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

Featured Application This review provides guidance for the future studies of this new
pavement technology, which may be of concern in many fields of road construction, such as …

Phase change hydrogel (PCH) combines the heat storage characteristics of phase change
material with the water retention capacity of hydrogel, showing great potential in cooling …

Asphalt pavement is vulnerable to the temperature rising and extremely high-temperature
weather caused by climate change. The regulation techniques of asphalt pavement high …

This paper presents a novel equation (named the 'STKAR equation') to predict the average
in-depth temperature of asphalt layers in real-time during compaction using the measured …

Modeling fluid flows is a general procedure to handle engineering problems. Here we
present a systematic study of the flow and heat transfer around a circular cylinder by …

Understanding how crash factors are impacted by rain is critical to road safety planning and
management. This study assesses the impact of rain on traffic safety by conducting an …

Geothermal permeable pavement (GPP) systems are a nascent type of energy geo-
structures. GPP combine ground-source heat pump (GSHP) systems with permeable …

In order to control directional heat induced efficiency and reduce pavement temperature, a
grouting compound directional heat induced structure (GC-DHIS) was proposed and …

Even if urbanization offers various opportunities to people living in todays world. It also
comes with some side effects such as worsening climate conditions by creating thermal …