Application of Tracking Technologies in Spatial Planning Processes: An Exploration of Possibilities

1 SHORT ABSTRACT While the application of tracking technologies, like GPS, has been developed substantially in the social sciences and transportation sciences in the last decade, it has failed to make a significant impression in the scientific field of spatial planning. This paper explores the current and future possibilities and the limitations for the application of tracking technologies in spatial planning processes. It is built up around the results of an expert meeting in combination with bibliographical and literature research. After defining the principle application areas of current research on tracking technologies within planning and after sketching its crossdisciplinary character, the paper concludes by formulating major challenges and a future research agenda.

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