Sustainable Cities and Society

Papers
(The TQCC of Sustainable Cities and Society is 24. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Stormwater digital twin with online quality control detects urban flood hazards under uncertainty383
Exposure to outdoor humid-heat and indoor dampness-mold during infancy is associated with increased childhood asthma risk: A large-scale multi-city study in Chinese preschool children351
CFD simulations on the wind and thermal environment in urban areas with complex terrain under calm conditions343
Comprehensively assessing seasonal variations in the impact of urban greenspace morphology on urban heat island effects: A multidimensional analysis331
Beyond the last-mile: Environmental and economic assessment of the upcoming drone takeaway delivery system315
Impacts of land use characteristics on extreme heat events: Insights from explainable machine learning model310
Construction of big data comprehensive pilot zones, new quality productive forces and transformation of watershed resource–based cities: Double machine learning approach296
GIS-based geospatial analysis for identifying optimal locations of residential on-street electric vehicle charging points in Birmingham, UK276
Is there a link between city characteristics and shared e-bike utilisation? Evidence from China251
Optimizing urban critical green space development using machine learning246
Individual and collective objectives in an energy community with network constraints239
Smart city solutions: Comparative analysis of waste management models in IoT-enabled environments using multiagent simulation221
Uncertainty of energy consumption and CO2 emissions in the building sector in China202
Effects of urban form on sea cooling capacity under the heatwave193
Detection of data-driven blind cyber-attacks on smart grid: A deep learning approach189
Compatibility of integrated physical barriers and personal exhaust ventilation with air distribution systems to mitigate airborne infection risk187
Revolutionizing affordable housing in Africa: A comprehensive technical and sustainability study of 3D-printing technology184
Bottom-up assessment of air quality management strategies in Vijayawada, India: Emissions inventory, atmospheric capacity, and policy scenarios178
On-site measurement and numerical simulation study on characteristic of urban heat island in a multi-block region in Beijing, China175
Assessing the impacts of urban morphology factors on the energy performance for building stocks based on a novel automatic generation framework170
Assessment and planning of green spaces in urban parks: A review168
Data-driven prediction of energy consumption of district cooling systems (DCS) based on the weather forecast data167
Sustainability and exergoeconomic assessments of a new MSW-to-energy incineration multi-generation process integrated with the concentrating solar collector, alkaline electrolyzer, and a reverse osmos159
Scale-dependent and season-dependent impacts of 2D/3D building morphology on land surface temperature154
A method of landfill leachate management using internet of things for sustainable smart city development152
Strategies and scenarios to reduce energy consumption and CO2 emission in the urban, rural and sustainable neighbourhoods148
Towards low carbon cities: A machine learning method for predicting urban blocks carbon emissions (UBCE) based on built environment factors (BEF) in Changxing City, China143
Laboratorial Investigation on Optical and Thermal Properties of Thermochromic Pavement Coatings for Dynamic Thermoregulation and Urban Heat Island Mitigation143
Influence of spatiotemporal changes of impervious surface on the urban thermal environment: A case of Huai'an central urban area142
Airborne and aerosol pathogen transmission modeling of respiratory events in buildings: An overview of computational fluid dynamics142
How much will it cost? An energy renovation analysis for the Portuguese dwelling stock141
Challenges and coping strategies of online learning for college students in the context of COVID-19: A survey of Chinese universities141
Are New Towns Prone to Urban Heat Island Effect? Implications for Planning Form and Function140
A new framework quantifying the effect of morphological features on urban temperatures138
Multi-criteria evaluation and optimization of a novel thermodynamic cycle based on a wind farm, Kalina cycle and storage system: An effort to improve efficiency and sustainability136
Dynamic simulation for carbon emission reduction effects of the prefabricated building supply chain under environmental policies136
Modeling the Subpixel Land-Use Dynamics and Its Influence on Urban Heat Islands: Impacts of Factors and Scale, and Population Exposure Risk136
Integrated Mobility Hub Location Selection for Sustainable Urban Mobility136
Analysis of the cooperative development of multiple systems for urban Economy-Energy-Carbon: A case study of Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle131
