosion and sediment transport control measures may include, but not limited to, physical and chemical processes such as the use of a silt fence and polyacrylamide product. Runoff from construction sites and other impervious surfaces are routinely discharged into ponds for treatment before being released into a receiving water body. Stormwater harvesting from a pond for irrigation of adjacent lands is promoted as one approach to reducing pond discharge while supplementing valuable potable water used for irrigation. The reduction of pond discharge reduces the mass of pollutants in the discharge. In the dissertation, presented is the investigation of the effectiveness of temporary sediment barriers and then, development of a modeling approach to a stormwater harvesting pond to provide a comprehensive stormwater management pollution reduction assessment tool. The first part of the research presents the investigation of the performance efficiencies of silt fence fabrics in turbidity and sediment concentration removal, and the determination of flow-through-rate on simulated construction sites in real time. Two silt fence fabrics, (1) woven and the other (2) nonwoven were subjected to material index property tests and a series of field-scale tests with different rainfall intensities and events for different embankment slopes on a tilting test-bed. Collected influent and effluent samples were analyzed for sediment concentration and turbidity, and the flow-through-rate for each fabric was evaluated. Test results revealed that the woven and nonwoven silt fence achieved 11 and 56 percent average turbidity reduction efficiency, respectively. Each fabric also achieved 20 and 56 percent average sediment concentration removal efficiency, respectively. Fabric flow-through-rates were functions of the rainfall intensity and embankment slope. The nonwoven fabric exhibited higher flow-through-rates than the woven fabric in both field-scale and laboratory tests. In the second part of the study, a Stormwater Harvesting and Assessment for Reduction of Pollution (SHARP) model was developed to predict operation of wet pond used for stormwater harvesting. The model integrates the interaction of surface water and groundwater in a catchment area. The SHARP model was calibrated and validated with actual pond water elevation data from a stormwater pond at Miramar Lakes, Miramar, Florida. Model evaluation showed adequate prediction of pond water elevation with root mean square error between 0.07 and 0.12 m; mean absolute error was between 0.018 and 0.07 m; and relative index of agreement was between 0.74 and 0.98 for both calibration and validation periods. The SHARP model is capable of assessing harvesting safe-yield and discharge from a pond, including the prediction of the percentage of runoff into a harvesting pond that is not discharged. The combination of silt fence and/or polyacrylamide PAM before stormwater harvesting pond in a treatment train for the reduction of pollutants from construction sites has the potential of significantly exceeding a performance standard of 85 percent reduction typically required by local authorities. In fact, the stringent requirement of equaling pre- and post-development pollutant loading is highly achievable by the treatment train approach. The significant contribution from the integration of the SHARP model to the treatment train is that real-time assessment of pollutant loading reduction by volume can be planned and controlled to achieve target performance standards.Ph.D.
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Talele, Suraj Harish. "Comparative Study of Thermal Comfort Models Using Remote-Location Data for Local Sample Campus Building as a Case Study for Scalable Energy Modeling at Urban Level Using Virtual Information Fabric Infrastructure (VIFI)." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1404602/.
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The goal of this dissertation is to demonstrate that data from a remotely located building can be utilized for energy modeling of a similar type of building and to demonstrate how to use this remote data without physically moving the data from one server to another using Virtual Information Fabric Infrastructure (VIFI). In order to achieve this goal, firstly an EnergyPlus model was created for Greek Life Center, a campus building located at University of North Texas campus at Denton in Texas, USA. Three thermal comfort models of Fanger model, Pierce two-node model and KSU two-node model were compared in order to find which one of these three models is most accurate to predict occupant thermal comfort. This study shows that Fanger's model is most accurate in predicting thermal comfort. Secondly, an experimental data pertaining to lighting usage and occupancy in a single-occupancy office from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has been implemented in order to perform energy analysis of Greek Life Center assuming that occupants in this building's offices behave similarly as occupants in CMU. Thirdly, different data types, data formats and data sources were identified which are required in order to develop a city-scale urban building energy model (CS-UBEM). Two workflows were created, one for an individual scale building energy model and another one for CS-UBEM. A new innovative infrastructure called as Virtual Information Fabric Infrastructure (VIFI) has been introduced in this dissertation. The workflows proposed in this study will demonstrate in the future work that by using VIFI infrastructure to develop building energy models there is a potential of using data for remote servers without actually moving the data. It has been successfully demonstrated in this dissertation that data located at remote location can be used credibly to predict energy consumption of a newly built building. When the remote experimental data of both lighting and occupancy are implemented, 4.57% energy savings was achieved in the Greek Life Center energy model.
