User comfort on urban roads

Abstract

Urbanization was one of the movements taken by man to impose his super powers on the natural world to make his life more comfortable, ignoring that the trees plays pivotal role in the natural world and also in his life. As a result, it has been responding to the man by changing the climate, creating, daunting challenges of global warming, air pollution, etc. Due to the urbanization of most of the cities in the world, trees were replaced by the infrastructure and accordingly, the users of urban areas were suffered from the discomfort due to high temperature, especially, when they are on the roads. Therefore, man was forced to rethink about replanting, trees on the urban roads. From this research, it was identified the logical relationship between the actual thermal performance of the urban roads and how it feels to the users of the roads, on different hours of the day. Further, this research, emphasized, that having properly planted trees on the roads, can provide the comfort to the users without any disturbance to their activities on the roads, and also contributes to minimize the environmental issues that the world is facing today.