Journal articles: 'The land utility'

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Rodrigue, Jean-Paul. "The utility value of land use." Journal of Transport Geography 2, no. 1 (March 1994): 41–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0966-6923(94)90033-7.

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Zhichkin, Kirill, Vladimir Nosov, Lyudmila Zhichkina, Yury Shlenov, Yulia Melnikova, and Halin Aydinov. "Revisiting weed infestation of agricultural lands from zones near utility poles." E3S Web of Conferences 164 (2020): 06019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202016406019.

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Field research of land lots over a 4865 ha area has demonstrated that the main sources of agricultural lands infestation are raw pieces of land (inarable lands), wood lines, dirt roads or indigested manure, used as organic fertilizer. The specific weight of weeds patches around the power line support is less than 0.013% of all weeds sources, suggesting that there is a minimum damage to agricultural crops, compared to other sources of weeds distribution in the given area. The authors of the paper propose to use chemical treatment with non-selective herbicides as the most effective measure of weeds control around the utility poles, at a cost, according to the results of the research, of 0.21 rub/ha. As a result, the issue of compensation payments to agricultural producers from energy companies should be defined by the cost value of chemical treatment of agricultural lands in zones near utility poles.

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Yan, Jingya, Rob Van Son, and Kean Huat Soon. "From underground utility survey to land administration: An underground utility 3D data model." Land Use Policy 102 (March 2021): 105267. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.105267.

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Hardberger, Amy. "Water Valuation and Utility Rates." Symposium Edition - Sustainable Communities 4, no. 2 (December 2017): 79–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.37419/jpl.v4.i2.2.

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As I’ve worked on this topic, it really has evolved. I was thrown into land use, but land use opened my eyes to new water tools. Nationwide there is a shift towards conservation of water and water sustainability. Land use might be the “ace-in-the-hole,” not the simple act of turning the water off when you brush your teeth—even though I want you to do that. What’s important when talking about how we are going to survive, is “where are we going?” Because cities are so overpopulated, we are moving out of rural areas and into cities. This has caught the interest of the Water Development Board because water usage is only going up. Overall, nobody will need less water in the future. This doesn’t mean there aren’t levers we can pull to make new individual users use water in a new way. As we move towards urban areas, we get into this “tug of war.” City residents along with the Oil & Gas and Agricultural industries all share water and have to figure out how to share. The key is how to share effectively.

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Sridhar, Usha, and Sridhar Mandyam. "A Group Utility Maximizer Mechanism for Land Assembly." Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics 47, no. 3 (March 28, 2012): 466–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11146-012-9370-3.

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Boults, Elizabeth. "The Shape of the Land: Aesthetics and Utility." Landscape Journal 39, no. 1 (2021): 89–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.3368/wplj.39.1.89.

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Yan, Jingya, Siow Jaw, Kean Soon, Andreas Wieser, and Gerhard Schrotter. "Towards an Underground Utilities 3D Data Model for Land Administration." Remote Sensing 11, no. 17 (August 21, 2019): 1957. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs11171957.

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With the pressure of the increasing density of urban areas, some public infrastructures are moving to the underground to free up space above, such as utility lines, rail lines and roads. In the big data era, the three-dimensional (3D) data can be beneficial to understand the complex urban area. Comparing to spatial data and information of the above ground, we lack the precise and detailed information about underground infrastructures, such as the spatial information of underground infrastructure, the ownership of underground objects and the interdependence of infrastructures in the above and below ground. How can we map reliable 3D underground utility networks and use them in the land administration? First, to explain the importance of this work and find a possible solution, this paper observes the current issues of the existing underground utility database in Singapore. A framework for utility data governance is proposed to manage the work process from the underground utility data capture to data usage. This is the backbone to support the coordination of different roles in the utility data governance and usage. Then, an initial design of the 3D underground utility data model is introduced to describe the 3D geometric and spatial information about underground utility data and connect it to the cadastral parcel for land administration. In the case study, the newly collected data from mobile Ground Penetrating Radar is integrated with the existing utility data for 3D modelling. It is expected to explore the integration of new collected 3D data, the existing 2D data and cadastral information for land administration of underground utilities.

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Farmer, Elizabeth, Tim R. Brewer, and Christophe A. D. Sannier. "Land cover attributes and their utility within land cover mapping: a practical example." Journal of Land Use Science 7, no. 1 (March 2012): 35–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1747423x.2010.519789.

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Wang, Yang, and Lang Liu. "Empirical Study on the Driving Force of Urban Utility Tunnel Development." Civil Engineering Journal 5, no. 10 (October 21, 2019): 2198–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.28991/cej-2019-03091404.

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Urban utility tunnel has been regarded as an important symbol of urban modernization, so it is important to understand the quantized relationship between city development and urban utility tunnel for city management and policy making. In this study, the internal relationship between the development amount of urban utility tunnel and urban population density was discussed, as well as urban GDP per capita, urban construction land area per capita and urban land price index, based on the IBM SPSS platform, through adopting the development amount of urban utility tunnel and the urban development data of the past 46 years of Japan. It was shown that the correlation relationship of the development amount of urban utility tunnel with the density of urban population was comparatively strong negative, and relatively strong positive, comparatively strong positive, relatively strong negative for GDP per capita, urban construction land area per capita and urban land price index respectively, which explained the driving effect that urban development imposed on urban utility tunnel construction in essence. Furthermore, a quantitative model was proposed for the relationship between the development amount of urban utility tunnel and urban development indexes, and the model could be a reference for decision making of urban utility tunnel development in China and other countries.

