Assessment of visitors' thermal comfort based on physiologically equivalent temperature in open urban areas

Abstract Thermal sensation of visitors is very important factor for open urban spaces for physiological, psychological and behavioral conditions of the visitors. Therefore in this article thermal sensation of the visitors in open urban spaces is investigated. For such a purpose physical data are used and questionnaire study as well. Sensitivity analysis is performed on the thermal sensation of the visitors based on different factors. ANFIS (adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system) methodology is applied for the analysis. The main ability of the methodology is its adaptive behavior. The main goal is to investigate how the visitors use the open urban areas for their activity. Results are shown that the temperature and solar radiation are the factors with the highest impact on the visitors' thermal sensation in the open urban spaces.