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Pozzetti, Paulo Henrique. "Analise de simulação de cruzamento semaforizado." [s.n.], 2002. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/257949.
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Orientador: Regina Coeli RuschelDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Civil
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Resumo: Da concorrência entre os elementos participantes do sistema de circulação surgem os conflitos, que em seus maiores graus de severidade se transformam em acidentes de trânsito. Estes acidentes devem ser analisados sobre diversos pontos de vista para que sua compreensão possa ajudar em medidas corretivas. Este trabalho visa identificar a influência de painéis dinâmicos de propaganda no tempo de percepção e reação do motorista, na visualização do conjunto semafórico, em cruzamentos com altos Índices de acidentes na cidade de São Paulo, através de simulação animada em 2D em ambiente computacional. Através dos dados sobre acidentes, foi selecionado na cidade de São Paulo, o cruzamento da Av. Rebouças com a Av. Brigadeiro Faria Lima para a simulação, definindo um modelo genérico envolvendo: distância de frenagem e distância percorrida durante os tempos de percepção. Para o teste de hipóteses variadas analisou-se a interferência dos parâmetros velocidade, tempo de percepção e campo de visão do grupo focal. O modelo foi elaborado através dos registros fotográficos do local, sendo gerados 36 filmes. Cada filme representava uma combinação diferente das variáveis. Os filmes foram apresentados para grupos de usuários para a identificação da cor do semáforo: o primeiro na Faculdade de Engenharia Civil da UNICAMP e o segundo na CET - Companhia de Engenharia de Tráfego - SP, totalizando 180 participantes. identificação da cor do semáforo: o primeiro na Faculdade de Engenharia Civil da UNICAMP e o segundo na CET - Companhia de Engenharia de Tráfego - SP, totalizando 180 participantes. Ao se analisar os dados obtidos nota-se que as variáveis com maior significância estatística, na visualização do grupo focal, para o modelo desenvolvido, foram as variáveis velocidade, tempo de percepção e a presença do painel. Surpreendentemente a presença do painel atrás do grupo focal contribui para uma correta identificação do semáforo. Observou-se que para velocidades maiores o nível de indefinição na identificação do semáforo é maior. A adoção de tempos de percepção e reação maiores que dois segundos são recomendáveis. Para o modelo desenvolvido não foram relevantes a familiaridade com o local e o ambiente em que os testes foram aplicados. Percebe-se que uma simulação animada em 2D montada em programa para ambientes de navegação para WWW pode incrementar a análise de segurança viária
Abstract: Conflicts emerge from the competition between elements participating in the circulation system, when these achieve severe degree traffic accidents occur. These accidents should be analyzed trom various points view so that its comprehension may indicate corrective measures. This work aims to identify the influence of dynamic publicity panels in the perception-reaction time of drivers in the visualization of light signals of intersections with high accidents rates in the city of São Paulo using an animated 2D simulation in a computer environment. The intersection of Rebouças Avenue and Brigadeiro Faria Lima Avenue was selected as the study site in the simulation. A generic model was defined using the breaking and traversed distance during perception time. The interference of the variables speed, perception time and environment behind the light signal was analyzed in the model. The animation was developed using photographs of the site generating 36 different films. Each film represented a different combination of variables. The films were presented to groups of users for their identification of the color of the light signal: the first group at the Faculdade de Engenharia Civil at UNICAMP and the second group at the Compania de Engenharia de Tráfego (CET) at SP, summing up to 180 participants. Data analyses pointed out that the variables with greatest statistical significance in the focal group for the developed model were speed, perception time and presence of the panel. Surprising1y, the presence of the panel behind the focal group contributes for the correct perception of the light signal. It was also observed that in higher velocities the indefinition in identification of the light signal is greater. There for, it is recommended the use of perception-reaction time higher then 2 seconds. In the developed model the variables familiarity with the site and group of users were not relevant. It can be conc1uded that the 2D animated simulation in computer environment increments the ana1ysis of traffic safety
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Roso, Vinícius Rückert. "CICLOS REAIS DE CONDUÇÃO VEICULAR EM SANTA MARIA E SEUS IMPACTOS EM CONSUMO E EMISSÕES." Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2016. http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/8393.
