Making land use – Transport models operational tools for planning: From a top-down to an end-user approach

Saujot, Mathieu; Lapparent, Matthieu de; Arnaud, Élise; Prados, Emmanuel

doi:10.1016/j.tranpol.2016.03.005

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“…Hence, urban geographers and planners cannot easily capitalize on transport and land use models. This is somehow a rejoinder to Saujot et al (2016) who emphasize a gap between theory and the end-users, although our viewpoint is rather that the outcome of LUTI implementations may not be sufficiently general and robust to transfer between cases with a different urban geographical reality.…”

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confidence: 93%

On the Survival of Butterflies in the Jungle of Urban Systems

Sanders¹,

Thomas

Vacchiani-Marcuzzo

2020

Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis

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In 2005 Gilles Duranton and Andrés Rodriguez-Pose signed a paper entitled « When economists and geographers collide, or the tale of the lions and the butterflies ». Let's briefly recall the demonstration of the two authors, one being a geographical economist, the other an economic geographer. Through analyses of cross citations and behaviors at conferences, they conclude to a relation of "mutual ignorance, rather than outright discord" between the researchers of these two communities. Looking at their scientific approaches, they underline two radically different ways of proceeding: the lions "improving and expanding their tricks", laboring "the same core questions over and over again", and the butterflies "freely flying the fields of knowledge with the aim of tasting the best from every flower they visit". The two authors note that both communities are in fact interested in the same questions (among others, the geography of cities), but that there is very little scientific cross-fertilization At the same period (2007), a similar debate took place in the French scientific journal L'Espace Géographique: Denise Pumain, Jacques-François Thisse, Isabelle Thomas and Bernard Walliser tried to explore the relationship between New Economic Geography and Geography. Jacques-François Thisse conceded at this occasion that "En ce qui concerne les échelles spatiales, il est exact que la plupart des économistes n'ont pas compris grand-chose à cette question 1 ». One specific point in this debate deserves to be focused on, that of spatial scales, that is maybe a major point of discrepancy between lions and butterflies. Indeed, initially (and very broadly said), economists (the lions) were myopic, considering a city as a point on a line (1D), and hence over simplifying urban realities for the sake of rigorous economic theory. At the same time, geographers (the butterflies), more aware of the crucial role of scale, were

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Section: Butterflies Lions and Other Felinesmentioning

confidence: 93%

On the Survival of Butterflies in the Jungle of Urban Systems

Sanders¹,

Thomas

Vacchiani-Marcuzzo

2020

Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis

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“…Transport models have also been further developed to adapt to new policy-issues, including e.g. the effects of land-use on transport demand (land-use and transport interaction models) [24], and representing the behaviours of individuals (activity-based approaches) [25] or firms (logistics behavioural modelling) [26].…”

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Supporting Cities’ Emission Mitigation Strategies: Modelling Urban Transport in a Times Energy System Modelling Framework

Forsberg¹,

Krook‐Riekkola²

2017

WIT Transactions on the Built Environment

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The transport sector is a significant emitter of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and air pollutants in urban areas. How the transport sector evolve during the coming decades will have significant impact on the possibilities to meet tough climate and environmental targets. This makes transportation an important part of cities' Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plans. Still, transportation is somewhat overlooked in many city-level analyses. Energy system optimisation models, like the TIMES modelling framework, are useful tools in identifying energy pathways to reach ambitious energy savings and emission mitigation targets. Based on the identification of urban transport-energy system characteristics, the needs of local governments, and insights from traditional transport models, we propose a partly new representation of the transport sector within a TIMES-City modelling framework, adapting it to the urban transport-energy setting to improve model realism and power of insight. TIMES-City supports analysis of intracity and long-distance passenger and freight transportation, including only the city organisation or the entire administrative city area. Detailed techno-economic-environmental representation of all major existing and emerging modes, technologies and fuels provides basis for consistent long-term analyses. Keywords: energy system optimisation model, urban energy system, urban transports, transportenergy setting, TIMES-City, sustainable energy and climate action plan, sustainable urban mobility plans, local energy policy. INTRODUCTIONThe European Commission (EC) have highlighted cities as the drivers of the European economy, while also emphasizing the importance of well-functioning urban transportation to continue to attract investments and create jobs [1]. However, transportation also bring significant external effects. From a global perspective, emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) is top priority, and transportation accounts for more than 20% of energy-related carbon emissions [2], but locally, air pollutants, congestion, noise, and safety are as important [3]. These emissions are attributed to the currently dominant technologies and fossil fuels. Mitigating emissions calls for comprehensive city-level strategies, assessing feasible and effective measures within the entire spectrum of the avoid-shift-improve framework [4].An operations research approach can be useful to help structure the problem, and identify the system environment, its resources, and decision-makers [5]. When approaching problems of systemic character, mathematical models can be powerful tools for 'mental experiments' aimed at exploring system dynamics in an uncertain future [6]. Hence, comprehensive energy system optimisation models (ESOM) can be useful for cities when identifying energy, climate, and clean air strategies.In this study, a TIMES-based ESOM is adapted and applied to the urban scale. Focus is on the urban transport-energy setting, which is somewhat overlooked or neglected in many urban energy system studies. We attempt...

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“…For urban planners and government policy makers, the integration of these elements (land, people and services) are not taken into account simultaneously [2][3][4]. The above necessities highlight the importance of a decision making tools in urban planning that helps and supports the implementation of sustainable policies [5], [6]. The application of integrated models of urban land and transportation has been discussed in the last decades.…”

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A Mathematical Programing Model for Regional Planning Incorporating Economics, Logistics, Infrastructure and Land Use

Velásquez¹,

Saldaña²,

Gutiérrez-Franco³

2017

Series on Computers and Operations Research

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This work presents a methodology and a technological tool to support regional planning in a city, which considers the economics, the logistics and the land use for a region. It involves the design of integrated mathematical models for allocation of facilities, transportation of people and goods. It meets the demands of goods and services for the main activities of a city, its people and the industry. The methodology considers factors such as: population growth, zoning, geographic mapping, employment, land supply, urban and rural freight flows, allocation of healthcare, education, public space and other social services, and the analysis of the outcomes of land use.

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Making land use – Transport models operational tools for planning: From a top-down to an end-user approach

Cited by 19 publications

References 35 publications

On the Survival of Butterflies in the Jungle of Urban Systems

On the Survival of Butterflies in the Jungle of Urban Systems

Supporting Cities’ Emission Mitigation Strategies: Modelling Urban Transport in a Times Energy System Modelling Framework

A Mathematical Programing Model for Regional Planning Incorporating Economics, Logistics, Infrastructure and Land Use

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