| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/K62170/01 |
| Title: |
AN INTEGRATED BUILDING STOCK, TRANSPORT AND ENERGY MODEL OF A MEDIUM-SIZED CITY |
| Principal Investigator: |
Steadman, Professor P |
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Design & Innovation |
| Organisation: |
Open University |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 October 1995 |
Ends: |
31 October 1997 |
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133,538
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Energy Efficiency |
Urban & Land Management |
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We propose to develop a detailed representation of the complete building stock and transport system of an actual English city of medium size. We will use an integrated land use and transport simulation model to predict traffic flows and follow land use changes resulting from a series of planning strategies directed towards achieving greater sustainability. These strategies will involve combinations of planning policies having to do with public transport innovations, constraints on car use, relocation of residential and commercial floor-space, changes in urban density, and improved energy efficiency and new energy technologies in buildings. We will compare these strategies in the light of recent trends in the location of development and in travel behaviour which have seemed to work against the prospects of sustainability. The built stock itself will be modelled three-dimensionally in a GIS. Simulation model and GIS will be linked in both directions. Floorspace and densities predicted by the model will be translated into their general implications for building types and built forms. We will place particular emphasis on the effects of policy on the use of energy in both buildings and transport, and on the interactions of land use and planning control with transport policies.
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