Electric mobility is considered to be an essential building block of a sustainable transportation paradigm. Particularly for the urban metropolis of the 21st century electric vehicles embody a promise of decreased air pollution and increased quality of living. However, city planners need to muster enormous investments into urban charging infrastructure in advance. We develop a decision support ...

Scholars and local planners are becoming increasingly interested in the contribution of tourism to economic and social development. In the European cities that currently lead the world rankings for tourist arrivals, local governments have actively promoted tourism. Mobility is an essential issue for tourists visiting large cities, since it is a crucial factor for their comfort. It also facilita...

Balancing natural resource protection and urban development is of concern to researchers, planners and citizens who are aware of the environmental, social and economic impacts of urban land use. Land-use change models can assist in finding this balance. An objective of this research was to build a better model of land-use change by integrating quantitative and qualitative techniques. A modellin...

A city is not only a space, but also involves culture, social aspects and environment. As a result, urban planning is a multidisciplinary process. The general objective of urban planning is “to provide for a spatial structure of activities which in some way is better than the pattern existing without planning” (Hall 1992, p4). Achieving the objective is not only the matter of planners and gover...

In defense of the sprawling, low-density development which increasingly characterizes modern cities, Gordon and Richardson (1986, 1996) argue that the urban spatial structure generated by market forces reflects the will of the people. Planners, in contrast, typically have little faith in either the efficiency or equity of market-determined outcomes, and advocate detailed land use planning. To e...

pedestrian areas are a type of urban public space, nowadays because of the serious consequencesof car-dependency and ignoring pedestrian needs, a consensus on the importance of walking and the necessity forplanning for pedestrians movement has been formed among urban designers, planners and people. the concernsabout human health and movement in city create a new trend in contemporary urbanism, ...

Public participation increasingly occurs in the context of modern GIS applications and goes much further than just crowd sourcing. Those web based applications enables the user to be actively involved in urban planning processes. Additionally, planners do profit from the participation of public. By the example of charging station for e-bikes, the participatory planning process is shown in this ...

Urban rail transit is a widely applied mean of transportation in many cities around the world. In China, numerous are constructing their metro lines to improve capability its and infrastructure. But because investment needed such project colossal, State Council Beijing once criticized this type for being wasteful detaching from actual demand economic growth. Consequently, doubts on effects brou...

land use is often referred as the basis for urban planning. perhaps the main reason is that the discussion of fundamental related to urban planning objectives has play the first role in the land use studies. basic topics such as proper location, optimal allocation, diversification, functionality and … which are in direct contact with comfort goals, are the last objectives of urban planners and ...