Abstract Buses account for almost 60% of the total public transport services in Europe, and most vehicles are diesel fuelled. Regional administrators, under pressure by governments to introduce zero-emission buses, require analytical tools identifying optimal solutions. In literature, few models combine location analysis, least cost planning, emission assessment, taking into multiple technologi...

This paper presents a new computational model for representing the Geographic Space concept, called Irregular Cellular Space, which main goal is supporting the development of multiscale spatially explicit dynamic models integrated to geographical databases. This model has been implemented in a modeling software platform named TerraME which has been used for the development of some interesting e...