RUROS project outdoor comfort database

RUROS project outdoor comfort database

Project “RUROS: Rediscovering the Urban Realm and Open Spaces”

As early as 1999, when the RUROS project was conceptualised, we recognised the immense value of an open-source research database for advancing outdoor comfort studies, which was then at its infancy.  One of the main ambitionsof the RUROS project (2001-2004) was to ensure all the data from the extensive comfort surveys across Europe become publicly available, to support further enquiries and meta-analysis as future studies would become available.

This database includes all the raw data from the extensive outdoor comfort surveys conducted across seven European cities (Athens (GR), Thessaloniki (GR), Milan (I), Fribourg (CH), Kassel (D), Cambridge (UK) and Sheffield (UK)), in between July 2001 and March 2002.

The files include the actual complete dataset and the codebook to explain each variable in the dataset.

The dataset incudes 9271 rows of data, each row representing a separate participant.

As the co-ordinator of the project, we initially published this at the coordinator’s organisation website, Centre for Renewable Energy Source (GR), in 2004. However, as it was eventually taken down a few years ago, while enquiries for the dataset increased, we uploaded the complete dataset here 20 years later, in December 2024.

The teams involved with the surveys in the different cities include the following people:

Athens: Marialena Nikolopoulou, Spyros Lykoudis, Maria Kikira, Lenanta Anastasopoulou, Dimitris Karagogos, Dafni Mavrogiorgou (Centre for Renewable Energy Sources), Kallisteni Avdelidi (National Centre for Social Research)

Thessaloniki: Niobe Chrissomalidou, Katerina Tsikaloudaki, Theodore Theodosiou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

Cambridge: Koen Steemers, Marylis Ramos and Maro Sinou (University of Cambridge)

Sheffield: Jian Kang, Wei Yang, Mei Zhang (University of Sheffield)

Milan: Giani Scudo, Valentina Maddalena Dessi, Alesandro Rogora (Politecnico di Milano)

Fribourg:  Raphaël Compagnon, Joëlle Goyette Pernot (Haute École d'Ingénierie et d'Architecture de Fribourg)

Kassel: Lutz Katzschner, Ulrike Bosch, Matthias Röttge (University of Kassel)

Project “RUROS: Rediscovering the Urban Realm and Open Spaces” - Contract No. EVK4-CT2000-00032 was funded by the EU 5th Framework Programme, Key Action 4 "City of Tomorrow and Cultural Heritage" from the programme "Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development".

https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/EVK4-CT-2000-00032