• Title/Summary/Keyword: global city

Search Result 590, Processing Time 0.023 seconds

Improving Utilization of GPS Data for Urban Traffic Applications

  • Nguyen, Duc Hai;Nguyen, Tan Phuc;Doan, Khue;Ta, Ho Thai Hai;Pham, Tran Vu;Huynh, Nam;Le, Thanh Van
    • International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
    • /
    • v.7 no.1
    • /
    • pp.6-9
    • /
    • 2015
  • The use of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) is promising to bring better solutions for managing and handling the city traffic. This system combines many fields in advanced technology such as Global Positioning System (GPS), Geographic Information System (GIS) and so on. The basement of applications in ITS is the effective collections and data integration tools. The purpose of our research is to propose solutions which involve the use of GPS time series data collected from GPS devices in order to improve the quality of output traffic data. In this study, GPS data is collected from devices attached to vehicles travelling on routes in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC). Then, GPS data is stored in database system to serve in many transportation applications. The proposed method combines the data usage level and data coverage to improve the quality of traffic data.

Roles of the Community Facilities for Foreigners as a Platform for Urban Globalization - Focused on the Seoul Global Centers - (도시 국제화를 위한 플랫폼으로서 외국인 커뮤니티 시설의 역할에 관한 연구 - 서울시 글로벌센터를 중심으로 -)

  • Choi, Sung-Jin;Han, Sun-Sheng
    • Journal of the Architectural Institute of Korea Planning & Design
    • /
    • v.35 no.6
    • /
    • pp.81-92
    • /
    • 2019
  • Globalization has diversified ethnic composition thus increased the risk of conflicts and socio-political instability in global cities. However, still the status of community facility in a global city is unclear despite its critical role to build sustainable community in global era. In Seoul, as a reaction of globalization, 19 community facilities known as the 'Seoul Global Center' have been established since 2007 by Seoul Metropolitan Government. These facilities have started to provide basic foreigner services but been transformed to foreigner service hub with multiple functions in terms of a living, a business, a labour, etc. This study explores the role of the community facility for foreigners by using the Seoul Global Center as a case study, conducting a site observation, an interview(13 staff) and a questionnaire(148 visitors). The findings are the community facility functions as a 'global platform' in forms of a policy tool for implementing the urban globalization strategy, a mediator connecting foreign migrants with local communities, an applicant for successful settlement of foreign residents, an incubator that grows human and social capital, and a base for collecting and aggregating information on foreign migrants and forming new local identities.

Seismic retrofit system made of viscoelastic polymer composite material and thin steel plates

  • Nasab, Mohammad Seddiq Eskandari;Chun, Seungho;Kim, Jinkoo
    • Steel and Composite Structures
    • /
    • v.43 no.2
    • /
    • pp.153-164
    • /
    • 2022
  • In this study, a series of cyclic loading tests were performed on viscoelastic dampers (VED) composed of viscoelastic polymer composite material and thin steel plates to observe the variation of the mechanical properties under different loading conditions. A mathematical model was developed based on the Kelvin-Voigt and Bouc-Wen models to formulate the nonlinear force-displacement relationship of the viscoelastic damper. The accuracy of the proposed mathematical model was verified using the data obtained from the tests. The mathematical model was applied to analyze a reinforced concrete framed structure retrofitted with viscoelastic dampers. Nonlinear dynamic analysis results showed that the average maximum inter-story drift ratios of the retrofitted structure met the target limit state after installing the VED. In addition, both the maximum and residual displacements were significantly reduced after the installation of the VED.

Optimum distribution of steel frame assembly for seismic retrofit of framed structures

  • Michael Adane;Seungho Chun;Jinkoo Kim
    • Steel and Composite Structures
    • /
    • v.50 no.3
    • /
    • pp.337-345
    • /
    • 2024
  • This research proposed a particle swarm optimization (PSO) based seismic retrofit design of moment frame structures using a steel frame assembly. Two full scale specimens of the steel frame assembly with different corner details were attached to one-story RC frames for seismic retrofit, and the lateral load resisting capacities of the retrofitted frames subjected to cyclic loads were compared with those of a bare RC frame. The open source software framework Opensees was used to develop an analytical model for validating the experimental results. The developed analytical model and the optimization scheme were applied to a case study structure for economic seismic retrofit design, and its seismic performance was assessed before and after the retrofit. The results show that the developed steel frame assembly was effective in increasing seismic load resisting capability of the structure, and the PSO algorithm could be applied as convenient optimization tool for seismic retrofit design of structures.

Spatial Usage and Patterns of Corvus frugilegus after Sunrise and Sunset in Suwon Using Citizen Science (시민과학을 활용한 수원시에 출몰하는 떼까마귀(Corvus frugilegus)의 일출 및 일몰시 선호 서식지 분석)

