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 Introduction
New technologies required to solve problems.

Huge amount of data with spatial attributes.

GIS is a tool to handle such datasets.

Seoul in South Korea, High Springs in Florida,

USA are mere examples of application of GIS.
(Junghoon, 2013)
Seouls planning simulation using GIS
(Junghoon, 2013)
 GIS in urban planning
Datasets are huge in urban planning and 80%
of such data have locational attributes.
GIS is ideal to deal with such datasets, as it
breaks down these datasets in pieces.
Spatial features can be labeled and thematic
maps can be produced.
Simulation of what actually happens in a city
and the potential it has. (Tong et al, 2015)
Land use in (a) plan and (b) actual city
(Tong, 2015)
 Example of GIS in Chicago

GIS was used in Chicago to explore the boom

in bank branching between 2000-2000.

False assumption that Chicago was under

banked.

Even though there were more than enough

bank branches, people still did not have access
to them. (Al-Kodmany, 2012)
 Impact on parking
The development of new buildings and streets
leads to an increase in the demand for parking
spaces

PARKFIT is a algorithm and model that it is

used in estimating city parking patterns

It is based on a spatially explicit high-resolution

view of parking demand and supply (Levy and
Beneson, 2015).
 Case Study: BAT YAM
(Levy and Benenson, 2015)

PARKFIT was used to assess the overnight

parking demand and capacity, both currently
and based on their 2030 transportation plan
It implements a Monte Carlo approach to
estimate the distance between the cars
aiming for a specific destination and the
destination, and the percentage of cars that
fail to find a parking space
Parking demand is influenced by the type of
buildings, their floor area and number of
floors, as well as the street network
Case Study: BAT YAM
(Levy and Benenson, 2015)
 References
Al-Kodmany, K. 2012. Using GIS in Nonprofit
Organisations for Urban Planning Applications:
Experiences from the field. Journal of Geographic
Information System. 4. pp. 279-297
Junghoon, K. 2013. Developing a geospatial web-GIS
system for landscape and urban planning. International
Journal of Digital Earth. 6. pp. 580-588
Levy N. and Benenson I. (2015) GIS-based method for
assessing city parking patterns. Journal of Transport
Geography. 46. pp. 220-231
Tong, Z. Zhang, Q. Zhu. J. Liu, X. and Yan, F. 2016. A
GIS-based Statistics and Evaluation System of Urban
Planning. The Open Cybernetics & Systemics Journal. 20.
pp. 91-100