Congestion pricing has been regarded as an effective method of reducing network-wide travel cost. Previous work on the toll-design problem focused on the deterministic case, that is, it is assumed that travelers have perfect information on the cost of traveling on every route of the network and...

There has been much research over the past decade on aspects of bus-transit-system service and performance. Common to studies is the necessity that the population served by systems be estimated. Usually this entails delineating areas for which demand is covered through the use of geographic...

This paper reports on a number of inconsistencies that appear in space syntax -- a well-known technique of urban analysis -- when dealing with certain geometrical configurations. At a simple level, the analysis of regularly gridded urban textures (such as Manhattan's) reveals the difficulty of...

Current planning policy in England enables local planning authorities to require housing developments above a certain size to include a proportion of 'affordable' housing. The policy has social objectives (that is, to create 'mixed' communities and reduce the potential for the 'ghettoisation' of...

An understanding of the dynamic process of urban growth is a prerequisite to the prediction of land-cover change and the support of urban development planning and sustainable growth management. The spatial and temporal complexity inherent in urban growth requires the development of a new...

The authors present an integrated GIS tool, Accessibility Analyst, for accessibility analysis in urban transportation planning, built as an extension to the desktop GIS software package, ArcView. Accessibility Analyst incorporates a number of accessibility measures, ranging from catchment...

A new paradigm for investigating the environment consequences of urban texture is proposed. Using raster-based models and software algorithms derived from image processing the authors develop efficient methods of measuring geometric parameters and predicting radiation exchange. The possibilities...

One of the main limitations for the functional scalability of automated design systems is the representation used for encoding designs. I argue that <i>generative representations</i>, those which are capable of reusing elements of the encoded design in the translation to the actual artifact, are better...

During the 1940s a series of remarkable and radical planning documents, generally now collectively referred to as 'reconstruction plans', were produced for many British cities. Universally, these sought to introduce a highly interventionist, comprehensive planning, often with strong elements of...