  • Yun, Ji-Weon;Shin, Won-Hyeop;Kim, Ji-Hwan;Yi, Sok-Young;Kim, Do-Hee;Kim, Yu-Vin;Ryu, Young-Ryel;Song, Young-Keun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Technology
    • /
    • v.24 no.6
    • /
    • pp.35-48
    • /
    • 2021
  • In Suwon, the overall hygiene of the city is threatened by the emergence of the rook(Corvus fugilegus) in the city. Rooks began to appear in November of 2016 and has continued to appear from November to March every year. In order to eradicate or to prepare an alternative habitat for rooks, this study aimed to identify the preferred habitat and specific environmental variables. Therefore, in this work, we aim to understand the predicted distribution of rooks in Suwon City with citizen science and through MaxENT, the most widely utilized habitat modeling using citizen science to analyze the preferred habitat of harmful tides appearing in urban areas. In this study, seven environmental variables were chosen: biotope group complex, building floor, vegetation, euclidean distance from farmland, euclidean distance from streetlamp, and euclidean distance from pole and DEM. Among the estimated models, after the time period of sunrise (08:00~18:00) the contribution percentage were as following: euclidean distance from arable land(39.2%), DEM(25.5%), euclidean distance from streetlamp(22.3%), euclidean distance from pole(7.1%), biotope group complex(4.9%), building floor(1%), vegetation(0%). In the time period after sunset(18:00~08:00) the contribution percentage were as following: biotope group complex(437.4%), euclidean distance from pole(26.8%), DEM(13.4%), euclidean distance from streetlamp(11.8%), euclidean distance from farmland(7.9%), building floor(1.4%), vegetation(1.3%).

Imaginative Construction of a Global City as a Strategy for the Growth of Knowledge-based Economies: A Critical Evaluation of the Place-marketing in Singapore (세계도시 이미지 형성과 지식기반경제 육성 전략: 싱가포르의 장소마케팅에 대한 비판적 고찰)

  • Park, Bae-Gyoon
    • Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
    • /
    • v.42 no.2 s.119
    • /
    • pp.280-294
    • /
    • 2007
  • This paper aims to examine the ways in which the Singaporean government has promoted the "global city" imaging strategy as a means for marketing Singapore. Since the 1990s, Singapore has pursued a place-marketing strategy that aims at imaging itself as a "creative", "culturally vibrant" and "cosmopolitan" global city by utilizing various cultural, tourist and spatial policy measures. It argues that the Singaporean government has promoted this particular imaging strategy under a broader economic resoucturing program, aiming at transforming the Singapore's economy into a "knowledge-driven" one, under which the attraction of international knowledge workers is seen as crucial for the competitiveness and innovation. This paper also discusses the limitations of this strategy, focusing on growing tensions between the global and the local in the Singaporean society and the ways in which the authoritarian and top-down nature of governance have restricted the genuine development of the "culturally vibrant" environment in Singapore.

Analysis on Climate Action Plans of Portland, Oregon, USA (기후변화대응을 위한 미국 포틀랜드시 기후변화 실천계획의 주요 특성 분석에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Joon-Sung
    • KIEAE Journal
    • /
    • v.13 no.3
    • /
    • pp.3-13
    • /
    • 2013
  • As climate change is increasingly recognised as an important global problem, a wide variety of policies and measures are emerging at global and local level to deal with the challenges from the anthropogenic global warming. While national and inter-national efforts characterized by limiting GHG emissions shows very little progress because of their expanse spatial scale and complicated political situations, local efforts have the potentials to ensure effective implementation, monitoring and continual improvement. In the context of local-scale climate policy, the city of Portland is known as one of the best leading cities for its progress of implementing climate change strategies. This paper will briefly discuss the city's efforts to solve the climate change problem and its achievements. The latest climate action plan is selected for the analysis on the followings; the framework of the action plan, the types of implementation methods, and the coordinating agencies. The progress status of each action plans is also reviewed. The purpose of this paper is to describe the main characteristics of the climate action plans and their implications from the intensive analysis on the city of Portland's case.

Hard Ticks as Vectors Tested Negative for Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome in Ganghwa-do, Korea during 2019-2020

  • Jin, Kyoung;Koh, Yeon-Ja;Ahn, Seong Kyu;Cho, Joonghee;Lim, Junghwan;Song, Jaeyong;Lee, Jinyoung;Gong, Young Woo;Kwon, Mun Ju;Kwon, Hyung Wook;Bahk, Young Yil;Kim, Tong-Soo
    • Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
    • /
    • v.59 no.3
    • /
    • pp.281-289
    • /
    • 2021
  • This study aimed to characterize the seasonal abundance of hard ticks that transmit severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus from April to November 2019 and 2020 on Ganghwa-do, Incheon Metropolitan City, Korea. The ticks were collected at grassland, grave site, copse and mountain road using a collection trap method. The ixodid hard ticks comprising three species (Haemaphysalis longicornis, H. flava, and Ixodes nipponensis) collected were 6,622 in 2019 and 3,811 in 2020. H. longicornis was the most frequent (97.9% in 2019 and 96.0% in 2020), followed by H. flava (2.0% and 3.0% in 2019 and 2020, respectively) and I. nipponensis (less than 0.1%). Our study demonstrated that seasonal patterns of the tick populations examined for two years were totally unsimilar. The hard ticks tested using RT-qPCR were all negative for severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus.

Global U-City 동향과 전망

  • Kim, Byeong-Hwan;Park, Sin-Won;Jo, Yeong-Tae;Seo, Chang-U;Sin, U-Jae
    • Information and Communications Magazine
    • /
    • v.31 no.8
    • /
    • pp.24-32
    • /
    • 2014
  • 본고는 도시에서 발생하는 다양한 도시문제의 해결책으로 제시되고 있는 U-City(스마트 시티)가 대두된 배경과 관련시장 동향을 알아보고 세계 주요 U-City사례 연구를 통한 관련 정책과 사업을 소개하고자 한다.