We have the pleasure to inform you that the new version of Graphab software (version 2.0) is available. This version can be downloaded from https://sourcesup.renater.fr/graphab/ Graphab is a software application for modeling ecological networks using landscape graphs. Graphab 2.0 provides new features: · Grouping patches in meta-patches · Graph clustering by modularity index · Removing patches whose capacity is too low · Circuit theory on the graph : CF metric and distance matrix ·...

Marc Bourgeois is defending his PhD thesis "Ecological impacts of urban forms. Urban and landscape modelling." on December 11th 2015 in Besançon. The defense will take place at the Grand Salon, 18 rue Chifflet, Besançon down town. This work was co-directed by Jean-Christophe Foltête and Cécile Tannier.

The software application MUP-City, whichallows the user to simulate fractal residential development scenarios based on an existing urban pattern,can be download freely on the web site: https://sourcesup.renater.fr/mupcity/ Besides fractal rule for residential development, MUP-City includes nine other planning rules (access to shops and services, access to green and leisure facilities, proximity to the road network, non-fragmentation of built and non-built areas).The software application has...

The defense will take place at the salon Préclin, 18 rue Chifflet, University of Franche-Comté. This work was directed by Serge Ormaux.

The defense will take place at the salon Préclin, 18 rue Chifflet, University of Franche-Comté. This work was directed by Cécile Tannier, Philippe Gerber and Pierre Frankhauser.

Laboratory LIED (Paris VII) hosts a workshop on time scales and energy transitions. Thomas Buhler will present first outcomes from the research project TELEM. This project focuses on the monitoring of at-home energy consumptions and mobility practices of a large panel with WiFI/GPS technologies. http://www.cvt-athena.fr/actualites/evenements-a-venir/94-echelles-de-temps-14-octobre-2015-paris.html

In this paper, we present an experimental trial involving the use of a complex spatial simulation platform to support a planning decision process in the city of Besançon (eastern France). The experimental trial began in October 2012. It involved two researchers in geography and planning from the University of Franche-Comté (Besançon, France) and two planning practitioners working in Besançon city council's planning service: the Department of Planning, Projects and Forward Planning. The first...

"Travail social et territoire : concept, méthode, outils " (EHESP, may 2015), a new book by Alexandre Moine and Nathalie Sorita, presents tools for analyzing and diagnosing social work, from a framework based on systems theory. More info, extracts and details...

"Déplacements urbains : sortir de l'orthodoxie" (PPUR, march 2015), a new book by Thomas Buhler, presents a new theoretical framework to better understand daily-life mobility practices and the limitation of modal change policies. More info, extracts and details at : http://www.ppur.org/produit/720/9782889151066/Deplacements%20urbains%20sortir%20de%20lorthodoxie

The Joint Transport Research Center (JTRC) Committee of the International Transport Forum (IFT -  OECD) invited TheMA laboratory to present its research on March 30th 2015 at the OECD headquarters in Paris. Two projects developed in TheMA and proposing models and tools for decision-making in land use planning were presented: GRAPHAB 2 , presented by Céline Clauzel, which aims to access the impact of transport infrastructures on ecological networks VILMODes (using the MobiSim platform)...