Gideon Aschwanden

Limits of space syntax for urban design: Axiality, scale and sinuosity

Elek Pafka, Kim Dovey, Gideon DPA Aschwanden

Journal article  |  2020  |  Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

Space syntax analysis of the city as a movement economy has made major contributions to our understanding of the spatial structure..

The "Paris-end" of Town?: Deriving Urban Typologies Using Three Imagery Types

Kerry Nice, Jason Thompson, Jasper Wijnands, Gideon Aschwanden, Mark Stevenson

Journal article  |  2020  |  Urban Science

Urban typologies allow areas to be categorised according to form and the social, demographic, and political uses of the areas. The..

A global analysis of urban design types and road transport injury: an image processing study.

Jason Thompson, Mark Stevenson, Jasper S Wijnands, Kerry A Nice, Gideon Dpa Aschwanden, Jeremy Silver, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Peter Rayner, Robyn Schofield, Rohit Hariharan, Christopher N Morrison

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Lancet Planetary Health

BACKGROUND: Death and injury due to motor vehicle crashes is the world's fifth leading cause of mortality and morbidity. City and ..

Reducing Cyclist Crashes by Assessing the Road Environment: An Application of Google Imagery and Machine Learning

Haifeng Zhao, Jasper Wijnands, Kerry Nice, Jason Thompson, Gideon Aschwanden, Jingqiu Guo, Mark Stevenson

Journal article  |  2019  |  Journal of Transport & Health

Background: Cycling is an active and sustainable transportation mode, and is associated with health, environmental and societal be..

REDUCING CYCLIST CRASHES BY ASSESSING THE ROAD ENVIRONMENT: AN APPLICATION OF GOOGLE IMAGERY AND MACHINE LEARNING

Haifeng Zhao, Jasper Wijnands, Kerry Nice, Jason Thompson, Gideon Aschwanden, Jingqiu Guo, Mark Stevenson

Journal article  |  2019  |  JOURNAL OF TRANSPORT & HEALTH

Learning to walk: Modeling transportation mode choice distribution through neural networks

Gideon DPA Aschwanden, Jasper S Wijnands, Jason Thompson, Kerry A Nice, Haifeng Zhao, Mark Stevenson

Journal article  |  2019  |  Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

Road traffic injury in urban areas: understanding the complex city.

Mark Stevenson, Jason Thompson, Jasper Wijnands, Kerry Nice, Gideon Aschwanden, Haifeng Zhao

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  International Symposium on Safety of Vulnerable Road Users

Over the past 4 decades considerable efforts have been taken to mitigate the growing burden of road injury. With increasing urbani..

Opportunities to reduce road traffic injury: new insights from the study of urban areas.

Mark Stevenson, Jason Thompson, Jasper S Wijnands, Kerry Nice, Gideon Aschwanden, Haifeng Zhao

Journal article  |  2019  |  International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion

Over the past four decades considerable efforts have been taken to mitigate the growing burden of road injury. With increasing urb..

Unsupervised Deep Learning to Explore Streetscape Factors Associated with Urban Cyclist Safety

Haifeng Zhao, Jasper S Wijnands, Kerry Nice, Jason Thompson, Gideon DPA Aschwanden, Mark Stevenson, Jingqiu Guo

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies

Cycling is associated with health, environmental and societal benefits. Urban infrastructure design catering to cyclists’ safety c..

Real-time monitoring of driver drowsiness on mobile platforms using 3D neural networks

Jasper S Wijnands, Jason Thompson, Kerry A Nice, Gideon DPA Aschwanden, Mark Stevenson

Journal article  |  2019  |  Neural Computing and Applications

Driver drowsiness increases crash risk, leading to substantial road trauma each year. Drowsiness detection methods have received c..

The Nature of Human Settlement: Building an understanding of high performance city design (a.k.a. Block Typologies)

Kerry Nice, Gideon DPA Aschwanden, Jasper Wijnands, Jason Thompson, Haifeng Zhao, Mark Stevenson

Conference Proceedings  |  2019

Sky pixel detection in outdoor imagery using an adaptive algorithm and machine learning

KA Nice, JS Wijnands, A Middel, J Wang, Y Qiu, N Zhao, J Thompson, GDPA Aschwanden, H Zhao, M Stevenson

Journal article  |  2019  |  Urban Climate

Computer vision techniques enable automated detection of sky pixels in outdoor imagery. In urban climate, sky detection is an impo..

Estimating the Potential Risks of Sea Level Rise for Public and Private Property Ownership, Occupation and Management

Georgia Warren-Myers, Gideon Aschwanden, Franz Fuerst, Andy Krause

Journal article  |  2018  |  Risks

Estimating the potential risks of sea level rise for public and private property ownership, occupation and management

G Warren-Myers, G Aschwanden, F Fuerst, A Krause

Journal article  |  2018  |  Risks

Are we underestimating the sea level rise risk for property?

G Warren-Myers, Gideon Aschwanden, F Fuerst, A Krause

Conference Proceedings  |  2018

Sea level rise forecasts identify a potential risk and uncertainty for property owners, occupiers and stakeholders. Currently, thi..

