| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/M62976/01 |
| Title: |
THE SUSTAINABLE TOWN CENTRE:DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS FOR URBAN PLANNERS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Batty, Professor M |
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Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis |
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UCL |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 October 1999 |
Ends: |
31 March 2002 |
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110,133
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Town centres are a focal point in late 20th century Britain for issues concerning sustainability. Building on our work for DETR, we will design a user-friendly decision support system (DSS) for evaluating town centre sustainability. The GIS-based system we already have is designed to simply monitor performance statistically but using the same logic, we will build a new system based on appropriate indicators (emissions, frastructure, enviromental quality etc.) which will enable decision-makers to ask what if questions concerning the impact of land use and infrastructure change on sustainability. We will integrate existing macro- and micro- urban throuth the data-layer approach which is central to our existing tool.We will demonstrate the model for Swindon and Wolverhampton where there are excellent data at a fine spatial scale, and where exisiting macro-land use/transport models (TRANUS) and micro-pedestrian models (SWARM) for those places are easy to incorporatento the DSS. We will underpin the software with qualitive data from URBED and the Civic Trust and we will develop the system with local users having a strong say in its structure and how it might be used.Building, Design, Energy, Information Technology, Operations Research, Software Engineering, Transport.
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