Urban heat complicates the lives of pedestrians in the most exposed cities every summer. In Tempe, Arizona, the temperature felt in the sun rises well beyond the comfort thresholds in the middle of the afternoon. A team of researchers designed an online tool that offers walkers shadow-oriented routes. Tested on a university campus, this tool found cooler routes in the majority of cases evaluated. A tool that maps urban heat hour by hour Cool Rou…
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Urban heat complicates the lives of pedestrians in the most exposed cities every summer. In Tempe, Arizona, the temperature felt in the sun rises well beyond the comfort thresholds in the middle of the afternoon. A team of researchers designed an online tool that offers walkers shadow-oriented routes. Tested on a university campus, this tool found cooler routes in the majority of cases evaluated. A tool that maps urban heat hour by hour Cool Rou…