A Land Use Model for Spatial Policy Analysis and Multi-Criteria Evaluation of Regional Development Planning

Abstract

The land use models have been recognized as the powerful tool for spatial policy analysis, in which the models can be used for projection of future state of urban and regional systems which is influenced by implementation of public policies and measuring the effects of various kinds of policy alternatives. Despite of an increasing emphasis on the roles of land use models, the almost past researches were only aimed to improve the explanation of locational behavior including refinement and extension of models, new procedures of estimation and of model validation, and relatively little efforts have been spent toward the exploitation of the possibility to achieve a better methodology for actual policy making by means of land use models.