The overall objective of this paper is to show how a formal decision support method can be used effectively to support a land-use planning problem. Central to our approach is a heuristic algorithm based on a goal-programming/reference-point approach. The algorithm is tested on a small region in...

The aim of this paper is to offer a contribution to the study of the relationship between the physical elements of a sidewalk and people’s perception of it by applying the rough sets approach. In previous studies in this context statistical methods such as variance analysis and regression...

A range of forecasts of global oil production made between 1956 and the present day are listed. For the majority of these the methodology used to generate the forecast is described. The paper distinguishes between three types of forecast: group 1—quantitative analyses which predict that...

Construction initiation (CI) of floor area is an important socioeconomic and physical characteristic of urban structure and its evolution. Despite its importance and the availability of CI data, it has not attracted significant attention until now. Since the 1970s, the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality...

The reported research treats interactions between households and generated feedback dynamics in the adoption of various transportation mode alternatives. We consider a model in which an agent’s choice is directly influenced by the percentages of the agent’s neighbors and socioeconomic peers...

Old buildings may be easier to read than modern buildings because they possess visual depth. This is the finding of an experiment that analysed building elevations and newspapers looking for a connection between their character and the size – frequency distribution of their component parts....

Bayesian belief networks offer an alternative to conventional estimation methods in estimating user preference or utility functions. Because parameter estimates are updated sequentially, this approach seems very promising in user-centred design and data collection systems. The application of...

So far, the literature on Internet adoption by retailers has paid little attention to spatial variables. Using data on approximately 12 000 independent retailers, we investigate the geographical diffusion of Internet strategies in the Netherlands. In particular, we examine to what extent...

As the global population becomes increasingly urbanised, so interest has grown in the potential climate change impacts on city infrastructure, services, and environmental quality. However, urban areas are only beginning to be represented explicitly in the land-surface schemes of dynamical...