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Civil Engineering and Urban Planning: An International Journal (CIVEJ) is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles which contribute new results in all areas of the Civil Engineering and Urban Planning. The journal is devoted to the publication of high-quality papers on theoretical and practical aspects of Civil Engineering and Urban Planning. The goal of this journal is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to focus on Civil Engineering and Urban Planning advancements, and establishing new collaborations in these areas. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews are invited for publication in all areas of Civil Engineering and Urban Planning.

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Ubiquitous reinforced concrete water storage tanks are quite popular and widely used in Palestine as in elsewhere in the world; they form pivotal components of major bulk-water carrier systems. In essence, they form lifelines to many communities; the water storage concept is as old as civilization itself. Location and land availability often dictate the topology of the tank’s structure. They may be either shallow and stubby or deep yet slender or anywhere in between having an aspect ratio dictated by overall site conditions. In all cases adequate structural analysis is mandatory.

The Impact of Aspect Ratio on the Behaviour of Rigid Water Storage Tanks

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Urban Planning is a technical process concerned with the control of the use of land and design of urban environment to guide and ensure the orderly development of settlements and communities. Outcomes from the urban planning process are detailed plans. In Bahrain the detailed plans are developed through a lengthy two-stage process, namely, design and implementation. During this lengthy process the documented design variations were found to be the main cause for implementation delay. In addition, it was discovered that land owners exclusion from the urban planning process caused major disagreements, between the urban planning authorities and the land owners. Accordingly, this paper presents an investigation into the applied urban planning process in Bahrain, and proposes a solution that incorporates Quality Function Deployment (QFD) technique. The study is based on face-to-face interviews, questionnaire, Delphi method, and a case study (North Tubli). The results of this study concluded that using participatory planning and QFD within the urban planning process enables evaluation of the different alternative plans, based on scientific and systematic procedures. In addition, it ensures that land owners and community members requirements are satisfied.

Incorporating Participatory Planning and Quality Function Deployment in Urban...

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Solid waste management especially residential organic waste management is one of the most important problems after the water quality in developing countries all over the world. There are many waste management techniques for the disposal of these wastes. Attaining sustainability goals is the challenge faced by each of these techniques. This paper presents the evaluation study of the biogas technology as a sustainable domestic organic waste management measure. The evaluation method is detailed and the perception of the biogas users with respect to different aspects of sustainability is presented here. The technological benefits and bottle necks were also reviewed in this paper.

Biogas Technology as a Sustainable Domestic Organic Waste Management Measure ...

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The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of aircraft noise pollution on community and workers’ health near Abu Dhabi International Airport. This study was conducted in residential neighborhoods and employment areas living and working within a 25-km radius of the airport with high exposure to aircraft noise and in matched control areas far from the airport (outside the 25-km radius) and are unaffected by aircraft noise. Data was collected by conducting a revealed-preference face-to-face interview surveys among the residents and the workers nea rand far from Abu Dhabi International Airport during the months of September and December 2014. A total of 5,070 residents in both areas (2,579 near the airport and 2,492 far from the airport) and 1,995 workers in both areas (995 near the airport and 1,000 far from the airport) were interviewed and completed the questionnaire. Binomial Logit Regression Model was used to determine the impact of aircraft noise on community and workers’ health. After controlling for confounders, the health of the residents adjacent to the airport who have been chronically exposed to high aircraft noise level are found to be worse than the control group. The results show that residents from the noise exposure area have a high level of noise stress, hypertension, headache, general disturbance, loss of sleep/insomnia, and hearing problems than the matched control area. On the other hand, aircraft noise pollution near Abu Dhabi Airport has no negative impact on workers adjacent to the airport. The impact of aircraft noise on community health should not restrain the growth of air travel industry in the city as this growth is essential and beneficial to the whole nation’s economy. The reduction of aircraft noise level in the exposed area could be achieved by imposing policies, codes of practices, and action noise plans to assess and evaluate land use management as an effective tool for mitigating aircraft noise. Future research should assess community health based on self-reported physician diagnosed blood pressure; and hearing, stress, headache diagnostic examination.

STUDYING THE EFFECTS OF AIRCRAFT NOISE AROUND ABU DHABI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT...

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Studying the Effects of Aircraft Noise Around Abu Dhabi International Airport...

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Concrete is the most important material in the civil engineering. The concrete compressive strength is a non-linear function of the concrete age and some constituents. These constituents include cement, blast furnace slag, fly ash, superplasticizer, coarse aggregate and fine aggregate. The superplasticizers are among elements which are important in increasing the concrete compressive strength and we are going to analyze here using the tree-classification decision algorithm. The decision trees, usually, are used in classification of a bunch of data. J48 is one of the most favoured ones. The decision trees are developed using information entropy on a collection of training data. J48 is a recursive algorithm that combines the remaining of the following data sets and continues normalizing the output data using the separation process until a uniform classification result obtains. This article evaluates the superplasticizer effect on the concrete compressive strength using the tree-classification decision algorithm.

