Pedestrian Access Modelling with Tree Shade – Won’t Someone Think of the Children

White, Marcus; Kimm, Geoff; Langenheim, Nano

doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2017.07.078

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“…This system allows users to find a route through the desired level of greenness, sociability, and quietness. A similar effort also was conducted by White, et al [29] and White and Langenheim [30] who introduced "PedCatch", an animated pedestrian catchment modelling tool. This tool is an agent-based catchment analysis model that combines data about the business of roads or intersections, with high-quality 3D proxy-object tree modelling and flexible 3D precinct modelling.…”

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Allowing Users to Benefit from Tree Shading: Using a Smartphone App to Allow Adaptive Route Planning during Extreme Heat

Deilami

Rudner

Butt

et al. 2020

Forests

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This paper presents the outcomes from a joint research project that aims to develop a smartphone application/online platform to model the most thermally comfortable active transport route to a planned destination using heat information and tree shading (Shadeway). Here, we provide a summary of our systematic review of academic literature and applications from the Google Play and Apple App Store, to identify current knowledge about personal adaptation strategies when navigating travel in cities during high temperatures. The review identifies that there is a lack of attention regarding the use of smartphone applications to address urban thermal comfort for active transport by government and private industry. We then present the initial results of original research from three community focus groups and an online survey that elicited participants’ opinions about Shadeways in the City of Greater Bendigo (CoGB), Australia. The results clearly show the need for better management of Shadeways in CoGB. For example, 52.3% of the routes traveled by participants suffer from either no or poor levels of shading, and 53 of the shaded areas were located along routes that also experience heavy traffic, which can have an adverse effect on perceptions and actual safety. It is expected that this study will contribute to improve understanding of the methods used to identify adaptation strategies to increasingly extreme temperatures.

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Allowing Users to Benefit from Tree Shading: Using a Smartphone App to Allow Adaptive Route Planning during Extreme Heat

Deilami

Rudner

Butt

et al. 2020

Forests

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“…Another aspect that is worthy of consideration is the compatibility of urban street trees with the promotion of active travel modes including walking and cycling [104]. While the provision of street trees can enhance the active travel experience [22,105], the placement of trees must be considered carefully so as to not obstruct the movement of cyclists (when planted in road reserve areas) and pedestrians when in or close to footpaths if trees become to large and block or disrupt the footpath surface.…”

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Green Infrastructure and Urban-Renewal Simulation for Street Tree Design Decision-Making: Moderating Demands of Stormwater Management, Sunlight and Visual Aesthetics

Langenheim

White

2022

IJERPH

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The design of green infrastructure in urban renewal sites is complex, requiring engagement with existing communities and future sustainable development goals, consideration of existing and future urban forms, changing climatic conditions, and the sites often being in low-lying and flood-prone areas. Traditional street tree decision-making approaches are inadequate for addressing the scale, environmental complexity, and mutability of decisions involved in urban renewal projects—new tree selection approaches that consider complex competing criteria for tree selections addressing stormwater management systems, visual assessment and solar amenity are needed. This paper describes a new method of multi-criteria street design decision modelling that combines outputs from hydrology modelling, digital procedural tree modelling and urban form analysis, with animation and gaming technologies. We evaluate our approach through application to the design of a large-scale, urban renewal project underway in Melbourne, Australia. The results of the study demonstrate the functionality of our model, which allowed the simultaneous output of streetscape visualisation, with tree selection responding to integrated stormwater management infrastructure and flooding, along with the likely overshadowing conditions of urban renewal built-form. Our multi-criteria approach makes a significant contribution to the tools available to urban designers, planners and landscape architects in their pursuit of smarter streetscape design decisions that respond to complex spatial, cultural and climatic urban challenges.

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Monitoring the climatic effects of street tree plantation in different urban patterns by synthetic image based BPNN simulations

Kuşçu Şimşek,

Arabacı,

Yücel

et al. 2024

Building and Environment

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Pedestrian Access Modelling with Tree Shade – Won’t Someone Think of the Children

Cited by 10 publications

References 11 publications

Allowing Users to Benefit from Tree Shading: Using a Smartphone App to Allow Adaptive Route Planning during Extreme Heat

Allowing Users to Benefit from Tree Shading: Using a Smartphone App to Allow Adaptive Route Planning during Extreme Heat

Green Infrastructure and Urban-Renewal Simulation for Street Tree Design Decision-Making: Moderating Demands of Stormwater Management, Sunlight and Visual Aesthetics

Monitoring the climatic effects of street tree plantation in different urban patterns by synthetic image based BPNN simulations

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