Section: New Results

Highlights of the Year

This year has seen a number of major advances in the team research projects, on several fronts. The first one concerns the most important and time consuming project, namely integrated land use, activity and transport modelling (LUTI modelling). In this respect, the results described in 6.8 below constitute probably the first set of works contributing sophisticated numerical procedures to the calibration and validation of the TRANUS LUTI model.

The second significant breakthrough concerns the completion of a downscaling methof for Material Flow Analysis (MFA), a key aspect in the characterization and understanding of territorial metabolism for decision-help purposes (section 6.2).

Finally, the modelling effort on land use change for the ESNET project has now been mostly completed, and an operational LUCC model has been calibrated and validated for this project (section 6.3).