Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Department of Urban Studies
and Planning
| 11.521 |
Spatial
Database Management and Advanced Geographic Information
Systems
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| 11.524 |
Advanced
Geographic Information System Project
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Class Project Documents - Spring 2018
Project Overview
The 11.524 portion of the semester will begin after Spring Break
and will involve group projects working in metro Boston with the Metropolitan
Area Planning Council (MAPC) and, in Singapore, with the "Future
Urban Mobility" project at the Singapore/MIT Alliance for Research and
Technology (SMART). Depending on class interest and size we will divide
into two or three groups with at least three persons in each group. In
each case, we will undertake spatial analyses of land use, housing, and/or
transportation patterns that involve urban planning issues related to
sustainability and mobility. In Boston, we will explore ways of
facilitating regional planning dialog through the use of State and Local
government GIS data layers together including annual mileage estimates for
every Mass motor vehicle that are derived from annual safety inspection
records. In Singapore, we will analyze and visualize the simulated
behavior of a housing market model under various assumptions regarding
changes in accessibility. The microsimulation models the buying and
selling of residential property on a daily basis based on behavioral
models of buyer willingness to pay and seller expectations of market price
that are sensitive to neighborhood amenities and accessibility as well as
property characteristics. The 11.524 portion of the class will be
organized as a workshop and the lab exercises and lecture/lab schedule for
that part will be adjusted weekly to match the project work
schedule.
Project Partners
Background Readings
- Linking land use and vehicle miles travelled (VMT) to the built
environment
- Zhong-Ren Peng slides on land use models: http://www.wgianalytics.com/landuse/docs/webinars/1/Overview_of_land_use_modeling_review.pdf
- Journal articles about UrbanSim (open source urban land use model)
- P. Waddell, L. Wang, and X. Liu, "UrbanSim:
An Evolving Planning Support System for Evolving Communities,"
chapter in Planning Support Systems, 2008.
- P. Waddell, D. Evans, "UrbanSim:
Modeling urban Development for Land Use, Transportation, and
Environmental Planning," JAPA, 2002.
- CubeLand documentation: (land use model currently being calibrated
for metro Boston by MAPC and CTPS)
- Metro Boston - linking land use and vehicle miles travelled (VMT) to
the built environment
- Using VMT data to compare the travel implications of MetroFuture
scenarios ('Winds of Change' and 'Let It Be'): J. Ferreira, M. Diao,
and J. Xu (2012), "Estimating
the Vehicle-Miles-Traveled Implications of Alternative Metropolitan
Growth Scenarios – A Boston Example," Transactions in GIS, 2013.
- PDF of Mi Diao's PhD dissertation (Sept. 2010) - "Sustainable
Metropolitan Growth Strategies: Exploring the Role of the Built
Environment"
- Pay-as-you-drive analysis of auto insurance risk
- J. Ferreira and E. Minikel, "Pay-As-You-Drive
Auto Insurance in Massachusetts: A Risk Assessment and Report on
Consumer, Industry, and Environmental Benefits,"
Conservation Law Foundation, Nov. 2010.
- J. Ferreira and E. Minikel, "Measuring
Per-Mile Risk for Pay-as-you-drive Automobile Insurance,"
Transportation Research Record, No. 2297, pp. 97–103,
Article DOI: 10.3141/2297-12, (2013).
- Cambridge - Energy
- Singapore
- C. Andris (2012), "Neighborhood
Differentiation and Travel Patterns in Singapore," SMART-FM
Working Paper.
- R. Amindarbari and A. Sevtsuk (2013), "Measuring
Growth and Change In Metropolitan Form," Working Paper, City
Form Lab, SUTD.
- A. Sevtsuk, O. Ekmekci, F. Nixon, and R. Amindarbari (2013), "Capturing
Urban Intensity," Working Paper, City Form Lab, SUTD.
- S. Jiang, J. Ferreira, and M. Gonzalez (2011), "Clustering
Daily Patterns of Human Activities in the City," revised
version subsequently published in Data Mining and Knowledge
Discovery: Volume 25, Issue 3, pages 478-510, Article DOI:
10.1007/s10618-012-0264-z, (2012).
