Friday, 20 September 2019

Summary Draft #1: New paths for the roads of tomorrow

In the blog post “New paths for the roads of tomorrow”, Decaux (2017) observed that developments in smart infrastructure can be applied to roads, which will further improve roads to be more “smart, connected and safer”. Decaux mentioned that roads are mainly made of asphalt, which is a costly material and is known to increase surface temperature. Developments have been done to create more sustainable materials which will reduce wastage and improve on the quality of roads. Materials such as “recycled plastic” helps to make roads more resilient, while cigarette butts mix with asphalt reduces the surface temperature. The author found that other developments include using solar panels on roads to harvest energy, using it to heat up roads during winter and lighting up the roads in the night via motion sensors. Improving on road user’s safety, and the usability of roads. 
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2 comments:

  1. Ray Wong24 September 2019 at 02:24

    Good day Joe,

    1) The summary's content are well elaborated & various terminologies are also properly quoted (e.g. "recycle plastics...smart, connected, safer" However you could try citing the source for instance, "The author found that other developments include using solar panels ..". The ideology is not established solely by the author.

    2) Misinterpretation of articles. "made of asphalt, which is a costly material and is known to increase surface temperature.." and "cigarette butts mix with asphalt reduces the surface temperature" Heat conduction increases of surface temperature does not seems to bring any adverse effects of contribution to the pain point. It however, facilitates a smoother traffic flow with no snow/ice obstacles.


    Anyway it was a good job in summarising!

    Best regards,
    Ray & Calvin

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    1. Joe Hui24 September 2019 at 02:53

      Hi Ray & Calvin,

      Thanks for the feedback.

      On the point of increasing the surface temperature, what I actually wanted to capture was the heat islands contribution. But understand and agree that my paraphrasing was not sufficient.

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