Urban Modeller (4TW)
Summary (4TX)
The role of sustainability in urban design is becoming increasingly important as Australia’s cities continue to grow putting pressure on existing infrastructure such as water, energy and transport. To optimise an urban design many different aspects such as water, energy, transport, costs need to be taken into account integrally. Urban Modeller is a strategic project trying to develop a software system able to perform multi-disciplinary assessments on urban development plans such as urban master plans and neighbourhood designs. (4TY)
Homepage {nid 4U5} The project itself does not have a homepage as it is an internal project. The project is carried out by a team called Integrated Design and Construction Systems of CSIRO Manufacturing and Infrastructure technology. http://www.cmit.csiro.au (4U6)
description (5F4)
Simple geometry classes are used to capture geometry related information (mainly polygons). This information can be visualised. Urban ontologies can extend the geometry classes into more meaningful classes such as roads, houses, zones, streets, etcetera. (4U1)
using simple calculation methods using the decisiontable plugin properties like area usage, amount of houses, streets, water demand, can be calculated and displayed in charts. (5F5)
Calculating the water demand for waterpipes (under development) (5F6)
!Decisiontable plugin (4UC)
A protégé plugin supporting decision tables for each class in the ontology. Java scripts are executed when slot values are changed according to the decision table. (5F0)
Rule engine with a graphical rule editor (4UD)
For writing rules a simple rule engine can find patterns in the ontology and execute a java script when the pattern is found. An graphical rule editor has been developed to simplify the specification of the pattern. (4U3)
Feel free to contact me: Hans.Schevers@csiro.au (4TZ)