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Conference Presentations by Yonatan Lebendiger
The study presented in this paper offers a methodology for the assessment of development potentia... more The study presented in this paper offers a methodology for the assessment of development potential around rail stations, by taking into account the importance of each rail station in the global rail network and the local urban fabric in the rail station’s vicinity. To achieve this goal this methodology incorporates intercity rail centrality along with local centrality measures relevant for non-motorized transport. The case study explored here is the Israeli railway passenger network spanning form the southern city of Beer Sheva up to the northern edge of the Haifa Metropolitan area.
Following earlier efforts for a multi-modal transit analysis using space syntax (Gil, 2012; Law et al., 2012), this study aims to combine centrality regimes at different scales, therefore providing the capability to assess a place potential for development based on its multi-modal accessibility. Combining the values of different centrality regimes allows for identification of areas that have high centrality values at different geographical scales concurrently. This methodology highlights the locations of rail stations with good local accessibility ripe for development. Moreover, this process may also be used in the planning of new rail stations and in choosing their locations.
Papers by Yonatan Lebendiger
Sustainable Cities and Society, 2019
Abstract This article presents a methodology for evaluating microclimatic summer conditions acros... more Abstract This article presents a methodology for evaluating microclimatic summer conditions across an entire city, focusing on the provision of outdoor shade as a primary comfort indicator. Based on high-resolution 2.5D and 3D mapping of buildings, ground surfaces, and tree canopies in Tel Aviv-Yafo, a city of hot-summer Mediterranean climate, we employed a detailed calculation of solar exposure of streets and open spaces (public and private) using commonly available GIS algorithms. The raw results of these calculations were used for calculating summer Shade Index values for every street segment and neighbourhood of the city, which were then plotted to a comprehensive 'shade maps' reflecting the city's spatial hierarchy of shade. The shade maps, combined with analysis of tree canopy cover on similar scales, enabled to relate building and tree morphologies to outdoor shade conditions. For prioritizing intervention of local planning authorities in improving poor shade conditions or conserving highly-shaded locations, we related the climatic analysis to space-syntax classification of streets according to their potential to attract pedestrian movement, and produced a city-wide map that highlighted streets that have high pedestrian movement potential while requiring high levels of shade intensification or conservation.
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2019
This paper presents a technique aimed to assist in planning of surface rapid transit alignment in... more This paper presents a technique aimed to assist in planning of surface rapid transit alignment in a metropolitan area by applying space syntax configurational approach. The technique proposed in this study was applied to the proposed surface rapid transit network for the Metropolitan Area of Tel Aviv. For this research a bi-modal model of the spatial structure, which includes the street network as well as the planned rapid transit routes, was analyzed. The results show that a substantial share of the network’s alignment can be described solely by measuring through-movement potentials. This finding demonstrates the significant role of spatial accessibility analysis in transit planning. Consequently, this study provides a reproducible methodology for identifying the routes which hold the highest potential to serve as strategic movement corridors at a metropolitan scale, thus improving current RTS (Rapid Transit System) planning practice.
The study presented in this paper offers a methodology for the assessment of development potentia... more The study presented in this paper offers a methodology for the assessment of development potential around rail stations, by taking into account the importance of each rail station in the global rail network and the local urban fabric in the rail station’s vicinity. To achieve this goal this methodology incorporates intercity rail centrality along with local centrality measures relevant for non-motorized transport. The case study explored here is the Israeli railway passenger network spanning form the southern city of Beer Sheva up to the northern edge of the Haifa Metropolitan area.
Following earlier efforts for a multi-modal transit analysis using space syntax (Gil, 2012; Law et al., 2012), this study aims to combine centrality regimes at different scales, therefore providing the capability to assess a place potential for development based on its multi-modal accessibility. Combining the values of different centrality regimes allows for identification of areas that have high centrality values at different geographical scales concurrently. This methodology highlights the locations of rail stations with good local accessibility ripe for development. Moreover, this process may also be used in the planning of new rail stations and in choosing their locations.
Sustainable Cities and Society, 2019
Abstract This article presents a methodology for evaluating microclimatic summer conditions acros... more Abstract This article presents a methodology for evaluating microclimatic summer conditions across an entire city, focusing on the provision of outdoor shade as a primary comfort indicator. Based on high-resolution 2.5D and 3D mapping of buildings, ground surfaces, and tree canopies in Tel Aviv-Yafo, a city of hot-summer Mediterranean climate, we employed a detailed calculation of solar exposure of streets and open spaces (public and private) using commonly available GIS algorithms. The raw results of these calculations were used for calculating summer Shade Index values for every street segment and neighbourhood of the city, which were then plotted to a comprehensive 'shade maps' reflecting the city's spatial hierarchy of shade. The shade maps, combined with analysis of tree canopy cover on similar scales, enabled to relate building and tree morphologies to outdoor shade conditions. For prioritizing intervention of local planning authorities in improving poor shade conditions or conserving highly-shaded locations, we related the climatic analysis to space-syntax classification of streets according to their potential to attract pedestrian movement, and produced a city-wide map that highlighted streets that have high pedestrian movement potential while requiring high levels of shade intensification or conservation.
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2019
This paper presents a technique aimed to assist in planning of surface rapid transit alignment in... more This paper presents a technique aimed to assist in planning of surface rapid transit alignment in a metropolitan area by applying space syntax configurational approach. The technique proposed in this study was applied to the proposed surface rapid transit network for the Metropolitan Area of Tel Aviv. For this research a bi-modal model of the spatial structure, which includes the street network as well as the planned rapid transit routes, was analyzed. The results show that a substantial share of the network’s alignment can be described solely by measuring through-movement potentials. This finding demonstrates the significant role of spatial accessibility analysis in transit planning. Consequently, this study provides a reproducible methodology for identifying the routes which hold the highest potential to serve as strategic movement corridors at a metropolitan scale, thus improving current RTS (Rapid Transit System) planning practice.