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Gurtuev, Alim, and Zaur Ivanov. "Comparison of different land distribution mechanisms for a land-hungry region." E3S Web of Conferences 164 (2020): 07017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202016407017.

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This paper proposes an approach to the development an efficient land distribution mechanism for a particular land-hungry region. We separate budgetary and allocative efficiency and use general utility approach during evaluation of particular distribution mechanisms. We propose a model of potential land users, which allows quantifying the efficiency of a number of mechanisms of land distribution for land-hungry regions. Land users are represented as economic agents with bounded rationality and subjective utility functions. The model calculates allocation efficiency and budgetary efficiency as independent values and thus is more precise. It also has considerable flexibility and can be adjusted to specific agricultural technology and soil types. An analysis of the efficiency of various mechanisms for the test region showed that lottery mechanisms leads to losses of allocative efficiency compared with auction mechanisms. As for the budget revenues, the use of lottery mechanisms leads to much smaller losses of budgetary efficiency in comparison with simultaneous closed auctions of the first and second prices. But of all the mechanisms considered in the paper, the repetitive Vickrey auction leads to the smallest losses of budget efficiency in the model.

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Lv, Zhi-qiang, and Qi-gang Zhou. "Utility of Landsat Image in the Study of Land Cover and Land Surface Temperature Change." Procedia Environmental Sciences 10 (2011): 1287–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proenv.2011.09.206.

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Rosa, Isabel M. D., Sadia E. Ahmed, and Robert M. Ewers. "The transparency, reliability and utility of tropical rainforest land-use and land-cover change models." Global Change Biology 20, no. 6 (March 28, 2014): 1707–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12523.

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Naylor, Kathryn. "OUR SPACE, YOUR PLACE: OPENING WATER UTILITY LAND FOR LIVEABILITY." Water e-Journal 1, no. 4 (2016): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.21139/wej.2016.038.

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Kumar, Indraneel, and Kumares C. Sinha. "Regional Land Suitability Framework for Utility-Scale Wind Farm Development." Journal of Infrastructure Systems 22, no. 3 (September 2016): 04016018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)is.1943-555x.0000301.

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Yan, J., S. W. Jaw, K. H. Soon, and G. Schrotter. "THE LADM-BASED 3D UNDERGROUND UTILITY MAPPING: CASE STUDY IN SINGAPORE." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLII-4/W15 (September 23, 2019): 117–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xlii-4-w15-117-2019.

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Abstract. A digital twin can be defined as a realistic representation of something physical. To improve decision making, a reliable digital twin of the underground is required. Utilities represent a significant portion of physical assets existing underground. Most of these utilities are situated in the relatively shallow layers of the underground, up to a few meters below the surface. The reliable information on subsurface utilities has clear benefits all throughout the life cycle of state land, resulting in efficient decision-making processes, cost savings, and additional revenues for land administration professionals. However, the lack of a reliable map of subsurface utilities lead to ill-informed decisions, costly information gathering, and missed business potential. This paper will share a case study of the 3D underground utility mapping workflow from data capture to usage in Singapore. The new data is collected by the Pegasus: Stream, a mobile mapping platform which captures above and underground data using the photo, laser and ground penetrating radar technology. Based on the Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) 3D underground utility data model, the new collected data is used with the existing utility and cadastral data for land administration. This study case expects to explore the reasonable workflow of 3D underground utility mapping to provide reliable information for land administration.

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Mishra, D., M. K. Sanabada, S. Sahu, S. Das, and S. Tripathi. "GOPLUS GEOSPATIAL DATA SERVICE FOR INDUSTRIAL AND INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT IN ODISHA, INDIA." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLII-5 (November 19, 2018): 79–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xlii-5-79-2018.

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Abstract. Technological advancement is the key driver for economic growth and sustainable development. Geospatial Technologies applications and tools available today are being used for improved performance of a country towards all major verticals of economy. In a bid to attract investment and ensure hassle-free land acquisition for major projects, the Odisha government decided to create land banks for industrial development using advanced technology applications. In the present paper Geo-informatics, ICT and space technology inputs are used to create Web-GIS based solutions for Land Bank creation. High resolution ortho-images, geo-referenced digital revenue cadastral datasets, Revenue RoR data, satellite derived spatial datasets and utility attribute datasets of state department are used to create the Web-GIS Odisha land bank. Emphasis was given to develop a portal that offers an interactive platform and provide detailed information with regards to availability of industrial plots or land plot clusters based on location specific attributes in terms of connectivity, rail and road linkages and other physical and social infrastructure available in the vicinity. Conversely, the developed system helps an investor to identify suitable land plots in the vicinity of the utility, sub-utility selected by an investor as per his requirement. It enables prospective investors to identify suitable land in Odisha from the comfort of their offices. A prospective investor can define preferred parameters such as the district, size of land required, facilities available in the vicinity and proximity to existing developed infrastructure etc. based on which the portal identifies and returns information regarding the suitable land parcels available in the State. The outputs are web-hosted in public domain for use by all stakeholders interactively under GOPLUS (Govt. Odisha Portal for Land use and Services) through gis.investodisha.org.