Spectral-level assessment of light pollution from urban façade lighting130
Impact of environment on bicycle travel demand—Assessment using bikeshare system data130
Nature's hand in megacity cluster progress: Integrating SDG11 with ecosystem service dynamics128
Towards informed decision-making: A comprehensive statistical study of economic and financing models for sustainable energy transition in urban environments128
Urban flood susceptibility mapping using remote sensing, social sensing and an ensemble machine learning model128
Smart transportation systems using learning method for urban mobility and management in modern cities124
Development of real-time adaptive model-free extremum seeking control for CFD-simulated thermal environment123
Regional geographical and climatic environments affect urban rainstorm perception sensitivity across China122
Route optimization of battery electric vehicles using dynamic charging on electrified roads121
Using automated design appraisal to model building-specific devaluation risk due to land-use change120
Urban-Rural Disparity in Community Resilience: A Multilevel Analysis of the Relief Progress after the 2015 Nepal Earthquake119
Outdoor comfort level improvement in the traffic waiting areas by using a mist spray system: An experiment and questionnaire study117
The urbanization impacts on potentially toxic metals: the distribution, sources and contamination risks in river situated in typical megacity, China116
Urban experiments with public transport for low carbon mobility transitions in cities: A systematic literature review (1990–2020)116
Modes of summertime thermal urban stress over major cities in the Middle East: A comprehensive assessment of heat exposure risks115
Analyzing the impact of various factors on leaf surface temperature based on a new tree-scale canopy energy balance model115
Green glass space based design for the driven of sustainable cities: A case study113
Sizing renewable energy systems with energy storage systems based microgrids for cost minimization using hybrid shuffled frog-leaping and pattern search algorithm112
Congestion pricing for sustainable urban transportation systems considering carbon emissions and travel habits112
An integrated, multi-scale approach for modelling urban metabolism changes as a means for assessing urban sustainability112
RnR-SMART: Resilient smart city evacuation plan based on road network reconfiguration in outbreak response112
Towards the Development of a Comprehensive Lifecycle Risk Assessment Model for Green Roof Implementation112
Improving the climate adaptability of building green retrofitting in different regions: A weight correction system for Chinese national standard112
A study on posture-based teacher-student behavioral engagement pattern110
Influence of link-addition strategies on network balance and passenger experience in rail networks109
A comprehensive generalizability assessment of data-driven Urban Heat Island (UHI) models108
Improvements of stratified micro-environments on the satisfaction of individual thermal preferences and energy-efficiency108
Optimized protection coordination of microgrids considering power quality-based voltage indices incorporating optimal sizing and placement of fault current limiters107
A two-stage planning method for design and dispatch of distributed energy networks considering multiple energy trading106
The impact of dynamic traffic conditions on the sustainability of urban fire service106
A new analytical tool for a more deliberate implementation of Sustainable Drainage Systems104
Novel economic models for advancing urban energy management and transition: Simulation of urban energy system in digital twin104
Evaluation of the sustainable development of an island “Blue Economy”: A case study of Hainan, China104
Modeling NO2 concentrations in real urban areas using computational fluid dynamics: A comparative analysis of methods to assess NO2 concentrations from NOx dispersion results104
MAGE: Microgrids with Advanced Grid Efficiency through Battery-Aware EV management104
Extraction of dynamic operation strategy for standalone solar-based multi-energy systems: A method based on decision tree algorithm103
Decoupling carbon emissions from the economy and low-carbon ecological city construction-based on 196 cities in China102
Experimental investigations of the thermo-mechanical behaviour of an energy pile with groundwater seepage102
Spatial development indicators as a tool to determine thermal conditions in an urban environment102
Estimating the cost efficiency and marginal cost of carbon reductions in the production of drinking water100
Disaggregated validation of disaster-resilience indicators using household survey data: A case study of Hong Kong99
Analysis of the spatial characteristics of inhalable particulate matter concentrations under the influence of a three-dimensional landscape pattern in Xi'an, China99
Investigating the relationship between air temperature and the intensity of urban development using on-site measurement, satellite imagery and machine learning99
