Due to urbanization and increase in population, urban regions of Bangladesh require immediate improvement of drainage system. Nowadays, climate change has become a global issue and Bangladesh is in a high probability of ...

Dhaka city is surrounded by rivers. Ever increasing pollution level in peripheral rivers is causing huge problems for the environment of Dhaka city and jeopardizes the use of the river water for drinking and other useful ...

Water supply and service systems at any region throughout the world closely linked with ground water and aquifer systems since about 97 % of the earth’s fresh water supply is stored in the underground formations. So ...

Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, with a population density of around 20,000 per square kilometer is at the risk of experiencing significant health impacts from poor air quality, especially during the dry season. ...

A framework of travel demand modeling is devised in this work that uses cell-phone network generated data to estimate the operational demand matrices in fine spatial and temporal resolution. Due to its high penetration ...

Embankment failures happen continuously throughout Bangladesh. Traditional practices for protection of embankment are to use cement concrete blocks, stone or wood revetments, geobags, geotextile and plantation etc. But ...

Air quality of Dhaka city is major concern, especially during the dry season. For addressing the air quality problem, development of an emission inventory is absolutely essential. In this study, a GIS based spatially ...

In the present study a total of 58 years (1950 to 2007) of daily rainfall data from 34 stations of Bangladesh Meteorological Department has been analyzed for the entire country to identify the changes in rainfall distribution ...

The worldwide use of reinforced concrete construction stems from wide availability of the reinforcing steel as well as the concrete ingredients. Concrete construction does, however, require a certain level of technology, ...

Toll plazas usually appear to be a bottleneck for highway traffic flow. They cause traffic congestion in the highways which in turn causes loss of time and money. To overcome this problem, one alternative is to build ...