Abstract
GIS for Valuation of Urban Sprawl and Green Transportation
Track: Sustainable Development and Humanitarian Affairs
Author
Research deals with contemporary urban system and namely with urban sprawl, examining one of the possible policy responses to worldwide city over-expansion, addressed by international organizations to wrestling sprawl to the ground, i.e. a better organization of public infrastructure system.
Research, strategically supported by key GIS tools, investigates the eventual relationship between urban expansions and: demographic dynamics; degree of accessibility and mobility; territorial economy.
A Geodatabase of settlements, related population, infrastructures, and transport system has been built-up. Alternative future scenarios in the real world have been designed for an entire region.
Research, focusing on a Case Study in Calabria region, Italy, performs: sprawl measurements; economic analysis; cost estimate of infrastructure interventions; Multi Criteria Valuations of transportation scenarios.
First results show that an integrated green infrastructure and transportation system can help treasuring the existing settlements and, so doing, reduce sprawl, improve mobility and economy, lower energy consumption and CO2 emissions
Antonino BARBALACE
University of Reggio Calabria
25 Via Melissari
Reggio Calabria, Italy 89124
Italy
Phone: 393316279568
Fax: 390965385222
E-mail: ninobarbalace@gmail.com