Evaluation of the Superplasticizer Effect on the Concrete Compressive Strengt...

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Project cost is one of the three main challenges for the construction manager, where the success of a project is judged by meeting the criteria of cost with budget, schedule on time, and quality as specified by the owner. Many projects experience extensive delays and thereby exceed initial time and cost estimate. Available information, good estimating practice and experienced personnel are some of the factors found to have considerable impact on estimation accuracy. The successful execution of construction projects and keeping them within estimated cost and prescribed schedules depend on a methodology that requires sound engineering judgment. So the research aim is to conduct research study and process of exploring the existing model related to above three types of estimate and their contribution to civil engineering cost management and control especially getting motivated with the verification and validation component of CRASP methodology. The objective of this paper or scope of this research in this paper is to conduct literature study and review towards exploring innovative techniques such as Artificial Intelligence Techniques or Expert System Techniques available and applicable to make decision making or decision support regarding construction cost management and control at three levels: (i) before the actual civil engineering project design begins (ii) after detailed design but before execution and (iii) during project execution

Towards Innovate Methods of Construction Cost Management and Control

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Incorporating Participatory Planning and Quality Function Deployment in Urban...

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Biogas Technology as a Sustainable Domestic Organic Waste Management Measure ...

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Studying the Effects of Aircraft Noise Around Abu Dhabi International Airport...

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In the present research work, traditional mineral filler, high calcium Fly Ash, is used in the mix design of micro surfacing is evaluated with possibility of replacing it with other environmental friendly and cost effective selected fillers. The chemical analysis and material testing performed on high calcium Fly Ash filler indicate its suitability for incorporation in the mix design. The optimum mix design for microsurfacing Type II and Type III is determined through trial and error method. Also, the performance of a laboratory design mix is evaluated with field application. The field experimentation indicate that the mineral filler showed good performance for the test conducted on field after 24 hours and 6 months of application. The results evaluated in the field for skid resistance and surface texture indicate high calcium Fly Ash can be utilized for microsurfacing of road pavement.

Evaluation of Performance of High Calcium Fly Ash as a Mineral Filler in Mix ...

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This study attempts to make use of traffic behaviour on the aggregate level to estimate congestion on urban arterial and sub-arterial roads of a city exhibiting heterogeneous traffic conditions by breaking the route into independent segments and approximating the origin-destination based traffic flow behaviour of the segments. The expected travel time in making a trip is modelled against sectional traffic characteristics (flow and speed) at origin and destination points of road segments, and roadway and segment traffic characteristics such as diversion routes are also tried in accounting for travel time. Predicted travel time is then used along with free flow time to determine the state of congestion on the segments using a congestion index (CI). A development of this kind may help in understanding traffic and congestion behaviour practically using easily accessible inputs, limited only to the nodes, and help in improving road network planning and management.

Intelligent Transportation System Based Traffic Congestion Modeling for Urban...

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The phenomenon that pedestrian violates traffic signals at intersections and crosses with danger is universal. This study aims to find out the influence of the waiting time of pedestrians at an intersection and the three main factors of pedestrian violations. In this study, 13 intersections and 1075 violations sample were collected in Suzhou China, which had different maximum waiting times. The validation would use the complementary video data. There are several factors, which have great influence on the proportion of pedestrian violations, such as the age, sex, arrive time, red phase, conflicting traffic volume and the length of volume crosswalks. Additionally, The significance of pedestrian maximum waiting time was highlighted in the end. For the purpose of reducing dangerous pedestrian behaviors at signalized intersections, minimizing waiting times is supposed to be one proper way.

The Impact of Waiting Time on Pedestrian Violations at Signalized Intersections

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There are many factors contributing in emergence of an architectural works including form, content, performance and technology. Form means the shape and geometry, content refers to theoretical foundations of a work, performance signifies efficiency and utilization of space and technology includes machines, tools and manufacturing method. Technology involves both materialistic elements and human activities. Since human behavior is affected by the surrounding atmosphere while forming a part of their identity, therefore, technology affects human and their identity as a part of environment. In the current article, the definition of technology, its views and its effects on the environment and architectural spaces were examined. In addition, the similarities and differences between modern and traditional technology and each effect on architectural space and human were analyzed. Finally, a strategy was proposed for appropriate application of modern technology in Iranian architecture.

Philosophical Investigation of Technology and its Effect on Human and Archite...

