THE USE OF SPATIAL IMPACT MODELS IN PHYSICAL PLANNING

This paper focuses attention on impact analysis as a tool for regional and urban decision making, and describes the manner in which a variety of spatial phenomena are affected by changes in key elements of the spatial system. These phenomena include socio-economic, spatial and ecological-environmental elements, and emphasis is laid upon coherence among these elements. The analysis then focuses upon the public policy aspects of a spatial system, and particular attention is paid to a decision framework in which a multiplicity of (competing or conflicting) criteria plays a role. Empirical applications at a regional scale are used as illustrations.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Proceedings of Seminar E, Urban and Regional Models for Public Policy Analysis, Summer Annual Meeting, University of Warwick, England, July 1975.
• Corporate Authors:

  Planning and Transport Res and Computation Co Ltd

  167 Oxford Street
  London W1R 1AH,   England 
• Authors:
  • Nijkamp, P
• Publication Date: 1975-7

Media Info

• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 146-158
• Serial:
  • Publication of: International Ergonomics Association
  • Publisher: International Ergonomics Association

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: City planning; Decision making; Environmental impacts; Mathematical models; Public policy; Regional planning; Socioeconomic factors; Traffic distribution
• Uncontrolled Terms: Models; Socioeconomic data
• Subject Areas: Economics; Environment; Highways; Policy; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00149527
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Proceeding
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 30 1977 12:00AM