M4. Integrated regional planning: new modelling tools and approaches

Social communities and their environments co-evolve in space and time, resulting in complex and dynamic interdependences. Advanced geomatics and integrated modelling provide tools and methods to better understand these spatio-temporal dynamics in order to better inform urban and regional planning. This session invites papers on advanced spatial topology and data mining techniques, associated with integrated land use, transport, social and/or economic models used to explore urban and regional development, infrastructure network interdependencies and vulnerabilities. In particular, we are welcoming papers focusing on:

• Developing user-friendly online infrastructure dashboards for urban and regional planners.
• Identifying vulnerabilities associated with increasingly interdependent infrastructure networks.
• Understanding urban heat island effect through remote sensing and high performance computing.
• Uncovering hidden pattern within large infrastructure datasets using spatio-temporal data mining.
• Simulating regional planning scenarios through spatially and socially disaggregated modelling.