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In order to improve urban air quality and to meet legislation requirements, vehicular technology
is constantly advancing. It focus on techniques that reduce both fuel consumption
and emissions of greenhouse gases as well as harmful pollutant emissions. The technologies,
however, have different impacts depending on the city, its traffic conditions and urban
planning as well as other socio-economic and cultural factors that affect the driving stile.
Thus, standard drive cycles such as NEDC, FTP75 or others may not represent properly
the actual condition and are being progressively replaced by real-world driving cycles. This
paper aims to analyze the impact of real driving conditions in the city of Santa Maria, in
southern Brazil, in respect to emissions and fuel consumption. Data of real world driving
cycles were collected for motorized transport and introduced into computational models to
simulate vehicles traveling in predetermined route. Urban buses and passenger cars were
evaluated in different traffic conditions. Underestimation of more than 50% in emissions
were observed in heavy traffic conditions across the indicated in standard cycles. Simulation
of techniques to reduce pollutant emissions in Diesel engines has confirmed more
than 90% reductions in emissions of PM, CO, HC, and 40% of NOx, operating under real
conditions.Objetivando a melhoria na qualidade do ar urbano e o atendimento à legislação, a tecnologia veicular está em constante desenvolvimento. O foco está em técnicas para redução, tanto do consumo de combustível quanto de emissões de gases do efeito estufa. As tecnologias, entretanto, possuem diferentes impactos dependendo da cidade, das condições de tráfego e do planejamento, assim como demais fatores socioeconômicos e culturais que interfiram no modo de condução. Com isso, ciclos padrões de condução, como NEDC e FTP75, por exemplo, não representam com propriedade a condição atual de tráfego e estão sendo gradativamente substituídos pelos ciclos reais de condução. Esta dissertação objetiva analisar o impacto de ciclos reais no trânsito urbano da cidade de Santa Maria- RS, no âmbito de emissões e consumo de combustível. Dados de ciclos reais de condução foram coletados para meios de transporte motorizados e introduzidos em modelos computacionais, visando simular um veículo percorrendo o trajeto pré-estabelecido. Assim, avaliaram-se carros de passeio e ônibus urbanos em diferentes condições de tráfego. Em posse dos resultados foram realizadas as comparações com ciclos padrão existentes, onde verificaram-se subestimações de mais de 50% nas emissões por ciclos padrão frente à condições reais de tráfego intenso. A simulação de sistemas para a redução nas emissões de poluentes em motores Diesel, operando em condições reais, confirmou reduções de mais de 90% nas emissões de MP, CO e HC e de 40% nas emissões de NOx.
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Sorensen, Gerrit Addison N. "A Flexible Infrastructure for Multi-Agent Systems." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2005. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd875.pdf.
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Vieira, Marcos Stefanelli. "Influência das edificações na propagação de ondas eletromagnéticas geradas por descargas atmosféricas." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/3/3142/tde-15072016-150045/.
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Descargas atmosféricas representam uma das principais causas de interrupção no fornecimento de energia para os consumidores, e embora tenham efeitos mais intensos quando incidem diretamente nas redes elétricas, é o caso das descargas indiretas que chama mais atenção, já que elas ocorrem com maior frequência. Tanto as primeiras descargas que geralmente ocorrem com maior intensidade de corrente, quanto as descargas subsequentes que têm menor tempo de frente associado, irradiam campos eletromagnéticos que ao se acoplarem com as redes elétricas geram surtos que podem causar tanto a interrupção do fornecimento de energia quanto danos a equipamentos. A presença de edifícios na região de incidência da descarga atmosférica afeta a propagação das ondas irradiadas, criando diferentes padrões de campos resultantes, os quais são responsáveis por sobretensões induzidas. Embora tanto a descarga atmosférica em si quanto a caracterização do ambiente ao seu redor sejam de natureza complexa para sua representação, ferramentas computacionais bem estruturadas podem representar o fenômeno de forma satisfatória, como é o caso da ferramenta computacional desenvolvida neste trabalho utilizando o método das diferenças finitas no domínio do tempo. O presente trabalho apresenta dois estudos para verificação da influência de edificações na propagação de campo irradiado por descargas atmosféricas. O