Deutsche VersionSustainable Spatial Development
Sustainable Urban Spatial Structures (1993- 1998)
In a project partly supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft a computer simulation model of urban land use and transport development was applied to forecast the impacts of policies to reduce the number of car trips and transport-related emissions of CO2 in the metropolitan region of Dortmund by transport demand management. Two groups of scenarios were simulated: scenarios in which transport planning policies were applied and scenarios in which land use policies were applied. It was shown that a combination of policies to increase the cost of car travel and to improve the quality of public transport would result in a significant reduction of energy consumption and CO2 emissions of urban transport without causing unacceptable losses of mobility or increasing social disparities. Policies to influence the settlement structure without changing the economic framework of mobility would, in comparison, have only minor impacts.
A Summary of Sustainable Urban Spatial Structures can be found here.
Contact: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Wegener
Other projects in this research area:
- REFINA - Integrated residential location information as a contribution to reduce land consumption (2006 - 2010)
- LEAN2 – Local Government Finances and Sustainable Land Management (2006 - 2009)
- Agents, Motives, Driving Power of Urban Sprawl (2005 - 2006)
- ILUMASS: Land Use and Transport (2001 - 2004)
- Integration of Environmental Submodels with the IRPUD Model (1998 - 2004)
- PROPOLIS: Sustainable Spatial Development in European Urban Regions (2000 - 2002)
- Sustainable Mobility in Cities (1997 - 2000)
- TRILAT: Sustainable Transport Planning in Israel and Palestine (1997 - 2000)
- INTERNAT: Strategic Environmental Assessment (1999)
- Products from the Region for the Region (1999)
- Cities of the Future (1997 - 1998)
- Compensation Management (1998)
- Development of Natural Areas in the Lausitz Lignite Mining Region (1995 - 1998)
- Forecast of Road Traffic Noise in Lünen (1998)
- Natural Rain Water Management (1994 - 1998)
- SPARTACUS: System for Planning Urban Sustainability (1996 - 1998)
- Sustainability Indicators (1998)
- Sustainable spatial urban development in Kwangju in South Korea (1995 - 1998)
- Pooling Potential of Work Trips (1991 - 1994)
