From the website: Envision Tomorrow puts powerful tools in planners’ hands to design and test land use and transportation decisions. The Envision Tomorrow GIS -based software package can help your city or region examine possibilities at a range of scales. Whether considering how to maximize growth around transit or identify development and redevelopment priorities, Envision Tomorrow provides planners with an easy-to-use, analytical decision making tool. These tools have been used by municipalities, regional governments, and private organizations to test and refine transportation plans, produce small-area concept plans, and build scenarios. In an era when many municipalities are exploring carbon footprinting, the software can also provide baseline carbon emissions analysis of different land use patterns.
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From the website: INDEX is an integrated suite of desktop and web-based scenario planning tools for neighborhoods, communities, and regions. The tools operate on the desktop as an ArcGIS extension and on the web as an open source GIS application. INDEX was introduced in 1994 for land-use, transportation, and environmental planners in public agencies and design firms, and as a teaching tool for university instructors. Its primary functions include: * Assessing community conditions. * Designing future scenarios in real-time. * Measuring scenarios with performance indicators. * Ranking scenarios by goal achievement. * Monitoring implementation of adopted plans. INDEX is being developed by Portland, OR-based Criterion Planners.