- Flow chart for SimMobility Long Term (land use) model: long_term_zhuyi_v6.pdf
- Synthetic population generation: Y. Zhu and J. Ferreira, "Synthetic
Population Generation at Disaggregated Spatial Scales for Land Use
and Transportation Microsimulation," Transportation Research
Record, No. 2429, pp. 168-177 (2014).
- Past year project examples (some require AFS access or login to CRON
machine)
Project Data
- Boston Data in Class Locker: ./11.521/metroboston
- MAPC data, including winds-of-change metrofuture model output
(taz2727_loaded.shp)
- ./mapc
- ArcMap document demo: mapc_woc_test.mxd
- taz2727_loaded - forecast for 2727 Traffic Analysis Zones
of Winds-of-Change outcomes
- MAPC_DevtDatabase_V1_3_17_11 - centroid of 2000-2011
developments
- Mass Data from MassGIS (GeoServer) - ortho imagery from
MassGIS
- MassGIS 250x250m grid data:
- ./massgis250/vmt_data
- tripmodel_alldata.mxd - 250x250m grid cells
and related raster grids and shapefiles
- MassDOT Household Travel Survey (2010-2011)
- VMT-related data and theses
- Mi Diao's VMT dataset and Dissertation in
./diaomi_vmt
- Jingsi Xu's VMT dataset in ./xujs_vmt
- Jie Xia's thesis in ./jxia_vmt/jxia_thesis_v5.pdf
- Spring 2014 11.521524 class project in:
/afs/athena.mit.edu/course/11/11.521/proj14
- Same as web location: http://mit.edu/11.521/proj14
- Powerpoint presentation:
FinalPresentation_Final_EWS_51211_315PM.pptx
- Project documentation:
11.521_Spring2011_ProjectDocumentation.docx
- 2010 Census data for Massachusetts in Class Locker:
./11.521/census2010ma
- Block-level 2000-2010 cross-reference tables
- Redistricting data (block level counts of population and housing
units)
- TIGER/Line shapefiles for Mass
- ./tiger2010
- ArcMap document demo: ./census2010ma/11.521_census10_demo.mxd
- Singapore Data in Class Locker: ./11.521/singapore (some parts require
special access privileges)
- Documentation and data
- SimMobility project overview: SimMobility_Overview_12jan12.pdf
- Long Term model poster: long_term_zhuyi_v6.pdf
- Real Estate Overview: powerpoint by Sybil
Derrible: Derrible_SG_RealEstate_Overview_11sep.pptx
- Real Estate Prices by planning districts:
SG_2011_HDB_Resale_price_psm.jpg
- Neighborhood
differentiation and Travel Patterns in Singapore
(by Clio Andris, same as above):
- Transit card 'tap-in/tap-out' for two weeks in April 2011 in
Singapore
- Motorized traffic volume / speed / level of service data for
every half hour of 3 months along 40k street links within
Singapore.
- Average taxi travel times and distance for every half hour of
weekdays and weekends between pairs of traffic analysis zones.
- SkyHook data (for Boston and Singapore)
- Cellphone based measures of local activity, called SpotRank, based
on the frequency of 'location requests' handled by SkyHook (which is
in all iPhones and many others)
- The SpotRank index is reported for each hour of each day during
2011 and for each tile (within the metro area) of approximately
100x100 m.
- Release
notes for SpotRank data
- When using the ArcMap documents, copy folders to a local drive if you
want do do more than view the shapefiles
- Postgres database for class use: (while on or connected to MITnet)
- cronpgsql.mit.edu, port=5432
- https://cronpgsql.mit.edu/phppgadmin
Project Presentation
-
Informal dress rehersal, Thursday, May 10, and final analysis and
preparation Tuesday, May 15, 2018
- Project Presentation,
Thursday, May 17, 2018, 5:00 - 6:30 pm in Room 9-255 (City Arena)
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