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OSARAGI, Toshihiro, and Naoko KURISAKI. "A Utility Model of Land-use Transition Probability and Its Application." Theory and Applications of GIS 4, no. 2 (1996): 7–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.5638/thagis.4.2_7.

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Crow, W. T., S. V. Kumar, and J. D. Bolten. "On the utility of land surface models for agricultural drought monitoring." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 16, no. 9 (September 24, 2012): 3451–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-16-3451-2012.

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Abstract. The lagged rank cross-correlation between model-derived root-zone soil moisture estimates and remotely sensed vegetation indices (VI) is examined between January 2000 and December 2010 to quantify the skill of various soil moisture models for agricultural drought monitoring. Examined modeling strategies range from a simple antecedent precipitation index to the application of modern land surface models (LSMs) based on complex water and energy balance formulations. A quasi-global evaluation of lagged VI/soil moisture cross-correlation suggests, when globally averaged across the entire annual cycle, soil moisture estimates obtained from complex LSMs provide little added skill (< 5% in relative terms) in anticipating variations in vegetation condition relative to a simplified water accounting procedure based solely on observed precipitation. However, larger amounts of added skill (5–15% in relative terms) can be identified when focusing exclusively on the extra-tropical growing season and/or utilizing soil moisture values acquired by averaging across a multi-model ensemble.

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Crow, W. T., S. V. Kumar, and J. D. Bolten. "On the utility of land surface models for agricultural drought monitoring." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions 9, no. 4 (April 19, 2012): 5167–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hessd-9-5167-2012.

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Abstract. The lagged rank cross-correlation between model-derived root-zone soil moisture estimates and remotely-sensed vegetation indices (VI) is examined between January 2000 and December 2010 to quantify the skill of various soil moisture models for agricultural drought monitoring. Examined modeling strategies range from a simple antecedent precipitation index to the application of modern land surface models (LSMs) based on complex water and energy balance formations. A quasi-global evaluation of lagged VI/soil moisture cross-correlation suggests, when averaged in bulk across the annual cycle, little or no added skill (<5% in relative terms) is associated with applying modern LSMs to off-line agricultural drought monitoring relative to simple accounting procedures based solely on observed precipitation accumulations. However, slightly larger amounts of added skill (5–15% in relative terms) are identified when focusing exclusively on the extra-tropical growing season and/or utilizing soil moisture values acquired by averaging across a multi-model ensemble.

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BASTIN, G. N., G. PICKUP, and G. PEARCE. "Utility of AVHRR data for land degradation assessment: a case study." International Journal of Remote Sensing 16, no. 4 (March 1995): 651–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01431169508954432.

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Hidayat, E., I. Rudiarto, F. Siegert, and W. D. Vries. "Modeling the Dynamic Interrelations between Mobility, Utility, and Land Asking Price." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 123 (February 2018): 012019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/123/1/012019.

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Rayfield, Emily J., Paul M. Barrett, and Andrew R. Milner. "Utility and validity of Middle and Late Triassic ‘land vertebrate faunachrons’." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29, no. 1 (March 12, 2009): 80–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1671/039.029.0132.

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Jones, Donald W. "A Land Use Model with a Constant-Utility Spatially Variant Wage." Geographical Analysis 16, no. 2 (September 3, 2010): 121–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1538-4632.1984.tb00805.x.

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Williamson, Jeb C., Brandon T. Bestelmeyer, Mitchel P. McClaran, Dan Robinett, David D. Briske, X. Ben Wu, and Maria E. Fernández-Giménez. "Can ecological land classification increase the utility of vegetation monitoring data?" Ecological Indicators 69 (October 2016): 657–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.05.030.

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Shen, Pingning. "Mathematical Programming Formulation of Combined Transportation and Land Use Model." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1607, no. 1 (January 1997): 62–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/1607-09.

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A mathematical programming model of combined trip distribution, equilibrium network assignment, and residential location choice is presented. The model is developed on the basis of Wardrop’s user equilibrium principle and the random utility theory. A traveler’s route choice behavior is assumed to follow the user-optimized principle, whereas the residential location choice behavior is captured by the random utility theory. The simultaneous choice of travel routes and residential location is based on the assumption that each individual tries to minimize his or her travel cost and maximize his or her living utility. On the basis of this assumption the choice of travel routes is determined by using a user equilibrium assignment model and the choice of residential location is quantified by using a multinomial logit model. After defining the system equations of the combined model, the model is reformulated as a mathematical programming problem so that the characteristics of the combined model can be explored clearly and the model can be solved efficiently. After the properties of the model are analyzed the process of using the gradient search technique with a maximum-likelihood criterion to calibrate the model and by using the Evans algorithm to solve the optimization problem is presented. Furthermore, the model application procedure is also clearly defined.

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Et al., SRI HAJATI. "EXCHANGE OF LAND: A MODEL OF SUSTAINING THE EXISTENCE OF LAND UNDER ADAT LAW." Psychology and Education Journal 58, no. 2 (February 1, 2021): 1681–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.17762/pae.v58i2.2324.

