Systems to support planning and territory management

Recommended Prerequisites

Operations Research / System Analysis; Urban and Regional Planning; Transportation Planning.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical classes including detailed lecturing, using audio-visual means.

Learning Outcomes

The course introduces quantitative methods, formal models and decision support systems applied to urban and regional scale systems under a system and muldimensional framework.

The development of scientific approaches for analyzing urban and territorial systems encompassing the consideration of sustainability requirements with environmental, social and economic concerns is addressed. The advantages of using methodological approaches based on modern information technologies are addressed, as well as the use of spatial decision support systems. The advantages of multicriteria and multiobjective modeling approaches in the analysis of complex real problems are emphasized.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Identification and analysis of the relevant aspects for planning and management of multifunctional spaces at urban and regional scales.

Spatial decision making analysis. Identification and structuring of information (and geoinformation) required for decision making. Using modeling approaches supporting multiple dimensions of reality (i.e., multicriteria and multiobjective models), uncertainty and multiple actors. Methods for analyzing problems swith a finite known number of alternatives under a multicriteria framework. Methods of generating and analyzing solutions in conception/project problems (multiobjective analysis). The analysis in both the geographical space and the objective space. Web-based urban decision support systems. Applications in facility location, location/allocation, routing, network planning, urban management, etc.

Assessment Methods

Continuous
the production and hand-in of the respective reports, and oral presentation subjected to questions where knowledge transmitted during the course is also evaluated.: 100.0%

Bibliography

Belton, S;T.Stewart - Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis, Kluwer Acad. Pub., 2002.

Brail, R. (Ed.) - Planning Support Systems for Cities and Regions, Lincoln ILP, 2008.

Brail, R.;R.Klosterman (Editors) - Planning Support Systems, ESRI, 2001.

Cohon J. - Multiobjective Programming and Planning, Acad. Press, NY, 1978.

Geertman, S.;J.Stillwell, Harold (Eds.) - Planning Support Systems Best Practice and New Methods, Springer, GeoJournal Lib, Vol. 95, 2009.

Klosterman, R.; R.Brail - Planning Support Systems, ESRI, 2001.

Longley, P.; M.Goodchild; D. Maguire; D. Rhind (Ed.) - GIS and Science, Wiley, NY, 2005.

Nijkamp, P.; P.Rietveld; H.Voogd - Multicriteria Evaluation in Physical Planning, North-Holland, 1990.

Steuer, R. - Multiple Criteria Optimization: Theory, Computation and Application. Wiley, 1986.

Timmermans, H. - Decision Support Systems in Urban Planning, E&FN Spon, 1997.

Tzeng, G.; J.Huang - Multiple Attribute Decision Making Methods and Applications, CRC Press, 2011.