Self-selection: A key to a better understanding of location choices, travel behavior, and transport externalities?

In the last decade the importance of attitude-related residential self-selection has frequently been recognized. In addition people can theoretically self select them with respect to other location choices, such as job locations, with respect to travel behavior, or with respect to the exposure to transport externalities such as noise and...

Reclaiming land from urban traffic noise impact zones, "The great canyon".

Sustainable building implies efficient land use in cities, and elsewhere. Zones with high noise impact along urban or suburban main roads have been used only for low-grade buildings, because of practical or legal limitations. Bordering these roads with continuous residential buildings ('canyonisation') can be considered as a way to reclaim these...

STORM-Rhine: Simulation Tool for River Management

The Simulation Tool for River Management (STORM), based on the River Rhine case, aims to provide insight into river and floodplain management, by (1) raising awareness of river functions, (2) exploring alternative strategies, (3) showing the links between natural processes, spatial planning, engineering interventions, river functions and...

Quantitative updating of land use information on 1:50,000 scale topographic maps using spot landsat thematic mapper imagery

This report gives the results of a study carried out in the Remote Sensing Department of the National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) in The Netherlands concerning the updating of land use on topographic maps using remote sensing information. It was found that SPOT multispectral imagery is less suitable for land use classification purposes than...