Planning, Residential Decisions and Energy Use in Vienna

Abstract

Urban planning must address both a changing urban population size and increasing sustainability issues in terms of providing good socioeconomic and environmental living conditions. Households play a major role in that they are affected by urban planning decisions but are partly responsible for the environmental performance (e.g., energy use) of a city. Here, we present an agent-based decision model of the city of Vienna, the capital of Austria, with a population of approximately 1.7 million. The model results are used to assess the spatial patterns of energy use caused by different household types. The outcomes show that changes in households' preferences regarding the presence of nearby green areas have the most important impact on the distribution of households across the smallscaled city area. Additionally, the results demonstrate the importance of the distribution of different household types regarding spatial patterns of energy use.

An Agent Cellular Residential Mobility Model : From Functional and Conceptual View

“…Although urban models, particularly those of residential mobility, are not simple in design and development, researchers are increasingly relying on previous approaches and are increasingly involved in this new framework of the alliance of MAS-CA approaches. Among the most important models, we could find [1] [20] [4]. These residential mobility models are generally based on similar theoretical frameworks (with of course, specific features of each model) derived mainly from advances in the social and environmental sciences.…”

“…Residential mobility is an urban phenomenon that has been the subject of research in several disciplines, starting with sociology, demography, geography, planning and urban planning [1] [2] [3] [4]. It is characterized by residential movements, both individual movements (decision to move and housing choice) and aggregated ones (population flows) of an urban population.…”