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The objective of the State is to ensure the welfare of the people as stipulated in the 1945 Indonesian Constitution. One of the ways to reach this objective is by protecting the rights of land usage and ownership by the people. However, customary land (tanah hak ulayat) belonging to the Indonesian adat community is under constant threat of extinction. This is due to the increasing relinquishment of communal land by the government in the face of rising need of lands in Indonesia, especially those designated for public utility. This possesses a problem for the adat community to sustain themselves. The purpose of this study is to provide a model recommendation to prevent the extinction of customary land as well as a solution to empower the adat community. This study uses the normative legal research methodology. The legal documents and legal resources are analysed by using statutory and conceptual approaches. Both approaches are significant to examine the existing laws in addition to analyse the factual challenges revolving the preservation of customary land by the adat community. This study found that the main cause leading to the extinction of customary land is the difficulty faced by the adat community to prove the status of communal land. This is encouraged by the lack of admissibility in the evidentiary materials and a lack of written laws providing the protection of customary land. Therefore, the ideal model to prevent the extinction of customary land is through the participation of adat community to sustain assets of land and the opportunity of exchange of lands under adat law. This study contributes to the existing literature on adat law in Indonesia.

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Reddy, R. S., S. Thayalan, C. R. Shiva Prasad, P. S. A. Reddy, and J. L. Sehgal. "Utility of satellite data for land evaluation in land use planning for a part of Northern Karnataka." Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing 18, no. 4 (December 1990): 34–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02997071.

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Peng, Kui. "Main Chemical Nutrient Balances of a Typical Arable Ecosystem in North China." Advanced Materials Research 550-553 (July 2012): 2728–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.550-553.2728.

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Changes of nutrient cycle and balance in agricultural ecosystem will bring heavy impacts not only on land production, but also on ecological and environmental condition. We studied on the balances of main nutrients (carbon, nitrogen and phosphor) and their long-term changes in a typical arable ecosystem in North China, based on the resource data got from household surveys combined with land use data derived from remote sensing imagery. The results show that C and N balances of large-scale irrigated land changed from deficits in 1945 into great surpluses in 2002, respectively, and P surpluses also doubled in 2002. C, N and P balances in overall arable ecosystem showed significant surpluses despite of decreased total arable area after 60 years. Contrarily, C and N fluxes of arable landscape in 1945 showed overall deficits. Nutrient balance changes of arable lands were impacted mainly by anthropogenic factors such as fertilizer input, land productivity crop residue utility and land use.

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Yan, J., S. W. Jaw, R. V. Son, K. H. Soon, and G. Schrotter. "THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA MODELLING FOR UNDERGROUND UTILITY NETWORK MAPPING." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLII-4 (September 19, 2018): 711–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xlii-4-711-2018.

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Abstract. Cities around the world face an increasing need for land as density in urban areas increases rapidly. The pressure to expand a city’s space is especially acute for a city-state like Singapore. How to make better use of underground space? This issue becomes much more emergent in the urban development. In the big data era, a data-driven approach of underground spaces is necessary for the sustainable development of a city along with rapid urbanization. A reliable three dimensional (3D) digital map of utility networks is crucial for urban planners to understand one of the most impactful aspects of the underground space planning. The mapping underground utility networks is a challenging task, especially for cities with limited land resources, congested underground spaces, and a lack of uniform existing practices. This paper proposes a framework to organise the workflow from an underground utility data survey to data use. This framework includes two core parts: A 3D utility network data model that aims to convert utility survey data to 3D geospatial information, and a 3D utility cadastral data model that supports utility ownership management. It is expected that reliable and accurate information on underground utility networks can lead to a better understanding and management of underground space, which eventually contributes to better city planning, making the unseen structures visible.

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Czyżewski, Bazyli, and Adam Majchrzak. "Mechanisms of valuation of public goods on the agricultural land market - considerations in the context of sustainable development." Management 17, no. 2 (December 1, 2013): 284–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/manment-2013-0072.

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Summary Mechanisms of valuation of public goods on the agricultural land market - considerations in the context of sustainable development Since the beginning of human civilization, the land has been creating certain utilities which satisfy human needs. When the dangerous side effects of industrial agriculture have occurred intrinsic land utilities are being discovered anew. They have a nature of public goods and constitute a hard core of the sustainable agriculture paradigm. Despite irreversible accumulation of capital in the anthropogenic environment many new utilities of the land come into existence without additional capital and labour outlay. Since they are public goods, they are paid from taxes in great measure. This way an intrinsic land utility takes a form of a financial product and can be called „intrinsic productivity” of land. The aim of the elaboration is to identify the mechanism that make intrinsic land utility transforms into productivity in monetary units. A conducted research consists in deriving a land rent capitalized in land prices and estimating its share in land value in comparison with the share of lease fees in the different regions of Poland in years 2000-2009. In the authors’ opinion since accession of Poland to the UE a market valorizes intrinsic utilities of land, whereas the new role of capital and labour is distribution of those utilities for consumers.

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Gim, Tae-Hyoung Tommy. "Land use, travel utility and travel behaviour: An analysis from the perspective of the positive utility of travel." Papers in Regional Science 97 (May 31, 2016): S169—S192. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/pirs.12239.

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Chiang, Ting-Yi. "REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER'S PRODUCT POSITIONING: AHP-UTILITY-BASED MODEL." International Journal of Strategic Property Management 23, no. 5 (May 28, 2019): 317–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/ijspm.2019.9752.

