Towards green roads in Malaysia : review of road characteristics effects on road surrounding microclimate with respect to roadside trees / Nasibeh FaghihMirzaei ... [et al.]

• Main Authors: Nasibeh, FaghihMirzaei, Sharifah Fairuz, Syed Fadzi, Aldrin, Abdullah, Nooriati, Taib, Reza, Esmaeilifar
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Roads; Malaysia; Road and highway design; Roadside development. Landscaping
• Online Access: http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/33147/1/33147.pdf; http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/33147/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Mara

Due to the rapid Malaysian metropolitan development, some amount of forests and vegetation have been replaced by impervious and artificial urban road surfaces, lead to increasing ambient temperature of many Malaysian urban areas. Urban greenery including roadside trees planting is believed to be a u...