Fast and transferable urban thermal-comfort modeling frameworks

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Sourced from the conclusions and discussion and stated research gap of the source papers, classified as general, spanning 2 journals.

Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps

• Impact of sky view factor on multimodal physiological responses: integrating EEG, heart rate, and thermal sensation in urban landscapes (2026) · Scientific Reports · doi

  Future research should explore individual differences in neural responses to environments and develop real-time comfort models that incorporate neurophysiological feedback for adaptive environmental control. Our findings demonstrate that the SVF influences thermal comfort through both microclimatic pathways and the potential modulation of central nervous system activity, warranting further investigation.

  generalconclusions
  Keywords: comfort future explore individual differences neural responses environments develop real time models incorporate neurophysiological feedback
• The Relationship Between the Urban Microclimate and Active Travel at the Neighbourhood and Street Scale: A Systematic Review of Current Research and Methodologies (2026) · Climate · doi

  While these indices address a consistent gap in prior research, they have not been compared across different climatic or morphological contexts, and the findings should be regarded as moderate. The most commonly used thermal comfort indices, such as the UTCI and PET, are based on the heat balance of the human body under steady environmental conditions and are insufficient for evaluating the transient thermal conditions of people moving through urban spaces [15,16,18]—a finding that is robustly supported across the dynamic comfort literature.

  generaldiscussion
  Keywords: indices across thermal comfort conditions address consistent prior compared different climatic morphological contexts regarded moderate
• GLIDE-SOL: A GPU-accelerated Global Lightweight Infrastructure for Diagnostic Environmental Modeling with SOLWEIG (2026) · doi

  There is a need for fast and transferable urban thermal-comfort modeling frameworks - Prior work has highlighted the importance of considering urban geometry, vegetation, and near-surface meteorological forcing in thermal-comfort modeling - There is a lack of scalable and accurate simulations of urban heat island phenomena

  generalstated research gapevidence 5/5
  Keywords: there need fast transferable urban thermal-comfort modeling frameworks

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