Development of Support System for Environmentconscious 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...

A Compound Decision Support System for Corporate Planning

Providing a plan for any corporate or firm at macro level, as an organization or enterprise resource planning has particular importance nowadays. To meet the enterprise resource planning needs applications software packages provide a set of uniform pre-prepared and pre-designed that covers all business process throughout an organization. To achieve maximum efficiency in the implementation of th...

Applying and improving planning support systems for sustainable urban development

An urban containment planning support system for Beijing

Urban containment policies, including urban growth boundaries, urban service boundaries and greenbelts, have been extensively discussed worldwide for managing urban growth. This paper focuses on the issues associated with supporting an urban containment plan and its application in China using a planning support system. The background is that the urban containment plan has been enacted as a new ...