In recent years, road construction projects in Egypt have experienced significant cost overruns. This has coincided with a remarkable increase in the volume and capacity of road construction in Egypt over the last two decades. Consequently, there is an urgent need for a systematic analysis of...

Traffic jams are an important problem both on an individual and on a societal level and much research has been done on trying to explain their emergence. The mainstream approach to road traffic monitoring is based on crowdsourcing roaming GPS devices such as cars or cell phones. These systems...

This paper demonstrates how satellite images and other geographic data can be used to predict land use. A cross-section model of land use is estimated with data for a region in central Mexico. Parameters from the model are used to examine the effects of reduced human activity. If variables that...