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UPLAN Urban Growth Model (UPLAN)
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ucdavis_uplan
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Summary
Abstract:
The UPLAN Urban Growth Model (UPLAN) provides a land use evaluation and change analysis based on general land-use plans, population and employment projections, characteristics of housing, and other user-defined conditions. It is an integrated package of user-specified attractions that enable users to: 1) conduct a land suitability analysis, and 2) project future land use demand. UPLAN helps communities create alternative visions for their area's future by mapping alternative development patterns determined by local land development policies. Some of the policies and decisions UPLAN addresses include establishing various criteria to "weight" the suitability of different locations for a particular land use, incorporating various land use planning and zoning considerations and other allocation scenarios, and defining various growth scenarios. The model can also be used to determine various environmental and social constraints to growth by modifying the criteria and the associated weights.
The UPLAN model allows the user to develop specific parameters in the form of grids in which to model future land uses. The model allows the user to generate attraction grids, exclusion grids, general plan grids, and existing urban grids. Attractive grids are locations for future development (i.e., near to freeway ramps); exclusion grids, list areas where development should not occur (i.e. parks, waterways etc.); general plan grid is a composite grid of the general plan land use maps from the users region; and existing urban grid provides the current land use conditions. Each grid applies user-defined decision criteria (e.g., identifying and weighting grid factors), to derive study-area conditions. These decision criteria are applied to land use information stored in geographic information system (GIS) data files to create maps and reports showing where future development may occur.
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ISO Topic Category
ENVIRONMENT
IMAGERY/BASE MAPS/EARTH COVER
PLANNING CADASTRE
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Access Constraints
Below are system requirements for the UPLAN Urban Growth Model:
- ArcGIS 9.X
- Spatial Analyst Extension
- MS Excel (for reports)
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Distribution Media
Distribution_Media:
Online
Distribution_Size:
1.28 MB
Fees:
No fees
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Personnel
NATHANIEL
ROTH
Role:
TECHNICAL CONTACT
Email:
neroth at ucdavis.edu
Contact Address:
Dept. of Environmental Science and Policy
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue
City:
Davis
Province or State:
CA
Postal Code:
95616
Country:
USA
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TYLER
B.
STEVENS
Role:
SERF AUTHOR
Phone:
(301) 614-6898
Fax:
301-614-5268
Email:
Tyler.B.Stevens at nasa.gov
Contact Address:
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Global Change Master Directory
City:
Greenbelt
Province or State:
MD
Postal Code:
20771
Country:
USA
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Publications/References
Johnston, Robert A. and Tomas de la Barra. 2000. Comprehensive Regional Modeling for Long-Range Planning: Integrated Urban Models and Geographic Information Systems. Transp. Res.: 34A, pp. 125-136.
R.A. Johnston, et al. 2003. “UPlan: A Versatile Urban Growth Model for Transportation Planning.” Transp. Res. Rec. 1831, pp. 202-209.
Johnston, Robert A., Mike McCoy, Marjorie Kirn, and Matthew Fell. 2004. Streamlining the National Environmental Policy Act Process Through Cooperative Local-State-Federal Transportation and Land Use Planning. Transp. Res. Rec. 1880, pp. 135-143.
Thorne, James H., Shengyi Gao, Allan D. Hollander, Jeffery A. Kennedy, Michael McCoy, Robert A. Johnston, and James F. Quinn. 2006. Modeling Potential Species Richness and Urban Buildout to Indentify Mitigation Sites Along A California Highway. Transp. Res.:D., pp, 277-291.
Walker, Thomas, Shengyi Gao, and Robert A. Johnston (forthcoming). UPlan: A discrete choice, supply-side, land use planning model. Transportation Research Record.
Creation and Review Dates
SERF Creation Date:
2010-03-02
SERF Last Revision Date:
2010-03-03
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