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

2. 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 2006. Presented to a wide array of government agencies for future cooperation. Number of applications testing different project scales.

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

4. Tel Aviv Data Preparation 250m X 250m Grid Cell

5. Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area Data Sources

6. Tabular and Raster Data Preparation

7. GIS Vector Layer Data Preparation:

8. Residential Units Residential Land Value

10. Model Validation Tests

11. 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

12. Test Performed.

13. 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

14. New Suburban Neighbourhood

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

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

17. Meso-Scale New Light Rail Transit

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

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

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

21. 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

22. Thank You eashbel@netvision.net.il