[PLUG] Greening the Planet with Open Source Software

[Michael M. Moore]

I thought this might interest some on this list:

http://portlandtransport.com/archives/2014/01/greening-planet-open-source-software.html

Greening the Planet with Open Source Software

by Chris Smith on January 26, 2014 in Meta Transport, Sustainability
Occasional Portland Transport contributor Garlynn Woodsong is the presenter
at the next PSU Transportation Seminar:

Speakers: Garlynn Woodsong, Calthorpe Associates
Topics: Regional Planning, Greenhouse Gases, and UrbanFootprint open source
software
When: Friday, January 31, 2014, 12-1 p.m.
Where: PSU Urban Center Building, SW 6th and Mill, Room 204
Abstracts: Since about 2008, the planning world has been experiencing a
paradigm shift that began in places like California and Oregon that have
adopted legislation requiring the linking of land use and transportation
plans to outcomes, specifically to the reduction of greenhouse gases
(GHGs). In response to this need, Calthorpe Associates has developed a new
planning tool, called UrbanFootprint, on a fully Open Source platform (i.e.
Ubuntu Linux, PostGIS, PostGreSQL, etc.). As a powerful and dynamic web and
mobile-enabled geo-spatial scenario creation and modeling tool with full
co-benefits analysis capacity, UrbanFootprint has great utility for urban
planning and research at multiple scales, from general plans, to project
assessments, to regional and state-wide scenario development and analysis.
Scenario outcomes measurement modules include: a powerful 'sketch'
transportation model that produces travel and emissions impacts; a public
health analysis engine that measures land use impacts on respiratory
disease, obesity, and related impacts and costs; climate-sensitive building
energy and water modeling; fiscal impacts analysis; and greenhouse gas and
other emissions modeling.

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