Urban planning experts often use computer models to help evaluate alternative land use policies, particularly as they interact with transportation and environmental decisions. The greatly increased data volume provided by new land use models makes their effective use difficult without suitable visualization tools. We present UrbanView, a visualization system for urban modeling, and describe a u...

Land use regression (LUR) models have been globally used to estimate long-term air pollution exposures. The present study aimed to analyze the association of different land use types and traffic measures with air pollutants in Tehran, Iran, as part of the future development of LUR models. Data of the particulate matter (PM10), sulfur dioxide (SO2), and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) were extracted from...

analyzing the process of land use and cover changes during long periods of time and predicting the future changes is highly important and useful for the land use managers. in this study, the land use maps in the ardabil plain in north-west part of iran for four periods (1989, 1998, 2009 and 2013) are extracted and analyzed through remote sensing technique, using the land-sat satellite images. t...

This paper describes an application of Neural Networks in the development of a travel forecast model for transportation planning. The model intends to quantify trips within the urban area through the representation of the land use-transportation system interaction. The data to express such a complex interaction is mainly obtained from Remote Sensing images that are processed in a Geographical I...

investigation on modern history of urban planning in iran shows that there are three approaches in the subject under discussion: “modernism and westernism”, “traditionalism and anti-westernism”, and “adopt and adapt”. proponents of the first approach believe in encouraging methods to use the external concepts. the second, is the idea about ​​cultural and religious values, ​​thereby everything w...

Aggravation of traffic intensity and air pollution in urban areas is urging the studies on strategic environmental assessment (SEA) of transportation networks and the integration of land-use planning with transport-environment concerns. The aim of this study is to analyse the environmental impacts of mobility induced by major regional development tendencies and policies in the Brussels-Capital ...

Great changes in land use/land cover from rapid urbanization have occurred in the PearlRiver Delta, China. As the primary cause of land development in the urbanization process,urban expansion has mostly occurred on land with higher NPP, significantly impacting theregional ecosystems. The primary purpose of this study was to reveal the impacts of urbanexpansion on the regional NPP. The land cove...

This paper develops an integrated strategy to model the urban development and ecological dynamics in the Central Puget Sound Region. This effort is part of the Puget Sound Regional Integrated Synthesis model (PRISM) – an interdisciplinary initiative at the University of Washington aiming to develop a dynamic and integrated understanding of the environmental and human systems in the Puget Sound....