A methodology to organize geospatial data in a way conducive to urban sustainability

DRiVE4S builds a frame of reference for urban sustainability by visually exposing the use value of financial, built, social and natural capital systems in any given municipal region.

Urban Systems samples

See the first commercial application licensing these systems here  

See sample correlations below:

Employment vs Households

Household and Employment Growth are expected throughout the Puget Sound region, but not homogeneously. Heartland identified PSRC's FAZ centroids and graphed their expected growth for 2030 to better serve their clients in identifying potential opportunities.

Mobility + Households

Seattle's Link Light Rail serves relatively few people south of Downtown. Increasing density around the stations is necessary to leverage a huge investment. Compact communities are taking shape with rezoning efforts led in part by the Seattle Planning Commission.

Water + Waste

Combined Sewer Overflow Basins catch water from overflowed combined sewage and drainage pipes. Neighbors down hill might suffer the problem, even when having separated infrastructures in their area. In this area of Seattle the repair work has been challenging with the community, to say the least.

Land Use + Bikes

Bicycle Oriented Development(BOD) increases density around bike routes and eyes on the street to increase "the feeling of safety". But in Seattle it will be hard to implement. First-class bike routes (class 1) lie around water bodies where the terrain is flat. But so do industrial areas, heavily dependent on water and rail for transportation. Seattle doesn't need to focus on the bicyclists to encourage BOD, but in Zoning and Transit corridors around these waterfront areas.