primeiro estudo avaliou o comportamento das componentes do campo elétrico e do campo magnético irradiados, comparando resultados obtidos com e sem a presença de edificações numa pequena região. Tanto os parâmetros geométricos dos três edifícios considerados neste estudo, como a permissividade e a condutividade elétrica do solo e dos edifícios, foram variados para identificar a sua influência nos campos irradiados. Os resultados mostraram diferentes comportamentos das componentes dos campos resultantes em função da variação desses parâmetros, observando-se inversão de polaridade, oscilações na forma de onda e tanto redução quanto aumento do valor de campo. O segundo estudo avaliou um caso mais geral em que a componente vertical de campo elétrico foi tomada em nove pontos diferentes de uma região tipicamente urbana, com a presença de 102 edifícios. Os valores de campo avaliados em cada ponto, dez metros acima do solo, consideraram a incidência aleatória de 28 descargas atmosféricas distintas, cada uma atingindo o topo de um dado edifício. Os resultados desse segundo estudo mostraram que exceto nos casos em que a descarga atmosférica ocorre próximo do ponto analisado, há reduções significativas do campo elétrico vertical. Desta forma é possível perceber que não apenas a existência de edifícios, mas a sua concentração com diferentes características elétricas e geométricas, podem influenciar significativamente a propagação de campo irradiado. Os valores calculados a partir da ferramenta desenvolvida podem ser usados em conjunto com modelos de acoplamento, para o cálculo de sobretensões induzidas em redes elétricas, em situações realistas com configurações mais complexas.Atmospheric discharges represent one of the main causes of interruption in power supply to consumers, and although they have more intense effects when direct impact on energy lines, are the case of indirect discharges that draws more attention, since they occur more frequently. Both the first discharges, occurring generally with greater intensity of current, as subsequent discharges that have shorter front time associated, radiate electromagnetic fields which engage with the electrical networks generating surges that can cause so much disruption of power supply as damage to the equipment. The presence of buildings in the lightning incident area affects the propagation of the radiated waves, creating different patterns of resultant fields, which are responsible for induced overvoltages. Although both the lightning itself and characterization of the surrounding environment are of a complex nature for its representation, structured computational tools can represent satisfactorily the phenomenon, such as the software tool developed here using the finite difference time domain method. This work presents two studies to verify the influence of buildings in the propagation of lightning irradiated field. The first study assessed the behavior of the components of the electric field and magnetic field irradiated, by comparing results obtained with and without the presence of buildings in a small region. Both the geometric parameters of the three buildings considered in this study, as the permittivity and electrical conductivity of the soil and buildings, were changed to identify their influence on radiated fields. The results showed different behaviors of the components of the resulting field due to the variation of these parameters, observing polarity inversion, oscillations in the waveform and either a reduction or increase of the field value. The second study evaluated a more general case where the vertical component of the electric field was taken at nine different points of a typical urban area, in the presence of 102 buildings. The field values evaluated at each point, ten meters above the ground, considered the effect of 28 different random lightning, which hit the top of a given building. The results of this second study showed that except in cases where atmospheric discharge occurs near the analyzed point, there are significant reductions of the vertical electric field. Thus it can be seen that not only the existence of buildings, but its concentration with different electrical and geometrical characteristics, can significantly influence the propagation of irradiated field. The values calculated from the developed tool can be used in conjunction with coupling models for calculating induced overvoltages on power lines, in realistic situations with complex configurations.
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Rodriguez, Vila Juan Jose Franklin. "Clusterização e visualização espaço-temporal de dados georreferenciados adaptando o algoritmo marker clusterer: um caso de uso em Curitiba." Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, 2016. http://repositorio.utfpr.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/2832.
