MultiCAST · Multiscale Thermal-related Urban Climate Analysis and Simulation Tool
„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“
- Период
- 2022-05-01 → 2025-04-30
- Финансиране от ЕС
- 251 003 €
- Участници
- 2
- Схема
- MSCA-IF
Линиите свързват координатора с партньорите.
Накратко на български
Градските острови на топлина се анализират на различни нива, за да се разбере как високите температури влияят върху движението на пешеходците. Това помага за планирането на по-здравословни и устойчиви градове, които да намалят рисковете за здравето на хората.
Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.
Резултати накратко
Multiscale Thermal-related Urban Climate Analysis and Simulation Tool
Urban heat islands (UHI) pose an increasing challenge due to urbanization and global warming. The MultiCAST project addresses this first by studying UHI effects on regional, urban, and microscale levels. This comprehensive, multiscale analysis identifies critical hotspots and microvariations within individual heat islands. Hence, the project explores how thermal stress impacts pedestrian behavior and city walkability, creating a conflict between encouraging active mobility and preventing heat-related illnesses. As vulnerable populations are at higher risk, this makes walk-accessibility an issue of health and equity. The complex link between thermal comfort and walk-accessibility requires detailed exploration within urban settings. As climate change increases temperatures and heat stress, integrating these considerations into urban planning is crucial. MultiCAST seeks to enhance our understanding by combining thermal hazard analysis, walk-accessibility, and pedestrian flow modeling, aiming to create climate-resilient, pedestrian-friendly cities in support of sustainable mobility, comfort, and accessibility. Post-COVID-19, the need for livable outdoor urban spaces is clearer than ever. MultiCAST emphasizes addressing climate challenges with urgency, akin to health crises. With most Europeans and a projected 70% of the global population living in cities by 2050, the MultiCAST project is crucial for society as climate change threatens urban well-being and health. It aligns with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 11, 13, and 3 by promoting sustainable, resilient cities, combating climate change, and reducing health risks from heat stress. The MultiCAST project has the following key objectives: • Heat Island Study and Quantification: Conduct comprehensive studies of the heat island effect at regional, city, and local scales to understand its unique characteristics and impacts. • Impact of Thermal Stress on Pedestrians: Quantify how thermal stress affects pedestrian behavior, providing insights for policymakers to improve city walk-accessibility during extreme heat events. • Fine-Grain Thermal Risk Assessment: Develop a framework for assessing detailed thermal risk and heat exposure at the pedestrian level. • Development of a Decision Support System (DSS): Build a user-friendly DSS prototype with a Web-GIS interface to allow easy querying and visualization of urban heat islands and thermal stress. • Evaluation of Project Outcomes: Test and evaluate the developed methods, outcomes, and tools in real-world urban settings to ensure their practical applicability and adaptability.
Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз
Цел на проекта
Climate change and global warming are widely recognized as primary challenges in the next years. Indeed, despite several international agreements, CO2 and global heating continue growing and, in urban areas, increase of temperatures and frequency of heat waves, threaten health and well-being of citizens. Here, the loss of natural areas, morphological and thermal properties of materials, critically affect urban climate, causing city to be warmer than surrounding areas. This phenomenon, known as Urban Heat Island (UHI), needs to be carefully addressed. To address public health and well-being, soft mobility and public transport are increasingly promoted by Cities. Also, the current sanitary contingency has further urged such policies. But, longer and hotter summers are a deterrent for citizens to living outdoors. MultiCAST will implement a thermal comfort-related urban Decision Support System (DSS) to inform pedestrian oriented climate planning and design. The DSS will rely on a user-friendly Web-GIS as mainstreaming tool to respond the UHI into urban programs, policies and instruments. A novel approach to incorporate geo-referenced outdoor climate and walkability into pedestrian flows modelling will be developed. It will rely on replicable methods for automatic acquiring and mapping precise and updated thermal-related urban climate data, estimate walkability based on Google Street View urban-scapes, then introducing climate and walkability into street network analysis. MultiCAST will support modelling walking routes to interest points such as commuter-rail and -metro stations, or ‘hot’ and ‘cool’ islands. A simulation function will allow estimate scenarios, compare and visualize the effects of different urban climates. Three urban areas will be tested in Los Angeles, Amsterdam, and Milan. Open climate datasets will be available through the Web-GIS. Besides, a framework of GIS data, procedures, scripts, and manuals will be provided to allow replicate the methodology.
Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).
Участници
- POLITECNICO DI MILANO · MilanoКоординаторИталия
- MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · CambridgeСъединени щати
Връзки
Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз