Cement-asphalt pavements are extensively employed in transportation infrastructure.
Multifunctional pavement is a new paradigm that enhances pavement functionalities …

Heat transfer in the asphalt pavement is significant because it affects asphalt pavement
performance and the surrounding environment. This importance is attributed to summertime …

Economic and social development of urban and rural areas continues in parallel with the
increase of the human population, especially in develo** countries, which leads to …

Increasing awareness of the urban heat island (UHI) effect has raised attention about the
outdoor thermal comfort in cities worldwide. Several studies in the last decades have …

Heat island phenomenon rises the temperature of cities, increases the energy demand for
cooling and deteriorates comfort conditions in the urban environment. To counterbalance …

Pavement temperature field is driven by climatic factors such solar radiation, air temperature,
wind, and among others. Accurate prediction of pavement temperature field is critical for …

Solar energy is undoubtedly the environment friendly and inexhaustible energy resource for
humans. The concept of hydronic asphalt pavement (HAP) is an emerging renewable …

Urban heat island (UHI) manifests as the temperature rise in built-up urban areas relative to
the surrounding rural countryside, largely because of the relatively greater proportion of …

Nowadays, researchers are trying hard to minimize the harmful effect of infrastructure
development on the environment and ecosystem. The conversion of natural landscapes to …

Studies on urban heat island (UHI) have been more than a century after the phenomenon
was first discovered in the early 1800s. UHI emerges as the source of many urban …