Characterizing residential load patterns on multi-time scales utilizing LSTM autoencoder and electricity consumption data98
Potential zones identification for district cooling system: A GIS-based multi-criteria assessment method incorporating cooling demand mapping97
Locating temporary waste treatment facilities in the cities to handle the explosive growth of HCWs during pandemics: A novel Grey-AHP-OCRA hybrid approach96
Dynamic evaluation of environmental-economic performance of vehicle emission reduction policy from the perspective of the loss-aversion effect96
Sustainable vehicle routing problem on real-time roads: the restrictive inheritance-based heuristic algorithm95
Non-linear impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on human mobility: Lessons from its variations across three pandemic waves94
A framework for the mitigation and adaptation from heat-related risks to infrastructure94
How do time-bound practices initiate local sustainability pathways?93
Enhancing outdoor thermal comfort in a historic site in a hot dry climate (Case study: Naghsh-e-Jahan Square, Isfahan)92
Individual responsibility towards providing water and wastewater public goods for displaced persons: How much and how long is the public willing to pay?92
Public perceptions of peri-urbanism triggered climate change: Survey evidence from South East Queensland, Australia92
Social, mobile, analytic and cloud technologies: Intelligent Computing for future smart cities91
Enhanced incentive schemes for volunteers to distribute surplus food in smart cities91
Carbon, indoor air, energy and financial benefits of coupled ventilation upgrade and enhanced rooftop garden installation: An interdisciplinary climate mitigation approach90
Harnessing European policies for energy planning in Illinois: Overcoming barriers and transitioning to a climate-neutral society89
IoT-based security service for the documentary chain of custody88
Unveiling fine-scale urban third places for remote work using mobile phone big data88
Standalone versus grid-connected? Operation mode and its economic and environmental assessment of railway transport microgrid88
Evaluating the potential for conserving water and energy in the water supply system of Bangkok87
Using data monitoring algorithms to physiological indicators in motion based on Internet of Things in smart city87
Sequential action-based dynamic decision-support model for urban ecological planning86
Dynamics of cool surface performance on urban microclimate: A full-scale experimental study in Singapore86
Exploring the influential factors of residents’ attitudes toward implementing green infrastructures for stormwater management in the US85
Comparing methods and data sources for classifying bicycle level of traffic stress: How well do their outcomes agree?85
An event-based model and a map visualization approach for spatiotemporal association relations discovery of diseases diffusion85
Data-driven approaches to achieve energy transition: Statistical analysis of demand-side management and smart decision making in urban energy hub networks85
The influence of multi-level factors on Chinese residents' purchase decisions of green housing: A system dynamics approach84
Schools as levers of change in urban transformation: Practical strategies to promote the sustainability of climate action educational programs84
Urban river restoration in Hong Kong: Assessment, impact, and improvement strategies84
Correlating dynamic climate conditions and socioeconomic-governmental factors to spatiotemporal spread of COVID-19 via semantic segmentation deep learning analysis83
Finding unrevealed landslide hazard area induced by climate change and topography - Case study for Inje-gun, Gangwon-do, ROK -83
Rethinking Japanese public libraries from the perspective of time83
Challenges, drivers, and benefits to integrated infrastructure management of water, wastewater, stormwater and transportation systems82
A survey of urban drive-by sensing: An optimization perspective82
Corrigendum to “Role of different types of nanomaterials against diagnosis, prevention and therapy of COVID-19″ [Sustainable Cities and Society 72 (2021) 103,046]82
Estimating casualties from urban fires: A focus on building and urban environment information82
Internal heat loads profiles for buildings’ energy modelling: comparison of different standards81
Discovering pathways to the improve maintainability of multifamily residential building remodeling projects: Importance applicability analysis81
Developing materials and energy-related indicators and identifying barriers to their adoption in an adjustable urban road sustainable rating system81
SPLANDID — Optimal Sizing, PLacement, And management of centralized aNd DIstributed shareD battery energy storage systems in residential communities: Application to smart grids81
Proper orthogonal decomposition of large-eddy simulation data over real urban morphology81
