Visualizing the potential for transit-oriented development: Insights from an open and interactive planning support tool in Flanders, Belgium ...

This paper reports on the development trajectory of an empirical tool for transit-oriented development planning in Flanders, Belgium. The tool, StationsRadar, draws on a branch of empirical railway station assessment tools that aim to support transit-oriented development planning processes by visualizing the performance of station locations for a range of transport (‘node’) and land use (‘place’) accessibility indicators. At the root of this paper lies the observation that, while the vast majority of reviewed studies highlight the relevance of the developed tools for planning practice, little... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Caset, Freke
Teixeira, Filipe M
Dokumenttyp: Datenquelle
Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
Verlag/Hrsg.: SAGE Journals
Schlagwörter: Geography / 120599 Urban and Regional Planning not elsewhere classified / FOS: Social and economic geography
Sprache: unknown
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28967454
Datenquelle: BASE; Originalkatalog
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Link(s) : https://dx.doi.org/10.25384/sage.c.5417194

This paper reports on the development trajectory of an empirical tool for transit-oriented development planning in Flanders, Belgium. The tool, StationsRadar, draws on a branch of empirical railway station assessment tools that aim to support transit-oriented development planning processes by visualizing the performance of station locations for a range of transport (‘node’) and land use (‘place’) accessibility indicators. At the root of this paper lies the observation that, while the vast majority of reviewed studies highlight the relevance of the developed tools for planning practice, little work is undertaken to systematically verify that claim. Against this backdrop, we invoke an experiential research strategy as recently proposed in the field of planning research; we organize a series of experiential workshops in which we probe the tool’s added value for regional planning in Flanders. In the process, we specifically work towards a qualitative appraisal of tool ‘usability’ and discuss how our findings ...