scholarly journals An Optimization Model Fitting the Neighborhood Sustainability Assessment Tools

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 3365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmela Gargiulo ◽  
Antonio Sforza ◽  
Claudio Sterle ◽  
Floriana Zucaro
Keyword(s):  
Optimization Model ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Linear Optimization ◽  
Model Fitting ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Urban Systems ◽  
Linear Optimization Model ◽  
Sustainability Assessment Tools ◽  
Evaluation Parameters

The phenomenon of rapid and unplanned urban growth, driven by the migration from rural to urban areas, has hindered healthy urbanization and undermined sustainable development. Sustainability assessment has become one of the popular terms in different fields, especially in architecture and urban planning, and world leading urban sustainability assessment tools have been proposed. Each tool is based on a set of weighted evaluation parameters, related to some main sustainability dimension (environment, economy, society …), and requires to reach a sustainability threshold. In this paper, after a brief review of the state of the art, a linear optimization model is presented, which aimed to find the minimum set of parameters needed to guarantee the sustainability threshold for each tool, taking into account all the sustainability dimensions. The model has been positively experienced with 144 input parameters belonging to five assessment tools. The tests prove that this procedure is able to summarize and overcome the choices made by the certifying bodies. Indeed the proposed optimization model selected 26 parameters of the five tools. The majority of the selected parameters are related to the environmental emergency that in recent decades has characterized—and still affects—urban systems.

scholarly journals The Evolution of the Sustainability Assessment ToolSBToolPT: From Buildings to the Built Environment

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guilherme Castanheira ◽  
Luís Bragança
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
European Cities ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Sustainability Assessment Tools

This paper analyses the current trends in sustainability assessment. After about 15 years from the launch of sustainability assessment tools, focused on buildings evaluation, the paradigm of sustainability assessment tools is changing from the building scale to the built environment scale. Currently European cities and cities around the world are concerned with sustainable development, as well as its evolution. Cities seek a way to adapt to contemporary changes, in order to meet the required needs and ensure population’s well-being. Considering this, the new generations of sustainability assessment tools are being developed to be used to guide and help cities and urban areas to become more sustainable. Following the trend of the most important sustainability assessment tools, the sustainability assessment toolSBToolPTis also developing its version for assessing the sustainability of the built environment, namely, the urban planning projects and the urban regeneration projects, to be developed in Portugal, theSBToolPT-UP. The application of the methodology to three case studies will demonstrate its feasibility; at the same time this will identify the best practices which will serve as reference for new projects, thereby assisting the development of the tool.

scholarly journals LINEAR OPTIMIZATION MODEL OF URBAN AREAS’ OPERATING EFFICIENCY

Transport ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katalin Tanczos ◽  
Arpad Torok
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Linear Programming ◽  
Urban Area ◽  
Optimization Model ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Programming Model ◽  
Linear Optimization ◽  
Urban Transportation ◽  
Operating Efficiency ◽  
Linear Optimization Model

The efficiency of urban transportation is getting more and more important because of the increasing rate of mobility demand. To plan, control and organize urban transportation in the most efficient way, we also need to consider the aspects of land use. To handle both of the mentioned urban planning areas together, we shall develop models, which are able to pay attention to all of their restrictive factors in the most simple way. It is a possible solution to simulate the urban area through a linear programming model.

scholarly journals Social criteria to develop an in use holistic urban sustainable assessment tool: UHU2SAT

2021 ◽  
Vol 237 ◽  
pp. 04031
Author(s):  
Antonio Sánchez Cordero ◽  
Marta Videras Rodríguez ◽  
Sergio Gómez Melgar ◽  
José Manuel Andujar Márquez
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Human Comfort ◽  
Operation And Maintenance ◽  
Holistic Assessment ◽  
Sustainability Assessment Tools

Recently, several urban sustainability assessment tools (USAT) have appeared to reduce the human impact provided by the built environment. Few of them focus on the assessment of urban spaces like squares, streets, and parks, etc., but they don’t operation and maintenance (OM) phase is not considered. It would be necessary to develop an in use holistic urban sustainable assessment tool (UHU2SAT) to specifically assess urban spaces under OM phase. This paper provides a qualitative research among 188 studies, with the aim to classify them according to the impacts they pursue: environmental (ENV), social (SOC) economic (ECO) and Others. Finally, the SOC criteria are reduced up to 21 and arranged into 4 different groups: Human comfort, Urban mobility, SOC Cohesion, and Health & safety. These SOC criteria have been discussed and revised according to the literature review to identify the most suitable indicators for the UHU2SAT. Finally, it can be concluded that this methodology could also be useful to obtain ENV and ECO criteria to provide a holistic assessment of the sustainability.

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