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Reducing Individual Heat Stress through Path Planning

Rußig, Joachim; Bruns, Julian

Abstract:

Heat stress is a serious risk, which affects groups such as the elderly or patients with chronic diseases in particular, and is especially pronounced in cities. The ageing of society, progressive urbanization and climate change are increasing the risk of people being affected by heat stress. One way to reduce the risk is to adapt everyday behaviour. To encourage and support such a change of behaviour, we propose a two-step approach. The first step is a route planner for pedestrians which can find a route with minimal heat exposure. The second step is a tool that helps the user to select the time of day with minimal heat exposure to venture outside. The route planner is then used to calculate the heat stress and present the optimal route at that point in time. We evaluate our approach for the city of Karlsruhe. Our results show that the combined approach, as well as its individual steps, can reduce heat exposure and therefore the heat stress for typical daily tasks in a European city.


Volltext §
DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000071481
Originalveröffentlichung
DOI: 10.1553/giscience2017_01_s327
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Zitationen: 8
Cover der Publikation
Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften – Institut für Informationswirtschaft und Marketing (IISM)
Publikationstyp Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Publikationsjahr 2017
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 2308-1708
urn:nbn:de:swb:90-714815
KITopen-ID: 1000071481
Erschienen in GI-Forum
Verlag ÖAW Verlag, Wien
Band 1
Seiten 327-340
Schlagwörter heat stress, time dependent routing, decision support, urban vulnerability
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