Spatiotemporal modelling for integrated spatial and energy planning

Integrated Spatial Optimization Model for Re-newable Energy Planning

Renewable Energy is becoming more and more fundamental for the supply of the increasing global energy demand but, it poses some issues concerning the identification of the buildable land, the estimate of its exploitable potential, the integration into the power grid and the setting of efficient energy policies. Addressing these aspects requires interdisciplinary planning that can be integrated ...

Planning for Protected Areas Using Spatial and Temporal Metrics

City Planning Using Integrated Urban Modelling

This paper explores the use of weighted space syntax models to contribute to the process of integrated urban planning for Jeddah as part of a major planning project in the Saudi Arabia. The Municipality of Jeddah commissioned the production of an integrated suite of planning documents. These plans coordinate Strategic, Sub-Regional, Structural and Local plans across a citywide region and aim to...

Energy-aware integrated process planning and scheduling for job shops

Process planning that is based on environmental consciousness and energy-efficient scheduling currently plays a critical role in sustainable manufacturing processes. Despite their interrelationship, these two topics have often been considered to be independent of each other. It therefore would be beneficial to integrate process planning and scheduling for an integrated energy-efficient optimisa...

Modelling Spatial Relations’ Influence on Planning

Recent studies on the planning problem Rush-Hour showed that certain spatial properties among the game’s elements affect human planning and bias it towards a suboptimal solution. A cognitive model that solves Rush-Hour problems has been implemented with the goal of better understanding this effect. The ACT-R framework has been chosen as the foundation for this experiment. The model has been eva...