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=== Cooling === [[File:Bus stop in Eilat with air conditioning Dereh HaArava street.png|thumb|right|Bus stop in Eilat, Israel with air conditioning]] [[File:Ashgabat bus stop IMG 5626 (26018624282).jpg|thumb|right|Bus stop in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan with TV and air condition system]] [[File:Bus stop „Plac Kościuszki – Arkady” in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland.jpg|thumb|:Bus stop in [[Tomaszów Mazowiecki]], [[Poland]]]] In countries with hot [[climate]]s, [[air conditioning|air-conditioned]] bus stop shelters are sometimes used, for example in [[Dubai]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://manonthelam.com/dubai-land-of-air-conditioned-bus-stops/|title = Dubai: Land of Air-Conditioned Bus Stops - Man on the Lam | Travel Blog|date = 21 February 2013}}</ref> in [[United Arab Emirates]], [[Hyderabad]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/Telangana/2018-06-02/Air-conditioned-bus-shelters-launched-in-Hyderabad/386150|title = Air-conditioned bus shelters launched in Hyderabad|date = 2 June 2018}}</ref> in [[India]], [[Eilat]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/1875435/eilat-boasts-1st-air-conditioned-smart-bus-stop-in-the-world.html|title = Eilat Boasts 1st Air-Conditioned "Smart" Bus Stop in the World|date = 24 June 2020}}</ref> in [[Israel]], [[Ashgabat]] in [[Turkmenistan]]. As an alternative to air conditioning, [[passive daytime radiative cooling]] has been used to cool bus stop shelters. Bus stops at [[Arizona State University]] and the surrounding areas of [[Tempe, Arizona]] used a [[3M]] film to lower shelter temperatures by 4 °C.<ref>{{Cite news |date=4 August 2021 |title=ASU testing new material to make Tempe bus stops cooler |work=ABC 15 |url=https://www.abc15.com/weather/impact-earth/asu-testing-new-material-to-make-tempe-bus-stops-cooler}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Johnson |first=Brooks |date=12 March 2022 |title=Can a 3M film help climate-proof our buildings? |work=Star Tribune |url=https://www.startribune.com/can-a-new-3m-technology-help-climate-proof-our-buildings/600155409/}}</ref> A bus shelter in a [[mid-rise]] area of [[Tehran]] used passive cooling to cool a bus shelter by up to 10 °C.<ref name=":24">{{Cite journal |last1=Mokharti |first1=Reza |last2=Ulpani |first2=Giulia |last3=Ghasempour |first3=Roghayeh |date=July 2022 |title=The Cooling Station: Combining hydronic radiant cooling and daytime radiative cooling for urban shelters |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1359431122004471 |journal=Applied Thermal Engineering |volume=211 |doi=10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2022.118493 |bibcode=2022AppTE.21118493M |via=Elsevier Science Direct|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
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