| dc.description.abstract | New transportation infrastructures like the highways E39 and R509 are necessary for any economic boost in Stavanger and they have had great impacts to scatter development from the undeveloped to the developed locations, transition of the area from agricultural to the most important business center and oil center in Norway through the past decades. But this progress has also brought land use conflicts like urban sprawl which is environmentally disruptive and economically costly. If Stavanger wants to achieve carbon-neutrality in the following decades, this phenomenon needs to be addressed. Urban sprawl is not necessary, neither desirable so, a critical issue is how to disentangle urban sprawl from road improvement. We need to understand this phenomenon better to prevent it from happening in the future. Thus, we need to gain insight into how it has been produced in the past and how has the change trend been so far. The new ferry-free E39 will probably bring more urban sprawl if the necessary studies and measures are not taken.
This research methodology employs GIS and Photogrammetry as strong and trustworthy tools to detect land use changes happened before and after the construction of the highways E39 and R509 in 1968 and 2019 in three buffer distances to investigate the impacts of highways improvement on land use change and the effect of distance from the highways. The accurate results of this methodology represent the patterns of land use change in the proximity of the focused highways through the time period and show interactive relationship with different socio-economic factors and a considerable development happened through a transition from a mostly agricultural land to the oil capital and business center for the country between 1968 and 2019. | |
