Road infrastructure plays an important role in the economic and social development of societies. Thus, it requires effective timely responses to cope with embrace uncertain future changes. This study proposes integrated, scenario-based strategic model which estimates transport demand, network performance, emission, energy consumption. The accounts for economic, behavioral, policy, technological...

This paper describes an extended framework for scenario based spatial decision support for constructing new network infrastructure and its application in the domains of telecommunication, forestry and energy. There is an increasing need to provide new planning paradigms to support very expensive strategic investment decisions in new network infrastructure in these domains. The planning processe...

Rangelands are one of the most vulnerable parts concerning the climatechanges‟ impacts. These impacts are even stronger in the arid and semi-arid areas whererangeland ecosystems are in critical conditions. Therefore, it is crucial to figure out theactual dynamics of climate variations on the rangelands. The aim of this research was todetermine climate changes in Khabr rangeland, Kerman, Iran. S...

Hugh Courtney is a lecturer at the University of Maryland’s R.H. Smith School of Business, a senior fellow at the Mack Center for Technological Innovation at The Wharton School, and a management consultant ([email protected]). He is the author of 20/20 Foresight: Crafting Strategy in an Uncertain World, Harvard Business School Press, 2001. S cenario planning would seem to be the perfect...

This paper presents a scenario-based approach to strategic environmental assessment (SEA) for wetland trend analysis and land use and land cover (LUC) modeling in an urban environment. The application is focused on the Saskatoon urban environment, a rapidly growing urban municipality in Canada’s prairie pothole region. Alternative future LUC was simulated using remote sensing data and city spat...

Antti Lindqvist Engendering Group Support Based Foresight for Capital Intensive Manufacturing Industries Case Paper and Steel Industry Scenarios by 2018 Lappeenranta 2009 251 p. Acta Universitatis Lappeenrantaensis 364 Diss. Lappeenranta University of Technology ISBN 978-952-214-853-7, ISBN 978-952-214-854-4 (PDF) ISSN 1456-4491 In recent times of global turmoil, the need for uncertainty manage...

this article aims at strategic vision to technology and suggests a strategic planning for this purpose. the main emphasis in this article is on strategic report compilation in the framework of strategic vision and covers issues such as identification of strategic planning dimensions and strategic vision levels, technology priority setting, environment monitoring, focus on costumer needs, method...

This work presents a methodological approach for modelling the evolution of the hybrid demand order flow pattern over long time horizons. The hybrid demand is the result of the mutual interaction between the e-commerce and the traditional demand. Thus, its modelling requires a complex analysis at various aggregation levels. More specifically, it is necessary to establish the quantitative modell...