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Inappropriate land development decisions lead to wasted land resources; such bad decisions can negatively impact urban landscapes and the environment, which makes the decision of an appropriate residential environment difficult. Therefore, a suitable assessment model is required to resolve this complexity. The present study applied the fuzzy Delphi method, analytical hierarchy process, utility theory, and other research methods to construct an evaluation model for residential environment location. the study findings reveal that consumers are attracted by regional environmental conditions and architectural design. However, the study found that community welfare is neglected. This model can help decision makers to evaluate utility values and profitability, in order to select the most suitable environment. Therefore, related authorities should strengthen community welfare and neighborhood development. Furthermore, social resources should be integrated in order to deliver social welfare and services to the community, thus enabling people in the community to obtain the necessary resources and assistance

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Guo, Jiaao, Victoria Fast, Philip Teri, and Kirby Calvert. "Integrating Land-Use and Renewable Energy Planning Decisions: A Technical Mapping Guide for Local Government." ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 9, no. 5 (May 14, 2020): 324. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi9050324.

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Land-based, utility-scale renewable energy (RE) systems using wind or solar resources to generate electricity is becoming a decisive solution to meet long-term carbon emission reduction goals. Local governments are responding in kind, by adopting their own goals and/or establishing policies to facilitate successful implementations of RE in their jurisdiction. One factor to successful RE development is to locate the most suitable lands, while continuing to sustain land-based economies and ecosystem services. Local governments often have limited resources; and this is especially true for small, land-constrained local governments. In this paper, we illustrate how a standardized RE technical mapping framework can be used by local governments to advance the implementation of RE in land-constrained areas, through a case study in the Town of Canmore, Alberta. Canmore has a limited municipal area surrounded by the Canadian Rockies, along with complex land-use bylaw and environmentally sensitive habitats. This mapping framework accounts for these conditions as it considers theoretical resources, technically recoverable lands, legally accessible lands, and the spatial capital cost of connecting new RE facilities. Different land-use planning scenarios are considered including changing setback buffers and expanding restrictions on development to all environmentally sensitive districts. The total RE potentials are then estimated based on the least-conflict lands. Technically speaking, even under restrictive land suitability scenarios, Canmore holds enough land to achieve ambitious RE targets, but opportunities and challenges to implementation remain. To eventually succeed in its long-term emission reduction goal, the most decisive step for Canmore is to balance the growth of energy demands, land-use changes, and practicable RE development. Mapping systems that can study the influence of land-use planning decisions on RE potential are critical to achieving this balance.

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Carter, Sarah K., L. E. Burris, Christopher T. Domschke, Steven L. Garman, Travis Haby, Benjamin R. Harms, E. Kachergis, S. E. Litschert, and Kevin H. Miller. "Identifying Policy-relevant Indicators for Assessing Landscape Vegetation Patterns to Inform Planning and Management on Multiple-use Public Lands." Environmental Management 68, no. 3 (June 26, 2021): 426–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00267-021-01493-8.

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AbstractUnderstanding the structure and composition of landscapes can empower agencies to effectively manage public lands for multiple uses while sustaining land health. Many landscape metrics exist, but they are not often used in public land decision-making. Our objectives were to (1) develop and (2) apply a process for identifying a core set of indicators that public land managers can use to understand landscape-level resource patterns on and around public lands. We first developed a process for identifying indicators that are grounded in policy, feasible to quantify using existing data and resources, and useful for managers. We surveyed landscape monitoring efforts by other agencies, gathered science and agency input on monitoring goals, and quantified the prevalence of potential indicators in agency land health standards to identify five landscape indicators: amount, distribution, patch size, structural connectivity, and diversity of vegetation types. We then conducted pilot applications in four bureau of land management (BLM) field offices in Arizona, California, and Colorado to refine procedures for quantifying the indicators and assess the utility of the indicators for managers. Results highlighted the dominance of upland and the limited extent of riparian/wetland vegetation communities, moderate connectivity of priority vegetation patches, and lower diversity of native vegetation types on BLM compared to non-BLM lands. Agency staff can use the indicators to inform the development of quantitative resource management objectives in land use plans, evaluate progress in meeting those objectives, quantify potential impacts of proposed actions, and as a foundation for an all-lands approach to landscape-level management across public lands.

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Taryono, T., Sugiharto Budi Santoso, and Yuli Priyana. "Geomorfological Study on the Evaluation of Critical Land in Cepogo, Boyolali, Central Java Province." Forum Geografi 15, no. 2 (December 20, 2016): 113. http://dx.doi.org/10.23917/forgeo.v15i2.4576.

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Land is natural resources within processing needs to the wise action in order to give good returns for human and being prevented it’s conservation. In the utility of it’s land this land is proper to the agriculture land have sometime emergedthe environment problems, namely the balance of nature is disturbed. It doesn’t mean that land is forbidden to use, but in the it’s utility purposes this land must be considered it’s capability or it’s balance. If form and manner of using this land doesn’t disturb the natural balance, it means to be guaranted. In the countrary, if form and remain to be guaranted. In the contrary, if form and manner of using this land disregard with it’s capability, then the natural balance is disturbed, the land is called asland within dangerous condition or critical land. The coresponding problem that arises in Kecamatan Cepogo under Boyolali district on the surface level land and southern land resembles the critical land that the most erosion appearance can be found assuch sheet erosion, gully erosion, erosion in the other side, vallage forest, settlement land. Mixing estate and the infertile land. This recent exploration purpose is to understand physical factor that affects the critical land as well as to collect and to clarity the critical land. The used method is survey and laboratory analysis by land unit approach ascartography unit. The adopted data of this research is used the effectively width of soil, texture, soil permeability, soil slope, and soil appearance. From this research is understood that the explorated land has three critical land levels, namely; the medium critical land level is 4411,09 are or 17,48%, the wight critical soil level is 7909,74 are or 12,86% of the whole exploration area wide.

