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Abstract
Web Based Models for Urban Land Use Planning and Management
Track: State and Local Government
Author(s): Ramanathan Sugumaran, Jim Meyer, Eric Compas
One of the biggest global problems faced by our society is urbanization. The tremendous increase in urban population has led to haphazard growth, deterioration of living condition, and worsening of the environment. This phenomenon places a heavy burden on city planners and mangers who struggle to balance competing demands for residential, commercial, and industrial development with imperatives to minimize environmental degradation. In order to effectively manage this development process on a sustainable basis, local planners, and government agencies are increasingly relying on the use of information technologies and spatial modeling techniques. In this presentation, we demonstrate several advanced Web-based decision support models developed using ArcView Internet Map Server for modeling urban growth, identifying the watershed sensitivity, etc., under a variety of user-defined conditions in a rapidly growing urban county. Using a multi-criteria evaluation tool users are able to specify which criteria and what weights the model will use to generate a future scenario. Being Web-based, these models can be used by any interested group or individual, in contrast to other similar tools, which are accessible only to those with the data, expertise, and the computing power to use them.
Ramanathan Sugumaran
University of Missouri-Columbia
sugumaranr@missouri.edu
130 Mumford Hall
Columbia , MO 65211
USA
Phone: 573 884 3706
Fax: 573 884 2199
E-mail: sugumaranr@missouri.edu
Jim Meyer
UMC
130 Mumford hall
Columbia 65211
USA
Phone: 573-884-1558
Eric Compas
University of Wisconsin-Madison
550 Science Hall
Madison
USA
Phone: 608-238-1654