Spatio-temporal allocation of general land-use planning index

One of the key tasks in general land-use planning is to allocate land use quantificationally on temporal scale and spatially in specific location. In order to achieve this goal, planners need to have an idea about the quantitative land demands in different development scenarios, and temporal and spatial characteristics of each planning which could assist them carry out the plan spatially and optimize the local land use. However, there is little research on the spatio-temporal allocation of general land-use planning index. To address this issue, this study coupled GIS, system dynamic model and CLUE-S model, and applied it to Changqing District, Jin’an City, Shandong Province, China. The results showed that the coupled model took the advantages of system dynamic model in scenario analysis and temporal simulation of local land use, and CLUE-S in spatial allocation of local land use. The model could provide the necessary information for planners and decision-makers, and a successful paradigm to land-use planning index in the angle of spatio-temporal combination.