Integrated Transport and Land Use Modeling for Sustainable Cities - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415729106 ISBN 13: 9780415729109

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

Integrated transport and land use models are an increasingly used tool for evaluation of urban policy and large scale projects. Although there is a well-built theoretical background supporting the existing models, there are few exhaustive descriptions of the methodological implications and implementation efforts behind these tools.This handbook describes the modeling effort, methodological contributions, and results of the SustainCity project. SustainCity, financed by the European Union, implemented integrated microsimulation models for European cities, generating a quantitative tool for policy evaluation, specially focused on sustainability issues. The book describes the implementation of an improved, UrbanSim-based platform for three European cities: Brussels, Paris, and Zurich. The analysis is focused on the methodological contributions that resulted from the modeling effort and the practical aspects of microsimulation models as policy evaluation tools.

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About the Author

Professor Michel Bierlaire, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Professor Andre de Palma, Ecole Normale Superieure, Cachan, France

Ricardo Hurtubia, Universidad de Chile, Chile.

Professor Paul Waddell, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415729106
• ISBN 13: 9780415729109
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Bierlaire Michel, De Palma Andre, Hurtubia Ricardo, Waddell Paul