@article{e82752a77395470988e4df8f6927ee3b,
title = "Repurposing mesoscale traffic models for insights into traveler heat exposure",
abstract = "Climate change is poised to significantly increase people's heat exposure, yet there remain limited insights into how individuals experience heat in the conjunction of behavior and infrastructure. We developed a simulation platform - Icarus - to estimate traveler's heat exposure at both personal and population scales at the interface of travel behavior, microclimate, and the built environment. Icarus is applied to the Phoenix metropolitan region as a case study using three different temperature measurements: air temperature (Tair), mean radiant temperature (TMRT), and wet bulb globe temperature (TWBGT). The case study analysis shows that travel patterns (such as trip duration and the trip start time) for different demographic groups affect personal and population heat exposure. Different temperature measures also resulted in widely varying estimates of personal heat exposure.",
keywords = "Active transportation, Climate, Personal heat exposure, Urban",
author = "Rui Li and Chester, {Mikhail V.} and Hondula, {David M.} and Ariane Middel and Vanos, {Jennifer K.} and Lance Watkins",
note = "Funding Information: We would like to express our gratitude to MAG for providing the ABM data, and to Ben Brownlee of ASU for initializing the Icarus program. Map data copyrighted by OpenStreetMap contributors and available from https://www.openstreetmap.org. This study was funded by United States National Science Foundation award CMMI-1635490 (A Simulation Platform to Enhance Infrastructure and Community Resilience to Extreme Heat Events), and CMMI-1942805 (CAREER: Human Thermal Exposure in Cities - Novel Sensing and Modeling to Build Heat-Resilience). Funding Information: We would like to express our gratitude to MAG for providing the ABM data, and to Ben Brownlee of ASU for initializing the Icarus program. Map data copyrighted by OpenStreetMap contributors and available from https://www.openstreetmap.org . This study was funded by United States National Science Foundation award CMMI-1635490 (A Simulation Platform to Enhance Infrastructure and Community Resilience to Extreme Heat Events), and CMMI-1942805 (CAREER: Human Thermal Exposure in Cities - Novel Sensing and Modeling to Build Heat-Resilience). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022",
year = "2023",
month = jan,
doi = "10.1016/j.trd.2022.103548",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "114",
journal = "Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment",
issn = "1361-9209",
publisher = "Elsevier Limited",
}