Urban Planning
Hassan Mahmoudzadeh; Mohammad Samadi; Majid paydar
Abstract
The city of Tabriz, which has the fastest urban growth in the northwest of the country, is one of the largest cities in Iran in terms of population, economic activity, industry and transportation options. Public transportation and industry combustion and lack of proper filtration of these industries, ...
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The city of Tabriz, which has the fastest urban growth in the northwest of the country, is one of the largest cities in Iran in terms of population, economic activity, industry and transportation options. Public transportation and industry combustion and lack of proper filtration of these industries, such as thermal power plants, has led to increased air pollution in the city. For this purpose, the present study tries to use input variables (distance from industrial centers, humidity, temperature, population density, distance from commercial centers, distance from bus stations, distance from educational centers, vegetation changes, distance from free Roads, building density, wind direction, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide) to assess air pollution using artificial neural networks in the metropolis of Tabriz. In the present study, the independent variables affecting the distribution of pollution probability in two models of multilayer perceptron neural network (MLP) and linear regression were tried to be defined by defining measures in urban management and influencing and planning the mentioned variables.Improve pollution control.The results show that the major pollutants are mostly suspended particles (PM10), gas (CO2), (SO2) and (NOx).The dispersion of airborne particles is mostlydue to vehicle traffic, industrial activities, fuel combustion of diesel engines and construction and the need to generate more electricity.-The activities of thermal power plants, Tabriz refinery and domestic and commercial heating systems are also among the factors producing SO2 and the highest CO2 production is related to the fuel of gasoline-burning vehicles.The intensity of the increase in the amount of this pollutant in all selected stations in the autumn and winter seasons is much higher, so that in these seasons the pollutants reach more than twice the allowable level.The share of Tabriz air pollutants can be divided into three general categories, the most important of which is the thermal power plant and transportation.
Rasool Gorbani; Karim Hosseinzadeh Delir; pari Shorkri Firoozjah
Volume 16, Issue 39 , May 2012, , Pages 89-108
Abstract
Nowadays rapid development of urbanization, population growth, industrialization, unorganized transport system and urban traffic and green space shortage have caused increase of air pollution concentration in cities, especially in large cities. Therefore, attention into air pollution and factors and ...
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Nowadays rapid development of urbanization, population growth, industrialization, unorganized transport system and urban traffic and green space shortage have caused increase of air pollution concentration in cities, especially in large cities. Therefore, attention into air pollution and factors and causes of increased pollutant concentrations are very important. Hence the purpose of this paper is to identity the effective factors on air pollution at Namaz Square station in Tabriz city.
Therefore, through of component analysis method, main components were determined in each season of year and by the application of multivariate regression model, main factors were defined. Results show that climatic factors (such as temperature, wind speed and direction) human factors (such as crowded population, green space shortage, high traffic, unsuitable roads) have the highest influence in the air pollution. Special attention therefore, to human factors can cause to the decrease of air pollution in urban central area
