Planning support systems

Published research highlights

	Geospatial Analysis Platform (GAP) for South Africa - Supporting strategic spatial analysis and planning This poster deals with GAP, a common, meso-scale geospatial platform for the assembly, analysis and sharing of strategic geospatial information.

	Equitable availability of social facilities The provision of social facilities, e.g. primary health care, sports fields and community halls, is a prerequisite of basic services. CSIR research investigates the sufficient and equitable availability of such services to the public.

	Crime and public transport: designing a safer journey A CSIR study has investigated the role of the physical environment in increasing or reducing opportunities for crime on public transport. The study also focuses on the use of specific planning and design interventions.

	Tracking planning and implementation interventions across boundaries The CSIR has studied the establishment of a uniform reporting language across government as a likely enabler to improve communication of programme and project information over a multi-year period.

	Improving the location of low income housing delivery This paper describes the evolution of planning support systems for the identification of well-located land in South African urban areas, as well as the most recent advances (including predictive capability, the addition of density considerations in relation to locality, and the rigorous reduction of potential costs of delivery to common monetary terms).