Collaborative Geodesign for Alternative-Fuel Station Location using “Collablocation” Software

Kuby, Michael; Bailey, Keiron; Wei, Fangwu; Fowler, John W.; Tong, Daoqin; Zhong, Qing; López, Oscar Pastor; Sheaffer, William W.

doi:10.1177/0361198118790375

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“…Geo-design combines geography with design and provides tools to support decisionmaking. Geo-design is a holistic approach that has been increasingly applied over the last five years in design, landscaping, transportation, and land-use planning studies [29][30][31]. Nonetheless, to the best of our knowledge, no bicycling studies have applied this approach.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Nonetheless, to the best of our knowledge, no bicycling studies have applied this approach. For instance, a geo-design approach has been used in designing the fuel station network in the southwestern U.S.; developing an open-sourced platform for facilitating interactive and collaborative development scenarios with spatial data layers and the evaluation of the network performances, named Collablocation [31]. In a similar study, Kazak et al (2019) [32] used a geo-design framework to engage citizens in planning public transport processes to verify the suitability of the planning support systems, such as CommunityViz, to create public transport facilities scenarios.…”

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Geo-Design in Planning for Bicycling: An Evidence-Based Approach for Collaborative Bicycling Planning

Zare

Pettit

Leão

et al. 2022

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In recent times, cities have increasingly promoted bicycling as a mode of transport as part of their strategy to develop a more sustainable transportation system. Australia is one of the countries that seeks to promote bicycling in a significant manner. There are two primary barriers faced in this effort. The first is the organizational complexity of planning and of implementing cycling-related projects, which can span across different agencies in government at various levels, from federal to local. Second is the lack of a clear framework for effectively planning a bicycling network using multiple data and tools available to these agencies within a limited budget. This study investigates the use of a geo-design-based, collaborative, and data-driven framework for planning bicycling networks, which brings various stakeholders, such as transport planners, urban designers, and academics, into the planning practice, thus overcoming the mentioned barriers. Geo-design is an environmental design framework for complex problems involving the collaboration of different teams and stakeholders, supported by digital computing and communication technologies. To the best of our knowledge, there is no study in the literature applying the geo-design approach for bicycling planning. Therefore, this study aims to develop and test a geo-design framework for planning bicycling networks to examine possible design scenarios and facilitate decision-making processes. In this regard, this study developed a geo-design framework for planning for bicycling using various bicycling-related datasets and digital tools, such as the Agent-Based Model. Then, it applied the framework to design a real-world bicycle network through a geo-design workshop while examining the usefulness and effectiveness of the developed procedures and tools. Policymakers attended the geo-design workshop from the local government authority of the case study area, Penrith, and post-graduate level urban planning students from UNSW. Due to COVID-19-related restrictions, the workshop was held in a hybrid format, with half of the participants joining online. The results of this study revealed that by facilitating collaboration and applying data-driven approaches, the proposed geo-design bicycling framework could improve the process of planning for bicycling infrastructure. This study also enabled the research team to understand the strengths and limitations of the developed framework and associated tools, which will help to optimize them for other planning practices in the future.

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Geo-Design in Planning for Bicycling: An Evidence-Based Approach for Collaborative Bicycling Planning

Zare

Pettit

Leão

et al. 2022

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“…Locating point-based infrastructure facilities on a transportation network contrasts with assigning land uses to polygons, which has been the predominant aim of geodesign studies to date. Kuby et al [65] originally developed Collablocation for a geodesign workshop for locating a network of compressed natural gas (CNG) refueling facilities for long-distance truck travel in the US southwest. In this paper, we adapted the Collablocation platform to the task of locating HRSs at the metropolitan scale in Hartford and included the layers described in Table 3.…”

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Hydrogen Station Location Planning via Geodesign in Connecticut: Comparing Optimization Models and Structured Stakeholder Collaboration

Jaramillo

Rinebold²,

Kuby

et al. 2021

Energies

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Geodesign is a participatory planning approach in which stakeholders use geographic information systems to develop and vet alternative design scenarios in a collaborative and iterative process. This study is based on a 2019 geodesign workshop in which 17 participants from industry, government, university, and non-profit sectors worked together to design an initial network of hydrogen refueling stations in the Hartford, Connecticut, metropolitan area. The workshop involved identifying relevant location factors, rapid prototyping of station network designs, and developing consensus on a final design. The geodesign platform, which was designed specifically for facility location problems, enables breakout groups to add or delete stations with a simple point-and-click operation, view and overlay different map layers, compute performance metrics, and compare their designs to those of other groups. By using these sources of information and their own expert local knowledge, participants recommended six locations for hydrogen refueling stations over two distinct phases of station installation. We quantitatively and qualitatively compared workshop recommendations to solutions of three optimal station location models that have been used to recommend station locations, which minimize travel times from stations to population and traffic or maximize trips that can be refueled on origin–destination routes. In a post-workshop survey, participants rated the workshop highly for facilitating mutual understanding and information sharing among stakeholders. To our knowledge, this workshop represents the first application of geodesign for hydrogen refueling station infrastructure planning.

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“…Several studies have reported on the utility to stakeholders of PSS tools [22][23][24]. The other aspect of usefulness, useability, has been evaluated and documented by Afrooz, et al [25], Debnath, Pettit, Leao and Lock [20], and Kuby, et al [26].…”

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Usefulness of an Urban Growth Model in Creating Scenarios for City Resilience Planning: An End-User Perspective

Debnath,

Pettit,

Soundararaj

et al. 2023

IJGI

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Urban growth models are increasingly being used to generate scenarios within city and regional planning support systems (PSS). However, their usefulness in land use planning applications, particularly in city resilience planning, is not fully understood. Thus, we developed a cellular automata model using Metronamica PSS for the Greater Sydney region and assessed its usefulness as perceived by planning and policy practitioners. The study was implemented through a collaborative geodesign workshop where participants (n = 19) were guided to an understanding of the modelling process and to create and validate alternative policy scenarios for 2050 that reflected Business-As-Usual, Bushfire resilience, Flood resilience, and Combined resilience. We conducted two surveys and a SWOT analysis to assess the usefulness of the PSS and its outputs. We found that the PSS created credible scenarios using collaborative inputs from the participants. The PSS had perceived value for informing participants about land use changes in the resilience planning contexts with high flexibility and granularity. The plausibility of the scenario outputs, a usefulness parameter, was readily accepted, but the model’s transparency (another parameter) was seen as potentially inhibiting application in real-world planning. Future research should involve a broader audience, including the local community, in analysing the usefulness of PSS.

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Collaborative Geodesign for Alternative-Fuel Station Location using “Collablocation” Software

Cited by 10 publications

References 31 publications

Geo-Design in Planning for Bicycling: An Evidence-Based Approach for Collaborative Bicycling Planning

Geo-Design in Planning for Bicycling: An Evidence-Based Approach for Collaborative Bicycling Planning

Hydrogen Station Location Planning via Geodesign in Connecticut: Comparing Optimization Models and Structured Stakeholder Collaboration

Usefulness of an Urban Growth Model in Creating Scenarios for City Resilience Planning: An End-User Perspective

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