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The modelling of the urban microclimate, in particular the phenomenon of the Urban Heat Island (UHI), is becoming increasingly essential for city planning and urban design. The phenomenon analysis is henceforth possible thanks to the increase in computational power, the link between simulation tools and urban databases, which allow to represent explicitly the characteristics of the urban microclimate and to better understand its effects, through the analysis and evaluation of the different impacts of the urban climatic or anthropogenic contributors. However, the choice of the scale of the study depends on the accuracy of the modelling approaches, the capacities of calculation and the availability and reliability of the data. The contribution aims to highlight the phenomenon of the UHI based on a bibliographic study of the latest research on this topic in Maghreb cities and the different strategies for adapting them to climate change and for improving their resilience.

Civil Engineering and Urban Planning: An International Journal (CiVEJ)

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With the progression of innovation and present day science, individuals are expecting data about the area of any protest for following purposes. GPS is a framework which has been executed and is open with no confinement. Having the office of GPS, we require a GPS gadget to compute the area from the data taken from GPS. This paper exhibits an examination on Area Based Services and is coordinated on finding and following of Android gadgets. In this usage I am utilizing Global Positioning System (GPS) and Web Services, and android advanced mobile phone gadget Bhuvan Geotag for Route Planning since Android gadgets have a worked in highlight of GPS benefit. Some most recent requesting devices and innovation utilized for this execution are Java, AVD, WAMP etc. A Location-Based Service (LBS) gives data and administration of the topographical position of the cell phone. This should be possible through the portable system and using the capacity to influence utilization of that data. So as to decide the area of client's cell phone in a LBS application, situating advances or a situating part. For example, satellite situating, cell organize situating, WLAN stations or radio signals is required. Subsequently the greater part of the present LBS administrations don't require clients to enter area physically, for example, giving road name or postal district. Specialist co-ops are likewise required since they offer unique sorts of LBS administrations to clients and are in charge of preparing administration asks for and reacts back by sending ask for comes about. Servers can compute areas or position, scan for a way or seek particular data with respect to use position. Typically all the data asked for by clients are not store and keep up by the Service suppliers, geographic information are gather and put away by content supplier information. For example, Location based related information are additionally gather and store by the content supplier. Administration servers will demands and process these information and after that came back to clients.

Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System Based Route Planning

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Based on reviews of existing plans as well as interviews and conversations with 153 people that live in Alaska Native Villages (ANVs) or influence ANVs plans and policies, this article describes how planning for climate change adaptation and hazard mitigation takes place and provides suggestions for improvement. Planning processes are generally initiated and overseen by outside entities and have limited community participation, as they are disconnected from community events and activities. A more participatory approach that engages ANV residents by building on existing indigenous community practices may be more helpful in developing a common vision for adaptation. Planners could improve planning by spending more time talking to community members, and if desired by ANVs mentoring leadership to better engage in the process and assisting with dispute resolution. ANVs could improve planning by providing for activities that foster connectivity and a common vision and supporting efforts to build community leadership.

Towards more Community-Oriented and Collaborative Planning for Alaska Native ...

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Architectural decoration is not only a constituent part of architectural style, but also a connotation expression of the diversity of architectural culture. There is a multi-level relevance between the subject matter, modeling and implication of architectural decoration pattern and architectural type, space and units. The related research is an important supplement to the systematic research of traditional architecture. In view of this, on the basis of detailed investigation and surveying of the research specimens, analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is applied in this study to divide hierarchy of the decorative patterns and the architectural identity, compares the weights of the relevance between the hierarchies, clarifies the complex relationship between the decorative patterns and architecture, and studies the architectural form and its cultural connotation from the architectural decoration.

Research on the Relationship between Architectural Decorative Patterns and th...

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Land use and transportation planning are inter-dependent, as well as being important factors in forecasting urban development. In recent years, predicting traffic based on land use, along with several other variables, has become a worthwhile area of study. In this paper, it is proposed that Deep Neural Network Regression (DNN-Regression) and Recurrent Neural Network (DNN-RNN) methods could be used to predict traffic. These methods used three key variables: land use, demographic and temporal data. The proposed methods were evaluated with other methods, using datasets collected from the City of Calgary, Canada. The proposed DNN-Regression focused on demographic and land use variables for traffic prediction. The study also predicted traffic temporally in the same geographical area by using DNN-RNN. The DNN-RNN used long short-term memory to predict traffic. Comparative experiments revealed that the proposed DNN-Regression and DNN-RNN models outperformed other methods.

Deep Learning Neural Network Approaches to Land Use-demographic- Temporal bas...

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7 th International Conference on Civil Engineering and Urban Planning (CEU 2024) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications impacts and challenges of Civil Engineering and Urban Planning. The conference documents practical and theoretical results which make a fundamental contribution for the development of Civil Engineering and Urban Planning. The aim of the conference is to provide a platform to the researchers and practitioners from both academia as well as industry to meet and share cutting-edge development in the field. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews are invited for publication in all areas Civil Engineering and Urban Planning.

7 th International Conference on Civil Engineering and Urban Planning (CEU 2024)

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