European Urban Sim User Group Meeting Urban Sim

European Urban. Sim User Group Meeting Urban. Sim Israel Daniel Felsenstein, Eyal Ashbel

Urban. Sim Israel • Appplied as part of the SELMA Project (part of the 5 th R&D Framework of the EU) • Application of the Urban. Sim 3 Version finished in 2006. • Presented to a wide array of government agencies for future cooperation. • Number of applications testing different project scales.

Urban. Sim Israel • Tel Aviv Urban. Sim – – • Data Assembly Micro Scenarios Meso Scenarios Macro Scenarios Future Directions – New Developer Land Price Models – Urban. Sim 4 Jerusalem

Tel Aviv Data Preparation 250 m X 250 m Grid Cell

Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area Data Sources

Tabular and Raster Data Preparation

GIS Vector Layer Data Preparation:

Residential Units Residential Land Value

Model Validation Tests

Urban. Sim Tel Aviv : Micro Scale Simulations • NORTH: Fictitious event intermediate ring • CENTER: 90, 000 sqm, opened 2005, inner ring • SOUTH: 90, 000 sq m; opening 2008, outer ring

Test Performed.

Meso-Scale Scenario New Suburban Neighbourhood • 23, 000 Residential Units • Approx. 1. 7 Million sqm of employment and public institutions • Population forecast 80, 000 • Job forecast 40, 000

New Suburban Neighbourhood

Meso-Scale New Light Rail Transit • Part of the planned Metropolitan Mass Transit System • Updated result from the Metropolitan Transportation Model

Meso-Scale New Light Rail Transit Non-Residential Land Value

Meso-Scale New Light Rail Transit

No Mass Transit System With Mass Transit System Height = Residential Units Residential Land Value=

Macro-Scale Policy Scenario • Urban Growth Boundary Assessment. • Part of the National Master Plan 35.

Macro-Scale Policy Scenario Without Urban Growth Boundaries With Urban Growth Boundaries

Urban. Sim 4 Jerusalem • Cooperation with the Jerusalem Transportation Master Plan Team. • Future Projects to be tested: – New Mass Transit System with in approx. 5 Years – New City Master Plan – New Ring Roads

Thank You eashbel@netvision. net. il