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Hydra I Grid Based Spatial Planning Services

Principal Investigator – Dr Mark Birkin, University of Leeds
Contact - m.birkin @ geog.leeds.ac.uk

This project seeked to present decision-makers or planners with grid-based tools to find effective solutions when faced with problems in decision-making. Decisions can be difficult when the absence or fragmentation of appropriate evidence or data relating to the decision and by the lack of analytical tools by which to interpret this evidence. This is equally true for multi-national corporations, local traders, and public sector organisations. The key objectives of the project were:

  • To deliver a software demonstrator on the White Rose Grid which can solve spatial planning problems relating to retailing, housing, transportation, and land-use under a variety of demographic and economic scenarios
  • To integrate data from a variety of sources and physical locations within the software architecture
  • To provide a variety of spatial analysis functions, including forecasting, dynamic modelling and location optimisation

Presentations

P D F documentHydra II Grid Based Spatial Planning Services
M. Birkin, University of Leeds
NCeSS All Hands Meeting, Manchester, 5 – 6 July 2004

Publications

ESRC End of Award Report

ESRC Non-technical Summary