UPLAN

UPlan, developed by the UC Davis Information Center for the Environment (ICE), is a Geographic Information System (GIS) based urban growth modeling tool used for advanced regional transportation planning. The tool is used to help regions study the interaction of regional population and economic growth and development policy by projecting future land-use patterns. UPlan allows us to illustrate how different growth alternatives would affect the region’s transportation system, air quality, housing, and natural resource production, among other issues.

The output of UPlan is provided in a user-friendly map format designed to facilitate regional consensus building and enhance the decision making process. Output from UPlan is also used as input to other models such as the regional travel demand model to estimate the impact of land use alternatives on the transportation network.