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Greasley, David, Eoin McLaughlin, Nick Hanley, and Les Oxley. "Australia: a land of missed opportunities?" Environment and Development Economics 22, no. 6 (May 2, 2017): 674–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1355770x17000110.

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AbstractComprehensive Investment (CI) may provide an indicator of future changes in a country's per capita consumption. The authors explore the utility of the CI indicator for Australia by constructing CI data since 1861 and by estimating their relationship with changes in future consumption over periods of 50 years ahead. The CI measures include changes in natural, produced and human capital, and make allowance for exogenous technological progress. The results are used to consider how Australia's natural capital exploitation influenced the consumption of future generations. Further, the authors gauge if low CI relative to other leading OECD countries resulted in lower consumption levels in Australia over time than feasible, had it saved more.

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Иванов, Владимир, Vladimir Ivanov, Николай Губанов, Nikolay Gubanov, Анатолий Литвиненко, and Anatoliy Litvinenko. "Plastic Relief Mapping as Applied to Underground Utility System Land Use Planning." Services in Russia and abroad 8, no. 1 (January 20, 2014): 69–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/2550.

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Roundy, Joshua K., and Joseph A. Santanello. "Utility of Satellite Remote Sensing for Land–Atmosphere Coupling and Drought Metrics." Journal of Hydrometeorology 18, no. 3 (March 1, 2017): 863–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/jhm-d-16-0171.1.

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Abstract Feedbacks between the land and the atmosphere can play an important role in the water cycle, and a number of studies have quantified land–atmosphere (LA) interactions and feedbacks through observations and prediction models. Because of the complex nature of LA interactions, the observed variables are not always available at the needed temporal and spatial scales. This work derives the Coupling Drought Index (CDI) solely from satellite data and evaluates the input variables and the resultant CDI against in situ data and reanalysis products. NASA’s Aqua satellite and retrievals of soil moisture and lower-tropospheric temperature and humidity properties are used as input. Overall, the Aqua-based CDI and its inputs perform well at a point, spatially, and in time (trends) compared to in situ and reanalysis products. In addition, this work represents the first time that in situ observations were utilized for the coupling classification and CDI. The combination of in situ and satellite remote sensing CDI is unique and provides an observational tool for evaluating models at local and large scales. Overall, results indicate that there is sufficient information in the signal from simultaneous measurements of the land and atmosphere from satellite remote sensing to provide useful information for applications of drought monitoring and coupling metrics.

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Koomen, Eric, Vasco Diogo, Jasper Dekkers, and Piet Rietveld. "A utility-based suitability framework for integrated local-scale land-use modelling." Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 50 (March 2015): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2014.10.002.

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Cagle, Alexander E., Alona Armstrong, Giles Exley, Steven M. Grodsky, Jordan Macknick, John Sherwin, and Rebecca R. Hernandez. "The Land Sparing, Water Surface Use Efficiency, and Water Surface Transformation of Floating Photovoltaic Solar Energy Installations." Sustainability 12, no. 19 (October 2, 2020): 8154. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12198154.

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Floating photovoltaic solar energy installations (FPVs) represent a new type of water surface use, potentially sparing land needed for agriculture and conservation. However, standardized metrics for the land sparing and resource use efficiencies of FPVs are absent. These metrics are critical to understanding the environmental and ecological impacts that FPVs may potentially exhibit. Here, we compared techno-hydrological and spatial attributes of four FPVs spanning different climatic regimes. Next, we defined and quantified the land sparing and water surface use efficiency (WSUE) of each FPV. Lastly, we coined and calculated the water surface transformation (WST) using generation data at the world’s first FPV (Far Niente Winery, California). The four FPVs spare 59,555 m2 of land and have a mean land sparing ratio of 2.7:1 m2 compared to ground-mounted PVs. Mean direct and total capacity-based WSUE is 94.5 ± 20.1 SD Wm−2 and 35.2 ± 27.4 SD Wm−2, respectively. Direct and total generation-based WST at Far Niente is 9.3 and 13.4 m2 MWh−1 yr−1, respectively; 2.3 times less area than ground-mounted utility-scale PVs. Our results reveal diverse techno-hydrological and spatial attributes of FPVs, the capacity of FPVs to spare land, and the utility of WSUE and WST metrics.

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Putra, Randa Iolanda. "Jual Beli Di Bawah Tangan Terhadap Lahan Tempat Tinggal Transmigran Di Nagari Ranah Palabi Kecamatan Timpeh Kabupaten Dharmasraya Provinsi Sumatera Barat (Studi Pada Kantor Pertanahan Kabupaten Dharmasraya Provinsi Sumatera Barat)." Recital Review 2, no. 2 (July 6, 2020): 39–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.22437/rr.v2i2.9650.

