TY - JOUR
T1 - Thermal comfort analysis and improvement of outdoor sports spaces in universities
T2 - a case study of Xi’an Jiaotong University
AU - Wei, Chenlin
AU - Zhao, Liyao
AU - Chang, Han
AU - Xumo, Pengfei
N1 - Funding information:
This work was supported by the Key Scientific Research Projects of Colleges and Universities in Henan Province (Grant No. 22B560020), the National Key R&D Program of China (2020YFB1708900), the China National Natural Science Foundation (61872224), and Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (ZR2017MF003).
Publisher copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature
PY - 2023/7
Y1 - 2023/7
N2 - This article investigates the potential impact of thermal comfort on university teachers’ and students’ outdoor exercise via a case study of the thermal comfort of outdoor sports at the two campuses of Xi’an Jiaotong University—Xingqing Campus and Innovation Harbour Campus. Thermal comfort analysis is a crucial topic of urban environmental studies, but it has not yet been integrated with research on the improvement of outdoor sports spaces. This article is an attempt to fill this gap, using meteorological data gathered from a weather station and questionnaires gathered from the respondents. With collected data, the present research then uses linear regression to probe into the relationship between Mean Thermal Sensation Vote (MTSV), Mean Thermal Comfort Vote (MTCV), and MPET, to demonstrate general trends and display the PET values when TSV is most ideal. The results show that the significant differences in thermal comfort between the two campuses exert little impact on people’s will to exercise. Under the ideal thermal sensation, the calculated PET values for the Xingqing Campus and Innovation Harbour Campus were 25.55°C and 26.61°C respectively. The article ends with concrete suggestions on practical strategies to improve the thermal comfort of outdoor sports spaces.
AB - This article investigates the potential impact of thermal comfort on university teachers’ and students’ outdoor exercise via a case study of the thermal comfort of outdoor sports at the two campuses of Xi’an Jiaotong University—Xingqing Campus and Innovation Harbour Campus. Thermal comfort analysis is a crucial topic of urban environmental studies, but it has not yet been integrated with research on the improvement of outdoor sports spaces. This article is an attempt to fill this gap, using meteorological data gathered from a weather station and questionnaires gathered from the respondents. With collected data, the present research then uses linear regression to probe into the relationship between Mean Thermal Sensation Vote (MTSV), Mean Thermal Comfort Vote (MTCV), and MPET, to demonstrate general trends and display the PET values when TSV is most ideal. The results show that the significant differences in thermal comfort between the two campuses exert little impact on people’s will to exercise. Under the ideal thermal sensation, the calculated PET values for the Xingqing Campus and Innovation Harbour Campus were 25.55°C and 26.61°C respectively. The article ends with concrete suggestions on practical strategies to improve the thermal comfort of outdoor sports spaces.
KW - Old and new campus
KW - Outdoor sports spaces
KW - PET
KW - TSV
KW - Thermal comfort
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U2 - 10.1007/s11356-023-27881-7
DO - 10.1007/s11356-023-27881-7
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0944-1344
VL - 30
SP - 76575
EP - 76594
JO - Environmental Science and Pollution Research
JF - Environmental Science and Pollution Research
IS - 31
ER -