Exploring the complex relationship between metro and shared bikes in the built environment: Competition, connection, and complementation80
Geospatial modelling of seasonal water and electricity consumption in Doha's residential buildings using multiscale geographically weighted regression (MGWR) and Bootstrap analysis79
Inverse identification of a pollutant source in an apartment with multiple rooms by joint multi-zone model and CFD79
Performance prediction and optimization of lateral exhaust hood based on back propagation neural network and genetic algorithm78
Thermal comfort investigation of membrane-assisted radiant cooling in outdoor settings78
A continuous approximation model for the optimal design of mixed free-floating and station-based car-sharing systems78
Intention-to-use low-carbon travel modes - An investigation integrating Maslow's hierarchy of (driving) needs and the theory of planned behavior77
Hourly impact of urban features on the spatial distribution of land surface temperature: A study across 30 cities77
Evaluating problems and measures for a sustainable urban freight transport in Brazilian historical cities77
Competitiveness and the Logistics Performance Index: The ANOVA method application for Africa, Asia, and the EU regions77
Quantifying the uncertainty of the effects of varying wind conditions on outdoor airflow and pollutant dispersion77
Investigating the spatial distribution of resident’s outdoor heat exposure across neighborhoods of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania using urban microclimate modeling76
Stochastic energy management and scheduling of microgrids in correlated environment: A deep learning-oriented approach76
Revealing the travel community in the integrated system of free-floating bike and metro76
Summer urban heat island mitigation strategy development for high-anthropogenic-heat-emission blocks76
Exploring the nexus between social vulnerability, built environment, and the prevalence of COVID-19: A case study of Chicago75
A smartphone sensors-based personalized human activity recognition system for sustainable smart cities75
Prediction of the effect of insulation thickness and emission on heating energy requirements of cities in the future75
Assessing Nature-based solutions in the face of urban vulnerabilities: A multi-criteria decision approach75
Assessing the discrete and systemic response of the Built Environment to an earthquake74
From stay-at-home to reopening: A look at how ridesourcing fared during the COVID-19 pandemic in Chicago, Illinois74
When and why do people choose automated buses over conventional buses? Results of a context-dependent stated choice experiment74
Iterative Optimization of a Social Inmotics-Based Method in Order to Make Buildings Smart and Resilient73
How residential energy consumption has changed due to COVID-19 pandemic? An agent-based model73
Credibility assessment of municipal climate change adaptation plans using the ex-ante method: A case study of Poland73
Computer-aided resilience: Advanced techniques for disaster management in smart urban environments73
Assessing the impacts of connected-and-autonomous vehicle management strategy on the environmental sustainability of urban expressway system73
Quantifying households’ carbon footprint in cities using socioeconomic attributes: A case study for The Hague (Netherlands)73
Evaluating urban housing development patterns in developing countries: Case study of Worn-out Urban Fabrics in Iran72
Leveraging artificial intelligence to analyze the COVID-19 distribution pattern based on socio-economic determinants72
Opportunities and obstacles of blockchain use in pursuit of sustainable development goal 11: A systematic scoping review72
An improved effectiveness-NTU method for streamlining the design and optimization of packed bed latent thermal energy storage71
An integrated approach for cost-and emission optimal planning of coastal microgrid with demand-side management71
Application of multiple pressure management strategies in urban water distribution networks using sequential optimization71
A quantitative approach and simplified generic transient motor startup power models for microgrids security assessment71
Investigation of a solar heating system assisted by coupling with electromagnetic heating unit and phase change energy storage tank: Towards sustainable rural buildings in northern China70
Topological and functional vulnerability analysis and mitigation for single-source heating networks based on tree models70
Multidimensional sorting framework of cities regarding the concept of sustainable and smart cities with an application to Brazilian capitals70
Assessing the sustainability of urbanization at the sub-national level: The Ecological Footprint and Biocapacity accounts of the Budapest Metropolitan Region, Hungary69
A greenhouse-gas emission reduction toolkit at urban scale69
Theoretical cost and energy optimisation of a 4th generation net-zero district heating system with different thermal energy storage technologies.68
