What does urban informatics add to planning support technology?

Pan, Haozhi; Geertman, Stan; Deal, Brian

doi:10.1177/2399808320945453

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“…Interestingly, neither of these terms features strong use in the abstracts, titles and keywords of the PSS corpus despite being the topic for the latest edited volume (Geertman et al, 2021) and a few prominent exceptions including Pan, Chen, et al, 2020. The citation connections are also relatively weak between the two fields (Figure 4) indicating again that a lot more work is to be done to bridge these lines of enquiry if PSScience is to become an applied stream for research in these domains as envisioned in recent papers framing the field (Geertman and Stillwell, 2020b, 2020c; Pan, Geertman, et al, 2020).…”

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“…Much like the cities they seek to represent, there is also increasing recognition in research that PSS are not stand-alone systems but part of a broader social context and ecology of technological innovation. In addition, since inception a number of adjacent fields have sprung up including ‘urban informatics’ (Pan, Geertman, et al, 2020), ‘urban analytics’ and ‘urban science’ (Geertman and Stillwell, 2020b), responsible for a large volume of research output. These trends have led to recent moves to recast ‘Planning Support Systems’, a field which focused on the means of planning, into a broader field of ‘Planning Support Science’, a context-sensitive field focused on the goals of planning (Geertman and Stillwell, 2020c) and one better integrated into the surrounding ecosystem of research and urban digital innovation.…”

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Charting the past and possible futures of planning support systems: Results of a citation network analysis

Daniel

Pettit

2022

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

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Recent years have seen a renewed interest in the possibilities of digital technology to assist with urban planning, spurred by increased digitisation of planning work, and ever improving data availability and processing capabilities. Hidden behind recent developments is over thirty years of research and development by scholars in the field of Planning Support Systems (PSS), although to date there have been few attempts to systematically characterise their output or achievements. This paper reports on the results of a citation network analysis (CNA) on the planning support systems literature contained within the Scopus database, a systematic method to describe the overall structure of the field, mapping out of key research streams and how they change over time. The analysis reveals twenty-seven distinct research streams under four themes, split between technical and applied research. There is strong evidence of a field still clearly defined by its roots in comprehensive software systems used for scenario and land use planning although shifting over time from a focus on the development of modelling techniques to applied research and case studies in the use of applications. Research output has remained steady in the context of exponential growth in related literature including smart cities, urban science and urban analytics. These findings support calls for a refreshed approach to the field as planning support science and the map produced by this analysis provides a valuable framework to navigate past research efforts in order to inform a new era of digital planning efforts.

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Charting the past and possible futures of planning support systems: Results of a citation network analysis

Daniel

Pettit

2022

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

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“…While urban planners and policymakers are pivotal to making cities more inviting for bicycling, it is a significant challenge for them as they deal with cities with complex issues and numerous stakeholders across government and industry. The rapid development of new technology has helped planners to improve urban planning processes [75,76]. To enable planners to make effective decisions, finding out how, when, and why they should invest in the bicycling infrastructure is essential.…”

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Digital Bicycling Planning: A Systematic Literature Review of Data-Driven Approaches

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To increase the amount of bicycling as a mode of transport, many countries are developing placed based bicycling plans and strategies. However, this approach necessitates considering a fine-scale mapping of bicycling patterns and a detailed description of urban spaces. The rise of new data and technologies offers much promise to planners and researchers to access diverse and richer sources of information to optimise the bicycling network design. This review aims to comprehensively examine the role of data and technology in bicycling planning, historical changes in using data-driven approaches, and current domains in the existing body of research in bicycling planning from 1990 to 2021. For this, a systematic literature review has been conducted according to PRISMA framework. A total number of 1022 studies was analysed and synthesised with the VOS Viewer and CiteSpace platforms. Upon completing the review, we extracted the most-used datasets, tools, and methodologies. The results of the systematic review reveal three evolutionary phases in using data-driven approaches from 1990 to 1999, 2000 to 2009, and 2010 to 2021. In addition, we identified six knowledge domains in using data-driven approaches in bicycling planning that is (i) smart city, (ii) infrastructure, (iii) built environment, (iv) decision making, (v) people, and (vi) safety.

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“…Pan, Geertman, and Deal [67] and Pan, Chen, Gao, Deal, and Liu [68], in their review of informatic technologies for urban planners, present new accessibility models that help planners integrate land use and transportation planning. These new models have been used in the context of social justice and transportation.…”

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A Critical Review of Social Justice Theories in Public Transit Planning

Adli

Chowdhury

2021

Sustainability

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One of the most common areas in public transit planning that has been under investigation is the inclusion of “social justice”. In its simplest form, social justice demands more equitable access for all residents to resources that are provided by a city. However, public transit plans are typically guided by maximising tangible measures such as economic growth and efficiency. Concerns about discriminatory geographies which have led to low-income neighbourhoods with higher unemployment rates, social exclusion, lower political engagement, and participation in urban activities have brought attention to the re-assessment of transit planning. Limitations of the current methods and frameworks make it difficult to measure the outcomes of transit planning strategies and policies with respect to social justice, and to determine if the policies will produce a just transit system. This review provides a critical examination of transit policies in relation to social justice. It gives a summary of key transportation just theories, and their limitations in evaluating a transit system. A social justice framework, which incorporates just theories, is provided to assess a transit system’s accessibility for disadvantaged (low-income) population groups. The framework enhances the sustainable relationship between the accessibility a commuter requires and services provided by the transit system. The review concludes with knowledge gaps and directions for future research.

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What does urban informatics add to planning support technology?

Cited by 9 publications

References 45 publications

Charting the past and possible futures of planning support systems: Results of a citation network analysis

Charting the past and possible futures of planning support systems: Results of a citation network analysis

Digital Bicycling Planning: A Systematic Literature Review of Data-Driven Approaches

A Critical Review of Social Justice Theories in Public Transit Planning

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