European UrbanSim User Group Meeting Daniel Felsenstein, Eyal Ashbel UrbanSim Israel

Appplied as part of the SELMA Project (part of the 5 th R&D Framework of the EU) Application of the UrbanSim 3 Version finished in Presented to a wide array of government agencies for future cooperation. Number of applications testing different project scales.

UrbanSim Israel Tel Aviv UrbanSim –Data Assembly –Micro Scenarios –Meso Scenarios –Macro Scenarios Future Directions –New Developer Land Price Models –UrbanSim 4 Jerusalem

Tel Aviv Data Preparation 250m X 250m Grid Cell

Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area Data Sources

Tabular and Raster Data Preparation

GIS Vector Layer Data Preparation:

Residential Units Residential Land Value

Model Validation Tests

UrbanSim Tel Aviv : Micro Scale Simulations NORTH: Fictitious event intermediate ring CENTER: 90,000sqm, opened 2005, inner ring SOUTH: 90,000sq m; opening 2008, outer ring

Test Performed.

Meso-Scale Scenario New Suburban Neighbourhood 23,000 Residential Units Approx. 1.7 Million sqm of employment and public institutions Population forecast 80,000 Job forecast 40,000

New Suburban Neighbourhood

Meso-Scale New Light Rail Transit Part of the planned Metropolitan Mass Transit System Updated result from the Metropolitan Transportation Model

Meso-Scale New Light Rail Transit Non-Residential Land Value

Meso-Scale New Light Rail Transit

Height = Residential Units No Mass Transit System With Mass Transit System Residential Land Value=

Macro-Scale Policy Scenario Urban Growth Boundary Assessment. Part of the National Master Plan 35.

Macro-Scale Policy Scenario Without Urban Growth BoundariesWith Urban Growth Boundaries

UrbanSim 4 Jerusalem Cooperation with the Jerusalem Transportation Master Plan Team. Future Projects to be tested: –New Mass Transit System with in approx. 5 Years –New City Master Plan –New Ring Roads

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