Potential contribution of environmental building certifications to urban sustainability - Curitiba case study68
A generalized ride-matching approach for sustainable shared mobility68
Robust network-constrained energy management of a multiple energy distribution company in the presence of multi-energy conversion and storage technologies67
Subjective circularity performance analysis of adaptive heritage reuse practices in the Netherlands67
Decision making in urban development: The application of a hybrid evaluation method for a critical area in the city of Turin (Italy)67
A meta-heuristic-based energy efficient route modeling for EVs integrating start/stop and recapturing energy effect67
Analysis of integrated uses of dockless bike sharing and ridesourcing with metros: A case study of Shanghai, China67
Distance adaptive graph convolutional gated network-based smart air quality monitoring and health risk prediction in sensor-devoid urban areas66
An urban short-term traffic flow prediction model based on wavelet neural network with improved whale optimization algorithm66
Accurate performance prediction of IoT communication systems for smart cities: An efficient deep learning based solution66
Particulate and gaseous pollutants in Tehran, Iran during 2015-2021: Factors governing their variability66
Development of fire safety best practices for rooftops grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) systems installation using systematic review methodology66
A mixed method evaluation of economic and environmental considerations in construction transport planning: The case of Ostlänken66
Optimizing routing and scheduling of shared autonomous electric taxis considering capacity constrained parking facilities65
Experimental study on the direct evaporative air-cooling system with vermicompost material as the water storage medium65
Toward the construction of a circular economy eco-city: An emergy-based sustainability evaluation of Rizhao city in China65
Mitigation of urban heat island in China (2000–2020) through vegetation-induced cooling65
Energy management of community energy storage in grid-connected microgrid under uncertain real-time prices65
Agent-based societal impact modeling for infrastructure disruption and countermeasures analyses65
Urban mobility scenarios until the 2030s65
A scenario-based optimization frame to adjust current strategy for population- economy-resource-environment harmony in an urban agglomeration, China65
Exploring spatial pattern optimization path of urban building carbon emission based on low-carbon cities analytical framework: A case study of Xi'an, China65
A real-time tracking controller for piezoelectric actuators based on reinforcement learning and inverse compensation65
Self-scheduling model for home energy management systems considering the end-users discomfort index within price-based demand response programs65
The policy outcomes of low-carbon city construction on urban green development: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment conducted in China65
Assessment of water consumption in households using statistical analysis and regression trees64
How does the visual environment influence pedestrian physiological stress? Evidence from high-density cities using ambulatory technology and spatial machine learning64
Potential grading refrigeration system? Based on urban agglomeration thermal environment analysis perspective64
Water distribution system design integrating behind-the-meter solar under long-term uncertainty63
A hybrid wind energy harvester based on a double-rotor reverse synergy mechanism for high-speed railway63
Sustainability assessment of cities using multicriteria decision-making combined with deep learning methods63
Assessing the impact of mobility on the incidence of COVID-19 in Dublin City63
An integrated crowdshipping framework for green last mile delivery62
Riding smooth: A cost-benefit assessment of surface quality on Copenhagen’s bicycle network62
A parametric model of residential built form for forecasting the viability of sustainable technologies62
Restoration of dental services after COVID-19: The fallow time determination with laser light scattering62
Towards sustainable last-mile logistics: A decision-making model for complex urban contexts62
An economically feasible optimization of photovoltaic provision using real electricity demand: A case study in New York city62
In-situ sensor correction method for data center cooling systems using Bayesian Inference coupling with autoencoder62
Static and dynamic airflow and contaminant transport in a full-scale elevator-lobby mockup62
Planning a mixed fleet of electric and conventional vehicles for urban freight with routing and replacement considerations61
Assessment of wireless charging impacts based on real-world driving patterns: Case study in Lisbon, Portugal61
Assessment of future parking systems with autonomous vehicles through agent-based simulation: A case study of Hangzhou, China61