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ABSTRACT The registration of land rights concerning title status, right subject, and right object is intended to guarantee legal certainty, legal protection, utility. According to UUPA, PP on Land Registration, and its derivation, it is one of the activities of safeguarding the land. The change in physical data and/or juridical data include the coverage of land registration data by transaction which can be proved with PPAT certificate. In reality, in Nagari Ranah Palabi, the transaction is done underhendedly on land title of the transmigrant settlement. The research problem is how about the cause, legal standing, and registration of the transfer of underhanded land transaction on the land right of transmigrant settlement. The research theories are the theory of legal certainty, theory of legal protection, and theory of utility. The research used juridical empirical and descriptive analytic method by analyzing primary data obtained directly from the people in the field. It wa done in Nagari Ranah Palabi, Timpeh Sub-district, Dharmasraya Regency, West Sumatera Province. The result of the reseacrh shows that underhanded transaction of the land of transmigrant settlement includes inexpensive cost, quick process, and easy to do. Legal standing of the transactiondoes not meet material requiment since it is not a certificate made before a PPAT even thougt it is allowed materially. Consequently, it cannot be registered in the Land Office and filing the claim to Court cannot do the proceeding because there is no dispute in it. Therefore, the request for the right for the land cannot be accepted by the Court. It is recommended thet legal counseling about legal consequense of underhanded transaction of the land for residence be provided. Accurate regulation for the people on land right for residence concerning formal preprequisite should be made – certificate made before a PPAT for registering land title transfer. Concerning the absence of the seller or ‘afwezigheid’ the buyer has the right to lodge a request the land right in the transmigrant land. Keywords : Land Transaction;Land for Residence;Transmigrant.

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Tarkhanov, O. "The usefulness, the surplus usefulness, and land rent: misconceptions and consequences." National Security and Strategic Planning, no. 2 (August 15, 2021): 100–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.37468/2307-1400-2021-2-100-116.

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On the basis of a comparison of ideas about surplus utility and land rent and the results of new research, the inconsistency of conclusions about the exclusivity of their labor nature is shown. It is proved that the identification of the essence of both economic categories in the 19th and 20th century was hindered by the theory of mineral nutrition of plants. Following the theory led to the practice of applying mineral fertilizers, reduced to the use of additional capital in agriculture, and delayed the development of political economy due to the erroneous idea of the utility produced by the economic organism as a substance determined by human labor. In turn, the adoption of the theory of mineral nutrition as a natural science theory, led to a delay in identifying the nature of natural soil fertility. It is shown that the delay in overcoming the identified misconceptions about plant nutrition and the main categories of political economy leads to an increase in the crisis in the world economy.

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Ge, Jianjun, Nathan Torbick, and Jiaguo Qi. "Biophysical Evaluation of Land-Cover Products for Land–Climate Modeling." Earth Interactions 13, no. 6 (June 1, 2009): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2009ei276.1.

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Abstract The need for accurate characterization of the land surface as boundary conditions in climate models has been recognized widely in the climate modeling community. A large number of land-cover datasets are currently used in climate models either to better represent surface conditions or to study the impacts of surface changes. Deciding upon land-cover datasets can be challenging because the datasets are made with different sensors, ranging methodologies, and varying classification objectives. A new statistical measure Q was developed to evaluate land-cover datasets in land–climate interaction research. This measure calculates biophysical precision of land-cover datasets using 1-km monthly Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) leaf area index (LAI) product. This method aggregates within-class biophysical consistency, calculated as LAI variation, across a study domain and over multiple years into a single statistic. A smaller mean Q value for a land-cover product indicates more precise biophysical characterization within the classes. As an illustration, four land-cover products were assessed in the East Africa region: Global Land Cover 2000 (GLC2000), MODIS land cover, Olson Global Ecosystems (OGE), and Land Ecosystem–Atmosphere Feedback (LEAF) model. The evaluation was conducted at three different spatial scales corresponding to 30 × 30, 50 × 50, and 100 × 100 km quadrates. The Q measure found that GLC2000 ranked higher compared to the other three land-cover products for every quadrate size. For the 30 × 30 km quadrate size GLC2000 was significantly better than LEAF, which is currently used in the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System. The statistic ranks MODIS land cover above OGE, which is above LEAF. As quadrate size increases, differences between Q decrease indicating greater uncertainty at coarser resolution. The utility of the measure is that it can be applied to any continuous parameter over any scale (space or time) to evaluate the biophysical precision of any land-cover dataset.

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Bennett, Rohan, Adrian Kitchingman, and Joseph Leach. "On the nature and utility of natural boundaries for land and marine administration." Land Use Policy 27, no. 3 (July 2010): 772–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2009.10.008.

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Gibson, Kesley J., Matthew K. Streich, Tara S. Topping, and Gregory W. Stunz. "Utility of citizen science data: A case study in land-based shark fishing." PLOS ONE 14, no. 12 (December 19, 2019): e0226782. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226782.

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Sreenath, S., K. Sudhakar, and Yusop AF. "7E analysis of a conceptual utility-scale land-based solar photovoltaic power plant." Energy 219 (March 2021): 119610. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2020.119610.

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Socpa, Antoin. "New Kinds of Land Conflict in Urban Cameroon: the Case of the ‘landless’ Indigenous Peoples in Yaoundé." Africa 80, no. 4 (November 2010): 553–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/afr.2010.0402.

