A cellular automata-based land-use model as an integrated spatial decision support system for urban planning in developing cities: The case of the Bogota region

摘要

Bogota and the 17 neighboring municipalities make up one of the biggest metropolitan areas in Latin America. However, despite strong functional interactions within the area, there is no official government body at this level in charge of coordinating authorities and providing solutions to the wide variety of issues arising in the regional urban land system. Aiming at providing an insight on future land-use developments linked to new transport infrastructures and at offering a tool to support territorial decision-making, this paper presents a cellular automata-based (CA) model based in Metronamica (R) software, that allows testing different scenarios based on potential land-use policies, environmental suitability and transport alternatives.