PBL rapport 550026002 Calibration and validation of the land use ...

Contents
• Abstract 5
• Summary 9
• 1 Introduction 11
1.1 The Land Use Scanner in the Dutch planning context 12
1.2 Report layout 14
• 2 Land Use Scanner 15
2.1 Continuous model 16
2.2 Discrete model 17
2.3 Previous calibration efforts 18
• 3 Methodology 21
3.1 Land-use data 21
3.2 Regression analysis 22
3.3 Map Comparison 25
• 4 Calibration results 27
4.1 Discrete model 27
4.2 Continuous model 28
• 5 Validation results 31
5.1 Discrete model 31
5.2 Continuous model 32
• 6 Discussion 35
6.1 Providing sensible spatial patterns 35
6.2 Comparing the two allocation algorithms 36
6.3 Pinpointing the most important location factors 36
6.4 Additional validation aspects 36
6.5 Further research 37
• References 39
• Acknowledgements 41
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