Development of Planning Support System Incorporating Ecological Factors in Urban Planning

Structure of a planning support system for urban development

* The idea of a planning support system, if not the label, has been with us for at least twenty-five years. Many components have been developed but wc lack an underlying structure with which to integrate these components. GIS provide useful tools but the map concepts on which they are built are insufficient for a planning support system. The structure proposed here builds on elements of geograp...

A Decision Support System for Urban Journey Planning in Multimodal Public Transit Network

The goal of this paper is to develop a Decision Support System (DSS) as a journey planner in complex and large multimodal urban network called Rahyar. Rahyar attempts to identify the most desirable itinerary among all feasible alternatives. The desirability of an itinerary is measured by a disutility function, which is defined as a weighted sum of some criteria. The weight...

Use of ecological information in urban planning

Academic dissertation To be presented, with permission of the Faculty of Biosciences of the University of Helsinki, for public criticism in the lecture hall 2 of Viikki Information Centre (Viikinkaari 11) on December 2 nd 2006 at 12 o'clock noon.

Applying and improving planning support systems for sustainable urban development

Application of Wind Energy in Urban Regional Planning Toward Ecological Sustainability(Case Study: Hashtgerd)

The remarkable development of sciences and technologies in the world of]o today has apparently brought mankind comfort and well-being, but it has also created new problems for humans including environmental pollution, widespread changes in world weather conditions, etc. Fossil fuels cause numerous environmental pollutions. In other words, on the one hand poisonous gases enter the environment fo...