​Sociology Seminar | Spatial Optimization for Smart Spacial Planning (Skype Seminar)

Spatial optimization is a powerful spatial analysis technique that can be utilized to identify and exploit optimal solution(s) and generate alternatives. The formulation of such problems involves maximizing or minimizing one or more objectives while satisfying a number of constraints. Solution techniques often rely on exact models, such as linear programming and integer programming, or heuristic algorithms, such as Tabu Search, Simulated Annealing, and Generic Algorithms. Spatial optimization has been utilized in numerous planning applications, such as location-allocation modelling, land use planning, regionalization, routing and urban design. In this seminar, a few representative case studies with the latest findings, e.g., spatial optimization for land use planning, waste collection, cycling routes planning, will be introduced and discussed.