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Here you can have a peek at some of the projects we have been involved in lately
Our professional background spans from conducting transport and land use analysis to strategic spatial planning, with particular expertise in development suitability modelling, bid-rent modelling, and service accessibility modelling. Recent projects have involved land budgeting and population allocation modelling for future scenarios, alongside the disaggregation of larger-scale economic indicators into local spatial planning units.
Featured Project:
National Spatial Development Framework
Portfolio of past projects:
Click on a project in the list below and have a peek
Security Risks on the Gautrain Management Agency Rail Infrastructure
This research paper informed the long-term planning processes of the Gautrain Management Agency (GMA) – mainly focussed on understanding safety and security concerns on the rail infrastructure as part of their planned extension of the Gautrain coverage. The project interrogated what and where security risks occur in and outside the Gautrain system and provided insights into possible drivers. The insights developed into the possible methods can be applied to undertake this type of assessment in the future.
The most pressing key objectives of the research partnership included addressing the following security management-related questions:
• Is there any relationship between land use and rail reserve events/crime?
• How does land use change affect the prevalence of rail reserve events?
• Identify possible security threats due to land use and travel patterns changes.
• Where are areas (hotspots) with high cable theft in the system? What are potential threats, and what are possible solutions to this problem?
The most pressing key objectives of the research partnership included addressing the following security management-related questions:
• Is there any relationship between land use and rail reserve events/crime?
• How does land use change affect the prevalence of rail reserve events?
• Identify possible security threats due to land use and travel patterns changes.
• Where are areas (hotspots) with high cable theft in the system? What are potential threats, and what are possible solutions to this problem?
Ermelo-Wesselton Priority Development Areas - Density Policy
This project is an initiative to provide pathways towards the crafting of a Development Plan and Implementation Framework for the Ermelo-Wesselton Priority Development Area (EWPDA) through smart, inclusive, vibrant, diverse, integrated, and sustainable development strategies.
The project aim was to prepare a Development Plan for the EWPDA. The project objectives relate to the following:
• Ensuring access to basic services
• Enabling settlement restructuring
• Promoting economic growth
• Upgrading and/or expanding bulk services
• Responding to the need of targeted communities, and
• Designing, packaging and prioritizing project interventions that will enable and support the achievement of the development vision & ideal land use mix.
The project aim was to prepare a Development Plan for the EWPDA. The project objectives relate to the following:
• Ensuring access to basic services
• Enabling settlement restructuring
• Promoting economic growth
• Upgrading and/or expanding bulk services
• Responding to the need of targeted communities, and
• Designing, packaging and prioritizing project interventions that will enable and support the achievement of the development vision & ideal land use mix.
National Spatial Action Areas
These NSAAs represent the most urgent strategic spatial development catalysts to
(1) bring about radical spatial transformation at scale, and
(2) manage and mitigate rising national risks, and as such, require immediate national action.
Concerted and sustained intergovernmental collaboration is required in these NSAAs over the short term to:
• Target context-specific, focused, and catalytic national spatial development interventions; and
• Kickstart the process of aligning plans, budgets, and departmental plans in and between spheres of government around national spatial development priorities
(1) bring about radical spatial transformation at scale, and
(2) manage and mitigate rising national risks, and as such, require immediate national action.
Concerted and sustained intergovernmental collaboration is required in these NSAAs over the short term to:
• Target context-specific, focused, and catalytic national spatial development interventions; and
• Kickstart the process of aligning plans, budgets, and departmental plans in and between spheres of government around national spatial development priorities
The Karoo RSDF - Tourism Network
The map depict the strategic tourism network in the larger Karoo area.
Bidrent Model of the City of Johannesburg
The Bid Rent model makes use of a multi-criteria analysis to indicate areas with high development potential and a low level of environmental sensitivities.
Bio-ecological and Bio-economic areas of South Africa
The map overlays the Bio-economic and Bio-ecologic areas to indicate areas of conflict that need to be managed.
Developable Land in the Lanseria area.
Developable land in the Lanseria area are indexed by the level of constraints. The constraints include environmental, land use, infrastructure and undevelopable land.
Xhariep District Rural Development Plan
Identified projects over a whole range were overlayed with the functional economic areas of the district.
Lanseria RSDP - Long-term development scenario
The map shows the long-term development scenario for the Lanseria area. It mainly indicates the development of nodes and the connectors between them. These are infilled by specific land uses in support of a specialist airport node in the future.
Waterberg - Land reform area typologies
This academic project tried to develop location criteria for different types of agriculture based land reform strategies for South Africa. Different project types need different locational preferences and they were spatially quantified to show the ideal location of such projects.
Mogale City Town Planning Scheme
MandalaGIS was involved in updating the Mogale City Town Planning Scheme in a digital format.
Lanseria BidRent Index.
The Bid Rent model makes use of a multi-criteria analysis to indicate areas with high development potential and a low level of environmental sensitivities.
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