Jan Ritsema van Eck

PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency · Department of Urbanisation and Transport

This Annex to the Main Report provides background information about drivers of land use change and actual land use changes for the ESPON SUPER project. Specifically, it provides information about how data was collected and methodological information about the analysis. It also presents an overview of the findings in the form of maps, tables and cha...

The COVID-19 crisis has forced us to rethink how and where we should live our lives. Moreover, with the land development system now on hold in most parts of Europe, a unique window of opportunity has opened up to question whether this system is capable of delivering the natural and built environment we want for ourselves and for our children. Do we...

Het PBL is door het (toenmalig) ministerie van Infrastructuur en Milieu in januari 2015 gevraagd een ex-ante evaluatie op te stellen van de Nationale Omgevingsvisie. Deze Policy Brief is een tussenproduct op weg naar die ex-ante evaluatie, waarin we een reflectie geven op het Kabinetsperspectief. De feitelijke ex-ante evaluatie vindt later plaats,...

In september 2016 is voor de zesde keer de PBL/CBS Regionale bevolkings- en huishoudensprognose uitgebracht. In deze prognose spelen veronderstellingen over de woningbouw een belangrijke rol. In dit artikel wordt ingegaan op de totstandkoming van de woningbouwveronderstellingen. De woningbouw speelt een belangrijke rol bij de ontwikkeling van de b...

'Ommeland' is an old Dutch word that refers to the land around a town or city: a peri-urban area. It is an important spatial category: the peri-urban areas of the 24 most central cities in the Netherlands, excluding the cities themselves, house almost 40 per cent of the national population. In Dutch spatial policy, however, the peri-urban area as t...

This paper presents two sets of functional indicators that were implemented and tested for the assessment of spatial aspects of future land-use configurations as simulated by a land-use model. This is potentially useful for the ex-ante evaluation of spatial planning policies. The indicators were applied in a Dutch case study and relate to two impor...

Future land use is an important theme in the preparation and evaluation of spatial planning reports. These studies typically look several decades ahead and describe the outlook of the future by means of a set of scenarios with different socio-economic conditions. Land-use models are commonly used to indicate possible future land-use patterns accord...

The aim of this study is to compare a number of local spatial configurations of land use and transport facilities in a Dutch new town to address the question what impact these configurations have on the quality of life of different population categories. The results suggest that concentrating services near public transport nodes and increasing urba...

Randstad Holland, the most urbanised area in the western part of the Netherlands, is one of the seven World Cities that were described in Peter Halls famous study of that name. World cities are those cities which have the highest level (in terms of both quantity and quality) of internationally oriented activities. In this ranking of world cities, t...

Dit rapport is bedoeld als technisch achtergronddocument bij de studie 'Ruimte voor Landbouw'. Die studie is in samenwerking uitgevoerd door het Ruimtelijke Planbureau (RPB), het Milieu- en Natuurplanbureau (MNP), het LEI en de VU, en betreft de toepassing van de Ruimtescanner om de toekomstige ruimtelijke ontwikkeling van de landbouw te verkennen.

Neighbourhood interactions between land use types are often included in the spatially explicit analysis of land use change. Especially in the context of urban growth, neighbourhood interactions are often addressed both in theories for urban development and in dynamic models of (urban) land use change. Neighbourhood interactions are one of the main...

Land-use-change patterns are the result of the complex interaction between the human and the physical environment. Case studies of the determinants of land-use change can help to analyse which theory is appropriate in a particular region and stimulate the development of new theoretic understandings. In this paper an empirical method is presented to...

The deregulation of US domestic passenger aviation in 1978 resulted in the reconfiguration of airline networks into radial route systems, spatially concentrated around a small number of central airports or ‘hubs’. This paper investigates whether a similar spatial concentration trend can be observed in the European aviation network after deregulatio...

Activity-based accessibility measures, describing the level of access to spatially distributed activities, are not put to the same use in land use and/or transport policy evaluations as are infrastructure-based accessibility measures, which describe congestion levels or the average speed on the motorway network. In this paper we attempt to improve...

Research into the effects of spatial configuration on the use of transport modes has to date dominantly been based on analyses of actual travel behaviour or prediction of future transport mode choices. However, in this research it is not made clear what choice opportunities were available for travel behaviour of the various population categories, g...

In this article we discuss different methods to construct an accessibility surface as a tool for facility location planning with special reference to shops. The methods are based on estimates of the market area for a new shop; the main difference between the methods is that the first one (proximity count in competition) assumes deterministic, stric...

In many urban planning applications of GIS the topic is to find locations that have good accessibility to either services already provided (new housing development) or to an established customer base (service centre planning). In these applications we see buffer analysis being replaced by the calculation of potential values. In this paper we intend...

This paper focuses on the integration of models, especially potential models, in a geographical information system (GIS). This exercise was prompted by the inability of common geographical information systems to deal adequately with the problem of accessibility. Attention is devoted to the technical aspects of integration as well as to the use of G...

Abstract Facility siting studies usually fall in one of two categories: location optimisation or spatial scenario evaluation. Location optimisation studies produce a siting plan, that is optimal in terms of accessibility, but more often than not is unfeasible because it overlooks many factors that are important in the decision process but for vario...

In deze publicatie zullen de keuzemogelijkheden van een aantal ruimtelijke configuraties op lokaal niveau voor personen afkomstig uit verschillende huishoudenstypen worden vastgesteld en met elkaar worden vergeleken. De huishoudenstypen worden bepaald aan de hand van drie dimensies: arbeidsparticipatie, aanwezigheid van kinderen en levensfase. We h...