Planning Support Systems Best Practice and New Methods

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Part 0

   1. Planning Support Systems: Content, Issues and Trends

      • Stan Geertman, John Stillwell

      Pages 1-26

3. Application and Assessment of Existing PSS

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27

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   2. A Use-Driven Approach to Large-Scale Urban Modelling and Planning Support

      • Brian Deal, Varkki Pallathucheril

      Pages 29-51

   3. Future Land-use in The Netherlands: Evaluation of the National Spatial Strategy

      • Ton C. M. de Nijs

      Pages 53-67

   4. A Planning Support System Toolkit Approach for Formulating and Evaluating Land-use Change Scenarios

      • Christopher J. Pettit, Ray Wyatt

      Pages 69-90

4. Design, Development and Implementation of Recent PSS

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91

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   2. A Motor Vehicle Safety Planning Support System: The Houston Experience

      • Ned Levine

      Pages 93-111

   3. Elbe DSS: A Planning Support System for Strategic River Basin Planning

      • Bernhard M. Hahn, Sebastian Kofalk, Jean-luc De Kok, Jürgen Berlekamp, Mariele Evers

      Pages 113-136

   4. The Emission Inventory Water: A Planning Support System for Reducing Pollution Emissions in the Surface Waters of Flanders

      • Leen Van Esch, Greta Vos, Liliane Janssen, Guy Engelen

      Pages 137-157

   5. An Integrated Discussion Support System for New Dutch Flood Risk Management Strategies

      • Noor van der Hoeven, Jeroen Aerts, Hanneke van der Klis, Eric Koomen

      Pages 159-174

   6. A Spatial Planning Support System for Managing Bangalore's Urban Sprawl

      • H. S. Sudhira, T. V. Ramachandra

      Pages 175-190

   7. GRAS: A Spatial Decision Support System for Green Space Planning

      • Claudia Pelizaro, Theo Arentze, Harry Timmermans

      Pages 191-208

5. New Methods for Planning Support

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209

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   2. Agent-Based Modelling: A Dynamic Scenario Planning Approach to Tourism PSS

      • Peter A. Johnson, Renee Sieber

      Pages 211-226

   3. Google Maps Mashups for Local Public Health Service Planning

      • Maurizio Gibin, Pablo Mateos, Jakob Petersen, Phil Atkinson

      Pages 227-242

   4. ArcGIS Processing Models for Regional Environmental Planning in Bavaria

      • Jörg Schaller, Thomas Gehrke, Nathan Strout

      Pages 243-264

   5. Geo-Information Technologies in Support of Environmental and Landscape Planning

      • Mariolina Besio, Nadia Quadrelli

      Pages 265-292

6. Participation and Collaboration in PSS

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 293-293

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   2. Enhancing Comprehensive Planning with Public Engagement and Planning Support Integration

      • Scott N. Lieske, Steve Mullen, Jeffrey D. Hamerlinck

      Pages 295-315

Planning Support Systems: Retrospect and Prospect It has been nearly twenty years since the term ‘planning support systems’ (PSS) first appeared in an article by Britton Harris (Harris 1989) and more than ten years since the concept was more broadly introduced in the academic literature (Harris and Batty 1993; Batty 1995; Klosterman 1997). As a result, the publication of a new book on PSS provides an excellent opportunity to assess past progress in the field and speculate on future developments. PSS have clearly become very popular in the academic world. This is the fourth edited book devoted to the topic following Brail and Klosterman (2001), Geertman and Stillwell (2003), and a third by Brail (2008). Papers devoted to PSS have been published in the leading planning journals and the topic has become a regular theme at academic conferences around the world; it has even spawned intellectual o- spring such as spatial planning and decision support systems (SPDSS) and public participationplanning support systems (PP-PSS). However, as Geertman and Stillwell point out in their introductory chapter, the experience with PSS in the world of professional practice has been disappointing. A substantial number of PSS have been developed but most of them are academic p- totypes or ‘one off’ professional applications that have not been adopted elsewhere.

• ArcGIS
• Computers
• Geo-technology
• Geographical information systems
• Geoinformationssysteme
• Modelling
• Planning
• Planning support systems (PSS)
• Spatial planning
• integration
• spatial decision support system
• world regional geography
• landscape/regional and urban planning

“A superb addition to the literature on planning support systems (PSS). This book is a “must read” for the urban planning researcher or practitioner who wants to keep current in this rapidly evolving field.” Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, volume 3, issue 1, 2011.

• Fac. Geosciences, Utrecht University, TC Utrecht, The Netherlands

  Stan Geertman

• School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

  John Stillwell

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