LANDUSE TRANSPORT INTERACTION MODELS

Within the field of land use transport modelling, the general planning model, topaz, can be applied for optimal allocation of land uses, taking interactions between land and its development and between different land uses into account. The first of these interactions defines the benefits and costs of establishing and operating each land use. The second evaluates the costs of interactions between land uses for given transport network scenarios. These interactions may be flows of people and goods, which produce pollutants or externalities resulting from non compatible land uses. The model has been used at several levels: at the urban and regional levels where costs include development and infrastructure costs as well as transport costs; at the building and building complex levels where costs include building and partitioning costs and costs of pedestrian movements by passages, stairs and elevators, flows of information and flows of conditioned air. Increasingly powerful and intelligent techniques for optimisation are being developed for use in these models. The relationship of this approach to predictive models, including the conventional lowry model, and recent revisions of this model are discussed. Certain new modelling work has been done to relate the two principal theoretical bases for demand prediction -the utility maximising or classical microeconomic, behavioural approach, and the entropy maximising or information theory statistical approach. Hierarchical and nested models are shown to be essential for connecting different levels of decisions, and different decision groups. The behavioural models may be used to predict urban development as a whole, travel responses to a given development, or usage of particular facilities. They also apply to communication traffic between activities. Conceptually they may also be used for interdependent land use, travel and communication choices. The prediction of demand for a new transport system such as fast rail, and the land use impacts of this system can each be predicted in this way (a).

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  Barton, A.C.T.,   Australia 
• Authors:
  • ROY, J R
  • Brotchie, J F
  • Sharpe, R
  • Anderson, M
  • Mashford, J
• Publication Date: 1989-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 73-9
• Serial:
  • TRANSACTIONS OF THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS, AUST
  • Volume: GE13
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Institution of Engineers
  • ISSN: 0819-0259

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benefit cost analysis; Communications; Costs; Demand; Development; Economics; Forecasting; Land use; Mathematical models; Motion; Networks; Operating costs; Pedestrians; Planning; Pollution; Traffic; Transportation; Travel; Urban areas
• Uncontrolled Terms: Transportation networks
• ITRD Terms: 9098: Communication; 224: Cost; 226: Cost benefit analysis; 285: Demand (econ); 9013: Development; 255: Economics; 132: Forecast; 698: Journey; 356: Land use; 6473: Mathematical model; 5483: Movement; 1054: Network (traffic); 221: Operating costs; 1733: Pedestrian; 143: Planning; 755: Traffic; 1155: Transport; 313: Urban area
• Subject Areas: Economics; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00497868
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Sep 30 1990 12:00AM