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Title Sustainable Zoning, Land-Use Allocation and Facility Location Optimisation in Smart Cities
ID_Doc 42340
Authors Hammad, AWA; Akbarnezhad, A; Haddad, A; Vazquez, EG
Title Sustainable Zoning, Land-Use Allocation and Facility Location Optimisation in Smart Cities
Year 2019
Published Energies, 12, 7
DOI 10.3390/en12071318
Abstract Many cities around the world are facing immense pressure due to the expediting growth rates in urban population levels. The notion of smart cities' has been proposed as a solution to enhance the sustainability of cities through effective urban management of governance, energy and transportation. The research presented herein examines the applicability of a mathematical framework to enhance the sustainability of decisions involved in zoning, land-use allocation and facility location within smart cities. In particular, a mathematical optimisation framework is proposed, which links through with other platforms in city settings, for optimising the zoning, land-use allocation, location of new buildings and the investment decisions made regarding infrastructure works in smart cities. Multiple objective functions are formulated to optimise social, economic and environmental considerations in the urban space. The impact on underlying traffic of location choices made for the newly introduced buildings is accounted for through optimised assignment of traffic to the underlying network. A case example on urban planning and infrastructure development within a smart city is used to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed method.
Author Keywords sustainable smart city; mathematical optimisation; urban design; bilevel modelling; location theory; traffic assignment; infrastructure expansion; building location
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED); Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)
EID WOS:000465561400135
WoS Category Energy & Fuels
Research Area Energy & Fuels
PDF https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/7/1318/pdf?version=1554477039
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