The point of departure for this paper is the 1999 UN-FIG Bathurst Declaration which called for the re-engineering of the land administration systems, through the proper use of information and telecommunication technologies (ICT). This paper argues that to implement the Bathurst Declaration is essentially moving to provide e-Land Administration (electronicLand Administration). e-Land Administrat...

The objective of this paper is to present a GIS-based multivariatc application for l:lnd suitabiiity assessment with a public part¡cipation base. The approach takes into account the issues and concerns of the stakeholders, and employ~ a mult¡variate statistical procedure for classifying~.I~~d~nits into land suitability groups. according to sectoral interests. sets of spatlal algorithms are inco...

Botswana recently embarked on an effort to improve its National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). This paper takes an example of the country’s effort to improve information for land administration and the problems this effort has had because of a poor spatial data infrastructure. It then discussed how the current effort is likely to have impact on the organization of information for land mana...

Smallholder teak (Tectona grandis) plantations have been identified as a potentially valuable component of upland farming systems in northern Laos that can contribute to a “livelihood transition” from subsistence-oriented swidden agriculture to a more commercially-oriented farming system, thereby bringing about a “forest transition” at the landscape scale. In recent years, teak smallholdings ha...

It is increasingly recognized that the land-use change, especially urbanization has influenced hydrological attributes intensely. But in most urban designs, flood prediction is considered through type of land use (residential, industrial, and so on) and density. However, experiences show that this method has not been very successful. As a result, the present study aims to investigate and explor...

The objective of this paper is to review object-oriented (OO) approaches to data modeling and data handling and their usefulness in transportation planning and modeling in general and Intelligent Transportation Systems in particular. The paper begins with a discussion of the current GIS data model for representing a transportation network and the most common database management systems used in ...

Transportation planning research has been fundamentally transformed by the advancement of spatial cyberinfrastructure (CI) and other planning information technologies. This is no better exemplified than by the evolution of online transit trip planning systems. This paper describes the progression of online transit trip planning systems as a result of innovations in cyberinfrastructure, from the...

Where to get data for urban planning and management is one issue, but how to manage these data is still a challenging task. This article focuses on the technical issue of managing data. The core data for urban planning are land-use data, which, if updated frequently, raises the issue of structuring, storing, querying, and displaying the data. Modeling, querying, and displaying changes in land-u...