Identifying behavioural change among drivers using Long Short-Term Memory recurrent neural networks

J Wijnands, J Thompson, G Aschwanden, M Stevenson

Journal article  |  2018  |  Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour

Globally, motor vehicle crashes account for over 1.2 million fatalities per year and are the leading cause of death for people age..

The Paris end of town? Urban typology through machine learning.

K Nice, J Thompson, J Wijnands, G Aschwanden, Mark Stevenson

Conference Proceedings  |  2018

The Thermoheliodome - "Air conditioning" without conditioning the air, using radiant cooling and indirect evaporation

Forrest Meggers, Hongshan Guo, Eric Teitelbaum, Gideon Aschwanden, Jake Read, Nicholas Houchois, Jovan Pantelic, Emanuele Calabro

Journal article  |  2017  |  Energy and Buildings

Urban cooling primary energy reduction potential: System losses caused by microclimates

Forrest Meggers, Gideon Aschwanden, Eric Teitelbaum, Hongshan Guo, Laura Salazar, Marcel Bruelisauer

Journal article  |  2016  |  Sustainable Cities and Society

Urban cooling primary energy reduction potential: System losses caused by microclimates

Forrest Meggers, G ASCHWANDEN, Eric Teitelbaum, Hongshan Guo, Laura Salazar

Journal article  |  2016  |  Sustainable Cities and Society

Temperatures in cities are amplified through the urban heat island effect by anthropogenic heat emissions into microclimates. The ..

Big Data for Urban Design The impact of centrality measures on business success

Gideon Aschwanden

Conference Proceedings  |  2016  |  ECAADE 2016: COMPLEXITY & SIMPLICITY, VOL 2

How learning algorithms support urban design AND the problem of too much data

G ASCHWANDEN

Book Chapter  |  2016

NEIGHBOURHOOD DETECTION WITH ANALYTICAL TOOLS

Gideon DPA Aschwanden

Conference Proceedings  |  2016  |  CAADRIA 2016, 21st International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia - Living Systems and Micro-Utopias: Towards Continuous Designing

X-Ray the City: Melbourne 1946/2016/2046

G Aschwanden, Donald Bates, Karen Burns, M Burry, Kim Dovey, Philip Goad, Xiaoran Huang, J Karakiewicz, Geoff Kimm, Tom Kvan, Nano Langenheim, Hannah Lewi, Elek Pafka, A Pert, Stanislav Roudavski, Andrew Saniga, Paul Walker, M White

Curated Exhibition, Event or Festival  |  2016

BIM-PIM-CIM: THE CHALLENGES OF MODELING URBAN DESIGN BEHAVIOURS BETWEEN BUILDING AND CITY DESIGN

M Burry, J Karakiewicz, D Holzer, M White, G Aschwanden, T Kvan

Conference Proceedings  |  2015

Thermoheliodome design, optimization and fabrication

Jake R Read, Forrest Meggers, Nicholas Houchois, Gideon Aschwanden, Eric Teitelbaum, Sigrid Adriaenssens, Landolf G Rhode-Barbarigos, Yousef Anastas, Sean Coffers, Jovan Pantelic

Conference Proceedings  |  2015  |  Energy Procedia

Finding candidate locations for aerosol pollution monitoring at street level using a data-driven methodology

V Moosavi, G Aschwanden, E Velasco

Journal article  |  2015  |  Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Urban Cooling Potential: System Losses from Microclimates

Forrest Meggers, Gideon Aschwanden, Eric Teitelbaum, Hongshan Guo, Marcel Bruelisauer

Conference Proceedings  |  2015  |  Energy Procedia

Reclaiming backlanes–addressing energy efficiency, outdoor comfort and urban space’

G ASCHWANDEN, M Bruelisauer, S Berthold, I Belle, E Ostertag, F Meggers

Conference Proceedings  |  2013

Agent based evaluation of dynamic city models A combination of human decision processes and an emission model for transportation based on acceleration and instantaneous speed

Gideon DPA Aschwanden, Tobias Wullschleger, Hanspeter Mueller, Gerhard Schmitt

Journal article  |  2012  |  Automation in Construction

Digital urban modeling and simulation

SM Arisona, G Aschwanden, J Halatsch, P Wonka

Journal article  |  2012  |  Communications in Computer and Information Science

System Design Proposal for an Urban Information Platform A systems proposal

Gideon Aschwanden, Chen Zhong, Maria Papadopoulou, Didier Gabriel Vernay, Stefan Muller Arisona, Gerhand Schmitt

Conference Proceedings  |  2012  |  ECAADE 2012, VOL 1

Empiric design evaluation in urban planning

GDPA Aschwanden, S Haegler, F Bosché, L Van Gool, G Schmitt

Journal article  |  2011  |  Automation in Construction

Finding candidate locations for aerosol pollution monitoring at street level using a data-driven methodology

V Moosavi, G Aschwanden, E Velasco

Journal article  |  Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Discussions

Abstract. Finding the number and significant locations of fixed air quality monitoring stations at ground level is challenging bec..