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ABSTRACTThe land disputes in Cameroon that are best known are between groups of local (indigenous) populations and people originating from elsewhere (incomers). This situation is fairly common in the cosmopolitan towns of Douala and Yaoundé. The purpose of this article is not to revisit these types of conflict, but rather to explore conflicts over land between the indigenous populations and the state. This new kind of opposition demonstrates that it is not only the incoming populations who are dispossessing indigenous people of their land. In fact, in various and more effective ways, the state is playing a significant part in the expropriation of indigenous land heritage. This process may be witnessed in urban housing developments, as well as in areas set aside for public utility, or those that are too dangerous to be developed (slopes, piedmonts and marshlands). Through its policy of urbanization, the state is seemingly contributing to producing ‘landless indigenous people’ in much the same way as and probably more effectively than the incomers. This article reviews the historical processes of land expropriation from the time of the colonial state, analysing the grievances of indigenous people faced with this situation, as well as the strategies they have developed in an effort to take back control of their lost lands.

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Sinha, Parikhit, Beth Hoffman, John Sakers, and LynneDee Althouse. "Best Practices in Responsible Land Use for Improving Biodiversity at a Utility-Scale Solar Facility." Case Studies in the Environment 2, no. 1 (2018): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/cse.2018.001123.

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Development of a utility-scale solar photovoltaic project involves management of various potential environmental impacts, including impacts on wildlife and habitat. Although solar facility construction activities do involve short-term disturbance, responsibly developed solar power plants can provide shelter, protection, and stable use of land to support biodiversity. Land use practices and their relationship to biodiversity are examined at one of the world’s largest solar facilities, the 550 MW Topaz Solar Farms project in San Luis Obispo County, CA, USA. Pre- and postconstruction biological monitoring data indicate similar to higher vegetation productivity on-site compared to reference sites. Postconstruction monitoring has documented the presence of dozens of wildlife species, including several with special conservation status. Best practices in responsible land use utilized in the Topaz project are specified in the categories of community, biology, water, design and construction, and end of life. These practices, as well as future solar project development innovations that reduce ground disturbance, can be applied to enhance biodiversity at other solar facilities.

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van Son, R., S. W. Jaw, J. Yan, V. Khoo, R. Loo, S. Teo, and G. Schrotter. "A FRAMEWORK FOR RELIABLE THREE-DIMENSIONAL UNDERGROUND UTILITY MAPPING FOR URBAN PLANNING." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLII-4/W10 (September 12, 2018): 209–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xlii-4-w10-209-2018.

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Abstract. To optimise the use of limited available land, land-scarce cities such as Singapore are increasingly looking towards the underground in search of more space. A good understanding of what already exists underground is essential for the planning of underground spaces. In particular, utility services make up a significant part of what exists underground. To meet planning needs, the Singapore government has initiated efforts towards bringing records of existing utility networks together in a single database and share its contents to support planning, design, and construction of underground developments. However, these records can not be relied on to support these critical processes: They are not guaranteed to represent today’s state of the underground, are not accurate or of unknown accuracy, are inconsistently modelled, and may indicate as-design information instead of as-built information. This lack of reliability leads to an increase in cost and a loss in efficiency caused by the need to repeatedly survey to locate existing utility services on-site, and can have potentially disastrous outcomes when an excavation would damage existing services. Technological advances in utility surveying and mapping devices such as Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) and gyroscopic pipeline mapping devices offer the potential of accurately mapping utilities in three dimensions (3D) at a large scale and high speed. However, a better understanding of the benefits and limitations of these technologies in a practical context is needed, as well as their suitability for mapping to support applications such as urban planning and land administration. The Digital Underground project is a collaboration between Singapore-ETH Centre, Singapore Land Authority and the City of Zürich that aims to develop a roadmap towards a reliable 3D utility map of Singapore. To enable the development of utility mapping standards and guidelines, the 3D mapping workflow for underground utilities is studied extensively based on market research, literature study, and case studies. This work presents the beginnings of a framework for 3D mapping of underground utilities as one of the initial results of the Digital Underground project as it is in progress. From these experiences, it can be concluded that, together with existing data, data captured using various surveying methods can indeed contribute to the establishment and maintenance of a consolidated and reliable utility map. To this end, a multi-sensor, multi-data 3D mapping workflow is proposed to integrate data captured using different surveying techniques during different moments in the development lifecycle of utilities. Based on this framework, this work also identifies areas for improvement and critical gaps to be bridged that will ultimately form part of the roadmap.

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Hurtubia, Ricardo, Francisco Javier Martinez, and Michel Bierlaire. "A quasi-equilibrium approach for market clearing in land use microsimulations." Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 46, no. 3 (July 13, 2017): 445–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2399808317719071.

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A method for market clearing in land use models with a microsimulation approach for location choice of agents is proposed. The method, based on the Bid-auction theory and random utility models, assumes that agents individually adjust their perceived expected utility by observing market prices before entering auctions for a real estate good, hence modifying their overall willingness to pay for locations. The adjustment translates into a correction of each agent’s bid level that follows the direction of supply-demand equilibrium, as they attempt to ensure their location. In each period, auctions for each available real estate good are simulated and prices are computed as the expected maximum bid of all agents in the market. The proposed method is tested for the city of Brussels, validated against real data and compared with results obtained when the bid adjustment is not included. Simulation results reproduce price trends that were observed in reality between the year 2001 and 2008, outperforming results obtained without a quasi-equilibrium bid adjustment approach. The proposed method is feasible to be implemented in large scale microsimulations and agent-based models because it does not require solving large fixed-point equilibrium problems.

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