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CNPq; CAPES;Cinquenta por cento da população mundial vive em cidades, e a expectativa para 2050 é de que essa porcentagem chegue a 70% (WHO, 2014). As cidades consomem 75% dos recursos naturais e de energia do mundo, e geram 80% dos gases-estufa responsáveis pelo efeito estufa; considerando que, ocupam apenas 2% do território mundial (Signori, 2008). As cidades são também o palco de grande parte dos problemas ambientais globais (Gomes, 2009), e é no contexto urbano onde a dimensão social, econômica e ambiental convergem mais intensamente (European Commission, 2007). Esse crescimento populacional, tem influências sociais, econômicas e ambientais que representam um grande desafio para o desenvolvimento sustentável do planejamento urbano. Os conceitos de sistemas de informação geográfica, cidades inteligentes, dados abertos, algoritmos de clusterização e visualização de dados, permitem entender diversas questões em relação a atividade urbana nas cidades. Em particular, se torna importante a variável “onde”: onde existe tráfego e quais são os horários mais frequentes; onde é necessário realizar modelagem de espera residencial, comercial e industrial de acordo com o crescimento populacional para o plano de uso da terra; quais são os tipos de negócios que mais cresceram em cada bairro e qual é a relação entre eles. Para este fim, esta dissertação apresenta um sistema web-mobile que permite entender o crescimento espaço-temporal e econômico dos alvarás de restaurantes dos bairros Centro, Batel e Tatuquara da cidade de Curitiba nas últimas três décadas (1980 até 2015), realizando clusterização e visualização de uma grande quantidade de dados abertos georreferenciados. Em termos de resultados alcançados destacam-se: 1) capacidade de resolver problemas computacionais de sobreposição de pontos sobre um mapa, 2) capacidade de entender o crescimento econômico dos alvarás e qual é a relação entre as diversas categorias e entre os bairros, 3) tempo de execução inferior a 3 segundos para 99% das consultas espaciais executadas, 4) 80,8% dos usuários em fase de avaliação consideram que a solução proposta permite uma melhor identificação e visualização de dados georreferenciados, e 5) possibilita a integração de novas fontes e tipos de dados.
Fifty percent of the world's population live in cities, and the expectation until 2050 is that it reaches 70% (WHO, 2014). Cities consume 75% of the world's natural resources and energy, and generate 80% of greenhouse gases responsible for the greenhouse effect, considering that they occupy only 2% of the world's territory (Signori, 2008). Cities are also the scene of most of the global environmental problems (Gomes, 2009), and it is in the urban context where the social, economic and environmental dimension converge more intensely (European Commission, 2007). This population growth has social, economic and environmental influences that represent a great challenge for the sustainable development of urban planning. The concepts of geographic information systems, smart cities, open data, clustering and data visualization algorithms allow us to understand several questions regarding urban activity in cities, especially, understand the variable "where" things happen. For example: where there is traffic and what time is the most frequent, where it is necessary to perform residential, commercial, industrial standby modeling according to population growth for the land use plan, what are the types of businesses that grew the most in each neighborhood and what is the relationship between them. For this purpose, the following thesis presents a web-mobile system that allows us to understand the spatiotemporal and economic growth of the restaurant licenses of districts Centro, Batel and Tatuquara of Curitiba for the last three decades, performing clustering and visualization of a large amount of open georeferenced data. In terms of achieved results, we can highlight: 1) ability to solve computational problems of overlapping points representing business on a map, 2) ability to understand the economic growth of restaurants licences and what is the relationship between different categories and between districts, 3) execution time less than 3 seconds for 99% of the spatial queries executed, 4) 80.8% of users in evaluation phase consider that the proposed solution allows a better identification and visualization of georeferenced data, and 5) it allows the integration of new sources and types of data.
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Uppoor, Sandesh. "Understanding and Exploiting Mobility in Wireless Networks." Phd thesis, INSA de Lyon, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00912521.
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Le degré de pénétration du marché des appareils intelligents tels que les smartphones et les tablettes avec les technologies de communication embarquées comme le WiFi, 3G et LTE a explosé en moins d'une décennie. En complément de cette tendance technologique, les appli- cations des réseaux sociaux ont virtuellement connecté une grande partie de la population, en génèrant une demande de trafic de données croissant vers et depuis l'infrastructure de com- munication. Les communications pervasive ont aussi acquis une importance dans l'industrie automobile. L'émergence d' une gamme impressionnante d' appareils intelligents dans les véhicules permettant services tels que assistance au conducteur, infotainment, suivi à dis- tance du vehicule, et connectivité àux réseaux sociaux même en déplacement. La demande exponentielle de connectivité a encore défié les fournisseurs de services de télécommunications pour répondre aux attentes des utilisateurs du réseau à grande vitesse. L'objectif de cette thèse est de modéliser et comprendre la mobilité dynamique des utilisateurs à grande vitesse et leurs effets sur les architectures de réseau sans fil. Compte tenu de l' importance du développement de notre étude sur une représentation réal- iste de la mobilité des véhicules, nous étudions tout d'abord les approches les plus populaires pour la génération de trafic routier synthétique et discutons les caractéristiques des ensem- bles de données accessibles au public qui decrivent des mobilités véhiculaires. En utilisant l'information des déplacements de la population dans une région métropolitaine, les données du réseau routier détaillées et des modèles réalistes de conduite microscopiques, nous pro- posons un jeux de données de mobilité véhiculaire original qui redéfinit l'état de l'art et qui replie la circulation routière de facon realiste dans le temps et dans l'espace. Nous étudions ensuite l'impact des dynamiques de mobilité du point de vue de la couverture cellulaire en présence d'un déploiement réel des stations de base. En outre, en examinant les effets de la mobilité des véhicules sur les réseaux autonomes, nous voyons des possibilités pour les futurs paradigmes de réseaux hétérogènes. Motivés par l'évolution dynamique dans le temps de la mobilité des véhicules observée dans notre jeux de données, nous proposons également une approche en ligne pour prédire les flux de trafic macroscopiques. Nous analysons les paramètres affectant la prédiction de la mobilité en milieu urbain. Nous dévoilons quand et où la gestion des ressources réseau est plus crucial pour accueillir le trafic généré par les utilisateurs à bord. Ces études dévoilent des multiples opportunités de gestion intelligente des transports, soit pour construire de nouvelles routes, soit pour l'installation de bornes de recharge électriques, ou pour la conception de systèmes de feux de circulation intelligents, contribuant ainsi à la planification urbaine.
