Planning Support Systems in Practice

From the reviews: "This volume provides the first worldwide overview of Planning Support Systems (PSS) and of their application in practice. ... It provides an Internet-based worldwide inventory of innovative examples and successful applications of PSS in a number of different planning contexts. In depth insight into the purposes, content, workings, and applications of a very wide diversity of PSS is given. References to URLs where additional information can be obtained are very useful." (Planning Studies Centre, December, 2004)

• 1 Planning Support Systems: An Introduction.- 1: Systems and Technologies for Enhancing Participation in the Planning Process.- 2 Interactive Support Systems for Participatory Planning.- 3 Public Participation via On-line Democracy.- 4 Web-based Tools and Interfaces for Participatory Planning and Design.- 5 Community Engagement in Land Use Planning Through Web-based Technologies.- 6 Tools for Community Design and Decision-making.- 2: Tools for Supporting the Planning Process.- 7 The Planner’s TOOLBOX: A Web-based Support System for Sustainable Development.- 8 STEPP: A Strategic Tool for Integrating Environmental Aspects into Planning Procedures.- 9 Flowmap: A Support Tool for Strategic Network Analysis.- 10 Geovisualisation for Planning Support Systems.- 11 Key to Virtual Insight: A 3D GIS and Virtual Reality System.- 12 Cellular Automata and Multi-agent Systems as Planning Support Tools.- 13 The Application of Case-based Reasoning in Development Control.- 14 Fuzzy Algorithms to Support Spatial Planning.- 3: Support Systems for Strategic Planning.- 15 A Migration Modelling System to Support Government Decision-making.- 16 Spatial Decision Support Systems for Petrol Forecourts.- 17 An Urbanisation Monitoring System for Strategic Planning.- 18 An On-line Planning Support System to Evaluate Urban and Regional Planning Scenarios.- 4: Support Systems for Land Use and Infrastructure Planning.- 19 Models for Assessing the Effects of Community Change on Land Use Patterns.- 20 The New Jersey (USA) Growth Allocation Model: Development, Evaluation and Extension.- 21 Using an Operational Planning Support System to Evaluate Farmland Preservation Policies.- 22 Development of the Klang Valley Regional Planning Support System.- 23 The LiNC Viewer: An Information System Designed toAssist with Land Reform.- 24 The SPARTACUS System for Defining and Analysing Sustainable Urban Land Use and Transport Policies.- 25 An Infrastructure Potential Cost Model for Integrated Land Use and Infrastructure Planning.- 5: Support Systems for Environmental Planning.- 26 The Environmental Information System: A Data Analysis and Presentation Tool.- 27 DESIMA: A Decision Support Tool for Integrated Coastal Zone Management.- 28 WadBOS: Integrating Knowledge to Support Policy-making for the Wadden Sea.- 29 A Planning Support System for Policy Formulation in Water Resources Rehabilitation.- Figures.- Tables.- List of Contributors.