Energy
Waste
Water and Sewage
Transport
Green Blue
Buildings & land use
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Tool summary

Name of the tool
ECOBOXX

Description of the tool
The toolbox contains tools for evaluation of urban change and its impacts on sustainability. It provides users (decision-makers, urban planners, planners for social services, civil engineer and designers) with: (1) visual information on urban form, functions, economy and ecology; (2) tools needed for solving problems in each particular case. The tools can be helpful in answering three different groups of questions: urban form and functions (estimating the amount of telework potential in a given area, estimating the service level of public transport on a given area, waste management, etc.); urban economics (calculation of urban costs, analysing the effects of a chosen transport system, assessing the economic impacts of a selected location of a new housing area or a shopping centre, etc.); urban ecology (assessing ecological balance of a new housing area, evaluation of the energy consumption under different urban planning or design solutions).

Specific topic
The toolbox contains elements of both assessment and GIS methodology and enables the user to use them integratively.

Sector/s of use

Waste

Energy

Water

Transport

Green/Blue

Building & Land use

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0

0

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M

M - main sector, 1 - sub sector and 0 - n/a

Scale of applications

Component

Building

Neighbourhood

City

Region

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0

1

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