Kerry Nice

An urban ecohydrological model to quantify the effect of vegetation on urban climate and hydrology (UT&C v1.0)

Naika Meili, Gabriele Manoli, Paolo Burlando, Elie Bou-Zeid, Winston TL Chow, Andrew M Coutts, Edoardo Daly, Kerry A Nice, Matthias Roth, Nigel J Tapper, Erik Velasco, Enrique R Vivoni, Simone Fatichi

Journal article  |  2020  |  Geoscientific Model Development

Abstract. Increasing urbanization is likely to intensify the urban heat island effect, decrease outdoor thermal comfort, and enhan..

Mean radiant temperature modeling outdoors: A comparison of three approaches

Csilla V Gál, Kerry Nice

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  100th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) jointly with the 15th Symposium on the Urban Environment

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

Streetscape augmentation using generative adversarial networks: Insights related to health and wellbeing

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

Journal article  |  2019  |  Sustainable Cities and Society

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

The Monash Simple Climate Model experiments (MSCM-DB v1.0): an interactive database of mean climate, climate change, and scenario simulations

Dietmar Dommenget, Kerry Nice, Tobias Bayr, Dieter Kasang, Christian Stassen, Michael Rezny

Journal article  |  2019  |  Geoscientific Model Development

The Air-temperature Response to Green/blue-infrastructure Evaluation Tool (TARGET v1.0): an efficient and user-friendly model of city cooling

Ashley M Broadbent, Andrew M Coutts, Kerry A Nice, Matthias Demuzere, E Scott Krayenhoff, Nigel J Tapper, Hendrik Wouters

Journal article  |  2019  |  Geoscientific Model Development

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..

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..

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

Development of the VTUF-3D v1.0 urban micro-climate model to support assessment of urban vegetation influences on human thermal comfort

K Nice, A Coutts, N Tapper

Journal article  |  2018  |  Urban Climate

With urban areas facing longer duration heat-waves and temperature extremes from climate change and growing urban development, ada..

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

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

Conference Proceedings  |  2018

An urban micro-climate model to assess temperature moderation from increased vegetation and water in urban canyons

K NICE, N Tapper, N Beringer, J Krayenhof

Conference Proceedings  |  2015

The micro-climate of a mixed urban parkland environment

KA Nice, P Isaac

Conference Proceedings  |  2012  |  WSUD 2012 - 7th International Conference on Water Sensitive Urban Design: Building the Water Sensitive Community, Final Program and Abstract Book

The Monash Simple Climate Model Experiments (MSCM-DB v1.0): An interactive database of mean climate, climate change and scenario simulations

Dietmar Dommenget, Kerry Nice, Tobias Bayr, Dieter Kasang, Christian Stassen, Michael Rezny

Journal article

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> This study introduces the Monash Simple Climate Model (MSCM) experiment database. ..

Supplementary material to "An urban ecohydrological model to quantify the effect of vegetation on urban climate and hydrology (UT&C v1.0)"

Naika Meili, Gabriele Manoli, Paolo Burlando, Elie Bou-Zeid, Winston TL Chow, Andrew M Coutts, Edoardo Daly, Kerry A Nice, Matthias Roth, Nigel J Tapper, Erik Velasco, Enrique R Vivoni, Simone Fatichi

Journal article

The Monash Simple Climate Model Experiments (MSCM-DB v1.0): An interactive database of mean climate, climate change and scenario simulations

Dietmar Dommenget, Kerry Nice, Tobias Bayr, Dieter Kasang, Christian Stassen, Michael Rezny

Journal article

An urban ecohydrological model to quantify the effect of vegetation on urban climate and hydrology (UT&C v1.0)

Naika Meili, Gabriele Manoli, Paolo Burlando, Elie Bou-Zeid, Winston TL Chow, Andrew M Coutts, Edoardo Daly, Kerry A Nice, Matthias Roth, Nigel J Tapper, Erik Velasco, Enrique R Vivoni, Simone Fatichi

Journal article

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Increasing urbanization is likely to intensify the urban heat island effect, decre..

The Air-temperature Response to Green/blue-infrastructure Evaluation Tool (TARGET v1.0): an efficient and user-friendly model of city cooling

Ashley M Broadbent, Andrew M Coutts, Kerry A Nice, Matthias Demuzere, E Scott Krayenhoff, Nigel J Tapper, Hendrik Wouters

Journal article

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> The adverse impacts of urban heat and global climate change are leading policy-mak..

Targeted urban heat mitigation strategies using urban morphology databases and micro-climate modelling to examine the urban heat profile

Kerry Nice, Ashley Broadbent

Journal article

<p>Strategies for urban heat mitigation often make broad and non-specific recommendations (i.e. plant more trees) without ac..