On the minimal wind directions required to assess mean annual air pollution concentration based on CFD results61
Response of dissolved organic carbon in rainwater during extreme rainfall period in megacity: Status, potential source, and deposition flux60
Detection of false data injection attacks leading to line congestions using Neural networks60
An anonymous device to device access control based on secure certificate for internet of medical things systems60
Drought-vulnerable vegetation increases exposure of disadvantaged populations to heatwaves under global warming: A case study from Los Angeles59
Flood vulnerability assessment of urban buildings based on integrating high-resolution remote sensing and street view images59
A city-scale inverse modelling method for air pollutant source determination59
Integration of renewable energy sources for sustainable energy development in Slovenia till 205059
Influence of the built environment on social capital and physical activity in Singapore: A structural equation modelling analysis59
Is the design guidance of color and material for urban buildings a good choice in terms of thermal performance?59
An efficient hardware architecture based on an ensemble of deep learning models for COVID -19 prediction58
Using a digital twin to explore water infrastructure impacts during the COVID-19 pandemic58
A novel entropy-based method for quantifying urban energy demand aggregation: Implications for urban planning and policy58
Assessing the electric demand-side management potential of Helsinki's public service building stock in ancillary markets58
Deep change feature analysis network for observing changes of land use or natural environment58
A lightweight iterative error reconstruction network for infrared image super-resolution in smart grid57
Groundwater suitability estimation for sustainable drinking water supply and food production in a semi-urban area of south India: A special focus on risk evaluation for making healthy society57
Ontologies representing multidisciplinary decision-making rationales for sustainable infrastructure developments57
POINT: Partially Observable Imitation Network for Traffic Signal Control57
The imprint of urbanization on PM2.5 concentrations in China: The urban-rural gradient study56
An agent-based model of post-disaster recovery in multilayer socio-physical networks56
A MILP model to relieve the occurrence of new demand peaks by improving the load factor in smart homes56
An energy consumption model for the Algerian residential building's stock, based on a triangular approach: Geographic Information System (GIS), regression analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis56
Urban Heat Island associated with Land Use/Land Cover and climate variations in Melbourne, Australia56
An integrated assessment of the municipal buildings’ use including sustainability criteria56
Predicting the urban stormwater drainage system state using the Graph-WaveNet56
Wildfire-resilient mechanical ventilation systems for single-detached homes in cities of Western Canada55
Sizing of electric vehicle charging stations with smart charging capabilities and quality of service requirements55
Big-data-driven approach and scalable analysis on environmental sustainability of shared micromobility from trip to city level analysis55
Exploring key determinants of willingness to participate in EIA decision-making on urban infrastructure projects55
A copula-based secured intelligent dynamic-static energy community transportation system for smart cities55
Ecosystem services and economic values provided by urban park trees in the air polluted city of Mashhad55
Office buildings occupancy analysis and prediction associated with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic55
Rethinking disaster resilience in high-density cities: Towards an urban resilience knowledge system55
Exploring the social metabolism of urban wastewater reuse: Analysis framework and a case study in South-Central Chile54
Optimal representation of tree foliage for local urban climate modeling54
Simulating the impact of ventilation corridors for cooling air temperature in local climate zone scheme54
Multi-region models built with machine and deep learning for predicting several heat-related health outcomes54
Could residential air-source heat pumps exacerbate outdoor summer overheating and winter overcooling in UK 2050s climate scenarios?54
Smart feasibility optimization of hybrid renewable water supply systems by digital twin technologies: A multicriteria approach applied to isolated cities54
Insights into the risk of COVID-19 infection in urban neighborhood and its environmental influence factors:A novel approach54
Effects of sea-land breeze on air pollutant dispersion in street networks with different distances from coast using WRF-CFD coupling method54
Enhancing water management and urban flood resilience using Hazard Capacity Factor Design (HCFD) model: Case study of Eco-Delta city, Busan54
0.23216104507446