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    People Choice Modelling for Evacuation of Tall Buildings
    Aleksandrov, M ; Rajabifard, A ; Kalantari, M ; Lovreglio, R ; Gonzalez, VA (SPRINGER, 2018-09)
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    Geometrical data validation in 3D digital cadastre: A case study for Victoria, Australia
    Shojaei, D ; Olfat, H ; Faundez, SIQ ; Kalantari, M ; Rajabifard, A ; Briffa, M (Elsevier, 2017-11-01)
    Data ambiguity and invalidity can cause significant expensive issues in the cadastral domain (e.g. legal disputes). An automated data validation can significantly help to reduce the potential issues. Quality assurance has been comprehensively investigated in various domains, however, the validation of 3D cadastral data is still in its early development. The availability of various regular and irregular shapes for 3D cadastral objects and modern building designs has resulted in a critical need for developing validation rules to ensure data validity and quality. The land registry in Victoria, Australia, is investigating the technical requirements for implementing a 3D digital cadastre. The study of 3D cadastral data validation requirements has been part of this ongoing investigation. This study is being undertaken in three main phases including 1) developing geometrical validation rules, 2) developing non-geometrical validation rules, 3) implementing an online service to validate 3D cadastral data. This paper aims to discuss the initial outcomes of the first phase of the aforementioned study which has focused on developing geometrical validation rules for 3D cadastral objects. The paper reviews the development of four geometrical validation rules which have been formalised using mathematical expressions to check the individual 3D parcels and their relationships with adjoining or neighbouring parcels. The first validation rule checks the compatibility of the cancelled parcel against the created parcels. The second rule deals with parcel collision detection which is required for flagging unacceptable intersection of 3D objects. The third rule ensures the faces forming a 3D parcel are flat. The fourth validation rule assures 3D objects are watertight. The paper concludes with a discussion around the impacts of the proposed validation checks on the subdivision process and future research for the Victorian 3D digital cadastre.
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    A multi-dimensional analytics platform to support planning and design for liveable and sustainable urban environment
    Sabri, S ; Chen, Y ; Rajabifard, A ; Lim, TK ; Khoo, V ; Kalantari, M (International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), 2019-09-23)
    New urban strategies encourage compact city and higher density urban development due to unprecedented city growth and rapid urbanisation. This has led to greater attention to multi-dimensional representation, modelling and analytics of urban settings among urban planners, decision makers, and researchers. Nowadays, urban planning and urban design practitioners and scholars leverage the advancements in computer technology and multi-dimensional visualisation in examining the development scenarios from physical, environmental, social, and economic aspects. However, many urban planners still rely on two-dimensional (2D) land information and urban designers use three-dimensional (3D) graphic-based engines to asses a proposed building or assess the impact of changing development regulations. This limits the decision makers from a holistic approach through integrating the urban systems with other application domains such as transport, environmental, and disaster management to ensure the liveability of cities. This paper describes the design, and development of a multi-dimensional and spatially enabled platform to support liveability planning in Singapore. A Quantitative Urban Environment Simulation Tool (QUEST), developed in Singapore, leveraged 3D mapping data captured under the Singapore Land Authority's (SLA) 3D National Topographic Mapping project. SLA's 3D data including Building Information Model (BIM), CityGML, and other geospatial data (building footprints and land use) were processed and adapted as a service for a series of urban analytics. The paper concludes that the prerequisites for any urban environmental simulation system to be integrated with other application domains are 3D mapping data and a digital urban model, which must be spatially accurate and based on open data standards.
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    An LADM-based Approach for Developing and Implementing a National 3D Cadastre – A Case Study of Malaysia
    Rajabifard, ; AGUNBIADE, ; Kalantari, M ; Yip, KM ; Atazadeh, B ; Badiee, ; ISA, D ; ADIMIN, MK ; CHAN, KL ; AIEN, A ; OLFAT, H ; SHOJAEI, D ; Anaraki, MR (FIG (International Federation of Surveyors), 2018)
    With the growing dominance of multi-storey buildings and other infrastructures, 2D-based cadastral systems are facing new challenges in recording, managing and visualising the spatial extent of vertically stratified cadastral spaces. In Malaysia, surveying and cadastral measurements are currently stored in the National Digital Cadastral Data Base (NDCDB), which is a 2D-based database in the form of planimetric coordinates (X, Y). However, in reality, cadastral objects are three dimensional and 2D-based approaches provide a fragmented view of these 3D spatial objects. Another challenge is that multiple pages of 2D drawings, which are used to show all the spaces of multi-storey buildings and surroundings, imposes a significant amount of cognitive effort for inexpert stakeholders who cannot easily understand the accurate location of cadastral boundaries obscured within physical structures. Therefore, the methods of data collection, calculation and adjustment of existing survey and processing data needs to be up raded for the purposes of implementing 3D cadastral database and producing 3D digital certified plans.
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    Connecting LADM and IFC Standards–Pathways towards an Integrated Legal-Physical Model
    Atazadeh, B ; Kalantari, M (FIG (International Federation of Surveyors), 2018)
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    Harnessing BIM for 3D digital management of stratified ownership rights in buildings.
    Atazadeh, B ; Kalantari, M ; Rajabifard, A ; Champion, T ; Ho, S (International Federation of Surveyors - available at http://www.fig.net …, 2016)
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    Comparing Three Types of BIM-based Models for Managing 3D Ownership Interests in Multi-level Buildings
    Atazadeh, B ; Kalantari, M ; Rajabifard, A (International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) - available at http://www.gdmc …, 2016)
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    3D Property Ownership Map Base for Smart Urban Land Administration
    Kalantari, M (FIG (International Federation of Surveyors), 2017)
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    Assessing performance of three BIM-based views of buildings for communication and management of vertically stratified legal interests
    Atazadeh, B ; Rajabifard, A ; Kalantari, M (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2017)
    Multistorey buildings typically include stratified legal interests which provide entitlements to a community of owners to lawfully possess private properties and use communal and public properties. The spatial arrangements of these legal interests are often defined by multiplexing cognitively outlined spaces and physical elements of a building. In order to support 3D digital management and communication of legal arrangements of properties, a number of spatial data models have been recently developed in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Building Information Modelling (BIM) domains. While some data models, such as CityGML, IndoorGML or IFC, provide a merely physical representation of the built environment, others, e.g., LADM, mainly rely on legal data elements to support a purely legal view of multistorey buildings. More recently, spatial data models integrating legal and physical notions of multistorey buildings have been proposed to overcome issues associated with purely legal models and purely physical ones. In previous investigations, it has been found that the 3D digital data environment of BIM has the flexibility to utilize either only physical elements or only legal spaces, or an integrated view of both legal spaces and physical elements to represent spatial arrangements of stratified legal interests. In this article, the performance of these three distinct BIM-based representations of legal interests defined inside multistorey buildings is assessed in the context of the Victorian jurisdiction of Australia. The assessment metrics are a number of objects and geometry batches, visualization speed in terms of frame rate, query time, modelling legal boundaries, and visual communication of legal boundaries.