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Chevrolet, Dominique. "Deux études de transport urbain : ordonnancement des phases d'un carrefour, modèles désagrégés de déplacements dans l'agglomération grenobloise." Phd thesis, Grenoble 1, 1986. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00321160.
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La première partie de la thèse est consacrée au problème de la gestion des feux tricolore d'un carrefour, et la deuxième partie s'inscrit dans le cadre plus général de la modélisation des déplacements urbains
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Lin, Chung-I., and 林忠毅. "Linear system theory for storm runoff simulation in urban area." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/49179760588056136123.
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碩士國立臺灣海洋大學
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Taiwan has concentrated rainfall during typhoons and summer rainstorms, which usually result in a large amount runoff peak promptly. More recently, impacts from global climate change and local urbanization induce more serious flood disaster in cities and cause tremendous losses. In considering the limitation of urban storm sewer system during storms, a flood warning system may be able to provide useful information in advance to reduce the loss of property in urban areas. Since hydrological records are usually unavailable in urban catchments, the XP-SWMM hydraulic model was adopted firstly to simulate the rainfall-runoff relationships in urban catchments. Based on the data generated from the XP-SWMM model, a time-varying sewer unit hydrograph (SUH) was then developed for runoff prediction during rainstorm to obtain a computationally efficient and numerically stable model. The SUH developed in this study is a nonlinear and time-varying hydrological model which can consider temporal rainfall distribution and flow hydraulic characteristics in urban sewer network system. The SUH model has been applied to two different sizes of hypothetical sewer systems for a priori check, and rainfall data and street inundation record from a severe typhoon in Lotong Township of Taiwan were collected to demonstrate the capability of the proposed model for runoff simulation in urban catchments. Analysis results show that flow hydrographs simulated by using the proposed SUH model are similar with those generated from the XP-SWMM model. The relative difference of hydrograph peak discharge was lesser than 15% for most simulation cases and the difference for the time to peak discharge was almost negligible, which has proved the applicability of the SUH model for runoff simulation in urban catchments. Moreover, a flash flood guidance (FFG) concept combined with a grey rainfall prediction model were also include in this study to develop a complete urban flood warning system for Lotong Township to avoid possible disaster.
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Tsai, Chi-You, and 蔡期有. "System planning and simulation of automatic runoff pollution control in urban drainage system." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/54135989982400862718.
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First flush resulting from urban surface runoff is recognized as one of the major causes of quality deterioration in the receiving water bodies. Accordingly, an auto-control system is planned in this study to manage the runoff pollution in a real-time control in an urban drainage system. To understand the first flush phenomenom and to simulate the controlling efficiency, an auto-control system has been constructed. The storm water management model was employed to simulate runoff quality and hydrography for Liuguan in Taipei. The input conditions include different rainfall frequency (2, 5, 10, 25 and 50 years), rainfall duration (60, 90 and 120 minutes) and antecedent dry weather period (7 and 14 days), which were found to be the most important parameters influencing the first flush load of suspended solids. Moreover, the mass balance equation is used to calculate the water quality of the receiving water bodies. The results of simulations show that the auto-control system could effeciently reduce the nonpoint pollution which discharges into the receiving water bodies.