Development of Planning Support System for Urban Rehabilitation and Reconstruction

The past post-disaster recovery process had many difficulties in planning. The importance of residents participatory urban planning is true of post-disaster planning and ordinary planning; however, there are difficult problems as follows: time-scale conflict between desire of affected households for swift recovery of their individual lives and enough consideration of urban planning to avoid speed-before-quality planning, unsmooth discussion and consensus building because of mutual conflict of their interest in the residents, and a shortage of professionals in the case that an earthquake disaster hits wide and high-density urbanized region. The concept of "pre-disaster planning" has been propounded as measures to deal with these serious situations after 1995 Hyogo-ken Nambu Earthquake in Japan. Actual measures including "neighborhood community-training program for post-disaster recovery" of Tokyo Metropolitan have been implemented in various approaches. This study has pioneering approach in this context. We focus on planning support technologies based on a geographic information system (GIS) and establish planning support system for post-disaster community-based urban planning, which will smooth discussion and increase efficiency of planning work. An introduction of the system will result in reduction of total time needed on the planning process and supplement of professionals. Though there are some problems that we identified, they will be solved in accumulated experiences such as the training program in the near future.

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Enhancing Sustainability and Resilience through Multi-Level Infrastructure Planning

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph17030962 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (3) ◽

pp. 962 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jorge Salas ◽

Víctor Yepes

Keyword(s):

Adaptive Capacity ◽

Support System ◽

Road Network ◽

Planning Process ◽

Global Risk ◽

Top Down ◽

Multi Objective ◽

Planning Support ◽

Planning Support System ◽

Multi Level

Resilient planning demands not only resilient actions, but also resilient implementation, which promotes adaptive capacity for the attainment of the planned objectives. This requires, in the case of multi-level infrastructure systems, the simultaneous pursuit of bottom-up infrastructure planning for the promotion of adaptive capacity, and of top-down approaches for the achievement of global objectives and the reduction of structural vulnerabilities and imbalances. Though several authors have pointed out the need to balance bottom-up flexibility with top-down hierarchical control for better plan implementation, very few methods have yet been developed with this aim, least of all with a multi-objective perspective. This work addressed this lack by including, for the first time, the mitigation of urban vulnerability, the improvement of road network condition, and the minimization of the economic cost as objectives in a resilient planning process in which both actions and their implementation are planned for a controlled, sustainable development. Building on Urban planning support system (UPSS), a previously developed planning tool, the improved planning support system affords a planning alternative over the Spanish road network, with the best multi-objective balance between optimization, risk, and opportunity. The planning process then formalizes local adaptive capacity as the capacity to vary the selected planning alternative within certain limits, and global risk control as the duties that should be achieved in exchange. Finally, by means of multi-objective optimization, the method reveals the multi-objective trade-offs between local opportunity, global risk, and rights and duties at local scale, thus providing deeper understanding for better informed decision-making.

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Research and application of planning support system based on 3S technique for post-disaster reconstruction after Wenchuan Earthquake in China

2009 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium ◽

10.1109/igarss.2009.5418174 ◽

2009 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Wensheng Zhou ◽

Feng Mao ◽

Z E Liu ◽

Qiang Li ◽

Qiang Fu

Keyword(s):

Wenchuan Earthquake ◽

Support System ◽

Planning Support ◽

Planning Support System ◽

Post Disaster

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Developing a Participatory Planning Support System for Sustainable Regional Planning—A Problem Structuring Case Study

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13105723 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (10) ◽

pp. 5723

Author(s):

Dina Margrethe Aspen ◽

Andreas Amundsen

Keyword(s):

Systems Engineering ◽

Support System ◽

Regional Planning ◽

Planning Process ◽

Participatory Planning ◽

Problem Structuring ◽

Planning Support ◽

Planning Support System ◽

Multi Stakeholder

In this paper, we report on the application of systems engineering in initiating the synthesis of a participatory planning support system (PSS) for sustainable regional planning. The systems engineering SPADE approach is applied in a model-based fashion to define and link sustainable development goals (SDGs) to regional and urban planning policies in a co-creative multi-stakeholder environment. The approach is demonstrated through a case study from the interregional climate, land-use, and transportation planning process (PAKT) in the Ålesund region in Norway. The work was performed using focus groups with planning stakeholders over a series of workshops to analyze, design, verify and validate the problem structure. Our study shows that the approach is useful for integrating and operationalizing the SDGs in a planning context. The methodology also brings clarity and structure to planning problems and provides a pedagogical frame to engage stakeholders in co-creative PSS synthesis. Further research is necessary to explore how structured elements may be exploited in PSS synthesis.

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