Stojanovic, V; Falconer, R; Isaacs, J; Gilmour, D and Blackwood, D (2013) Interactive visualisation to support sustainability assessment in land use scenario planning. In: Smith, S D and Ahiaga-Dagbui, D D (eds.) Proceedings of 29th Annual ARCOM Conference, 2-4 September 2013, Reading, UK.
Abstract
Real-time interactive 3D visualisation of GIS data is becoming increasingly important in the fields of regional and local land use planning, sustainability assessment and energy efficiency monitoring. Turning expert GIS based data into something useful, recognisable and digestible by non-expert stakeholders is a challenging task as participants from different cultural and educational backgrounds must intuitively access the information presented. Stakeholder engagement in land use planning scenario development is critical to enhancing the sustainability of a given project. The use of decision support tools can provide a solution for engaging both expert and non-expert stakeholders. Various real-time decision support tools (DST) have been developed in the past, and recently using programming libraries and frameworks originally developed for commercial video games. In this paper we present a case study where an interactive 3D decision support tool (LEX 3D - Landscape Explorer 3D), was developed to provide a visual impact assessment of proposed housing developments which users can easily locate and change the components of - i.e. layout of the housing within the development, roads and communal green spaces. Additionally, LEX 3D is able to compute and visualise sustainability indicators (e.g. night time street lighting, energy usage and land use ordnance survey data visualisation). We will discuss the steps necessary to streamline GIS data for display in interactive visualisations. We will highlight the games technology techniques implemented that help promote better stakeholder engagement. We conclude that the use of games based decision support tools for planning and sustainability assessment purposes can potentially benefit engagement of non-expert stakeholders.
| Item Type: | Conference Paper (Paper) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | visualisation; strategic planning; sustainability; computer game; stakeholder engagement |
| Index terms: | housing, visualization, 3D visualization, programming, street lighting, impact assessment, stakeholder engagement, monitoring, strategic planning, scenario planning, land use, data visualization, housing development, survey, decision support, becoming, sustainability indicator, land use planning, case study, energy efficiency, sustainability assessment |
| Subjects: | infrastructure and transport systems, philosophical process, decision analysis, urban design, management, sustainability assessment, design practice, data science, sustainability and energy, visualization, real estate economics, programming, control systems, value management, community and social dimensions, construction type, data collection methods |
| Topics: | Sustainability, Construction Technology, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management, Engineering Principles, Research Practice, Project Management, Business Strategy, Site Management, Urban Studies, Digital Applications, Design Practice |
| Descriptive scope: | 4 PCTE |
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