| id |
DDSS2006-PB-135 |
| authors |
Theo A. Arentze, Aloys W.J. Borgers, and Harry J.P. Timmermans |
| year |
2006 |
| title |
A Heuristic Method for Land-Use Plan Generation in Planning Support Systems |
| source |
Van Leeuwen, J.P. and H.J.P. Timmermans (eds.) 2006, Progress in Design & Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning, Eindhoven: Eindhoven University of Technology, ISBN-10: 90-386-1756-9, ISBN-13: 978-90-386-1756-5, p. 135-151 |
| summary |
Existing land-use allocation methods assume that the suitability of a spatial distribution of land-uses can be measured as the sum of suitability scores across parcels. Although this may be plausible for some land-uses, facilities such as retailing, schools, medical services, etc., intend to serve the needs of a local population and should be evaluated at the level of a facility network, instead. The purpose of the present paper is to develop a method that combines a suitable heuristic for facility-location planning with an existing mechanism for land-use allocation, to solve this shortcoming of existing models. In specific, the proposed method combines the interchange heuristic for locating facilities and a swapping heuristic for area-type land-use allocation in a multi-agent framework. A case study shows that the method generates plausible land-use plans in reasonable computation time. |
| keywords |
Urban planning, Planning support systems, Location-allocation models, Suitability analysis |
| series |
DDSS |
| full text |
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| last changed |
2006/08/29 12:55 |
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