Siting new energy infrastructure projects to meet growing demand is becoming increasingly contentious and costly. This paper explicates the design and results of the Sustainable Energy Modeling Program (SEMPro), a decision support system for energy infrastructure siting. SEMPro makes two contributions to planning decision support: first, SEMPro fuses geographical information system data with a ...

Landfill siting is of primordial interest in waste management. As the size of modern cities grows along with the shifts in demographics and composition of solid wastes, it has become important to choose the location of a waste disposal area in a way that insures long-term usability, environmental impact minimization and other considerations; these considerations can vary greatly among cases and...

We assessed public opinion on nutrition-related policies to address child obesity: a soda tax, restrictions on advertising unhealthy foods and beverages to children, and restrictions on siting fast food restaurants and convenience stores near schools. We analyzed data from 998 adults (aged ≥18 years) in the 2011 Los Angeles County Health Survey. Support was highest for advertising restrictions ...

the iranian ministry of energy commands the regional electrical companies to install dg resources at 63kv/20kv substations and at the end of 20kv lines. the first and foremost challenge in installing these resources is deciding on the optimal place and capacity of these resources. this paper is aimed to propose an appropriate algorithm for siting and sizing such resources in bakhtar regional el...

This paper presents an experimental study of a new algorithm that synthesizes separate programs, for fast viewshed, and for fast approximate visibility index determination, into a working testbed for siting multiple observers jointly to cover terrain from a full level-1 DEM, and to do it so quickly that multiple experiments are easily possible. Both the observer and target may be at a given fix...

In this paper, the problem of siting controllers developed based on a nonlinear power system model is addressed. Emphasis is placed on improving transient response of the power system using limited number of controllers located at well selected sites. A performance index that measures quantitatively transient response of each generator and consequently effects of controllers is introduced. The ...

The primary goal of the National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) study, BAYESIAN INTEGRATION FOR MARINE SPATIAL PLANNING AND RENEWABLE ENERGY SITING is to develop a multicriteria decision support tool that improves the quality of information upon which marine spatial planning decisions are made. The project team’s goal is to develop a decision support tool that integrates scientific, e...