Designing and creating a database for the environmental quality of urban roads, using GIS
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Αχιλλεως Γεωργιος
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Νικολιδακης Αλεξανδρος
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Τσουχλαρακη Ανδρονικη
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Tsouchlaraki Androniki
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Nikolidakis Alexandros
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Z. Nasioula
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Achilleos Georgios
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Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης
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Technical University of Crete
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This paper researches the factors that determine and affect the environmental quality of urban roads and designs indices that quantify these factors. These factors are grouped in categories such as urban plannin and architectural factors, traffic patterns, recorded roadside land uses, recorded road equipment, or even financial ones. On the whole, 124 indices are designed, and examined on a pre-selected part of the town o Chania, which is considered characteristic of the urban complex. A database in a Geographical Information System (GIS) is created which is based on the data that was collected for every index, while the potential fo processing, analyzing and presenting quantitative data, is examined. The aim of this database is to constitute useful tool for the local authorities in their decision making on issues concerning the management of the urba environment.
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