Monday, January 26, 2009

Modeling Urban Development for Land Use, Transportation, and Environment Planning

Metropolitan areas have come under intense pressure to respond to federal mandates to link planning of land use, transportation, and environmental quality, and from citizen concerns about managing the side effects of growth such as sprawl, congestion, housing affordability, and lost of the open space. The planning organizations were generally not designed to address these issues, creating a gap in the ability of planners to systematiccally assecc them. UrbamSim is anew model system that was developed to respond to these emerging requirements has now been applied in three metropolitan areas. This article describes the model system and its appplication to Eugene-Springfield, Oregon.

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